FIRESIDE CHAT: Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions
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Fireside Chat with Dr. Katlyn Marie Carter Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:00 p.m. ET Virtual
Event Details
Fireside Chat with Dr. Katlyn Marie Carter
Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions
Thursday, November 16, 2023
7:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Event | Free
In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world’s first representative democracies.
Unveiling modern democracy’s surprisingly shadowy origins, Carter reshapes our understanding of how government by and for the people emerged during the Age of Revolutions.
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November 16, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)
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