The Citrin Award Lecture is an annual event of the Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research. The Citrin Award recognizes the career of an individual who has made significant contributions to the study and understanding of public opinion. The honoree is selected by the Executive Committee of the Center and is invited to deliver a lecture in recognition of this Award. In 2018, the Award was presented to Professor Donald Kinder of the University of Michigan, a renowned scholar of public opinion and author of several seminal books on the topic. The 2019 Citrin Award honored the career of Peter Hart who has more than forty years pioneered the study of polling in campaigns through both innovative qualitative research to uncover the meaning of stated opinions and to measure reactions to candidates, issues, and events through rigorous quantitative polls.
Regularly the Citrin Center holds a one-day conference on a topic of national or international relevance that entails an understanding of public opinion. The Citrin Conference brings to Berkeley leading scholars to report on their research and its implications for policy and events. The 2018 conference centered on the decline of political trust and the rise of populism against the backdrop of the Trump Presidency. The 2019 Conference’s chosen topic was Gender and Politics and the speakers were the up and coming researchers on this topic and also included remarks from political campaign consultants on races that include female candidates. The Faculty Executive Committee of the Center selects the annual topic and speakers with a focus on relevance, systematic evidence, and leading scholars as participants. The 2022 Conference was held on the topic “Is MisInformation a Threat to American Democracy?”.
Upcoming Events
- 2023 Citrin Award Lecture – Nate Cohn – October 19, 2023
- Panel: The Great Awokening – Andrew Engelhardt (Stony Brook), Zach Goldberg (Manhattan Institute) and Deborah Schildkraut (Tufts) and Anna Mikkelborg (UC Berkeley) – November 3, 2023
- Book Talk: How Electoral Constituencies Hide in Plain Sight – Tim Ryan, UNC Chapel Hill – November 14, 2023
2023-2024
2022-2023
- Reshaping City Politics? Asian Voters’ Demands for Change in San Francisco and Vancouver – April 24, 2023
- Pitfalls in the Policing of Language – John McWhorter, Columbia University – April 7, 2023
- Book Talk: Frustrated Majorities: How Issue Intensity Enables Smaller Groups of Voters to Get What They Want – Seth Hill, UC San Diego – March 17, 2023
- Book Talk: Sister Style – Nadia Brown, Georgetown University – March 3, 2023
- Citrin Award Lecture: Donald P. Green, J.W. Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University – Does Political Propaganda Work? – February 10, 2023
- Book Talk: Persuasion in Parallel – Alex Coppock, Yale University – January 30, 2023
- Citrin Center Conference: Misinformation and Its Consequences For American Democracy – January 20, 2023
- 2022 Midterms: A Postmortem – November 10, 2022
- Strength in Numbers: A Discussion of the Perils of Polling and a Way Forward – October 13, 2022
- New Perspectives on Race and Public Opinion – September 28, 2022
2021-2022
- The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy – April 29, 2022
- (Why) Are Democrats Losing the Latino Vote? – April 19, 2022
- Redistricting, Gerrymandering, and the 2022 Congressional Election – March 3, 2022
- Legal and Constitutional Protections for Free Speech in Academia in the U.S., U.K., and Canada – February 11, 2022
- The 2020 Census and the Future of America – November 4, 2021
- 2021 Citrin Award Lecture, awarded to Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania – October 7, 2021
- Post-Mortem: Should the Recall be Recalled or Reformed? – September 24, 2021
- California Votes: The Effort to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom – September 10, 2021
2020-2021
- California Redistricting Seminar – May 7, 2021
- President Biden’s First 100 Days: An Assessment – April 22, 2021
- Free Speech and Academic Freedom: Opinion, Policy, and What Is to Be Done – March 18, 2021
- The Future of the Republican Party after the Trump Presidency – March 2, 2021
- Post-Mortem: Why It Happened and the Implications for American Democracy – November 12, 2020
- The Last Ten Days: Countdown to the 2020 Vote – October 23, 2020
- Award Lecture, Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University – October 20, 2020
- Race and Public Opinion: Today in Historical Context- September 10, 2020
2019-2020
- Book Talk and Discussion: Immigration and the American Ethos – March 6, 2020
- The California Primary and Super Tuesday – February 28, 2020
- Who’s on First? The Democratic Race at the End of the Invisible Primary – December 12, 2019
- Will It Still Be the Economy, Stupid, in 2020? – September 24, 2019
2018-2019
- 2019 Citrin Conference – Gender and Politics on the Eve of 2020
- Americans’ Opinions on Immigration – March 19, 2019
- 2019 Citrin Award Lecture – Peter D. Hart
- Winners and Losers in the 2018 Midterm Elections: Why it Happened and What it Means
- 2018 Midterm Election: Blue Wave or Red Wall? A pre-election panel discussion
2017-2018
- 2018 Citrin Lecture – In Defense of Knowledge, Donald R. Kinder
- 2018 Citrin Conference – Trust and Populism in the Age of Trump
Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research
UC Berkeley
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
798 Social Sciences Building #1950
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
citrincenter@berkeley.edu