Frontiers of Democracy Conference

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Register for Frontiers of Democracy and Submit Session Proposals Tisch College’s Frontiers of Democracy Conference will happen this June 22-24 at Tufts University’s downtown Boston campus. The theme is confronting the global turn to authoritarianism. Please register soon to hold your spot. Space is limited. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2017-tickets-31104870505 We will offer concurrent sessions: interactive “learning exchanges” proposed and facilitated by attendees. We still have space for some more sessions. No later than April 21, 2017, please submit your session ideas here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8Etpu74ic3gAMXgPbfevLf6dvKlzCI4CQ2UyQs922N56h2w/viewform We have confirmed some of the exciting “short-takes” speakers for this summer, including Jill Abramson, author and former executive editor of The New York Times, Rehka Datta from Monmouth University, Joe Goldman, president of the Democracy Fund, Rev. Willis Johnson of Wellspring Church in Ferguson, MO, Hardy Merriman from the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, Ashley Trim of the Davenport Institute, and Wendy Willis of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and the National Policy Consensus Center. The whole conference will be asked to work collaboratively with three frameworks for civic and democratic work developed respectively by Ceasar McDowell of the Interaction Institute for Social Change and MIT, Archon Fung of the Kennedy School of Government, and Tisch College’s Peter Levine. A nationally prominent group of scholars will hold a roundtable discussion of civic renewal, “fishbowl”-style so that everyone will have opportunities to ask questions and make comments. Those scholars will include, among others, Jeff Coates (National Conference on Citizenship), Felton (Tony) Earls (Harvard), Lewis A. Friedland (Wisconsin), Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg (Tufts), Carmen Sirianni (Brandeis), and Janet Tran (The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute). Cosponsors include the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Find Out More Copyright © 2017 Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you attended or expressed interest in Frontiers of Democracy or the Summer Institute of Civic Studies at Tisch College Our mailing address is: Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University Lincoln Filene Hall Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts 02155