Issues for the week of December 4, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of December 4

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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
Associate Professor of Sociology, Xavier University
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
Contributing Editor, Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History, The New School for Social Research