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Humanities Society: Writing about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump

Modi & Trump
Professor Eugenio Biagni Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Date 03/05/2022 at 17.45 - 03/05/2022 at 19.00 Where Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) & Zoom

"After the hubris of the 1990s and the despondency of the Donald Trump years, what is it like to reflect on the rise and crisis of democracy?"

Modi & Trump

On Tues 3 May at 18:00, the »ÆÉ«ÊÓÆµ Humanities Society will be hosting a talk: ‘Writing about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump’  given by Professor , Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

After the hubris of the 1990s and the despondency of the Donald Trump years, what is it like to reflect on the rise and crisis of democracy? And how can historians go about dissecting the cultural context within which it originated, flourished, withered, and revived?

The talk will take place in the Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) at »ÆÉ«ÊÓÆµ and also on Zoom. For the in-person audience, drinks and snacks will be available from 17.45. If you would like to attend the Zoom webinar, please for the link.

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