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As part of its free public programs, Continuing Studies is pleased to offer “Reimagining Democracy,” a seven-week faculty speaker series produced in collaboration with the Stanford Democracy Hub and Office of Community Engagement. The series, hosted by Dean Debra Satz and Professor Larry Diamond, will feature Stanford scholars whose research focuses on addressing challenges for democratic societies.

Weekly conversations will probe these challenges: How might American institutions be revitalized? How might citizens address race, polarization, inequality, and the movement of peoples across borders? What are the biggest threats to democracy within and beyond the United States? How are democratic norms and culture passed down from one generation to the next? How can “we the people” strengthen and reimagine democracy together? This lecture series is a complement to election-related Continuing Studies courses and other educational activities around voting and civic participation being offered this fall.

REIMAGINING DEMOCRACY:
​A WEEKLY SERIES FEATURING STANFORD SCHOLARS

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Note: You only have to register once to receive the weekly Zoom link and reminders.
All sessions will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date.

 

SCHEDULE & SPEAKERS

Session 1: US Democracy and Revitalizing American Institutions
September 25, 2024
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  • Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow on Public Policy; Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and former US Secretary of State
  • Brandice Canes-Wrone, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Center on Revitalizing American Institutions, Hoover Institution; and Professor of Political Science, Stanford
Session 2: Global Democratic Backsliding and How to Counter It
October 2, 2024
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  • Larry Diamond, William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford
  • ​Hesham Sallam, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and Associate Director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford
Session 3: Race and Politics: Beyond the Left-Right Orthodoxies
October 9, 2024
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  • Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Professor, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Education; and Founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Session 4: Immigration and the American Dream: Re-Thinking Our Policies and Narrative
October 16, 2024
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  • Ran Abramitzky, Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics; Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences, Stanford; and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Session 5: Building an Inclusive Democracy
October 23, 2024
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  • David Grusky, Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Sociology, Stanford; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); Director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Session 6: Deliberative Democracy and the Youth Vote
October 30, 2024
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  • Alice Siu, Associate Director, Deliberative Democracy Lab and Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of the Law, Stanford
Session 7: Election Debrief: Where Do We Go from Here?
November 13, 2024
  • Ben Ginsberg, Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution
  • Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law; Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School

SERIES HOSTS:

Larry Diamond is William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. His research focuses on global trends affecting freedom and democracy, and US and international policies to advance democracy and counter authoritarian influence. He was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and he remains a consultant to the National Endowment for Democracy. Among his books is Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency. His new co-edited book (with Sumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree) is The Troubling State of India’s Democracy.
 

Debra Satz serves as Stanford University’s Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society. From 2008-2014, she also served as the faculty director of the Bowen McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Her research focuses on the meaning of equality and the role of markets in a democratic society. Among her many notable publications and teaching accomplishments, Satz recently co-authored Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy (2016); received the Walter J. Gores Award (2004), Stanford’s highest teaching honor; was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018); and piloted and co-led a new widely-attended course on “Democracy and Disagreement.”
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