{"id":16866,"date":"2016-05-06T07:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16866"},"modified":"2016-05-06T07:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:59:55","slug":"frontiers-of-democracy-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16866","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) The agenda for <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/\">Frontiers of Democracy 2016<\/a>\u00a0is almost set. Tickets are running out, although some\u00a0remain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2016-tickets-21462687476\">Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dates are June 23-25 in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time will be devoted to highly interactive &#8220;learning exchanges&#8221; on topics ranging from civic tech to faith communities, from museums to social movements. <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers\/frontiers-of-democracy-2016-concurrent-sessions\/\">The 21 learning exchanges are listed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also hear briefly from featured\u00a0plenary speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Danielle Allen\u00a0<\/strong>is the Director of the Center for Ethics and Professor of Government and Education at Harvard University, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Her most recent books are Education and Equality (forthcoming, 2016) Our Declaration (2014) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age (2015), co-edited with Jennifer Light.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laura Grattan,<\/strong> Wellesley College,\u00a0is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department at Wellesley College and author of<em>Populism\u2019s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America. <\/em>In addition to her research on democratic theory and practice, she has long been active in\u00a0civic engagement and community organizing with the Kettering Foundation,\u00a0the Industrial Areas Foundation, and Wellesley\u2019s Program on Public Leadership and Action.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Hoereth <\/strong>is the\u00a0Director of the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois at Chicago<\/li>\n<li><strong>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Landemore,\u00a0<\/strong>is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many\u00a0(Princeton University Press 2013), which was awarded the\u00a02015 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for best book in liberal and\/or democratic theory published two years earlier. She is also the co-editor (with Jon Elster) of Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms (Cambridge University Press 2012). She is currently working on a new book project entitled After Representation: Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century, where she envisions alternatives to representative government as we know it. Her most recent articles are on the participatory Icelandic constitutional process of 2010-2012, crowdsourced policy-making in Finland, and workplace democracy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9,\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of eighteen books, including <em>Democracy\u2019s Edge <\/em>and <em>Getting a Grip<\/em> that focus on what she calls Living Democracy. Coauthored with Joseph Collins, her latest work, <em>World Hunger: 10 Myths<\/em>, identifies democratic practices as key to solving the hunger crisis. Frances is cofounder of three organizations, including the Oakland-based Food First and most recently the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lapp\u00e9. Lapp\u00e9 has received eighteen honorary doctorates as well as the Right Livelihood Award, often called the \u201cAlternative Nobel.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><i><\/i><strong>Tiago Peixoto<\/strong> is the Team Lead of the World Bank\u2019s Digital Engagement Unit<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Talmon J. Smith,<\/strong> Tufts \u201916,\u00a0is a teaching assistant and research associate at the NYU Arthur Carter Journalism Institute and a contributor to Huffington Post Politics &amp; Media. His research focus as a Tisch Scholar (2013-2016) and writer at Issue One centered on regulatory capture and anatomizing the conflicts of interests the current finance system produces for Congress and its industry oversight committees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victor Yang\u00a0<\/strong>is an educator and labor organizer. He spends his days doing leadership development work with janitors and security officers of SEIU 32BJ, a local of the Service Employees International Union. He has a doctorate in politics and a master of public policy from Oxford, and a bachelor\u2019s in the history of science from Harvard.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>A panel on civic tech with <strong>Nigel Jacob<\/strong> (City of Boston), <strong>Jesse Littlewood<\/strong> (Common Cause), and <strong>Chris Wells<\/strong> (University of Wisconsin)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) The agenda for Frontiers of Democracy 2016\u00a0is almost set. 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