{"id":11789,"date":"2013-06-03T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2013-06-03T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:02:26","slug":"frontiers-of-democracy-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11789","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) The <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/circle\/summer-institute\/frontiers-of-democracy-innovations-in-civic-practice-theory-and-education\/\">2013 Frontiers of Democracy conference<\/a> (&#8220;Innovations in Civic Practice, Theory, and Education&#8221;) is coming together nicely. It&#8217;s scheduled for July 18-20, 2013 in Medford, MA. Detailed information and the registration form are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/circle\/summer-institute\/frontiers-of-democracy-innovations-in-civic-practice-theory-and-education\/\">conference website<\/a>. As samples of what you will experience, here are four of our &#8220;Short Takes&#8221; speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeff Coates<\/strong> is Strategic Initiatives Associate at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He has worked extensively on the measurement of civic health, including the foundation\u2019s \u201cSoul of the Community\u201d research. Coates previously worked with the Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership, where he collaborated with more than 50 nonprofits to develop strategic plans for long-term recovery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Davis<\/strong> is the Chief of Police for Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He has been in law enforcement for twenty years and is a passionate advocate of community engagement in crime prevention. Chief Davis is one of a handful of police chiefs from around the United States to be a member of the 2011-2014 Harvard Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. Chief Davis was also the recipient of the 2012 Gary P. Hayes Award from the Police Executive Research Forum.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Moulthrop<\/strong> is the new Executive Director of the City Club of Cleveland. He was previously the \u201cCurator of Conversation\u201d and a co-founder of<a href=\"http:\/\/theciviccommons.com\/\"> Civic Commons<\/a>, a project aimed at using the Internet and social media to create productive, civil dialogue on public issues. A longtime media veteran, Moulthrop was the founding host of \u201cThe Sound of Ideas,\u201d ideastream\u2019s award-winning public affairs program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teresa Younger<\/strong> is the Executive Director of the Connecticut General Assembly\u2019s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW).\u00a0 Prior to joining the PCSW, Younger was the Director of Affiliate Organizational Development at the American Civil Liberties Union National Office, where she assisted affiliates throughout the country with organization and management issues.\u00a0 Before that, Younger became the first woman and the first African American to serve as Executive Director of the ACLU of Connecticut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These speakers and others will provoke the audience with 10-minute talks, and there will be plenty of time for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, here is the agenda for the &#8220;Mini-Conference on Civic Studies,&#8221; which is one track of activities for July 19 (running opposite other discussions). It has been organized by alumni of the Summer Institute of Civic Studies at Tufts:<\/p>\n<p>8:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening Remarks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karol Soltan and Peter Levine, Co-directors and Co-founders of the Summer Institute of Civic Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>8:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Civic Studies: What is it? What can it become? What research questions are pressing? What do we need to know? How do we find it out?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Shaffer \u2013 Director, Center for Leadership and Engagement, Wagner College<\/li>\n<li>Peter Levine \u2013 Director, CIRCLE, Tufts University<\/li>\n<li>Ian Ward \u2013 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated discussion including discussants and attendees<\/p>\n<p>Closing Remarks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator: Elizabeth Gish, Assistant Professor, Honors College, Western Kentucky University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10:15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n<p>10:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prisons and crime as venues of civic work and topics for civic research\/social scientific phronesis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Nurkin \u2013 Executive Director of Princeton AlumniCorps, Princeton<\/li>\n<li>Peter Pihos \u2013 doctoral candidate, University of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Additional discussant to be announced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated discussion including discussants and attendees<\/p>\n<p>Closing Remarks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator: Joshua Miller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch<\/p>\n<p>12:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Theory and Practice of Civic Studies: What do we mean by theory\/practice, practitioners\/academics? How can we think and write better at these intersections?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karol Soltan \u2013 Associate Professor, The Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland<\/li>\n<li>Jen Sandler \u2013 Director, University Alliance for Community Transformation, UMass Amherst<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Gish \u2013 Assistant Professor, Honors College, Western Kentucky University<\/li>\n<li>Moderated discussion including discussants and attendees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Closing Remarks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator \u2013 Tim Shaffer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2:45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Break<br \/>\n3:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interactive Capstone: Advancing Civic Theory and Practice<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on today\u2019s panels and discussion, what do we need to move forward?<\/p>\n<p>Who is this \u201cwe\u201d? What networks or actions will sustain this work?<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years in the future, what would a healthy Civic Studies look like?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators \u2013 Liza\u00a0 Pappas, City University of New York and Alison Staudinger, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) The 2013 Frontiers of Democracy conference (&#8220;Innovations in Civic Practice, Theory, and Education&#8221;) is coming together nicely. It&#8217;s scheduled for July 18-20, 2013 in Medford, MA. Detailed information and the registration form are available on the conference website. 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