{"id":11890,"date":"2013-06-26T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11890"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:34:19","slug":"civic-studies-at-frontiers-of-democracy-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11890","title":{"rendered":"civic studies at Frontiers of Democracy 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/circle\/summer-institute\/\">Summer Institute of Civic Studies<\/a> and their colleagues have put together a track of discussions for this summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/circle\/summer-institute\/frontiers-of-democracy-innovations-in-civic-practice-theory-and-education\/\">Frontiers of Democracy Conference.<\/a> They have designed an exciting mix of theory, practice, and applications to particular topics&#8211;notably, the incarceration crisis. To attend part or all of this mini-conference, you must <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/circle\/summer-institute\/frontiers-of-democracy-innovations-in-civic-practice-theory-and-education\/#registration\">register for Frontiers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Friday, July 19, 2013. Tufts University campus in Medford, MA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u00a0\u00a0 Civic Studies:\u00a0 What is it? What can it become? What research questions are pressing? What do we need to know? How do we find it out?<strong> <\/strong>This session explores the state of civic studies as a field. Four years after the inaugural Summer Institute of Civic Studies, where is the field today and where is it going?<\/p>\n<p>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>9:00 \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, 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>Albert Dzur (Bowling Green) and John Gastil (Penn State), via remote presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Crime and its aftermath exists at the uneasy boundary between egalitarian civic engagement and expert-led public work. Crime calls for a coordinated civic response, yet routinely criminal justice is institutionalized and bureaucratized, placing it out of the realm of amateur citizen action. How can citizens bend the course of the system that costs hundreds of billions of dollars annually and involves difficult legal, economic, and psychological issues?\u00a0 In this panel, we will explore the efforts of scholars in the burgeoning field of civic studies to detail the history and promise of antiviolence campaigns, citizen-led police oversight, prison education, and the participatory politics of the jury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderated discussion including discussants and attendees<\/p>\n<p>Closing Remarks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator: Joshua Miller, Morgan State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch<\/p>\n<p>1:00\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 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<blockquote><p>In the study of democracy, ethics, and politics, there is often a perceived tension between theory and practice. Or a divide between \u201cacademics\u201d and \u201cpractitioners.\u201d This conversation explores these distinctions and tensions in the context of civic studies, asking how we can think and write better at these intersections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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<blockquote><p>In this session, we\u2019ll reflect on the work of the day, as well as build networks and concrete plans to tackle the key problems for civic studies going forward. Moderators will lead participants through individual and paired reflection exercises and will model a \u201cone on one\u201d organizing technique that will help us connect our reflections to our stories, develop our relationships, and gauge what we share in common. We\u2019ll end the session examining what the future of civic studies might hold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>4:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former members of the Summer Institute of Civic Studies and their colleagues have put together a track of discussions for this summer&#8217;s Frontiers of Democracy Conference. They have designed an exciting mix of theory, practice, and applications to particular topics&#8211;notably, the incarceration crisis. 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