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LOCATION:Reid Hall\, Paris
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T90000
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SUMMARY:Crises of Democracy at Reid Hall
DESCRIPTION:This conference at Reid Hall is part of a series of talks a
 nd events in Paris\, Columbia's Morningside Heights campus\,�
 �and Trinity College Dublin\, in which participants will disc
 uss issues affecting democracy across the globe.\n\nAt our cur
 rent moment\, democracy itself seems to be in crisis\, as a pr
 actice\, a set of institutions\, and an ideal. The rhythm of e
 veryday life does not help\, in tune with the tempo of news c
 ycles\, deflection\, and legalized zones of lawlessness. Schol
 arship has however long provided for an alternative pace\, an
 d a distinct space for the analysis of and speculations abou
 t democracy\, its crises and absences\, its various histories\,
  social dynamics\, and cultural manifestations. Drawing from 
 the academic community built by the Society of Fellows in th
 e Humanities at Columbia University over its forty year exis
 tence\, and as its inaugural Alumni Conference\, this conferen
 ce aims to map the relationship between democracy and crisis
 . Former fellows from across fields are invited to present t
 heir work on the ways in which ideals and practices of democ
 racy have been debated in theory\, probed historically\, and p
 roduced culturally: Is the contemporary moment exceptional\, 
 in its double sense that democracy has been thrown into cris
 is and that crises have upended democratic life\, or has this
  become the new normal? Was it previously or ever a norm? Is
  it possible—or right—to conceptualize democracy without
  reference to crisis? Where is democracy put into crises\, an
 d what does it look like? Is democracy’s crisis a problem 
 with the demos\, with the enemies of democracy\, or with the o
 perations of democracy itself? If democratic states have als
 o tended to be aggressive and expansionist\, is democracy ano
 ther name for empire? Is crisis peculiar to democracy\, and a
 re democracy’s crises distinctive? The panels of this conf
 erence will seek to use the ideas of crisis and democracy as
  windows into each other\, focusing on “crisis” and on �
 �democracy\,” and then\, taken together\, as a canvas onto wh
 ich the contemporaneity of historical crises and the histori
 city of contemporary anxieties have been inscribed.
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