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Congratulations, @talisajcarterphd.bsky.social, on your appointment as #ASCinDC25 program co-chair, and on a successful conference, pushing the field of justice, law, and criminology forward, and embodying SPA’s mission of #PublicPolicy4Good #SPAProud

14.11.2025 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The last day of #2025APPAM certainly promises great sessions from our faculty and students on the effects of modern family policies, policies vs. families with children, enrollment trends vs. workforce needs, and more.
#SPAProud @appam.bsky.social @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social @twmorrissey.bsky.social

14.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SPA is proud to introduce AURORA –American University’s OSINT analysis publication on national security, hosted at SPA!
🔹 Gain applied analytic experience in national security
🔹 Learn open-source analysis techniques
🔹 Publish your work!
👉 Apply by 11/17: american.edu/spa/aurora

14.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the Center for Israel Studies for the 2025 Meltzer Trone Conference. Leading experts on "American Jews & Israel" will cover topics including the diaspora blues, challenges to democracy in Israel & the US, a new era after October 7, & more.
🗓️ Sunday 11/16 & Monday 11/ 17
👉 RSVP: bit.ly/47EkV4Q

14.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ASCinDC25 Day 3: Elizabeth Carlisle on the ideological coercion of women, @moriahtsharpe.bsky.social on race vs traffic infractions, & @talisajcarterphd.bsky.social insights on the PRIN project, + a panel critique of "Corrections at Work: A Call for Institutional Accountability". #ASCriminology2025

14.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tomorrow in Seattle, SPA faculty will tackle decarbonization & collaborative policy approaches, economic & care resources across generations, grandparents & the labor market, the big beautiful bill vs higher ed, & more. #PublicPolicy4Good #SPAProud #2025APPAM @appam.bsky.social

13.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@talisajcarterphd.bsky.social @suleymanozeren.bsky.social @moriahtsharpe.bsky.social

13.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ASCinDC25 Day 2: Our faculty and students are presenting critical research on sexual assault in prison, structures to support queer students and research, pretrial decisions, women in policing, reforming life sentences, abolitionist praxis, and more.
#ASCriminology2025

13.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hannes Kerber (@bostoncollege.bsky.social) on how Enlightenment ideals shape today’s debates on reason, faith, and coexistence. Don’t miss this timely conversation on the enduring power (and limits) of tolerance. 🗓️ 11/17 🕑 5:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/PoliticsofEnlightenment

13.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@janepalmer.bsky.social

12.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join one of SPA's long-standing traditions to give thanks together at the 2025 SPA Thanksgiving Dinner on 🗓️ Sunday, November 16 🕑 6 - 8 PM 📍Kerwin Hall Lobby
Places are limited so please 👉 RSVP here: american-spa.swoogo.com/Thanksgiving2025

12.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@erdaltekin.bsky.social @twmorrissey.bsky.social

12.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SPA’s impact reaches all the way to Seattle this week! Tomorrow, our faculty and students are presenting research at the 2025 appam.bsky.social Fall Research Conference. Their work continues SPA’s legacy of advancing evidence-based policy and public service leadership. #SPAProud #2025APPAM

12.11.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This week in DC, SPA's TaLisaJCarterPhD.bsky.social is co-chairing the 2025 ASC Annual Meeting. We're proud of our Justice, Law and Criminology faculty pushing forward the field of criminology and criminal justice with their research.
Don't miss today's lineup! #ASCinDC25 #ASCriminology2025

12.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We're #SPAProud of our students who asked such insightful questions on secrets to successful U-turns on a sliding democracy.

11.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re looking at Gen-Z to learn how to communicate better and filter through the misinformation, notes Katz.

11.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ambassador Eisen says that students can participate in their democracy through voting, protesting, strengthening the rule of law and policies, and press coverage.

11.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#ICYMI: @ccps.bsky.social’s Tom Kahn, Ambassador @normeisen.bsky.social and Jonathan Katz (@brookings.edu) took a dive into the pillars of democracy as part of the Thurber Dialogues on Democracy, prefaced by a note from AU President Jon Alger.

