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2024 W&J Symposium on Democracy: Stepping Up: Being an Informed, Involved, and Impactful Citizen

Updated: December 19, 2023 | Tagged: ,

The 2024 W&J Symposium on Democracy will focus on “Stepping Up: Being an Informed, Involved, and Impactful Citizen.” Featuring keynote speakers David J. Siegel and Rosa Alicia Clemente. The agenda will include a full day of break-out sessions with two keynote speakers featured in a single, mid-day session. To learn more about the 2024 Symposium…

A group of W&J students discusses the Ukrainian-Russian War during the closing keynote session in the 2022 Symposium on Democracy.

W&J Symposium on Democracy 2022: With Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, W&J Students and Freedom House Consider Global Threats to Democracy

Updated: March 8, 2022 | Tagged: , ,

WASHINGTON, PA (February 24, 2022)—The 2022 Symposium on Democracy at Washington & Jefferson College could not have been more timely, said Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, adding that democracy currently finds itself “battered around the world.”

Fred L. Johnson III, Ph.D., speaks to audience during W&J's 2022 Symposium on Democracy.

W&J Symposium on Democracy 2022: Historian Fred L. Johnson III, Ph.D. ties mob violence to democratic failure

Updated: March 8, 2022 | Tagged: , ,

WASHINGTON, PA (March 4, 2022)—In the United States, it can be difficult to acknowledge that America’s democratic republic has often failed to protect some groups of citizens. During February’s Symposium on Democracy at Washington & Jefferson College, that’s just what historian Fred. L. Johnson III, Ph.D. did. 

U.S. Government Official Kerry McBride '89 speaks to W&J President John Knapp at the 2022 Symposium on Democracy.

W&J Symposium on Democracy 2022: International leaders Shaqaiq Birashk and Kerry McBride offer first-hand perspectives on the fall of Afghan democracy

Updated: March 8, 2022 | Tagged: , , ,

WASHINGTON, PA (February 24, 2022)—When Shaqaiq Birashk, a former policy advisor on a USAID/DAI funded project with the Afghan government, had to leave Afghanistan suddenly in 2021 after the United States withdrew from in Kabul, she had to ask herself what went wrong with America’s 20-year effort to establish a democratic Afghan republic.

Symposium on Democracy Breakout Sessions Highlight W&J Student, Faculty Research

Updated: March 8, 2021 | Tagged: ,

Washington & Jefferson College’s fourth annual Symposium on Democracy included breakout sessions hosted by W&J’s students and faculty members.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is shown at left juxtaposed next to an image of protestestors marching while wearing masks and holding a banner that reads

Leadership in Unprecedented Times: Mich. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson Speaks During Symposium on Democracy

Updated: March 2, 2021 | Tagged:

WASHINGTON, PA (March 2, 2021)—As election officials across the country have ensured the integrity of the 2020 general election, they have faced intense political pressure and threats on their and their family members’ lives. Through all of this, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has been a thoughtful and leading voice in the national conversation…

Author and Historian Kathleen Belew is pictured at left juxtaposed next to an image showing a man wearing camoflauge carrying a confederate flag in the foreground with another man carrying a modern American flag in the background.

Understanding White Supremacy: Author and historian Kathleen Belew reviews history of the white power movement in U.S. during Symposium on Democracy

Updated: March 2, 2021 | Tagged:

WASHINGTON, PA (March 2, 2021)—To say we’re living in divisive times is putting it mildly. In an examination of recent history incorporating her research as a “historian of the present,” Kathleen Belew discussed the recent rise in prominence of the white power movement in the United States and the history of the fringe movement from…

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Freedom on the Net: Adrian Shahbaz Shares Global Overview of Human Rights in the Digital Age

Updated: March 2, 2021 | Tagged:

WASHINGTON, PA (March 2, 2021)—“Freedom on the Net – A Global Overview of Human Rights in the Digital Age” was the topic of a talk by Adrian Shahbaz, Director of Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, during Washington & Jefferson College’s fourth annual Symposium on Democracy, held Feb. 17, 2021. Shahbaz presented findings from Freedom…

A photograph captured by W&J graduate photographer Pat Benic shows plain clothes Capitol Police point their guns at rioters who had broken the glass of the main door of the House Chamber that was reinforced with a large piece of furniture at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.

Capturing History: Symposium on Democracy speaker Pat Benic ’70 reflects on career, recalls experience at Jan. 6 insurrection

Updated: March 2, 2021 | Tagged: ,

WASHINGTON, PA (March 2, 2021)—It was supposed to have been the easy job. At least, that’s what Pat Benic ’70 thought when he went to work on Jan. 6, 2021, to photograph congress certifying the votes in the 2020 Presidential Election. On Feb. 17, Benic retold his experience from that day to a virtual audience…

Nathan Law sits on stage at the 2020 Washington & Jefferson College Symposium on Democracy.

Going Underground: Nathan Law returns to W&J Symposium on Democracy to talk about Hong Kong updates, his exile, and the next steps for the Umbrella Movement

Updated: March 2, 2021 | Tagged: , ,

WASHINGTON, PA (March 2, 2021)—What a difference a year makes. In his second appearance at Washington & Jefferson College’s annual Symposium on Democracy, activist Nathan Law noted some of the changes that have taken place in Hong Kong and in the world since his 2020 talk—global pandemic notwithstanding. “Last year, I came to W&J’s campus…