Week of December 4

• Democracy
  The EU’s University in Exile

  Laszlo Bruszt

  Professor of Political Science, Central European University
  Can Democracy Be Established Undemocratically?

  Muriel Blaive

  Researcher, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague
  Authoritarian Parasitism in Turkey and Beyond

  Utku Balaban

  Visiting associate professor of sociology, Amherst College
• Violence
  Initiating Inmates

  Brittany Friedman

  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
  Reclaiming Victimology

  Alyson Cole

  Professor of Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
  Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’

  McKenzie Wark

  Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research
• Cities
  Food for Thought

  Justin Wood

  Director of Organizing and Strategic Research, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
  ‘Our Readers Feel We Are on Their Side’

  Clara Hemphill

  Director of Education Policy, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
  Futures

  Claire Potter

  Executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, New School for Social Research