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DESCRIPTION:The democratic triumphalism of the 1990s has given way to a se
 nse that democracy is in crisis – whether because it’s been hijacked by w
 oke metropolitan elites\, or because it’s being assailed by populist mass
 es. In this context it’s arguably unhelpful to proceed from the premise t
 hat the meaning of democracy had been established\, but is now failing be
 cause of bad actors (which is not to say that there aren’t bad actors aro
 und). To free our imaginations to find new ways forward\, we should start
  by recognising that the meanings of democracy have always been contested
 \, that predominant meanings have changed over time (and varied over spac
 e)\, and that democratic projects have often run into difficulties and ha
 d to be rethought. \n\nIn this lecture I will draw on the findings of a l
 ong-running historical research project\, ‘Re-imagining democracy’\, whic
 h looks at the circumstances in which the ancient concept of democracy wa
 s ‘re-imagined’ for modern circumstances\, from the era of the American a
 nd French revolutions. The project spans Europe and both Americas\, focus
 sing on a century in which the fortunes of the word were especially chang
 eable and varied. I will try to give a flavour of how and why its meaning
 s and associations varied and changed.\n\n[b]About Joanna Innes [/b]\nJoa
 nna Innes is Professor (emeritus) of Modern History at the University of 
 Oxford. She was educated in Britain and the United States\, and first emp
 loyed at Oxford in 1982. Her early research focussed on social policy-mak
 ing in England\, often in a larger European context\, initially focussing
  especially on punishment and poverty. She is now working on the emergenc
 e of new topics on the British parliamentary agenda in the late eighteent
 h and early nineteenth centuries\, including health\, education and worki
 ng conditions. Her work focusses especially on policy-making processes\, 
 in a period in which the British government largely left the initiative t
 o groups outside Parliament. The effect was that policy-making was fairly
  participatory\, and the subject of public debate. Some of this work is c
 ollected in her volume [i]Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social P
 olicies in Britain 1688-1800 [/i](2009)[i]. [/i]For the past twenty years
  she has also collaborated with Mark Philp on an international project\, 
 Re-imagining Democracy ([url=https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.c
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  the ancient concept of democracy was adapted to conceptualise modern pro
 blems and opportunities. The project has given rise to three collections 
 of essays (2013\, 2018\, 2023 – details on the website).  A fourth and fi
 nal volume\, focussing on ‘central and northern Europe’ (including Nordic
  countries) is currently in train.\n\n[b]Venue[/b]\nThe DIAS Auditorium\,
  SDU Campus Odense\n\n[i]This event is open for all. No registration need
 ed.[/i]
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SUMMARY:DIAS Event: What is democracy? Some answers from the age of revolu
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