About
Curated & Moderated by:
Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou
Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou
About
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Dialogues is a platform that aims to develop new ways of thinking, build bridges of cooperation, and encourage creative public dialogue across geographic, social, and cultural limits.
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Open discussions
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Different locations
The Queen Theater, Wilmington, Delaware
Has politics become a commodity? In an era saturated with political advertisement, the SNF Dialogues explored the repercussions of the commercialization of politics and the evolving role of citizens within this framework.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in New York
The SNF Dialogues hosted a public speaking event that underscored libraries’ vital role in promoting civic engagement and strengthening democracy, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York.
iMEdD International Journalism Forum
In an age when crises are extensively documented and breaking news constantly floods our screens, new information has become something that can lead us to disengage rather than energizing us.
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Topics
Through open discussions, live debates, opinions, topics and rich multimedia content, the SNF Dialogues foster the exchange of ideas, emphasizing the need for citizens to express themselves and communicate with each other, always rooted in the values of equity and diversity. Democracy, political values, global economy, social change, artificial intelligence, mental health and the future of our planet are some of the important issues that are addressed by the SNF Dialogues.
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Opinions
The culture wars threaten higher education
Amy Binder
Six ways for higher education to repair democracy
Jonathan Pinckney
Emotions in Politics
Sigal Ben-Porath
The SNF Dialogues are curated and moderated by Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou, are held through the journalism non-profit organization iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development) and are free and open to everyone.
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Dialoguers
Amy Binder
SNF Agora Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University
Colleges and universities should seek to enhance civic engagement and inclusive dialogue among all of their constituents and accentuate research with direct, real-world impacts. They must welcome faculty, students, and outside partners from a wide range of ideological perspectives and social backgrounds. They should seek to be forums for debate, disagreement, and deliberation.
Jonathan Pinckney
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas
A robust civic education initiative builds understanding of how democratic backsliding works, can dispel incomplete or inaccurate views of democracy and inform students of the importance of institutional constraints.
Hahrie Han
Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Democracy is something you do, not something you have. Right now, we are treating it like something we have.
Appears on:
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Talking (and Listening) Across Divides,
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The Interplay between Technology and Democracy: Pοtential and limitations,
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Τhe Power of Dialogue,
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Reconnecting in a Fractured Political Landscape,
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Consumers or Citizens,
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The Role of Universities in Modern Democracy
Sigal Ben-Porath
Presidential Professor of Education & Director of SNF Paideia at the University of Pennsylvania
To preserve and strengthen our democracy we need to make room for emotions in politics, but not to give up our agency and our capacity to control the decisions that each of us makes.
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Consumers or Citizens
Anthony Marx
President of The New York Public Library
It is the symbolic power that people experience, of being welcome, without any papers, without any credentials, respected, in a space that is majestic. When I started this job, somebody said to me: ‘Oh that’s where the homeless go’. We should be proud of that, that’s where everyone can go: the Nobel laureates, the homeless, and everyone in between.
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Beyond Books: How libraries can serve the public
Ares Kalandides
Urban scholar and Academic Advisor at New York University, Berlin
We need to understand libraries, books and knowledge as a public good. Public goods are under a very serious threat. And as an urban planner, I also see libraries as a public space. A public space does not need to be an open space. It can be, but that’s not the idea. The library has two characteristics; it’s open for everybody and it’s free, you don’t have to consume.
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The Return to Public Space,
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Beyond Books: How libraries can serve the public
SNF Dialogues. Diverse opinions, new ways of thinking
