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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Bicentennial Academic Symposium at Lafayette Co
 llege\n\n* *\n\n*FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 11*\n\n*8:15-9 a.m. – Registration/Lig
 ht breakfast reception*\n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n \n\n*
 9-10:15 a.m. – Faculty Panel III: Democracy\, Data\, and Decision-Making*
 \n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n * *Adam Biener* (economics) 
 –”Lean Budgets: The Role of Government in\n   Patients’ Access to and Fina
 ncing of GLP-1s for Weight Loss”\n * *Caleb Gallemore* (international affa
 irs) – “The Shape of Advocacy in\n   Open and Closed Political Systems”\n 
 * *Sofia Serrano* (computer science) – “Using Language Models to Study\n  
  Government”\n\n \n\n*10:30-11:45 a.m. – Faculty Panel IV: Histories and N
 arratives of \nDemocracies *\n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n 
 * *Dennis Johannßen* (language and literary studies) – “Language and\n   R
 esistance During the Weimar Republic”\n * *Ilan Peleg* (government and law
  and Jewish studies) – “The Global\n   Decline of Democracy: Corrupt Popul
 ism\, Autocratization\, and Resistance”\n * *Katherine Stafford* (language
  and literary studies) – “Perpetrator\n   Studies and Democracy: The Case 
 of Spain”\n\n* *\n\n*12-2 p.m. – Akhil Reed Amar plenary address and lunch
  followed by book \nsigning*\n\n(Pfenning Alumni Center\, Wilson Room)\n\n
 *“America at 250: From ‘All Men Are Created Equal’ in 1776 to the Birth \n
 Equality Idea in the 1860s and the Birthright Citizenship Debate Today”*\n
 \nAbstract: In July 1776\, famous Americans famously proclaimed that “all 
 men \nare created equal.” What did this mean then? What did this and close
 ly \nrelated propositions mean in the Civil War and Reconstruction era? Wh
 at do \nthese ideas mean today? In particular\, what might they mean in co
 nnection \nwith modern debates about women’s rights and birthright citizen
 ship?\n\nFree copies of Professor Amar’s book will be available at the tal
 k while \nsupplies last and his keynote address will be accompanied by lun
 ch and \nfollowed by a book signing.\n\n \n\n*2:15-3:30 p.m. – Faculty Pan
 el V: Democracy Around the Globe*\n\n(Kirby Hall of Civil Rights\, Room 10
 4)\n\n * *Anna Callis* (government and law) – “Labor Organizations and\n  
  Democratic Engagement: The Political Effects of Union Decline in Peru”\n 
 * *Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena* (environmental studies) – “The Global Land\n   
 Rush and Squeeze: The Hidden Battle for Africa’s Soils”\n * *Seo-Hyun Park
 * (government and law) – “Democracy and Nationalism in\n   East Asia”\n\n*
  *\n\n*3:45-5 p.m. – Faculty Panel VI: Democratic Deliberation and Partici
 pation*\n\n(Kirby Hall of Civil Rights\, Room 104)\n\n * *Chetan Cetty* (p
 hilosophy) – “Ideal Institutions and Complexity”\n * *Stephanie Chan* (gov
 ernment and law) – “Creative Citizenship”\n * *Joaquín Gómez-Miñambres* (e
 conomics) – “Reasoning Together: The\n   Behavioral Economics of Belief in
  a Democratic Society” \n\n* *\n\n*5-5:30 p.m. – Closing Reception*\n\n(Ki
 rby Hall of Civil Rights\, Lobby)\n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Various Lafayette campus locations
SUMMARY:The Bicentennial Symposium - Democracy: Past\, Present\, and Future
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