Pardee Center Hosts “How Democracy Survives” Symposium
From October 28-30, 2020, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, an affiliate center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University (BU), hosted a virtual symposium titled “How Democracy Survives: The Crises of the Nation State.”
The symposium was hosted in Conjunction with the Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series, the BU College of General Studies, the Workable World Trust, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning.
The three-day symposium featured leading scholars and activists from around the world, exploring how democratic values and institutions can evolve and adapt to the growing challenges that are now destabilizing democratic nation states, such as climate change, resurgent nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, human rights abuses, and deepening levels of economic inequality.
Recordings of the symposium’s different sessions are available below.
Video recordings of every session will be made available on the Pardee Center’s website in the coming weeks.
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is an interdisciplinary research center affiliated with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Through programs of scholarship, outreach, and education, the Pardee Center works to improve public decision-making and policy to train future generations of interdisciplinary scholars. Read more about the center here.