Elections 2024: Freedoms and Flashpoints - Elections Around the Globe in 2024

Tu. October 8, 2024
Location: Bunche Hall, UCLA (11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA)

 

 

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As part of the Democracy, Freedom and Truth Series of UCLA's International Institute, the panel discussion Freedoms and Flashpoints: Elections Around the Globe in 2024 invites four experts, among them 2024 Thomas Mann Fellow Ulrike Klinger, to speak about international elections this year.

Four panelists will each speak briefly about important elections in India, Mexico, Latin America and the European Union, respectively, and the issues that these elections have brought to the fore. The audience will then be invited to participate in a larger conversation, considering what these and other electoral flashpoints reveal about the current shifting world order in advance of the U.S. presidential election in November 2024.

Participants

Susanna Hecht

Susanna Hecht has academic appointments in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. She also serves as director of the Center for Brazilian Studies of the Latin American Institute. She is proficient in numerous languages and her publications focus focused on such far-reaching topics as migration, urbanization, the Amazon and natural resources in South America.

Ulrike Klinger
Photo: Hans Hager
Ulrike Klinger is a communication scientist and since 2020 Chair of Digital Democracy and member of the Board of Directors of the European New School of Digital Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. She is an associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, where she led the research group “News, Campaigns, and the Rationality of Public Discourse” until 2020. She researches digital political communication, technology and power, and the transformation of digital publics.
Tejas Parasher

Tejas Parasher, assistant professor of political theory, has a joint appointment in the department of political science and the International Institute at UCLA. He is the author of “Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought” (Cambridge, 2023). His research explores the political philosophy of collective self-determination, political representation and statehood.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and project director at the UCLA Labor Center, where he is a member of the core faculty in the UCLA labor studies program. He directs the Global Labor Initiative with an emphasis on cross-border, worker-to-worker collaborations between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Partners

The panel discussion is organized by UCLA International Institute and UCLA Department of Education & Information Studies.