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Rewiring Democracy: Beyond “Us” and “Them” – Conference

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

An international conference co-organized by Jeanne Etelain and Phillip John Usher Our current moment is one in which our understanding of democracy is placed under critical pressure, making it increasingly difficult to divide the world into "them" and "us"‐‐ and equally difficult to even know what is meant when we say "we." Whereas a certain modern tradition defies the political via the…