{"id":17039,"date":"2016-06-13T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:25:59","slug":"the-eighth-annual-summer-institute-of-civic-studies-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17039","title":{"rendered":"the eighth annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins the eighth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\/\">Summer Institute of Civic Studies<\/a> at Tufts&#8217; Tisch College of Civic Life. That means 7-8 hours of seminar discussion each day for two weeks, based on thousands of pages of readings. The <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\/#syllabus\">syllabus<\/a> is largely unchanged from last year. My co-conspirator in all of this work is Prof. Karol Soltan from University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Participants this year include two professors of philosophy, several community organizers and NGO leaders, and current PhD students in political science\/political theory, developmental psychology, sociology, and geography. They come from the US, UK, Argentina,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Ecuador, India, Pakistan, and Thailand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The curriculum is unapologetically theoretical, even though most participants are selected because of their practical interests. As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/why we need theory for social change\">argued recently<\/a>, our civic practices have outrun our theories. We have a lot of wisdom about how to organize a meeting or an advocacy campaign or what makes a good learning opportunity for youth. We have much less clarity about what all of that is <em>for<\/em> and how it relates to large-scale social conditions and political institutions. The 2016 Summer Institute won&#8217;t answer those questions definitively, but it&#8217;s a chance to struggle with them together.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins the eighth annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies at Tufts&#8217; Tisch College of Civic Life. That means 7-8 hours of seminar discussion each day for two weeks, based on thousands of pages of readings. The syllabus is largely unchanged from last year. My co-conspirator in all of this work is Prof. Karol Soltan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17054,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}