Annual Symposium
2025 Symposium
Trump’s Trade Wars in Global and Historical Perspectives
Friday, November 7, 2025
2:15 pm- 5:30 pm Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room, or livestream right here.
More information to come…
Speakers
Mary E. Lovely
Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute
Inu Manak
Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Sponsor
- International Politics and Economics Program
Co-Sponsors
- Department of Economics
- Department of Political Science
- Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Organizers and Contacts
- Obie Porteous, Associate Professor of Economics
- Kristina Sargent, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Gary Winslett, Associate Professor of Political Science
Overview
Each year, the program in International Politics and Economics hosts a symposium that brings experts to speak on a unified topic of substantive interest to IPE majors, faculty, the broader college, and the public.
Instituted in 2012, the event has covered such varied topics as China’s rise on the world stage, various responses to the global economic crisis, and environmental policy’s relationship to inequality.
The program invites experts from a range of disciplines, including economics, political science, business, sociology, geography, and many others. These experts come from a variety of institutions, both liberal arts colleges and universities, but the symposium also includes scholars at think tanks, in government positions, and at nongovernmental organizations who specialize in issues related to the topic. The goal of each symposium is to consider the political and economic dimensions of a pressing issue from varying perspectives represented by the speakers.
The symposium takes place in late fall and offers a Friday afternoon dedicated to discussion of the topic selected that year. Students moderate each talk and the audience engages the speakers with questions in the presentations. The program in International Politics and Economics welcomes topic suggestions. For more information, topic suggestions, and feedback, please contact the International Politics and Economics program director.