{"id":12782,"date":"2013-11-14T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12782"},"modified":"2013-11-14T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:18:35","slug":"civic-studies-mini-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12782","title":{"rendered":"Civic Studies mini-conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon after the volume entitled Civic Studies<\/a> is published, a daylong discussion of the same topic will take place at the Southern Political Science Association <\/a>meeting (January 10 in New Orleans).<\/p>\n

As Karol Soltan and I write in the volume, the phrase \u201ccivic studies\u201d is quite new. A group of scholars coined it in 2007 in a collaborative statement entitled \u201cThe New Civic Politics: Civic Theory and Practice for the Future<\/a>.\u201d Civic Studies does not mean civic education, although it should ultimately improve civic education. Instead, in the words of original framework, Civic Studies is an \u201cemerging intellectual community, a field, and a discipline. Its work is to understand and strengthen civic politics, civic initiatives, civic capacity, civic society, and civic culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The framework cites two definitive ideals for the emerging discipline of civic studies \u201cpublic spiritedness\u201d (or \u201ccommitment to the public good\u201d) and \u201cthe idea of the citizen as a creative agent.\u201d Civic studies is an intellectual community that takes these two ideals seriously. Although new, it draws from several important strands of ongoing research: the Nobel-Prize-winning scholarship of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom<\/a> on managing common assets; deliberative democracy<\/a>; public work<\/a>; the study of public participation in development<\/a>; the idea of social science as practical wisdom or phronesis; <\/a>and community-based research<\/a> in fields like sociology.<\/p>\n

Here is the agenda for the mini-conference:<\/p>\n

Civic Studies \u201cConference Within a Conference\u201d: Fri Jan 10 2014, 9:45 to 11:15am<\/em><\/p>\n

Author Meets Critics for Peter Levine’s “We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Author: Peter Levine (Tufts University)
\nCritic: Olivia Newman (Harvard University)
\nCritic: Ryan McBride (Tulane University)
\nCritic: Thad Williamson (University of Richmond)
\nCritic: Rumman Chowdhury (University of California, San Diego)
\nChair: Susan Orr (College at Brockport, SUNY)
\n* Albert Dzur participating remotely via skype<\/p>\n

Fri Jan 10 2014, 1:15 to 2:45pm
\nRoundtable “What is Civic Studies?”<\/p>\n

Participant: Karol Soltan (University of Maryland)
\nParticipant: Peter Levine (Tufts University)
\nParticipant: Tina Nabatchi (Maxwell School Syracuse University)
\nParticipant: Thad Williamson (University of Richmond)
\nChair: Peter Levine (Tufts University)<\/p>\n

Fri Jan 10 2014, 3:00 to 4:30pm
\nTeaching Civic Studies<\/p>\n

Participant: Katherine Kravetz (American University)
\nParticipant: Timothy J. Shaffer (Wagner College)
\nParticipant: Alison Staudinger (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay)
\nParticipant: Donald Harward (Bates College)
\nParticipant: Susan Orr (College at Brockport, SUNY)<\/p>\n

Fri Jan 10 2014, 4:45 to 6:15pm
\nAuthor Meets Critics for Paul Aligica, Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond<\/em><\/p>\n

Author: Paul Aligica (George Mason University)
\nCritic: James Bohman (Saint Louis University)
\nCritic: James Johnson (University of Rochester)
\nChair: Karol Soltan (University of Maryland)
\nCritic: Samuel Ely Bagg (Duke University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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