Politics & Pizza event April 7 will let students and experts discuss how Trump administration policies are affecting different regions of the world

President Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday of broad new tariffs on the United States’ trading partners further highlighted the impact of ongoing and significant changes that Trump administration policies are having on different regions of the world.

This will be the topic of the Politics & Pizza event from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. April 7 in HALE 230. The event will feature CU Boulder researchers discussing Trump administration relations with the areas of the world they study.

The aim of the Politics & Pizza discussion series—which was initiated and will be moderated by Glen Krutz, a professor of political science—is to “encourage productive, substantive deliberation of specific topics, rather than rancorous and ideological macro-thoughts.”

“These events are meant to help CU students sink their minds into key, specific political issues while they are sinking their teeth into delicious pizza!” Krutz says. “The other main goal is to have experts get the discussion started, but then to very much have a discussion between the students and one another and the students and the experts. The interaction piece is central, rather than a one-way information flow that sometimes we see at talks on university campuses.”

Politics & Pizza, which includes free Cosmo’s pizza, is modeled on similar sessions offered in Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Each session will feature expert speakers who give a few introductory thoughts about the session’s topic, and then open the session to a question-and-answer with students.

The Pizza & Politics event April 7 will be moderated by Krutz and feature Alex Siegel, an associate professor of political science who studies immigration, migration and exile, with a focus on Syrian and Venezuelan populations; Sarah Sokhey, an associate professor of political science who specializes in comparative politics and political economy with a regional focus on countries in central and eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Caucuses and central Asia; and Tom Zeiler, a professor of history and director of the International Affairs Program whose research focuses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, with interests in economics, globalization, war and sports.

Upcoming Politics & Pizza events will focus on current topics including science and politics.

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