Democracy with "a Soul"? Reckoning with Settler Coloniality in the NYC Metro Region

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 1 - 2:30pm

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ADLS Democracy

Please join HSS in welcoming Dr. Jack Tchen, Clement A. Price Professor of Public History and Humanities and Director of the Price Institute at Rutgers University - Newark. 

Dr. Tchen will be the second speaker in the American Democracy Lecture Series—a series which offers the Cooper community a forum for discussion and debate about the current state of American democracy.

This lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 16th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM in the Rose Auditorium.

Please note this event is open to Cooper Union staff, faculty, and students.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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