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April 12, 2021
RECAP: “Two Views of Universal Suffrage: Anticolonial and Neoliberal,” with UVA Prof. of Politics Kevin Duong
In his 1920 Black Water, W.E.B. Du Bois described universal suffrage in terms importantly different from our procedural norm. “In people,” Du Bois wrote, “we have the source of that endless life and unbound wisdom which the rulers of men must have.” Votes, for Du Bois, weren’t simply there to be counted. Rather, they were […]
March 30, 2021
RECAP: “The Recurring Crises of American Democracy,” Book Talk w/ Profs. Suzanne Mettler (Cornell) and Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins)
After sending their recent co-authored book, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, to press about a year ago, Cornell University John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science Robert Lieberman watched as the threats to democracy that they examined escalated, culminating in the January […]
March 26, 2021
RECAP: “Viceregalism: Constitutional Crises, Heads of State, and Their History in Britain and the Postcolonial World,” with University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer Harshan Kumarasingham
The last of the Kinder Institute’s Spring 2021 trans-Atlantic virtual visitors, University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer in British Politics Harshan Kumarasingham addressed a predominantly American audience in his March 12 colloquium which explained the viceregal system and its function throughout the postcolonial world. Kumarasingham opened with a line from “God Save Queen” that is often […]
March 26, 2021
RECAP: “Do Leaders Make History, or Is It Beyond Their Control,” with Harvard Prof. Fredrik Logevall
The question of how historians should conceptualize the role individual agency plays in history was at the heart of the Kinder Institute and Novak Leadership Institute’s co-sponsored March 2 lecture, delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Fredrik Logevall. In the past two […]
March 26, 2021
RECAP: “The First World War, Reimagining Empire in the British and French Caribbean,” with Corpus Christi College Brock Fellow Michael Joseph
In his January 29 talk at the Kinder Institute, Dr. Michael Joseph, Brock Fellow in Modern History at Corpus Christi College (Oxford), took his listeners to a part of world history that few venture into: the Caribbean during the Great War. While there has been a recent surge amongst historians to discuss the first world […]
March 24, 2021
RECAP: “The Prescient Mind of James Madison,” A Mini-Symposium
When it comes to the question of how favorable the U.S. Constitution was to the institution of slavery—and of the motivations of the founding generation on this subject, in general—two scholarly camps have formed. On one hand, there are neo-Garrisonians, partisans of 1619 who interpret the Constitution as directly (see: Fugitive Slave Clause) and indirectly […]