11.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How do the stories we tell about justice shape the world we build? Join Emily Bazelon w/ SPA Prof. @JessicalWaters.bsky.social & CAS Prof. Rachel Louise Snyder on writing, law, accountability, & the narratives that move public life. 🗓️Wed, 11/12, 🕑 7 PM 📍Kerwin T01 👉RSVP: bit.ly/43bYO30

11.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five Questions with Thomas Kahn New acting director of SPA’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies discusses his path here and his goals for the center.

With over three decades on Capitol Hill and a record-breaking tenure as House Budget Committee staff chief, SPA’s new Acting Director of @ccps.bsky.social, Thomas Kahn, brings unparalleled experience.
Read his insights in 5 Questions with Thomas Kahn:
https://bit.ly/43pAQRX

10.11.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't miss a compelling discussion with Dr. David Ucko (NATO) on how insurgent behavior can shed light on the challenges & strategies of modern counterterrorism. Moderated by SPA Prof. @suleymanozeren.bsky.social.
🗓️ Wed, 11/12 🕑 1:30 - 2:30 PM📍Virtual 👉 RSVP: american-spa.swoogo.com/Insurgent

10.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join @ccps.bsky.social Act. Dir. Tom Kahn & @brookings.edu "Democracy Playbook 2025" authors @normeisen.bsky.social
& Jonathan Katz, for "The Struggle For Democracy: Challenges and Global Responses".
🗓️ 11/10 🕑 7 - 8 PM📍SIS Founders Room 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/StruggleForDemocracy

10.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join one of SPA's long-standing traditions to give thanks together at the 2025 SPA Thanksgiving Dinner on 🗓️ Sunday, November 16 🕑 6 - 8 PM 📍Kerwin Hall Lobby
Places are limited so please 👉 RSVP here: american-spa.swoogo.com/Thanksgiving2025

09.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SAUNDERS: The bumbling cover-up of Biden’s decline reads like Hollywood comedy President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline outlined in House Republican report

#SPAintheMedia Were there efforts to conceal President Biden's cognitive decline?
SPA’s Jeffrey Crouch notes that presidents can’t undo their predecessors’ pardons, as part of a broader piece describing alleged attempts to hide Biden's regression. Read: bit.ly/47voLgH

09.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#SPAintheMedia SPA Prof. Khaldoun @abouassi.bsky.social co-authored an op-ed titled “Beyond Rhetoric: Earning Trust in the Middle East's Governance Crisis.” This is a part of a series published by the American University of Beirut- Global Engagement Initiative. Read it here: bit.ly/4nK6SiW

08.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hannes Kerber (@bostoncollege.bsky.social) on how Enlightenment ideals shape today’s debates on reason, faith, and coexistence. Don’t miss this timely conversation on the enduring power (and limits) of tolerance. 🗓️ 11/17 🕑 5:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/PoliticsofEnlightenment

08.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How do the stories we tell about justice shape the world we build? Join Emily Bazelon w/ SPA Prof. @JessicalWaters.bsky.social & CAS Prof. Rachel Louise Snyder on writing, law, accountability, & the narratives that move public life. 🗓️Wed, 11/12, 🕑 7 PM 📍Kerwin T01 👉RSVP: bit.ly/43bYO30

08.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't miss a compelling discussion with Dr. David Ucko (NATO) on how insurgent behavior can shed light on the challenges & strategies of modern counterterrorism. Moderated by SPA Prof. @suleymanozeren.bsky.social.
🗓️ Wed, 11/12 🕑 1:30 - 2:30 PM📍Virtual 👉 RSVP: american-spa.swoogo.com/Insurgent

07.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Justice, Law & Criminology Speaker Series presents Prof. Kevin Revier, author of "Policing Pain: The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and a New Ethic of Care." Join us on Wed, Nov. 12, at 1 PM to explore how rethinking justice and care can transform the opioid crisis. RSVP: https://t.co/ZMRGdYgx7V

07.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join @ccps.bsky.social Act. Dir. Tom Kahn & @brookings.edu "Democracy Playbook 2025" authors @normeisen.bsky.social
& Jonathan Katz, for "The Struggle For Democracy: Challenges and Global Responses".
🗓️ 11/10 🕑 7 - 8 PM📍SIS Founders Room 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/StruggleForDemocracy

07.11.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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