{"id":35222,"date":"2026-02-10T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35222"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:16:44","slug":"some-upcoming-talks-on-democracy-and-civic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35222","title":{"rendered":"some upcoming talks on democracy and civic education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These talks are open to the public:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 2, at Boston University, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/\">Center for Media Innovation &amp; Social Impact (MISI)<\/a> is hosting me\u00a0for &#8220;Civics in the Classroom.&#8221; I will talk\u00a0about ways of modeling political beliefs that get beyond the left-right divide.\u00a0(With support from Boston University Center for the Humanities, BUCH). <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSclUDKSeI-nruQkHejkbZs6PLcOKLZQxsIfukGaLyQWknevTA\/viewform\">Register here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 6-7, Duke: Cognitive Liberty conference. I&#8217;ll talk about &#8220;Civics in Higher Education and Cognitive Liberty<em>.&#8221;<\/em> Arthur Brooks, Rowan Williams, and others are speaking at the conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/transformativeideas.duke.edu\/events\/cognitive-liberty-interdisciplinary-perspectives\">Register through this page. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 19-20, Boston College: The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will host its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc.edu\/content\/bc-web\/centers\/clough\/events\/spring-symposium-2026#about_the_event\">Spring Symposium on\u00a0Democratic Resilience<\/a>. Major speakers will include Daron Acemoglu, Ross Douthat, and others. I&#8217;ll be on a panel about &#8220;educating for resilience.&#8221; Register <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdJjMFZbvCqPKphZTrM1YMoRWQS4fy2qD-d41RWkSY7rwUBbg\/viewform\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 10, Tufts: Summit on Civics in Higher Education. I am the primary organizer and will moderate a session. <a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/news-events\/conferences\/civics-higher-education\">Register here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 13-14, University of South Carolina: I&#8217;ll be a keynote speaker, along with Jedediah Purdy, Deva Woodly, Arlie Hochschild, and others, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sc.edu\/study\/colleges_schools\/artsandsciences\/centers_and_institutes\/civic_leadership\/events\/america_250\/\">Conference on Civic Engagement and the Constitutional Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These talks are open to the public: March 2, at Boston University, the Center for Media Innovation &amp; Social Impact (MISI) is hosting me\u00a0for &#8220;Civics in the Classroom.&#8221; I will talk\u00a0about ways of modeling political beliefs that get beyond the left-right divide.\u00a0(With support from Boston University Center for the Humanities, BUCH). Register here. March 6-7, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222","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=35222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35231,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222\/revisions\/35231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}