The 克劳夫中心 is dedicating its 2024-2025 year of programming to the theme of "展望民主的未来."
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我们想象的南方
A 教授essor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Karen Cox has risen to prominence as one of the most authoritative commentators on the American South today. To shed more light on a region and the places that continue to define our nation today, 克拉夫中心热烈欢迎. Karen Cox as a Distinguished Lecturer for the 2023-24 academic year. This event is part of the 克劳夫中心's year-long exploration of “世界各国对地方的依恋”.
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“达尔文的噩梦”
由奥地利电影制作人休伯特·索珀编剧和导演, the Oscar-nominated documentary Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) investigates the social and ecological impact of the global fishing industry in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. As a contribution to our ongoing exploration of “世界各国对地方的依恋,” the 克劳夫中心 is pleased to host a viewing of Darwin’s Nightmare, followed by a discussion of the film with Director Hubert Sauper.
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制作《电子游戏软件》
克拉夫中心非常高兴地欢迎. Appadurai as a Clough Distinguished Lecturer of the 2023-24 academic year. 他的被告是Zine Magubane, 电子游戏软件社会学教授, whose work critically examines the legacies of slavery and colonialism to develop new theoretical tools for a truly global sociology. 教授. Appadurai’s lecture is entitled “制作《电子游戏软件》: The Infrastructure of an Intimate Abstraction.”
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世界各国对地方的依恋
在过去的两个世纪, the nation-state has risen to become the dominant territorial unit of governance, 法律, 经济, 和文化. 即使在今天的全球化秩序中，它仍然如此. 然而在世界历史的大部分时间里, 其他构建政治空间的模式占了上风, from great dynastic and religious empires to independent cities, 部落联合会, 以及当地社区. 即使在今天, many people across the globe continue to define their identities in relation to other forms of “attachment to place.”
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宪法对我们意味着什么2023
自美国建国以来, the American Constitution has been central to our public life. 它激发了希望，也激起了绝望. It has remained in place, as few other national constitutions have. Yet it has also repeatedly been changed, and some today think it needs to change again. At a moment when its basic meaning seems more contested than ever, 我们应该如何看待今天的宪法?
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电子游戏正规平台新闻业，恢复民主
By keeping the public informed and holding the powerful to account, journalism plays a vital role in the life of democratic societies. Maintaining an objective public record–whether by fact-checking political advertisements, or scoring political speeches with Pinocchios–is only the most obvious of journalists’ contributions. 当制度规范失效时, 媒体充当了额外的护栏, offering critique while safeguarding democratic institutions.
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《电子游戏软件》
As the second Clough Distinguished Lecturer in our relaunched series, 教授. Tarrow will draw on his extensive comparative research into European democratic regimes to speak to the challenges polarization poses to American democracy today. He will also make the case that the postwar experience of European countries can afford valuable insights into the nature of these challenges, 以及如何解决这些问题. 教授. 塔罗的被告是马歇尔·甘兹，丽塔·E. 豪瑟领导力高级讲师, Organizing and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government, and one of the foremost scholars and practitioners of community organizing.
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“民主的堕落”
As the first speaker in the 克劳夫中心’s relaunched “Distinguished Lecture” series, 教授. Calhoun will address the issues explored in his most recent book, 民主的堕落, 与查尔斯·泰勒和迪利普·高卡尔合著. 挑战老生常谈的叙述, this work interrogates the underlying causes of democratic decline, and examines the most promising strategies for revitalizing democracy across the globe. 卡尔霍恩的被告是伊丽莎白·麦肯纳, Assistant 教授essor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert in social movements, 政党, 草根民主政治.
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面对失败? 圆桌讨论
How do religions that have grown accustomed to political rule cope with the loss of their political authority in modernity? And how might they learn to coexist, peacefully, with the modern state? 在他的新书中, 面对失败, 克劳夫中心 Director Jonathan Laurence sheds new light on these questions by offering a comparative analysis of two religions not often treated together: Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam.
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宪法对我们意味着什么
自美国建国以来, the American Constitution has been central to our public life. 它激发了希望，也激起了绝望. It has remained in place, as few other national constitutions have. Yet it has also repeatedly been changed, and some today think it needs to change again. At a moment when its basic meaning seems more contested than ever, 我们应该如何看待今天的宪法?
