Thursday, September 20 @ Hartford Club (next to UConn Hartford campus).  9am-5pm.

This one-day conference brings together scholars and journalists from the University of Connecticut and across the region to discuss the various forms that authoritarianism is taking in the world today , from the Philippines to Turkey, from Honduras to Venezuela, and from Europe to the United States.  It will also place this authoritarianism in historical perspective, comparing it to the anti-democratic currents of yesterday whether in fascist Europe or in the Cold War dictatorships of Latin America.

The keynote speaker will be Ben Kiernan (Yale University).

Forms of Authoritarianism, Program, Final

 

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