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Featured Events: Democratic Threats

The Einaudi Center's in-person and virtual events gather faculty experts, policymakers, students, and the local, national, and international community for conversations about world challenges and how we can work together to meet them.

We invite you to join our upcoming events and watch related videos on Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience YouTube playlist!

SAP/Reppy event at Uris Hall, 8/25/22
Afghanistan One Year Later: Reflections on Life Under the Taliban, a panel discussion hosted by Einaudi's Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and South Asia Program.

Spring 2024 Highlight

March 22-23: DTR Conference

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Research Frontiers in Democratic Threats and Resilience

Scholars and students of democracy: Join this two-day conference to take a deep dive into domestic and global factors affecting democratic backsliding. In an era marked by threats to democracy from within nominally democratic institutions and by elected officials, we seek to understand the interactive nature of democratic threats and resistance strategies.

Find out how to attend.


Watch Past Events on YouTube

Follow Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience YouTube playlist!

Highlights: Lessons from Democracies at Risk

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IES Challenges to Democracy: From Populism to Fascism? (video)

Dmitry Bykov in Ithaca, March 2022. Photo: Jon Miller

Einaudi/IES Visiting Scholar: Dmitry Bykov in Conversation (video)


Event Series on Video

Democracy in the Balance

A three-part series, Democracy in the Balance: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Reform assessed the state of American democracy and prospects for its reform and renewal. The Einaudi Center hosted the events in spring 2022, partnering with the American Academy of Political and Social Science and American Democracy Collaborative.

Democracy 20/20

From June through the 2020 election, Democracy 20/20 brought together historical and comparative experts to discuss the challenges these unsettling times pose for American democracy.