Feb. 22鈥23, 2024
The Contemporary History Institute will host the 2024 Baker Peace Conference, themed 鈥淒emocracy in Decline? The Politics of Pluralism, Participation, and Populism鈥 on Feb. 22-23.
The conference, a spring staple at 51社区 since the 1980s, returns with a keynote address by Leopoldo Lopez on Thursday Feb. 22 at 7:30pm in Galbreath Chapel. A Venezuelan political leader, pro-democracy activist, Sakharov prize laureate, and founder and national coordinator of the Voluntad Popular political party, Lopez was political prisoner from 2014 to 2020 after being sentenced to fourteen years in prison for leading non-violent street protests and civil resistance in 2014. After spending seven years in confinement, he managed to escape the autocratic regime of Nicolas Maduro in October of 2020 and was able to travel to Spain, where he lives with his family and serves as the co-founder of the World Liberty Congress.
On Friday the 23rd, the conference will feature two panels, each with four speakers, in the Friends of the Library Room, Alden Library room 319 (30 Park Place, Athens, OH). The first panel will take place from 10am-12pm and feature experts on Brazil, Thailand, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The second panel will take place from 3-5pm and feature experts on France, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. We hope to see you there. Coffee and other refreshments will be available to attendees throughout the day on Friday.
Thursday, Feb 22 (Galbreath Chapel)
Keynote Address by Leopoldo Lopez, 7:30 pm
Friday, Feb 23 (Friends of the Library Room, Alden Library room 319)
Panel 1: Brazil, Thailand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, 10am-12pm
Panelists:
Panel 2: France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, 3pm-5pm
Panelists:
The Baker Peace Conference is an annual event that brings together a diverse group of leading experts to discuss a significant national or international issue related to peace.
The first Baker Peace Conference took place in 1988, six years after the late Dr. John C. Baker, the University's president from 1945-62, and his wife, Elizabeth, established the John and Elizabeth Baker Peace Studies Endowment to encourage the education of students and the general public in the means by which peace can be established and maintained throughout the world. The Baker Conferences are jointly sponsored by the Contemporary History Institute and the Baker Peace Studies Program.
All events are free and open to the public. Institute students participate in these conferences and are involved in helping to organize them.
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