Thinking About High-Stakes Politics Beyond Left, Right, and Center (CEUTS Gender Equity Series)

Dr. Christina Xydias, Associate Professor of Political Science at Bucknell University, will give the talk “Thinking About High-Stakes Politics Beyond Left, Right, and Center” on September 26th, at 5:00 pm in the Newman Library Goodall Room.

Xydias’s recently published book, Beyond Left, Right, and Center: the Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Germany, contends that both advocacy for and hindrances against expanding the rights of marginalized social groups transcend our conventional ideological categories, especially in multi-party countries. The book shows that finer-grained variation between political parties is more informative, and that a political system’s broadly held social values also play a critical role in how “left” or “right” prioritize issues. But what does this mean when the stakes are understood to be high, as in recent European elections and in upcoming elections in the United States?

Sponsored by CLAHS Global Initiatives and Engagement and the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies.

Moderated by Farida Jalalzai, Associate Dean of Global Initiatives and Engagement, CLAHS

Questions can be sent to Farida Jalalzai at fjalalzai@vt.edu.