Dialogos 2018-19 – Rethinking the Commons and Politics in the Democratic Public Sphere

Featuring work emerging from the 2017-2018 Humanities Center Research Seminar.

Part I – Democracy and Social Movements

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Three faculty fellows in the 2017-18 Humanities Center Faculty Research Seminar will speak about their scholarly work on the democratic activity of social movement among grassroots activists in Spain, evangelicals in America, and musicians in the former German Democratic Republic.

Palmar Álvarez-Blanco, Associate Professor of Spanish

Wes Markofski, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Juliane Schicker, Assistant Professor of German

Part II – The Precarious We:
Democratic Communities and the Cost of Neo-Liberalism