Get involved with the exciting and engaging lectures, film screenings, workshops and
symposiums happening at the Bagwell Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity
in the Coles College of Business.
Fall 2025 Lectures
Dr. Matthias Matthijs
Dr. Matthias Matthijs, Dean Acheson Chair, Associate Professor of International Political Economy, Johns
Hopkins University
Date: October 1, 2025
Lecture 1: “Ideas and Economic Crises in the UK from Gordon Brown to Keir Starmer” This talk explores how well the central argument of Matthijs’ 2011 book Ideas and Economic Crises from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005) has held up, and focuses on how economic crises — both endogenous and exogenous — have shaped the last two decades of the UK's political economy.
Time: 9:05am - 9:55am Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
Lecture 2: “Of Paradigms and Power: How Brexit Changed the UK’s Economic Reality” This talk examines the economic and political consequences of “Brexit" — the UK’s decision to leave the European Union — on the United Kingdom’s place in the world economy, including its relations with the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world.
Time: 10:10am - 11:00am Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
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Dr. Tom Price, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Former Member of Congress
Lecture: "A Life of Medicine and Politics-Conversation with Dr. Tom Price" Dr. Tom Price will share his insights and perspectives from the two decades which
he spent as an elected official and public servant, crafting policy on both the state
and national level.
Date: October 13, 2025 Time: 10:10am - 11:00am Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
Date: August 29, 2025 Time: 3:30 pm Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
Description: This film details the history of the Britpop band Oasis during their formative years and the height of their success in the 1990s. Weaving never-before-seen concert footage with candid interviews with band members (including brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher), it provides a firsthand account of the backstage sibling rivalry that eventually led to the breakup of the band. This film is being screened as part of KSU's Year of the United Kingdom to coincide with the start of the band's U.S. leg of their sold out "Oasis Live '25" worldwide tour, which reunites the brothers on stage for the first time since 2009.
Date: November 5, 2025 Time: 10:10 am Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
Description: In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing to crack Nazi Germany's Enigma code -- which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan Clarke, analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed, becoming heroes for greatly contributing to the Allied victory over the Axis powers in WW-II. But in 1952, Turing was prosecuted by the British government and sent to prison for engaging in homosexual acts. Following a campaign in 2009, British prime minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated," and in 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon. This film is being shown as part of KSU's Year of the United Kingdom.
Date: November 11, 2025 Time: 9:30 am Location: Engineering Technology Center 202, Marietta Campus
Description: During World War II, as Adolf Hitler's powerful Wehrmacht rampages across Europe, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain, is forced to resign, recommending Winston Churchill as his replacement. But even in his early days as the country's leader, Churchill is under pressure to commence peace negotiations with Hitler or to fight head-on the seemingly invincible Nazi regime, whatever the cost. However difficult and dangerous his decision may be, Churchill has no choice but to shine in the country's darkest hour. This film is being shown as part of KSU's Year of the United Kingdom.
Date: November 12, 2025 Time: 10:10 am Location: Burruss Building 151, Kennesaw Campus
Description: The Iron Lady is a 2011 biographical drama film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. It depicts an elderly Thatcher talking to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from life are interspersed. This film is being shown as part of KSU's Year of the United Kingdom.
