The 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: A Conference-Debate

The France Fulbright Alumni Association, with Ifri's Americas Program, invites you to a conference-debate on the U.S. midterm elections. The France FulbrightAlumni Association, in partnership with Ifri's Americas Program, invites you to a conference-debate on the U.S. midterm elections taking place on November 3. We are delighted to gather at Ifri for this discussion, hosted by Laurence Nardon, Director of Ifri’s Americas Program and a fellow Fulbright alumna, alongside fellow alumnus Thomas H. Peebles. Together they will explore what's at stake in the House and Senate races, Republican and Democratic party dynamics, the most competitive contests to watch, the issues likely to shape voters' choices, and the extent to which the elections can be considered free and fair. Speakers: Laurence Nardon is Head of Ifri's Americas Program. Since June 2019, she has analyzed U.S. politics everyWednesday on the podcast New Deal, produced with Slate.fr and the newsletter Time to Sign Off (TTSO). She recently published Géopolitique de la puissance américaine (PUF, August 2024), following L'Amérique de Trump en 100 questions (Tallandier, 2018). Before joining Ifri, she was a research fellow at EHESS and a Visiting Fellow at CSIS in Washington. She holds a doctorate in political science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury after graduating from Sciences Po Paris. In fall 2000, she was a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University. Thomas H. Peebles is a retired U.S. Department of Justice attorney living in Paris, where he reviews works on history, politics, political theory, and literature at tomsbooks.wordpress.com. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B.), the London School of Economics (M.Sc.), the University of Detroit School of Law (J.D.), and Stanford Law School (J.S.D.). At DOJ, he workedon overseas rule of law assistance programs, serving in U.S. Embassies in Haiti, Bulgaria, and Benin, and later as Regional Director for DOJ assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe. He was a Fulbright grantee at the Université de Paris II (Assas). Registration required. Space is limited. Please register in advance to secure your spot.