Democracy in Crisis: Conversations with New Haven Scholars
This series of presentations and civic discussions invites a broad public of New Haven neighbors together to reflect upon the state of American democracy today—widening inequality, polarization, eroding norms, divisive media, and failing institutions in addition to centuries-long traditions of resilience, dissent, and idealism in the face of injustice and imperfection. What are the lessons of the past? And what solutions might the insights of different fields suggest? Light refreshments will be served.
November 27, 2018: “Corporations and Democracies,” Doug Rogers, Professor of Anthropology, Yale
Douglas Rogers is a sociocultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in political and economic anthropology; natural resources (especially oil) and energy; the anthropology of religion and ethics; cultural production; historical anthropology; and socialist societies and their postsocialist trajectories. He has done archival and ethnographic research in Russia since 1994, often in collaboration with scholars from Moscow State University, Perm State University, and the Perm Regional Museums. See his website for more information.