Please note that there will be a livestream option for this in-person event. If you register to attend virtually, you will receive the link to view it on the morning of the event.

Join us for the Stanley Feingold Lecture Series on American Politics! This event will take place on Monday, November 11, 2023, at Marian Anderson Theater in Aaron Davis Hall.

Over the past two decades, the West has witnessed waves of mass protest and collective frustration: from the anti-globalization movement of the early 2000s to the rise of Trumpism, passing through Jihadist terrorism, Occupy Wall Street, Brexit, the #MeToo movement and the anti-vaccine protests during the Covid 19 Pandemic. Despite their diverse actors and goals, these outbursts share a common thread: growing anger toward institutions.

Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti will explore why such animosity persists despite unprecedented material prosperity and civil rights gains, delving into the underlying forces that shape today’s “Zeitgeist” and illuminating potential paths forward for society.

Speaker:

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti is a Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York. His research is at the point of intersection of democratic theory and comparative EU/US party politics. He is the author, amongst others, of Technopopulism. The New Logic of Democratic Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021) and is also a regular commentator on European and US political affairs for venues including the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Le Monde Diplomatique, and France 24.

Moderator:

Amana Fontanella-Khan is the opinion editor at The Guardian US.

Stanley Feingold ’46

Feingold taught political science to a generation of CCNY students. To his students, he was far more than an exceptional teacher: he was a mentor, a guide for their lives, and an inspiration to live lives with integrity, and intellectual honesty, and for many, to devote their lives to public service. He made his students intellectually hungry, challenged their assumptions, and taught them analytic rigor and careful reasoning. He retained an intellectual/teaching relationship with his students from the 1950s and 1960s for over fifty years, until he died in 2017 at the age of 91.

This Lecture Series has been supported by many of his students, in loving memory of a teacher who personified the highest values of The City College of New York.

Time: 3:30-4:30 pm EST

Free!

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