The PIIRS Fung Global Fellows Program and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics proudly co-host: Deliberative Climate Politics: From citizens’ assemblies to responsive democratic systems? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 | 4:30PM LOUIS A. SIMPSON INTERNATIONAL BLDG, ROOM A71 Are citizens’ assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens’ Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in France, or the Conference on the Future of Europe, were attempts presented as new initiatives. Recently, many climate assemblies are or have been organized at the national level, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, etc. These large-scale processes bring together randomly selected ordinary citizens tasked to provide public policy recommendations, after hearing experts and stakeholders, and deliberating among themselves. What are the promises, limitations, and risks of these democratic experimentations?
Democratic backsliding and autocratization are posing threats around the world. Anti-pluralist forces have challenged democratic institutions, civil liberties, and political norms. This panel will discuss these developments in the global south, with a focus on Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. A future panel will analyze these challenges in the global north. Speakers: Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History. Cotsen Faculty Fellow. Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Jennifer Widner, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Director of Innovations for Successful Societies. Moderator: Deborah Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princet
A Brazil LAB event with Miguel Lago and Angela Alonso. Discussant: Deborah Yashar. Join us for our first lecture of the fall term on Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 4:30 pm in A71 Louis A. Simpson. Followed by a reception in the Atrium of Louis A. Simpson. Miguel Lago is a political scientist and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and at Sciences Po. Lago directs the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS), a think-and-do-tank that advocates for the improvement of public policies in the Brazilian health sector. A political essayist, he is a frequent contributor to the magazine piauí and has recently authored Linguagem da Destruição (Language of Destruction), with Heloisa Starling and Newton Bignotto. Angela Alonso is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and former Director of CEBRAP, the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning. An award-winning author, Alonso studies the interface of culture and political action and emergent forms of social mobilizatio
Brazil LAB Fall 2022 Colloquium Speakers: Miguel Lago, Executive Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS), Visiting Professor, Columbia University Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo; Former director, CEBRAP Discussant: Deborah Yashar, Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Moderator: Thomas Fujiwara, Associate Director, Brazil LAB Co-organized with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
The Surrendered. A Conversation with José Carlos Agüero and Charles Walker
The legacies of Peru’s “internal armed conflict” (1980–2000) between Maoist Shining Path insurgents and the government continue to haunt the country’s present. Among the many recent efforts to grapple with that past, José Carlos Agüero’s The Surrendered – a bestseller in Peru when it first appeared in 2015 – is one of the most thought-provoking. The son of two Shining Path militants, Agüero reflects on his parents’ militancy in a fragmented, moving, and at times lyrical memoir, newly translated into English by Charles Walker and Michael Lazzara. At this event, the author and Prof. Walker will be in conversation, followed by comments from Princeton political scientist Deborah Yashar and the New York-based Peruvian historian Renzo Aroni.
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José Carlos Agüero is an essayist, poet, and public intellectual as well as the author and co-editor of several books in Spani