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Racism in Obstetrics and Gynecology with Rachel Bervell, MD
ReSisters is honored to host Rachel Bervell, MD, co-founder of the Black OBGYN Project to discuss the racist history of obstetrics and gynecology and how it persists today. The Black OBGYN Project is an Instagram page led by two Black ObGyn doctors on the ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP 2000/21: Between Despair & Hope with Orsola de Castro
Author Orsola de Castro's lecture is part of this year's Fashion Talks at AUP entitled: Between Despair and Hope, organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian, where she will discuss her book Loved Clothes Last: How th ...
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African Philosophy and Global Justice
Professor Okeja is an Associate Professor in the department of philosophy at Rhodes University and Director of the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy (forthcoming) and ...
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Demos21 Talk by Carlo Burelli (University of Genova): No Virtue like Resilience – A new Machiavellian justification of democracy
Political realism claims that normative evaluations of politics should be grounded on political rather than moral values (Rossi and Sleat 2014). This paper revives Machiavelli’s justification of republican government (Machiavelli 2003), and seeks to updat ...
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The Democratic Boundary Problem – A Function-Sensitive View
In response to the democratic boundary problem, two principles have been seen as competitors: the all-affected interests principle and the all-subjected principle. This article claims that these principles are in fact compatible, being justified vis-à-vis ...
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Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments
Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments During the XX century, many western countries introduced balanced budget constitutional amendments (BBCA), i.e. they reformed their constitution ...
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The Privatized State
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites Chiara Cordelli for a talk entitled "The Privatized State." Prof. Cordelli will be discussing a chapter of her recent book with the same title, The Privatized State. About the Book Many governme ...
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Prof. Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po Paris): Democracy in Selection
Should we replace elections with lotteries? Bernard Manin’s famous book on representative government first taught many of us that the Greeks thought of elections as an aristocratic, not a democratic, way to select people for political power and authority ...
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Marc Hecker and Élie Tenenbaum: The End of the War on Terror?
The lecture will draw on the book The Twenty Years’ War: Jihadism and Counterterrorism in the XXIst Century. Based on several years of field investigations, this book, which was recently awarded the Prix du livre géopolitique, offers the first history of ...
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Why Open Democracy?
This paper examines open democracy, the conception of democracy introduced by Hélène Landemore in her recent book of the same name. Open democracy offers both an institutional paradigm and a specification of democratic values underlying it. It differs fro ...