The 2016 Presidential Election in the United States and its Meaning for American Politics

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
(Pacific)

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The outcome of the 2016 American presidential election surprised many observers,but it provides an opportunity to reflect on both its historical and current determinants. This lecture will explore some of the deep structural features that have long characterized the American political system, as well as the social, economic, technological, and cultural issues that are shaping American politics today. 

This lecture will be in English.

 

2016年美国总统大选的结果令许多关注者感到震惊,但它提供了一个反思其历史及当前决定因素的机会。本次讲座将探讨美国政治体系长期以来的深层结构特征,以及社会、经济、科技和文化问题是如何形成了当今的美国政治局面。

讲座语言为英语。

 

 

主讲人/Speaker

David M. Kennedy

David Kennedy is the Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1999 for Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War.

 

His teaching has included courses in the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, national security strategies, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America.

 

Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history, and for its attention to the concept of the American national character.

 

David Kennedy是斯坦福大学历史系荣休教授。1999年,他的著作《免于恐惧的自由: 处于萧条和战争中的美国人民》获得普利策奖。

 

他的教学内容包括20世纪美国历史、美国政治和社会思想、美国外交政策、国家安全战略、美国文学、欧美民主比较发展等。

 

Kennedy教授对美国的跨学科研究成果,包括历史、文学和经济等领域,其突出的特点是将经济和文化分析与社会和政治历史相结合,并注重美国民族性格的概念。Kennedy教授的学术成就以其将经济和文化分析与社会、政治历史相结合,以及对美国国民性的关注而闻名。

 

 

 

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