BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201218T1428Z-1608301710.7251-EO-36559-5@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T051939Z CREATED:20201218T011116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210211T184153Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210318T183000 SUMMARY: The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: The Anti-Democratic Turn DESCRIPTION: The 2021 Phil Lind Initiative series examines emerging fault l ines in U.S. democracy and their wide-ranging implications for democracy ev erywhere. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
#LIN D21 | January – March\, 2021
The unprecedented assault on th e rules and norms of democracy in the US over the past four years has expos ed its vulnerability. The problems have become all too familiar: corruption \, disinformation\, foreign interference\, gerrymandering\, social media co mplicity\, voter suppression\, and the previously inconceivable threat that the outgoing president would refuse to concede and instead launch a series of futile but harmful legal challenges to democracy itself. Despite the ev entual outcome of the presidential election\, democracy in the US may not b e as resilient as we once thought. If we accept that the previous administr ation is a symptom of more deeply rooted problems in American society\, how do we begin to address these emerging fault lines in the democratic proces s? How can we protect the integrity of our democracies in an era marked by authoritarian resurgence and nativist backlash?
The Phil Lind Initiat ive 2021 series on The Anti-Democratic Turn will explore these que stions and more\, with virtual events featuring leading intellectuals and a uthors including Michael Sandel (January 21)\, Charles Blow\, (February 4)\, Anne Appleba um (February 25)\, Timothy Snyder (March 4)\, and < a href="https://lindinitiative.ubc.ca/speakers/danielle-allen/">Dan ielle Allen (March 18).
Each of our pub lic events held virtually is free to attend. Tickets will be available appr oximately a month before each event.
The Phil Lind Initiative is host ed by the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. The initiative’s mandate is to invite prominent U.S. scholars\, writers\, and intellectuals to UBC to share ideas with students\, faculty\, and the wider community on some of the most urgent issues of our time.
Subscribe to our Phil Lind Init iative Newsletter for updates on events.
Video recordings of our events can be found on our P hil Lind Initiative website.
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