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Democracy and the Apocalypse this Democracy Day

Speaker(s)
Jerry Brown (Former Governor of California) and Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of Political Science, èצӰÏñ)
Date
Tue November 8th 2022, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Location
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 260, Rm 426

Democracy and the Apocalypse
With Former Governor Jerry Brown

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

- From The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot

Global geo-political realities teeter on the verge of nuclear war while the devastating impacts of climate change are already being felt worldwide. Whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper, that it will end is inevitable. When it will end is not. Contemporary liberal democratic societies and autocracies alike are faced with existential threats on an apocalyptic scale. How well suited are they to tackle the challenge of preventing them? Conversely, climate change and the belligerence of the world’s superpowers pose diverse threats to the health and survival of its dwindling democracies. Can democracy survive in the shadow of the apocalypse?

Join former California Governor Jerry Brown and èצӰÏñ Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy in conversation about Democracy and the Apocalypse this Democracy Day, November 8, 2022, at 1:30pm in the Terrace Room, 4th floor, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460.

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