Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Petra Ahrens
Register here The international norm of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: Navigating Inequality and Inclusion in Democracies under Pressure Bio Petra Ahrens is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Isaac Owusu-Mensah
Register here Enhancing Quality Electoral Governance for Democratic Consolidation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic Abstract Ghana has made significant progress with democratic governance since returning to multiparty politics in 1992. Since […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Omar Gueye
Register here Democracy and resilience in Africa : Case study of Senegal Abstract Following the political and societal debates that have been taking place around the world since the […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Sergiu Ghergina
Democratic Innovations Beyond Established Democracies: Challenges and Developments in Europe Democratic innovations, especially the direct and deliberative practices, gained momentum around the world in the last three decades. They slowly […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Péter Krekó
Register here Informational Autocracies and State-Sponsored Disinformation – On the Possibilities and Limits of Institutionalized Brainwashing Abstract In today’s information landscape, the rise of “spin dictatorships” or informational autocracies shows […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Tània Verge
Register here When We Are Not in the Room: Designing Feminist Institutional Change for Resilience and Reactivation Feminist institutionalism has long shown that feminist institutional change is rarely one-shot, given the “genderedness” of organisations/institutions (Benschop & Verloo, 2006), the “nested newness” of reform […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Luana Russo
Register here Political Identity as a Feature of Democracy: Belonging, Rejection, and Absence Political identities are often taken for granted as attachments to parties or ideological camps. Yet citizens differ […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Amanda Machin
Register here Democracy and the More-Than-Human Carnivalesque Abstract From corporate zombies to mermaids to dead bees, political protests have frequently featured comic, ironic, grotesque, absurd and profane moments of […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Edson Tandoc
Register here Fake news and Asian perspectives: Lessons learned, problems persisting, and emerging threats This presentation reexamines the evolving landscape of misinformation and disinformation, focusing on the Asian region, drawing on insights […]
Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Liza Mügge
Register here Beyond Strongmen: Masculinities, Backlash, and the Future of Democracy Abstract Across Europe and beyond, new “strongman” politics mobilize resentment, revive sexist stereotypes, and turn certain masculinities into […]