Professor Gary Younge to deliver public lecture on US Election

18 Nov 2020

The event is sold out, but you can watch the livestream on Facebook

Donald Trump's presidency has been widely criticised for race-baiting violating democratic norms. But America was a slave state for more than 200 years, an apartheid state for a century and was only a non-racial democracy for just over 50 years. Gary Younge, a multi-award-winning journalist turned Professor of Sociology, asks - how robust were those norms? And to what extent were those norms undermined by its racial history?

The public talk will take place on Thursday, 19 November at 6pm with attendees in the Zoom-based session also having the chance to ask Gary their questions, in a live Q&A session, chaired by Professor of Politics, Angelia Wilson.

Gary Younge joined our University in 2020 from The Guardian, where he was appointed US correspondent in 2003, before becoming their editor-at-large in 2015. He has won several prizes for his journalism, including the David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. 

The event is now fully-booked but you can watch the livestream on Facebook.