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An International Online Seminar

Challenges to Democracy in a Time of Great Changes

 

Sociology Department, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Kyiv, Ukraine

 

           

Monday May 31, 2021 (Kyiv Time)

 

Online Registration

 

Program

 

 

 

9.15am—9.30am

 

Opening Session

 

Moderator

 

Denys Kiryukhin

Skovoroda's Institute of Philosophy

Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine &

RVP Regional Coordinator 

Moderator

 

Svitlana Shcnerbak

Skovoroda's Institute of Philosophy

Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine

9.30am—12.00noon

 

First Session

9.30am—10.00am

 

Anatol Lieven

Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University Qatar, Doha, Qatar

 

Why Democracies Fail: The Contingent Nature of Political Systems

10.00am—10.30am

 

Pavlo Kutuyev 
Department of Sociology

National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine  

 

Democracy and State Capacity: How to Build  Developmental State in a Democratic Environment

10.30am—11.00am

 

Sanjeev Kumar H.M.

Department of Political Science

University of Delhi, Delhi, India

 

The Shrinking Democratic Space in the age of Authoritarian Populism: The Islamophobic  Discourse of Hindu Nationalism and the making of the Illiberal Public Culture in India

11.00am—11.30am

 

Andrew Yeo

Department of Politics

Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA

 

Nationalist Polarization and Weak Institutional Norms: Democratic Ceilings in South Korea

11.30am-12.00noon

 

Discussion

 

2.00pm-4.30pm

 

Second Session 

 

2.00pm—2.30pm

 

Bill Bowring

Birkbeck College

University of London , London, UK

A Tale of Three Anti-democratic Populisms Challenging the EU:

UK (soon to be FUK), Poland and Hungary 

2.30pm—3.00pm

 

Mikhail Minakov 

Kennan Institute

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA

 

30 Years of Democratization in Ukraine

3.00pm—3.30pm

 

Tinatin Bochorishvili

Scientific Research Institute

University of Georgia, Tblisi, Georgia 

 

Contemporary Challenges of Democracy in Georgia

3.30pm—4.00pm

 

Grivas M. Kayange 

Department of Philosophy

Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi

 

African Neoliberal Democracy and the Collapse of the Corporation

4.00pm-4.30pm

 

Discussion

 

4.30pm-4.45pm

 

Concluding Session 

 

 

José Casanova

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA &

RVP Academic Advisor  

 

 

Hu Yeping

The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) &

The CUA McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values

 

  

 

 

 

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