{"id":97736,"date":"2024-09-23T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=97736"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:11:45","slug":"race-and-democratic-backsliding-the-topic-oct-1-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/race-and-democratic-backsliding-the-topic-oct-1-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Race and Democratic Backsliding\u2019 the topic Oct.1 at 溏心vlog免费B站<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 23, 2024 \u2013 Political scientist Andrew Ifedapo Thompson<\/a> will discuss \u201cRace and Democratic Backsliding in the U.S.\u201d at the 2024 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium<\/a> Tuesday, Oct. 1<\/strong>. A political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Thompson\u2019s work examines the impact of racial demographic changes on American political behavior and democratic stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson\u2019s recent work looks at how fears about changing racial demographics can lead to democratic decline in the U.S. He explores how these perceptions shape public attitudes toward democracy and may increase support for political violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s colloquium examines threats to democracy at home and abroad. Hosted by the University\u2019s Honors Program, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s annual lecture series is examining the challenges democracy faces, while many students at the University, and elsewhere, are voting for the first time this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Honors Colloquium represents and celebrates what we do best in Honors,\u201d says Honors Program Director Karen de Bruin, \u201cwhich is to delve into the timely issues of our times and at timely moments.\u201d She said that the colloquium seeks to foster campus-wide and community-wide discussion while preparing 溏心vlog免费B站 students to enact change in a daunting world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson will speak at 7 p.m. at Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus, in the fall colloquium series, \u201cDemocracy in Peril,\u201d which will also be streamed<\/a> (livestream links will be available the night of each event on the colloquium website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His lecture will be followed Oct. 8 by Jos\u00e9 Cheibub from the University of Pittsburgh, speaking on \u201cGlobal Cases of Democratic Decline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s colloquium has drawn wide interest across the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus, and includes a voter registration drive<\/a> on Sept. 24. During the week of Thompson\u2019s visit, 溏心vlog免费B站 will also host Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore on Oct. 2 for a discussion of women\u2019s voting rights<\/a> and the state of voting in Rhode Island, and unveil an art exhibit on \u2018The Politics of Personality\u2019<\/a> in Lippitt Hall, depicting hype, reality and how politics impact individuals. Later in the month, faculty are invited to attend a workshop<\/a> on strategies for embedding civic engagement in curriculum, and the Center for the Humanities hosts historian Alex Keyssar for \u201cDemocratic Crises and Structural Change\u201d<\/a> in the Multicultural Students Services Center. Keyssar\u2019s book, The Right to Vote<\/em>, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and named a best book in U.S. history by the American Historical Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by the University\u2019s Honors Program, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium is free and open to the public. Lectures are held most Tuesday evenings this fall, through Nov. 12. Visit the Honors Colloquium site to see talks by earlier speakers from this year\u2019s colloquium including Vox\u2019s Zack Beauchamp here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the <\/em>Honors Colloquium site <\/em><\/a>for more details and register to get updates and reminders for this fall\u2019s speakers <\/em>here<\/em><\/a> or by emailing urihonors@etal.uri.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 23, 2024 \u2013 Political scientist Andrew Ifedapo Thompson will discuss \u201cRace and Democratic Backsliding in the U.S.\u201d at the 2024 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 1. A political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Thompson\u2019s work examines the impact of racial demographic changes on American political behavior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":97737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97776,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97736\/revisions\/97776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}