The final event of our The Promise and Perils of Democracy series concerned the very core of democracies - the well-being of its constituent members: fair wages and working conditions for workers, their families, and their communities.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi - 52nd speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first woman to serve as speaker - enters the conversation with Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, distinguished professor of economics and a senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center. Photo Credit: Photo: Paula Vlodkowsky
Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and editorial director of The Nation, moderates a conversation between Jamelle Bouie, columnist for The New York Times Opinion section, and Corey Robin, Political Science professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
"Hunger is not created by a scarcity of food; hunger is created by a scarcity of democracy:" Frances Moore Lappé discusses her thoughts on the role of food, on how to create a living democracy, and how everyday people can reverse democracy’s decline, with John Torpey.
Last night -introduced by Robin L. Garrell, President of the Graduate Center- brought together an audience of people interested in Latinx voter issues and US democracy. Please enjoy some snapshots from the lively conversation.
The Promise and Perils of Democracy series is back with five new events examining the state of US democracy. As usual, we invited a diverse groups of scholars, activists, journalists, and other experts to put them in conversation – both in virtual and in live formats. Image credit: iStock.com/krie
The practice of change through art is about collaboration and community, and it starts with seeing. That was the main takeaway from “How Artists Lead the Way,” the latest panel in The Graduate Center, CUNY’s CHANGE series, held on October 21. Introduced by Bianca C. Williams, associate professor of anthropology at The Graduate [...]
Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and at the School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY, moderated the third and final panel of the Coalitional Democracy Conference. In her opening remarks she traced the transformation of the labor movement from a sometimes conservative, domineering, or solitary actor to one that came to include groups previously seen as threats, such as immigrants and environmental organizations, or the blue-green alliance.
Professor John Mollenkopf from the Political Science program at The Graduate Center, CUNY moderated the second panel of the Coalitional Democracy Conference on coalitions and political parties. He set the stage by describing the particularities of the two-party system in the U.S., which make it difficult to forge majority coalitions in a period of deep elite polarization and latent conflict between social and economic groups, perhaps especially within the Democratic Party.
The first panel focused on the “Theory and Practice of Coalitions.” The panel was moderated by Dara Z. Strolovitch, who began by recognizing the expansive roots of these ideas in Black feminist work of the 1970s and 1980s. The panelists then set the stage for the rest of the conference by discussing the challenges of agenda-setting and issue inclusion, differences in coalition design on the right and the left, identity conflicts internal to organizations, and the role of popular political culture more generally in forging or foreclosing democratic coalitions.