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Collaboration with the enemy is a political “offense.” Collaboration with friends is a political necessity, and collaboration with opponents presents a puzzle in need of careful exploration and judgment.
In this webinar, colleagues from Afghanistan (Obaidullah Baheer), South Africa (Shireen Hassim), the United States (Jeffrey C. Isaac), Brazil (Daniel Peres) and Poland (Karolina Wigura) will discuss, informed by their contrasting political experiences and analyses, the “offense,” the necessity and the judgment.
The webinar will also officially launch the new Democracy Seminar website (and our new social media presence: Facebook | Instagram: @democracyseminar | Twitter: @DemocracySem)!
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
Presented by the Democracy Seminar based in the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School for Social Research.
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Obaidullah Baheer is a lecturer at the American University and Kardan University in Afghanistan. He teaches subjects pertaining to peace and reconciliation. He has served as an Advisor at the National Development State Owned Corporation as well as the High Council for National Reconciliation. Obaidullah guest lectures at different institutes around the world, most recently being at Oxford, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales. He is currently leading political and social projects in Afghanistan to help facilitate the transition of the country into a sustainable post-conflict society.
Shireen Hassim is Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Visiting Professor, WiSER, Wits University.
She has written and edited several books including No Shortcuts to Power: Women and Policymaking in Africa, Women’s Organisations and Democracy: Contesting Authority and Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Politics of Difference in South Africa. Her interests lie in feminist theory and politics, collective action and histories of mobilization of women in Africa, and social policies and gender. Her most recent book was an archival recuperation of the work of the South African sociologist, Fatima Meer.
Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught since 1987. He served as Editor in Chief of Perspectives on Politics, a flagship journal of the American Political Science Association, from 2009-2017, and in 2017 was awarded APSA’s Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Public Service to the profession. He has published five books, edited two anthologies, and published over 75 articles and essays. A co-convener of Democracy Seminar, he writes regularly at Democracy Seminar/Public Seminar and at Common Dreams, and posts regularly on his blog, Democracy in Dark Times. He is also a jazz pianist and leader of the Postmodern Jazz Quartet.
Daniel Tourinho Peres teaches undergraduate and graduates courses on Political Philosophy at the Philosophy Department, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is also a member of the Centre of Studies in Humanities (CRH-UFBA) and a research fellow at the Brazilian National Council of Scientific Research (CNPq). He works mostly on modern political thought.
Karolina Wigura is a sociologist, historian of ideas and journalist. She is Member of the Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundation (Liberal Culture), which publishes Kultura Liberalna. She is also an assistant professor at Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology; member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology Emeritus at The New School for Social Research.
He is the author of dozens of articles and eight books, including Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times and Civility and Subversion: The Intellectual in Democratic Society. He is the founder of the online magazine Public Seminar and the convener of The Democracy Seminar, first developed in the 1980s as an exchange between oppositionist groups in Central Europe and the United States, and in 2018 reconvened as a “World Wide Committee of Democratic Correspondence.”
Goldfarb lived in Poland in 1973-4 doing the research for his dissertation on Polish Student Theater. He collaborated with the democratic opposition before Solidarnosc and worked with Solidarnosc both above and below ground in the 1980s. Since 1989, he has annually returned to Poland to teach in an institute on Democracy and Diversity. For his work in Poland, he received the Solidarity Medal, presented by former President Lech Walesa, on behalf of the Polish government, in recognition of support for Solidarity, commemorating its 25th anniversary, September 28, 2005, and the Medal of Gratitude, from the European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, Poland, 2012.
