A panel event on the US Election Day (Tuesday 5 November) will take place at Kent, reflecting on the history of presidential elections and discussing the impact of either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris winning the presidency. It will take place in Kent’s Grimond building (Lecture Theatre 2) on the Canterbury campus at 6.30pm and is free and open to all.
Students, staff and others from the local community will hear insights from experts at the University’s Schools of Politics and International Relations and History. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask the panel questions and find out more about the polling process and the US Electoral College.
The panellists include:
Dr Andrew Wroe – Senior Lecturer in American Politics. Dr Wroe is interested in the decline of political trust, and the effects of low trust and polarisation of American society on moral and social issues.
Dr Rubrick Biegon – Lecturer in International Relations. Dr Biegon has convened modules on US foreign policy, international political economy, international security, terrorism and political violence, and foreign policy analysis.
Dr Aurélie Basha i Novosejt – Senior Lecturer in American History. Dr Basha i Novosejt is a historian of US foreign policy.
Andrew Jauert – Student President of the American History Society at Kent.
The US Election Day panel event will take place in the University’s Grimond building on Tuesday 5 November (18.30-19.30)