TALKING POLITICS 2024
Engage with experts as they tackle current political issues and analyze real-time political communication in this award-winning interactive online series.
8 exciting webinars happening October 2024–May 2025
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Featured Events
Register to receive Zoom links for the Talking Politics 2024–25 webinars. Registration links for all webinars can be found on the Events page.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 7 pm EST
Talking Politics with Nathan Schneider: Governable Spaces and Democratic Design for Online Life
Monday, January 13, 2025 | 6 pm EST
Talking Politics with Greg Thompson: Imagined Disunities, Political Ontologies, and Political Polarization in the US
Talking Politics is a virtual series where humanists, qualitative social scientists, language and media specialists, and cultural analysts examine how language and other media shape the nexus of race, history, and political institutions. This year’s edition primarily focuses on the 2024 US Presidential Election, but our programming will also track the global movement of discourses, media, and messages.
About Talking Politics
Now in its third iteration, Talking Politics is a public platform for reimagining politics beyond traditional left-right binaries, partisan frameworks, national boundaries, and academic disciplines.
By featuring a wide range of specialists and experts, we provide a space where diverse audiences can engage with evidence-based tools and methods for navigating today’s political landscape. Together, we aim to foster deeper, more nuanced discussions about the structure of political events and the role of language, media, messaging, institutions, and history in shaping public life today.
The Talking Politics Team
Talking Politics 2024 is co-organized by students and faculty at The University of Chicago, Brown University, and the CLASP (Culture, Language, and Social Practice) program at CU Boulder.
Lead Organizers
Wee Yang Soh, University of Chicago
Josh Babcock, Brown University
Team Members
Mervenur Çetin, University of Colorado Boulder
Qiaoying Chen, Brown University
Eliza Ge, Brown University
Rob Gelles, University of Chicago
Sydney Giacalone, Brown University
Sofia Guimaraes, University of Chicago
Le Vi Pham, University of Chicago
Tyanna Slobe, Dartmouth University
Jie (Iris) Wu, University of Chicago
Roberto Young, University of Chicago