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SUMMARY:How is Democracy Doing?
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion series relating to Free Speech \n“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise\,” said the late Winston Churchill in 1947. “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried . . .” \nJoin the panel as they consider the fundamental question: how is democracy doing? They will discuss surprising successes\, disappointing failures\, persistent issues of self-determination\, and the recent insurrection in Washington intended to overturn the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Professor Michael Scott\, senior dean and Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, and Sanford J. Ungar\, director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \nParticipants\nJohn Kampfner is an award-winning author\, broadcaster\, and regular contributor to the opinion pages of British and international publications and on broadcast outlets. Previously he was the Financial Times chief political correspondent and political commentator for the BBC’s Today program. The author of six books\, his book Why the Germans Do It Better (2020) was named top of the Guardian’s political books of the year. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. \n\nAmanda Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author\, investigative journalist\, and editor. She was the Voice of America director from March 2016 to April 2020. Previously\, she was Bloomberg News executive editor\, where she ran a global team of investigative reporters and editors. She was also co-founder of Bloomberg News’ Women’s project. She is the 2018 awardee of the Washington Women in Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award and 2019 recipient of the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award. \n\nClarence Page\, winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary\, is a nationally syndicated columnist and editorial board member in the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau. His other honors after four decades of professional journalism include lifetime achievement awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists\, Chicago Headline Club\, National Association of Black Journalists\, and the 2018 Kiplinger award for distinguished contributions to journalism from the National Press Foundation. \nFernando Gómez Herrero is a research fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Birkbeck College\, University of London with interests in Hispanic and Latin American studies. He pursues his academic research in the humanities and the social sciences in combination with writing for several media outlets\, among them the paper La Vanguardia (Barcelona\, Spain). He is currently working on a book The Americas in the Anglozone: Public Conversations 2001-2021. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in education\, government\, and civil society in the United States. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was dean of the American University School of Communication after a distinguished career in journalism. Ungar is a former co-host of All Things Considered on NPR. \nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the Editorial Board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nUpcoming event: \n16 Feb\nWomen’s Voices in a Weary World\nPanel includes Baroness Mary Goudie\, House of Lords\, Paula A. Johnson Wellesley College and Nina Sutton\, writer \n 
URL:https://adoring-mclean.79-99-40-212.plesk.page/event/where-is-democracy-working-today/
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SUMMARY:Reinterpreting History in an Evolving World
DESCRIPTION:Nationalism\, populism\, and resurgent racism have combined in a toxic political and cultural stew around the world to challenge established patterns of civic dialogue and interrupt the natural evolution of democracy. In response\, monuments are toppling\, schools and buildings are being renamed\, and historical memory itself has come under review and regulation in some countries. \nJoin public players from the United Kingdom\, Hungary\, Singapore\, and Charlottesville\, Virginia\, in a virtual transatlantic dialogue about the reexamination of reputations and settling of scores that may have serious consequences for free speech and international understanding in the years ahead. The conversation will be moderated by Professor Michael Scott\, senior dean and Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford\, and Sanford J. Ungar\, director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \n\n\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\nNirmal Ghosh has been U.S. bureau chief for the Straits Times\, Singapore’s leading English-language newspaper\, since 2016. An award-winning journalist\, since 1994 he has been a foreign correspondent covering political and environmental issues across Asia. He was a 2015 Jefferson Fellow and a 2016 presidential election reporting fellow at the East-West Center. Ghosh is also a trustee of the Corbett Foundation\, an environmental organization based in India. \n\n\n\n\nGail Leftwich Kitch\, a consultant on civic engagement based in Charlottesville\, Virginia\, is CEO of Miranda Consulting. After practicing law in Washington\, DC\, and Boston\, Kitch had a career as a nonprofit administrator\, serving most recently as the executive vice president of communications and finance at the Voter Participation Center\, a nonpartisan voting rights organization. She currently serves on the boards of the National Conference on Citizenship and the Charlottesville Opera. \n\n\n\n\nBaroness Usha Prashar of Runnymede has been a cross-bench (independent) member of the British House of Lords since 1999. Born in Kenya\, she has been deeply involved in human rights and race relations issues throughout her career\, and she is now a senior consultant to Seriously Inclusive\, which helps organizations develop effective policies and practices to promote diversity and inclusion. Baroness Prashar is also honorary president of the National Literacy Trust in the United Kingdom. \n\n\n\n\nProfessor Peter Róna is a Fellow and director of the Las Casas Institute’s economics program at the University of Oxford. Róna specializes in the philosophical foundations of the social sciences\, particularly economics. Previously\, he was the president of Schroders\, and he later served as the CEO of the First Hungary Fund\, from which he retired in 2003. In 2010 he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Hungary. \n\n\n\n\nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the Editorial Board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n\n\n\n\nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in education\, government\, and civil society in the United States. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was dean of the American University School of Communication after a distinguished career in journalism. Ungar is a former co-host of All Things Considered on NPR.
URL:https://adoring-mclean.79-99-40-212.plesk.page/event/reinterpreting-history-in-an-evolving-world/
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SUMMARY:Conference: Future of the Humanities - The Relevance of Art History
DESCRIPTION:This is the second conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University\, Washington\, DC\, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars\, Oxford. \nUnder the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott\, the project explores the place of the humanities in developing a proper understanding of human life\, dignity\, and culture. Project seminars\, lectures\, and conferences draw on the Catholic intellectual tradition in dialogue with other religious\, philosophical\, and cultural traditions. \nThe Relevance of Art History – Roundtable discussion\nSpeakers include: Prof Martin Kemp\, Daphne Todd\, Estelle Thompson\, Kathleen Soriano\, Stephen Farthing and others.\n\nStephen Farthing RA is a distinguished artist and fellow of the Royal Academy of Art\, where he has exhibited his work. He has served as the Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and is a fellow at St. Edmund’s Hall\, Oxford University. Among his well-known books are 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (2006). \nProf Martin Kemp\, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University\, is one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of many books on art history and the relationship of science and art\, including The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (1990) and\, most recently\, Living with Leonardo (2018). \nKathleen Soriano is a distinguished independent art curator who previously served as director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy. She has also worked at the National Portrait Gallery and directed the Liverpool Biennial\, the largest contemporary art festival in the UK. She is currently curating an exhibition of works by Harald Sohlberg at The Dulwich Picture Gallery. \nEstelle Thompson is a leading abstract artist known worldwide for her “Fuse Paintings.” Her work is displayed prominently in public galleries and other institutions\, including hospitals and universities. She has taught at De Montfort University and Wrexham Glyndwr University and currently teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. \nDaphne Todd\, a renowned portrait artist\, was the first woman to serve as president of the Royal Society of Portrait Artists. HRH the Prince of Wales\, Lord Sainsbury\, and Spike Milligan are among her subjects and a number of her paintings are exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery\, London.  She is also well known as a judge on the BBC’s “The Big Painting Challenge.” \nBook tickets via Eventbrite. \n 
URL:https://adoring-mclean.79-99-40-212.plesk.page/event/relevance-of-art-history/
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