LUISS School of Government is hosting several national and international events with leading international scholars. Here you can see the debates and the discussions associated to these events.
Obama’s 2012 Election Campaign
LUISS School of Government has hosted Robert M.Shrum, Senior Fellow, Wagner School of Public Service, NYU to talk abou the 2012 Obama Election Campaign.
Robert M. Shrum is a Senior Fellow at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU. As an American political consultant, he worked as a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. He has been a senior advisor to Ehud Barak of Israel, the British Labour Party, and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. He began his career as a speechwriter for George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and then Ted Kennedy, working on the famous speech Kennedy delivered to the Democratic National Convention in 1980. From 1986 to 2004, he was the media and strategic consultant to 30 winning U.S. Senate campaigns, 10 winning Governor’s campaigns, and the Mayors of virtually every major American city. Shrum also publishes widely in various magazines and newspapers such as The Week Magazine, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The New Republic and Slate. His political memoire No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner, published in June 2007, was a national bestseller.
Please see the video of the meeting here
Awarding cerimony of the Laurea Honoris Causa in Political Sciences to Prof. Robert D. Putnam, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The Faculty of Political Sciences and the School of Government of LUISS Guido Carli have been pleased to annouce the awarding of the Laurea Honoris Causa in Political Sciences to Prof. Robert D . Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The cerimony was held on 17 May 2011 at the Viale Pola Campus of LUISS Guido Carli.
- Welcome Remarks by Prof. Massimo Egidi, Rector, LUISS Guido Carli (see video)
- Laudatio Sergio Fabbrini, Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the LUISS School of Government (See video)
- Lectio Magistralis: Tocqueville Travelling XXI Century America: Religion and Democracy in America by Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (see video)
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Concluding Remarks by Sebastiano Maffettone, President of the Faculty of Political Sciences, LUISS Guido Carli (see video)
2011 ECPR Capital Lecture: Religion, Democracy and Civil Liberties
This year’s European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Capital Lecture Series was held in Rome on 21 January 2011. This event was co-sponsored by the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and the host institution, Luiss School of Government.
Speakers included
- Professor Jeffrey Haynes – London Metropolitan University”Theoretical Perspectives on the Relation between Religion, Democracy and Civil Liberties” (see statement)
- Professor Pasquale Ferrara – Head, Policy Planning Unit, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs”Religion and Democracy: International, Transnational and Global Issues” (see statement)
- Professor Tariq Ramadan – University of Oxford, St Antony’s College”Muslims and Democracy in Europe” (see statement)
Prof. Sergio Fabbrini: challenge for new problem solvers
Prof. Sergio Fabbrini, LUISS School of Government Director, is going to explain the aims of LUISS School of Governement»: a school for graduate training scheme, education, for a public elite as well as for a private one, but dealing public institutions. A project not only for Italy, but for Europe totally: «theoretical», but with a principal purpose: solving problems and creating «problem solvers». (see video)
LUISS School of Government Official Opening, 23 February 2010.
During the Inauguration Day, a very important meeting was held, «Come governare l’Unione Europea con il Trattato di Lisbona» («How to govern European Union with Lisbon Strategy»), with President of Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, Former President of LUISS, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, LUISS Guido Carli General Manager Pier Luigi Celli, LUISS Guido Carli Chancellor Massimo Egidi, Confindustria President Emma Marcegaglia, School of Government President Marc Lazar. (see video)
