It’s been a fantastic semester here at the Centre. We’ve had excellent talks by a very wide range of speakers; we’ve had sell-out audiences at our events; and we’ve welcomed our inaugural CSMCH-IASH visiting postdoctoral fellow. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the highlights, with links to all the relevant blog posts.
We started the year with an exciting event on ‘truth and democracy’, with three distinguished speakers, and a spirited exchange during the question and answer session. You can read about – and listen again to – all three short interventions here. This opening event was followed by a series of excellent talks throughout the semester on, amongst other things, generational change in French politics, Soviet visions of modernity, Muslims and Holocaust memory in contemporary Germany, dam protests in 1980s Brazil, and the politics and geography of South Asia.
The Centre also co-sponsored an excellent workshop on the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ in September and a roundtable on academic freedom in Uganda, Bangladesh, Turkey and China in December.
Finally, we’ve had a number of fascinating guest contributions on the blog about everything from the history of the postcard to Harold Macmillan’s ‘Middle Way’.
And there’s a lot more to come. Next semester’s programme is bursting with exciting events, including talks by Aditya Sarkar, Peter Jackson and Rana Mitter on India, Europe and China respectively; a Czech New Wave film screening series in February; and a workshop on democratic politics in Africa in early March. Please join us as we continue to explore democracy and the democratic imagination in the modern world!
— Emile