Democracies, Dictatorships, and the Spaces in Between

Department: History

Date and Time: March 6, 2017 | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Event Location: HG 1010

Event Details


Please join us on Monday, March 6, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010 for panel titled "Democracies, Dictatorships, and the Spaces in Between" presented by Forum for the Academy and the Public and co-sponsored by UCI's History Department.

Participants will look at the current state of play between authoritarian and democratic forces in various parts of Asia, including China and India, and the West, including parts of Europe and the United States.  Free and open to the public, light refreshments provided. This event is part of an ongoing series of conversations on pressing issues of the day organized by the Forum for the Academy and the Public.

Panelists:
Aishwary Kumar (Stanford History Department), author of Radical Equality: Ambeker, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy.
Stein Ringen (Templeton College, Oxford), author of What Democracy is For and The Perfect Dictatorship.
Simone Chambers (UCI Political Science Department), author of works such as Reasonable Democracy.
Jeffrey Kopstein, UCI Political Science Department, author of works such as The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989.

Moderated by Kavita Philip (UCI History Department) with opening remarks by
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Co-Founder of the Forum for the Academy and the Public).