The inaugural session of the Inter-campus Seminar Series on the “Practice of Democracy” was held at Emory University on September 18, 2017. Our first public circulation advertising our inaugural event outlined the purpose of the seminar series as follows:

“The idea of the seminar is for interested faculty and graduate students from different schools in Atlanta – Emory, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Atlanta University and possibly other campuses – to meet monthly, with a different institution hosting each month. Our aim is to build a wide-ranging conversation on the practice and future of democracy, and the role of academics in promoting the flow of reliable information and healthy intellectual and political debate. For each session, we will invite a speaker from the local academic and intellectual community (or from outside Atlanta, especially when an interesting visitor is available) to present a research paper or talk in an area of her/his expertise, with perhaps one or two discussants responding briefly to initiate what we hope will be an engaged and ongoing discussion.”

Following the inaugural session at Emory University in September, 2017, our partner institutions have organized five other sessions at various campuses including Georgia State University, Georgia Tech., Spelman College, and Agnes Scott College.

Dr. Gyanendra  Pandey is the director of this seminar series. Dr. Sujit Shrestha is the coordinator at Emory University. Our steering committee consists of members from our partner institutions.

Event posters for each of our sessions containing additional information about specific session themes and speakers can be found here.