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SUMMARY:Reinventing Peace In an Age of Disorder - Peter Frankopan (Univers
 ity of Oxford)\, Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)\, Michael Scott (U
 niversity of Warwick)\, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
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DESCRIPTION:How have different societies in different eras addressed the l
 egacies of conflict? What did peace mean in 5th-4th century BC Athens? Wha
 t forms did peace take along the Silk Road? How do we engage with negative
  and positive peace in the 21st century? Across the contemporary political
  arena autocrats\, populists\, and democrats alike are renegotiating the p
 ast. Conflict looms under the surface. In the quest to manage conflict\, w
 e often examine the lessons of war. But what are the lessons of peace? Joi
 n us for an engaging discussion on the reality and rhetoric of peace and i
 ts reinvention through history.\nSpeakers:\nPeter Frankopan (University of
  Oxford)\, Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)\, Michael Scott (Univers
 ity of Warwick)\, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
LOCATION:New College (Lecture Room 6)\, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
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SUMMARY:The temptations of populism - Andrés Velasco (The LSE School of P
 ublic Policy)\, Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)
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DESCRIPTION:Andrés Velasco\, dean of the LSE School of Public Policy\, fo
 rmer presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile\, in discussion 
 with Nur Laiq\, Global South Visiting Fellow at The Oxford Research Centre
  in the Humanities (TORCH). Professor Velasco will be welcomed by the Blav
 atnik School's dean\, Ngaire Woods.\n\nPopulism is on the rise across the 
 world. Politicians from Trump to Bolsonaro\, and Orban to Modi hold popula
 r mandates that enable them to wield substantial power. What does the glob
 al swing toward populism reveal about identity and inequality? What does i
 t tell us about unresolved pasts and uncertain futures? What does it discl
 ose about the language and structure of democratic politics?\n\nAndrés Ve
 lasco was finance minister of Chile during the 2008 global financial crisi
 s. He says he comes from a continent that invented populism. Yet\, he is f
 amous for not succumbing to it himself. Drawing on his political and polic
 y experience\, Professor Velasco\, now the dean of the LSE School of Publi
 c Policy\, will dismantle the myths of populism. He will offer a candid as
 sessment of what drives contemporary populism\, and how politicians and po
 licy makers might respond to its challenges.\n\nThe talk will include a Q&
 A with the audience and will be moderated by Nur Laiq\, Global South Visit
 ing Fellow at TORCH. Nur Laiq co-drafted the manifesto of a leading politi
 cal party in India for the 2019 elections and has also worked for a Britis
 h political party and campaigned for Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidenti
 al elections.\nSpeakers:\nAndrés Velasco (The LSE School of Public Policy
 )\, Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)
LOCATION:Blavatnik School of Government\, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX
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SUMMARY:India’s Tipping Point? The 2019 Elections and the Modi Landslide
   - Professor Rana Mitter\, Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)\, N
 ur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)\, James Manor (School of Advanced St
 udies)\, Pragya Tiwari
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DESCRIPTION:The BJP\, led by Prime Minister Modi\, has surged to victory\,
  with a dramatic increase in support across India. Tocqueville argued that
  democracy transforms all the other social forms it touches. The 2019 elec
 tions are also likely to touch and transform the Indian polity and its soc
 ial forms\, from caste and religion to the economy and institutions. What 
 do the elections reveal about India’s liberal and illiberal leanings and
  its aspirations and anxieties? What will the new government’s vision an
 d priorities be? Where do the opposition parties stand and what lies ahead
  for centre-state relations? What does the make up of the new parliament s
 ignify for the future of India’s politics\, its economic and social fabr
 ic\, and its institutional and individual freedoms? What does the win for 
 the nationalist right in India\, coming after similar election successes f
 or nationalist and populist politicians in Europe\, the US\, Israel\, Braz
 il\, and the Philippines among other places\, reveal about identity and in
 equality\, unresolved pasts and uncertain futures\, and the language and s
 tructure of democratic politics across the Global North and Global South? 
 A panel of experts on India will discuss these questions.\nSpeakers:\nProf
 essor Rana Mitter\, Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)\, Nur Laiq 
 (TORCH - Humanities Division)\, James Manor (School of Advanced Studies)\,
  Pragya Tiwari
LOCATION:New College (Lecture Room 6\, Use Holywell Street College Entranc
 e )\, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
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