Dear Colleagues,

This is a reminder for our conference "Democracies in Peril" which will take place on Friday and Saturday at Meiji University. Attendance is FREE and OPEN to public.

On Friday, the venue is the Global Front Building, the Auditorium. On Saturday, the venue is Liberty Tower, 2nd floor, the big auditorium. Follow the signs.

The program is as follows:

MEIJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS
1-1 KANDA SURUGADAI, CHIYODA CITY, TOKYO

Democracies in Peril
Capitalism, Populism, and Democracy
Meiji University October 11-12, 2019


Friday, October 11
9:00 am
Registration

9:30 am
Welcome Remarks: Vice President, Kosaku Dairokuno and Dean, Tokuo
Konishi

9:40 am
Video Address: Prof. Timothy Garton Ash

9:45 am Panel 1: Historical waves of Democratic Breakdown
Prof. Devin Pendas; Prof. Felix Jimenez, Q&As

11:15 am Coffee Break

11:30 am Panel 2: Crisis or Paranoia: Is Democracy Really in Peril?
Prof. Susan Stokes; Prof. Wolfgang Merkel; Ipek Cinar, Q&As

1:00 pm Lunch Break

2:00 pm Panel 3: Constitutional stability and Democratic Breakdown
Prof. Vlad Perju; Prof. Justin Frosini; Q&As

3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:45 pm Panel 4: Populism vs. Democracy
Prof. Takis Pappas; Prof. Yasha Mounk; Q&As

5:15 pm Coffee Break

5:30 pm Keynote Address:
"Capitalism, Populism, and Democracy" by Prof. Wolfgang Merkel


Saturday, October 12

9:00 am
Registration

9:30 am
Panel 5: Democracy Death by Thousand Cuts Prof. Mabel Berezin; Prof.
Amilcar Barreto; Prof. Liubomir Topaloff; Q&As

11:00 am Coffee Break

11:15 am Panel 6: Economy, Corruption, Globalization
Prof. Kosaku Dairokuno; Prof. Syujiro Yazawa, Prof. Liubomir Topaloff;
Q&As

12:45 pm Lunch Break

1:45 pm Panel 7: Non-Western Alternatives to Liberal Democracy
Prof. Mirjam Künkler; Prof. Joseph Chan; Q&As

3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm Round Table: The Future of Democracy
Prof. Takis Pappas; Prof. Susan Stokes; Prof. Wolfgang Merkel;
Prof. Yascha Mounk; Q&As; Moderator Prof. Liubomir Topaloff

5:30 pm Closing Remarks

Participants
Professor Timothy Garton Ash, St. Anthony College, University of Oxford
Professor Wolfgang Merkel, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Humboldt University
Professor Susan Stokes, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Professor Yascha Mounk, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Mabel Berezin, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Professor Devin Pendas, Department of History, Boston College
Professor Mirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
Professor Vlad Perju, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
Professor Amilcar Barreto, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
Professor Joseph Chan, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Professor Takis Pappas, Visiting Professor, Central European University
Professor Felix Jimenez, School of International Liberal Arts, Miyazaki International University
Professor Emeritus, Syujiro Yazawa, Hitotsubashi University
Professor Liubomir Topaloff, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
Professor Kosaku Dairokuno, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
Ipek Cinar, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
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Liubomir K. Topaloff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Political Science and Economics
Meiji University
1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku
Research Building #14, Room B310
Tokyo, Japan 101-8301

tel: +81 3 3296-3109
cell: +81 80 4388-6800

Visiting Research Fellow
Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

email: topaloff@bc.edu
tel: +1 (617) 818-6800
cell: +1 (617) 480-4540