Symposium: Quo vadis, America? part 2

The United States is undergoing major changes as president Trump seeks to fundamentally change American society and the ways in which the country interacts with the outside world. A slew of Executive Orders and other decisions have affected many parts of American society. Federal agencies and departments have been closed, thousands of people have been fired, deportations are underway, universities and research institutes have lost funding and are under pressure, legal actions have been taken against the media, tariffs have been imposed, and traditional allies have been threatened.

In June 2024, a few months before the general election, Uppsala University's Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) invited a group of American and Swedish academics and political analysts to discuss the question of where the United States was headed, under the rubric “Quo vadis, America?”. Given everything that has happened since, it is time to revisit the question. To many of us observing the United States from the outside, recent events seem unprecedented and leave us wondering about the road ahead.

Therefore, SINAS is once again gathering a group of prominent American and European scholars and analysts for “Quo vadis, America? part 2”. The symposium will address the fundamental questions of how to interpret what is happening in the United States in the current moment, and where the country is headed, domestically and internationally. Is American democracy in jeopardy? Is the world order about to shift?

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