Governing in Crisis: Biden and the Looming Midterms
A Virtual Spring 2022 Lecture Series
February 16, 2022 – TBD
March 1, 2022 – TBD
March 23, 2022 -TBD
April 5, 2022 – TBD
April 20, 2022 – TBD
As we approach the one-year mark of the Biden Presidency, our country is on the brink. Whether that’s the brink of disaster or recovery will be largely determined by the 2022 midterms. That means you, the voters, wield the power to shape the country’s trajectory based on your judgment of Biden’s performance to date and your awareness and understanding of what’s at stake, at local, state, and federal levels.
Upon his inauguration, Biden inherited a raging global pandemic, an economy in trouble, escalating racial and partisan tensions, and a worsening climate crisis, all in the setting of America’s place in the world and the health of our democracy being tested as never before. His agenda was to create a roadmap to tackle these challenges and promote unity in a deeply divided nation. So how has Biden fared in addressing his Administration’s priorities and these evolving crises?
Take a seat and join candid conversations with panels of experts, analysts, and practitioners. Decide for yourself where Biden is succeeding and failing. In this six-week series, four organizations devoted to civic education have combined forces to elevate discourse and inspire a new generation of citizens to get engaged and collectively find a path forward. We encourage you to join us for one or all the episodes to stay informed, and keep the conversation going, all the way into the election booth.
This series builds upon Suffolk University’s historic mission of access, opportunity, and engagement with our alumni and the communities to which we belong. It is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Legal Studies in collaboration with the Ford Hall Forum, The Washington Center, and GBH’s Forum Network.
Taking a Deep Dive into the Global Supply Chain Crisis
A Three-Week Spring Seminar Series
Week Two, Innovative Technologies in Global Supply Chains
Friday, February 25, 2022
12:00-1:15 pm Live via Zoom
In this program, a panel of experts will examine supply chain technologies such as platforms, blockchain, IoT, and analytics and their emerging trends in response to the fundamental shift to digital communications and e-commerce far accelerated during the pandemic.
Week Three, Overcoming Supply Shortages in U.S. Hospitals: Before and During the Pandemic
Thursday, March 31, 2022
6:00-7:15 pm In-person and Live via Zoom
In this program, a panel of experts will explore the manufacturing, transportation, and storage of drugs/vaccines.
These events are free and open to the public.
Since its outbreak, COVID-19 has changed the world in many ways, with fundamental shifts in how people live and work, which will have long-lasting effects beyond the post-COVID era. This pandemic has made supply and demand extremely volatile, shifting faster than supply chains can adjust, and disrupted nearly every aspect of the global supply chain—the usually invisible pathway of sourcing, manufacturing, transportation, and logistics that gets goods from where they are grown, mined, manufactured, or stored to where they are going. We hope you will join us for these timely and wide-ranging discussions on these important issues.
