Trump 2.0: Dissecting the First 365 Days and Predicting the Path Ahead

This event will take stock of the past 365 days while confronting the possibilities—and uncertainties—of the next three years. Journalists and pundits often use the word unprecedented to characterize this administration, but are there surprising continuities with previous presidencies? How has Europe navigated the turbulence of the past year, and what prospects now face EU policymakers and citizens? How have Americans who voted for Trump experienced his promise to Make America Great Again this time around? And what are the implications for future elections? Join us for a critical conversation that examines where we are now—and where the world may be headed next.

About the speakers

Katy Hull is Assistant Professor of Modern Gender History in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her first book was The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2021). Her current research project investigates the construction of emotions in New Left activist autobiographies.

Ruud Janssens is the Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. He specializes in the history of United States foreign and defense policy. Professor Janssens trained as a historian and America expert at the University of Amsterdam and Smith College (Northampton, MA). He has worked at the Royal Netherlands Naval College (1997-2002). From 2008 to 2010, Janssens led a research group on the relations between major powers in 2020 as part of the government project Toekomstverkenningen (Future Studies) concerning the Department of Defense. His recent research focuses on planning for the future (and its historical roots) and U.S. foreign policy in the Arctic.

Andrew Gawthorpe is a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary United States. Though a historian by training, his work engages with insights from other disciplines, particularly international relations and American politics. He is currently the principal investigator on the NWO Vidi-funded project “American foreign policy and liberalism”. This project challenges the notion of an American-created “liberal international order” by investigating how the American approach to international order has been shaped by illiberal ideologies, such as those underpinning racism at home or imperialism abroad.

Manon Parry (moderator) is Professor of Medical History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (chair funded by the Stichting Historia Medicinae), and Associate Professor, American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam. She is an historian of medicine and nursing working in the interdisciplinary realm of the Health Humanities and specializing in the uses of history and heritage for health and well-being.