巨大的挑战
Each academic year the DCII selects an annual theme connected to a major challenge facing humanity, 和 organizes events 和 other programming throughout the year that highlight the interdisciplinary nature of potential solutions to this challenge.
The 巨大的挑战 theme for 2024-25 is Strengthening Democracy.
2024秋季活动:
9月30日th: Center for Presidential History Third Rail Series—Who Gets Your Vote? U.S. 国内政策
The Third Rail Series offers the perspective of two experts each tasked with making the case for one presidential c和idate. This event will focus on each c和idate's domestic agenda, featuring Peniel Joseph of the University of Texas-Austin making the case for an incoming Democratic administration, 和 Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation outlining Republican programs 和 policies. 你可以找到 more information 和 registration for this event at the Center for Presidential History's website.
10月10日th: Allman家庭讲座. 希拉Jasanoff
Dr. 希拉Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science 和 Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, will give a lecture on "Science 和 Democracy: What Should People Know?“她是这个领域的先驱, she has authored more than 130 articles 和 chapters 和 is author or editor of more than 15 books, 包括 The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, Designs on Nature, 《威尼斯人娱乐城》 和 科学能解释生命吗? Dr. Jasanoff's work explores the role of science 和 technology in the law, 政治, 以及现代民主国家的政策, 和 she is the founding director of the Science 和 Technology Studies Program at Harvard. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, 和 is the recipient of the 2022 Holberg Prize—dubbed the Nobel Prize for social science 和 humanities—for her prolific work in science 和 technology studies. 你可以找到 more information 和 registration for this event here.
10月22日nd:达拉斯城市宪章小组讨论
与达拉斯市合作, this event brings together a panel of experts to discuss the Dallas City Charter amendments that will be on the November ballot, as well as the history of efforts to change the Charter 和 the impact of these efforts on Dallas communities. 该小组邀请了记者吉姆·舒兹, Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem 和 City Council Member Adam Bazaldua, 市议会成员卡罗琳·金·阿诺德, 和新大法学教授. 托马斯Leatherbury.
10月29日th: Center for Presidential History Third Rail Series—Who Gets Your Vote? U.S. 外交政策
The Third Rail Series offers the perspective of two experts each tasked with making the case for one presidential c和idate. This event will focus on each c和idate's international agenda. Charles Edel of the Center for Strategic 和 International Studies will discuss American foreign policy under a Democratic administration, while William Ruger of the American Institute for Economic 研究 will outline the foreign policies of a new Republican administration. 你可以找到 more information 和 registration for this event at the Center for Presidential History's website.
10月30日th: Godbey系列讲座- dr. 杰弗里·恩格尔
In a special Fall edition of the Godbey Lecture Series, Dr. 杰弗里·恩格尔, Professor of History 和 David Gergen Director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, will lecture on "Fifty Years Since Watergate: Presidential Power in the Age of Rampant Immunity 和 Feckless Impeachments." It has been fifty years since Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Congressional power rode high in Watergate's wake, followed by a rejuvenated judiciary 和 invigorated national press corps. Reports of the imperial presidency's death proved premature. The past three presidential impeachments, the first since the 1860s, resulted in zero convictions. Zero was also the conviction left among the American people that anything more than partisan 政治 explains those verdicts, which recent Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity appear to vindicate. The evening will trace that history since 1974, 和 outline the likely future of our nation's highest office. 你可以找到 more information 和 registration for this event here.
11月15日th: "Bobi Wine: The People's President" Screening 和 Discussion
加入DCII和John G. Tower Center for Public Policy 和 International Affairs for a special screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Bobi Wine: The People's President." The film follows renowned Ug和an singer 和 opposition leader Bobi Wine as he runs for president against Ug和a's longtime leader Yoweri Museveni 和 takes on the Museveni regime in a fight for democracy. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the state of democracy in Africa.
12月4日th: Dr. 丹尼尔Ziblatt
Dr. 丹尼尔Ziblatt, director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 和 Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University, will give a lecture that looks to countries around the world for insights into how we can strengthen democracy at home. Dr. Ziblatt's research focuses on Europe 和 the comparative study of democracy. He is the author of four books, 包括 the 纽约时报 畅销书 〇民主如何消亡所描述的 《威尼斯人娱乐城》 magazine as "the most important book of the Trump era"—和 少数人的暴政，都是与史蒂文·莱维茨基合著的. 2023年博士. Ziblatt was elected to the American Academy of Arts 和 Sciences.