{"id":34080,"date":"2025-05-21T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:47:50","slug":"frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=34080","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Democracy conference 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Frontiers of Democracy 2025:\u00a0 Listening and Leading<\/strong><br><strong>June 19 &#8211; 21\u00a0| Tufts University, Medford, MA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/frontiers-of-democracy-conference-2025-tickets-1217993765139?aff=oddtdtcreator\">register and purchase tickets<\/a>\u00a0for Frontiers of Democracy 2025!<br>\u00a0<br>This summer\u2019s conference will take place\u00a0<strong>June 19 (5:30 pm) to June 21 (12:30 pm)<\/strong>, at Tufts University\u2019s campus in Medford, MA.<br>\u00a0<br>This year\u2019s special theme is \u201cListening and Leading.\u201d We recognize that crises of democracy can be caused and fueled by division and polarization,and that listening and dialogue may be part of the solution. We thus anticipate rich discussions and constructive disagreements about how we navigate these frontiers of democracy. There will be sessions on other topics also related to Tisch College\u2019s \u201cNorth Star\u201d: building robust, inclusive democracy for an increasingly multiracial society.<br>\u00a0<br>This year\u2019s plenary speakers will include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/dkroy\/overview\/\">Deb Roy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustaineddialogue.org\/team_member\/rhonda-fitzgerald\/\">Rhonda Fitzgerald<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ritakikiedozie.online\/\">Rita Kiki Edozie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/constructivedialogue.org\/about\/our-team\/#jake-fay-ed.d\">Jake Fay<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairma.org\/about2-2\/tahirah\/\">Tahira Amatul-Wadud<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whatisessential.org\/people\/john-sarrouf\">John Sarrouf<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kgm.rw\/team\/freddy-mutanguha\/\">Freddy Mutanguha<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bethsarahwright.com\/\">Beth-Sarah Wright<\/a>, and several more.<br>\u00a0<br>Also to look forward to on the agenda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>20 concurrent sessions including panels, workshops, and film screenings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 plenary panels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A plenary \u201chackathon\u201d activity (which will inform a request for funding proposals!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontiers of Democracy 2025:\u00a0 Listening and LeadingJune 19 &#8211; 21\u00a0| Tufts University, Medford, MA It\u2019s time to\u00a0register and purchase tickets\u00a0for Frontiers of Democracy 2025!\u00a0This summer\u2019s conference will take place\u00a0June 19 (5:30 pm) to June 21 (12:30 pm), at Tufts University\u2019s campus in Medford, MA.\u00a0This year\u2019s special theme is \u201cListening and Leading.\u201d We recognize that crises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080","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=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34082,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions\/34082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}