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• An Overview of the Rise of Authoritarians: Is It the Future Or Does It Present a Phase That Democracies Must Tolerate?

  • When
    Thursday, January 27, 2022
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

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  Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of ten books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. His most recent book, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, was widely reviewed across the United States.  His research and teaching have received numerous prizes.
  

  Professor Suri is also a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs. He hosts a weekly podcast, “This is Democracy”, available through his professional webpage: http://jeremisuri.net.
  

  From 2001 to 2011 Jeremi was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American History. He worked closely with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, the Wisconsin Historical Society, Downtown Rotary, and the Wisconsin Academy, where he was an Academy Fellow.
  

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• Narendra Modi’s India

  • When
    Thursday, February 17, 2022
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

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  Dr. Jayati Ghosh is a development economist with core areas of study that include international economics, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development.  She is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  
  She has authored and/or edited 19 books and nearly 200 scholarly articles.  She has received several awards that include her distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India (2015), the International Labour Organization’s Decent Work Research Prize (2010), and the Norsud Prize for Social Sciences (2010).
  
  She has been an advisor to the government of India and several other countries.  She has been a consultant to many international organizations that include International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and UN Women (entity for gender equality and empowerment of women).
  
  

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• Bolsonaro's Brazil

  • When
    Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

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  Dr. Smith's presentation is part of the Spring 2022 series on the rise of authoriantism around the world.

  Amy Erica Smith is an associate professor of political science as well as a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University. In 2014, she was a Fulbright post-doctoral student in Brazil. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research examines citizenship, democracy, and religion, with a primary focus on Latin America, and especially Brazil. She is author of Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God (2019, Cambridge University Press), as well as many articles in academic outlets and public media.

  
  

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• Putin’s Russia

  • When
    Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Madison Club, 5 E Wilson St

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  Registration is required and ends April 20, 2022
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  Please note that the Madison Club requires all patrons to be fully vaccinated or to have tested negative within 24-hours before attending events.  MCFR fully supports the Madison Club policy and all current public health measures.
  

  Dr. Hannah S. Chapman is the Karen and Adeed Dawisha Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University, and Faculty Associate at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She is a UW-Madison alumna who received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2018. 
  
  Her research and teaching are in the field of comparative politics, with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union.  In the research for her dissertation—"Shoring Up Autocracy:  Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia”—she examined the role of elite-mass communication in bolstering support for authoritarian regimes.  
  
  Her awards include the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018), and Best Conference Paper in “Information Technology & Politics” from the American Political Science Association (2017).
  
  Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Democratization, International Studies Quarterly, and The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.
  
  

  
  

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• Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey

  • When
    Monday, May 09, 2022
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

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  Dr. Mehmet Kurt is a lecturer at Yale University and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the London School of Economics.  His research lies at the intersection of political sociology and anthropology of religion.  A specific focus is on political Islam and civil society in Turkey.  

  In his book Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State (2017), he addresses political theology, intercommunal conflict, and everyday manifestations of ethnic and religious identities among Hizbullah members in Turkey.  
  
  Currently, he is exploring transnational Islamic movements and mobilizations.  Of particular interest is the problem of how do Turkish Muslim communities experience and imagine Islam, ethnicity, identity and citizenship in Europe and in the United States?

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