Winter 2025
“Loyalty Traps and Democratic Backsliding Under the First Trump Administration” B & P Lecture Series, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, January 20, 2025
Career Civil Servant Ethical Dilemmas and Democratic Backsliding (with Mariana Costa Silveira), Leiden University, January, 21-22, 2025
“Loyalty Traps under the First Trump Administration,” Sabanci University, Istambul, Turkey, February 19th, 2025
Fall 2024
“Situated Loyalties and Rare Acts of Moral Courage Among Federal Civil Servants under the Trump Administration,” Permanent Working Group VII: Ethics and Integrity, European Group for Public Administration meetings, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Sept 5, 2024.
"The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants under Autocratic Leadership," University of Gothenberg’s Public Administration and Public Policy Center Seminar, Department of Political Science, 1:15 p.m., Gothenberg, Sweden October 21, 2024
Temadag Talk on “Warnings of Democratic Decline from The Loyalty Trap: Civil Servants’ Competing Loyalties under the Trump Administration,” with Panel on the U.S. Elections, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Criminology, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden November 4, 2024
“The Loyalty Trap: Civil Servants’ Competing Loyalties under the Trump Administration,” Department of Sociology Research Seminar and public talk, York University, UK, November 13, 2024 (Book online tickets here)
“Reflections on the Loyalty Trap,” School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech Research Center, Washington, D.C., November 26, 2024 (virtual)
“The Loyalty Trap: An Israeli Perspective,” Keynote talk and Panel discussion, Rubenstein Center for Constitutional Challenges, Reichman University, Israel, virtual (Register here), December 3, 2024
“Comparing Responses to Climate Change Across Agricultural Regions in the United States, New Zealand, and Sweden” Risk and Crisis Centre Seminar, Mid Sweden University, Östersund. December 11, 2024
More to come in the spring and fall of 2025. Scheduling talks now. . .