Sracic lectures in Dublin at prestigious embassy gathering

Paul Sracic, professor and chair of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University, is in Ireland and Belgium this week for a series of lectures.

The trip includes a presentation at the “Creative Minds: Exploring Conservatism America” event at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Reece Smyth in Dublin. Sracic will be joined in the presentation by James Fallows, European editor of The Atlantic.

The event, which will focus on the people and ideas shaping conservativism in America today, is expected to draw more than 100 attendees.

In 2015, the U.S. Embassy in Dublin launched a series of events called Creative Minds, which invites prominent thought-leaders to creatively engage with Irish audiences. Previous participants include Vice President Joe Biden, entrepreneurs Danny Meyer and Jim McKelvey, National Science Foundation Director France Cordova, former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, as well as cultural luminaries such as Sopranos creator David Chase, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Michael Chabon and Jeffrey Eugenides, and Grammy-winning artists Bela Fleck, John Prine and Patty Griffin.

Sracic will also speak at Maynooth University and Trinity College in Dublin, the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin, and at the National University of Ireland in Galway.

Sracic, who holds a PhD and master’s in Political Science from Rutgers University, is a frequent guest and interviewee in international news media, from CNN and NPR to the Washington Post and USA Today. A 2009 Fulbright Scholar in Japan, Sracic has lectured at universities and embassies in Japan, China, Belgium, South Korea, Lithuania and Latvia. He is the co-author of Ohio Government and Politics with Bill Binning, chair emeritus of the YSU Department of Political Science. He also was featured recently in a TEDx talk entitled “Ohio, the Swing State,” which can be heard at http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Ohio-the-Swing-