II Photo Contest Award Ceremony & Reception
The International Institute invites you to the Photo Contest Award Ceremony and Exhibition. The event will showcase the diverse global...
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Free Community Film Screening & Discussion I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ana Guimarães, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent...
Folk Democracy in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Mira Markham, University of Michigan
During the Second World War, Czechoslovakia’s political leaders rejected the liberal democratic system of the interwar period and sought...
When Rebels Win; Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars
Kai M. Thaler, University of California Santa Barbara (speaker), Justine Davis, University of Michigan (respondent)
What do rebels do with the state if they are able to gain control of it? Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic...
