Lecture by Prof. Daniel Ziblatt, Ph.D. (Harvard University and WZB Berlin)
📅 9th June, 6:30 PM CEST
The lecture will be held in English.
Introduction by Prof. Dr Sonja Grimm, Chair of International Relations and European Studies
At this crucial moment for the U.S. and Europe, Daniel Ziblatt shares insights on the current state of democracy in Europe and the United States, democratic backsliding, and possible ways forward and lessons to be learned from across the Atlantic.
Lecture by Prof. Daniel Ziblatt, Ph.D.
Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and has been Director of the Transformations of Democracy Department since October 2020. His co-authored book with Steven Levitsky, the New York Times bestseller “How Democracies Die” (Crown, 2018; “Wie Demokratien sterben”, DVA, 2018), has been translated into over thirty languages. And his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2017), an account of the historical democratisation of Europe, was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on governments and international relations, as well as three other prizes, including the American Sociological Association’s 2018 Barrington Moore Award for the best book in comparative historical sociology. His book “Tyranny of the Minority” was published in autumn 2023. He was awarded the 2019 Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and was Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the WZB. In 2023, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.