Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form
Special guest speaker, Dr. Ashley Currier, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati
Special guest speaker, Dr. Ashley Currier, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati
Dena Goodman is the Lila Miller Collegiate Professor, History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan. A leading specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern France, her monographs include Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (2009) and The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994), both with Cornell University Press.
A sophisticated democratic citizen must be able to vote in a way that is most representative of his/her own political views, in short they must be able to cast their votes “correctly”. The analysis of voting behavior in the new democracies can tell us a great deal about normalization of politics in these societies overtime.
As this second installment in our series of interactive videoconferences this year, Conversations in Europe, the EUCE/ESC will bring experts together via remote connection to discuss the range and level of European influence in the Middle East. Europe has, until recently, been an attractive model for countries in democratization, because of the non-threatening, non-military way Europe—and the EU in particular—attracted adherents. Almost two years after the Arab Spring, does Europe retain any influence, any ability to influence events?