BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4373-5a3010bf40ff1bdcc47bf7d8b370205d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260624T155015Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T173000 SUMMARY:Ralph Cintron: Is Democracy Under Attack? DESCRIPTION:\nRalph Cintron\, associate professor of English and Latin A merican and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago\, will present the Center for Democratic Deliberation&rsquo\;s 2022 Kenneth Bur ke Lecture. \; Join us for the lecture online or in person at the Hi ntz Family Alumni Center.\n\nThe intensity of the question "\;Is dem ocracy under attack?"\; seems to be consuming our moment. Academic b ooks such as Barbara Walter&rsquo\;s How Civil Wars Start and Levitsky a nd Ziblatt&rsquo\;s How Democracies Die are now bestsellers. CNN airs sp ecial programs on the topic\, such as Trumping Democracy. MSNBC poses th e question nightly.\n\nThis talk will be framed through Kenneth Burke&rs quo\;s &ldquo\;a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing&rdquo\;&mdash \;which can be extended to: a way of knowing is also a way of not knowin g. Ralph Cintron will put on the table all possible motives behind the q uestion Is Democracy Under Attack?\n\nCintron holds a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Latino and Latin American Studies p rogram at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research and teaching interests are in rhetorical studies\; ethnography\, particularly urban e thnography\; urban theory\; theories of transnationalism\; political the ory\, particularly the anthropology of democracy\; and social theory. Hi s most recent book is \;Democracy as Fetish\, published in 2020 by P enn State University Press.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/ralph-cintron/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Ralph Cintron, associate professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, will present the Center for Democrat ic Deliberation’s 2022 Kenneth Burke Lecture.  Join us for th e lecture online or in person at the Hintz Family Alumni Center.

T he intensity of the question "Is democracy under attack?" seem s to be consuming our moment. Academic books such as Barbara Walter&rsqu o;s How Civil Wars Start and Levitsky and Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die are now bestsellers. CNN airs special programs on th e topic, such as Trumping Democracy. MSNBC poses the question nig htly.

This talk will be framed through Kenneth Burke’s &ldqu o;a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing”—which can be extended to: a way of knowing is also a way of not knowing. Ralph Cintro n will put on the table all possible motives behind the question Is D emocracy Under Attack?

Cintron holds a joint appointment in th e Department of English and the Latino and Latin American Studies progra m at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research and teaching inter ests are in rhetorical studies; ethnography, particularly urban ethnogra phy; urban theory; theories of transnationalism; political theory, parti cularly the anthropology of democracy; and social theory. His most recen t book is Democracy as Fetish< /a>, published in 2020 by Penn State University Press.

For more de tails: https:// events.la.psu.edu/event/ralph-cintron/

URL:http://democracy.psu.edu/events LOCATION:Robb Hall, Hintz Family Alumni Center END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR