This event commemorates the first campus teach-in on March 24 and 25, 1965. To honor the original program, this teach-in hopes to provide opportunities to learn from a variety of experts and many chances to interact with participants.

For the focus of this event, U-M faculty will discuss the shift from more liberal and democratic political systems to more authoritarian.

Participating faculty:

Arun Agrawal:
"India under Mrs. Indira Gandhi, 1975-77"

Anne Berg:
"No 'Triumph of Will.' The Making of Nazi Germany"

Christian Davenport:
"10 Ways You Can Tell You Are in an Autocracy"

Allen Hicken:
"Good People and Good Governance: Autocracy as a Search for Order"

Dario Gaggio:
"Silencing the Press in Fascist Italy, 1919-1925"

Fatma Muge Gocek:
"Global Authoritarianism from Turkey to the United States"

Pauline Jones:
"How to Re-Build an Autocracy: Lessons from Vladimir Putin"

Maria Lemos

Micheal McGovern:
"A Machine for Fabricating Dictators’: Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Republic of Guinea"

Robert Mickey:
"How Legacies of the Recent Completion of America's Democratization Increase the Threat of Democratic Backsliding in the Trump Era"

Ron Suny:
"The Crisis of Bourgeois Democracy: The Fate of an Experiment in the Age of Nationalism, Populism, and Neo-Liberalism"

Organized by the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the International Institute.