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2006 Inaugural Event April 21-22, 2006
A Symposium on Cornel West's Democracy Matters*

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Read the news article "Never Let the Present Define the Future" and view a slide show of highlights of the "Democracy Matters" event

Friday, April 21, 2006

• 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
  How Democracy Matters to Young People
  Panelists: Joanna McClintick '07, Patrice Antoine '06, Elizabeth McBride, RTC, Priyanka Gupta '06, and moderator Colleen White '06
  Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center

• 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
  Creating an Institutional Strategy for a Democratic Culture
  Lecture by Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Industrial Areas Foundation & Interfaith Education Fund (and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient)
  Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center

Saturday, April 22, 2006

• 10:00 am - 11:30 a.m.
  Democracy Matters and the Work of Community Activists
  Panelists:
  - Chris Clouet, CC Trustee and Superintendent, New London
  - Jane Glover, Deputy Mayor of New London, former Mayor, President of the Board of Education, founder and principal of Kente Cultural Organization and a leader of arts as an engine for community development
  - Miriam Torres Thorburn, Director of the Centro de la Comunidad
  - Daniel Malec, Director of The Global Call, peace activist and member of the Voluntown Peace Trust

• 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
  Cornel West and the Call For Radical Democracy
  Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY), Farrah Griffin (Columbia University), Candace Howes (Connecticut College), Mab Segrest (Connecticut College)
  Moderated by Sandy Grande, Connecticut College
  Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center
  Book signing and reception

• 3:30-5:30 pm
  Democracy Now and Always
  A lecture by Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters
  John C. Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center
  Book signing and reception
  
  *West's book was a Connecticut College Summer Reading 2005 selection
  

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