About: This mini conference will feature 20 presentations by academics on global trends centralizing political authority, undermining judicial power, oppressing political opposition and independent journalism, and promoting cultural-cum-racial chauvinism. It will also hold open discussions and a planning session to better institutionalize the Today’s Totalitarianism consortium. Open to the public.
This conference, organized by Today’s Totalitarianism is co-funded by the Department of Anthropology, the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science at UBC as well as the University of Windor, Simon Fraser University and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Connection Program.
