Hi democrats,
Since our last newsletter, we’ve published four new essays. Silvana Alvarez Basto’s reflections on the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park asked what we our historical monuments to do for us. Daniel Peres wrote on the relationship between autocracy and the pandemic response in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Jeffrey Isaac provided on update on the post-coup situation in Myanmar, where protestors continue to be shot by the military. We also published the latest piece in the The Last Time I Saw Them: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life series, a conversation between Irena Grudzińska-Gross and Dwayne Betts.
We’ve also held two events recently. Keynotes from the recent Memory Studies Group conference “Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic” will be available soon. Similarly, excerpts from “A place for ideology in post-1989 world?”, a dialogue between Jeffrey Goldfarb and Nadia Urbinati, will appear shortly on the TCDS YouTube channel.
There are two upcoming events we’d like to publicize. On May 5th, Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole Hemmer. Then, on May 7th, the New University in Exile Consortium spring conference will take place from 12:00 to 2:00pm, titled “The Academy, Politics and Society: How a Troubled World Affects Universities and Activism” and with a keynote presentation from Éric Fassin.
We hope to see you at those next week.