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The 2024 Symposium of the UCI Center for Neuropolitics will address political violence in all its complexities. The Symposium will use
the tools of neuroscience, political science, history, and psychology to comprehensively analyze the disturbing development of this phenomenon in American life. This Symposium includes the 2024 Jerrold
Post Lecture on Neuropolitics, to be given by Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat of NYU
and titled “How Authoritarians Cultivate and Manage Violence.” Dr. Ben-Ghiat frequently appears on MSNBC and other networks, and her latest book, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," examines how illiberal leaders use corruption, violence,
propaganda, and machismo to stay in power. Other speakers include James Blair (“The Neurobiology of Violence”),
Nathan Kalmoe (“The News from America’s Partisan Civil War”),
Lilliana Mason (“Violent Attitudes and Threats to Pluralistic American Democracy”),
Darren Schreiber (“War is Nothing More than the Continuation of Neuropolitics by Other Means”), and
Michael A. Zarate (“Cultural Inertia and the Role of Rumination in Turning Ideology into Violence”).
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