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Election Night: Clinton and Trump's Final Face Off Will Be Followed at Bocconi

, by Andrea Celauro, translated by Jenna Walker
Starting at 1am on the night of 8 November, Open Side will open on campus, allowing attendees to watch and discuss the long night that will culminate with a new US president. Some guests will participate live from New York

During the night (in Italy) between Tuesday and Wednesday, 8-9 November, the United States will elect their 45th president. The battle between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump has been an intense one over the past few months. This is why Bocconi Arts Campus has organized an elections marathon to watch and comment on the long night's event at the Open Side space on campus, with guests both at Open Side and connecting via video streaming. Open to the public, the event will start at 1am, when polls close in the US and the first exit polls will be available. To warm up for the night's activities, participants can meet at Exotic on Viale Bligny starting at 11:30pm.

Speakers will include Andrea Quartarone, professor of television in the ACME program and visual cultures for the CLEACC program, social media expert Alessio Baù (former social media manager for the City of Milan), ACME Program Director Alex Turrini and, participating from New York, economist and columnist Alberto Bisin, and professor of political science and US contemporary history expert Fabrizio Tonello. They will discuss the election results between 1 and 3am.

Then, between 3 and 5am, participants can watch live coverage of the decisive moment when the winner of the next resident of the White House will be declared.
"The US elections have always had a worldwide political and media impact, but 2016 is particularly important, whoever wins: Clinton would be the first woman president in the United States, and Trump as president would be the outlier farthest away from US political orthodoxy that the country has ever had," says Andrea Quartarone. "In my visual cultures course, we studied and analyzed the campaign between Kennedy and Nixon. Then we started watching the televised debates between Clinton and Trump for educational reasons, organizing our first event at Open Side. It was so successful, not only with my students, that we decided to organize a live evening for each major event of this long electoral campaign."

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