Nov
12
Quo Vadis, America?
NYC
November 12, 2024
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6:30 pm
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8:00 pm
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Talks
30 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003
Only a few days after the presidential election, Alexander Görlach, expert on liberal democracies and Adjunct Professor at NYU, sat down with Raghav Joshi, Max Sasak, Sylvia Breaux, and Sibel Hadzimusovic, NYU political science students, and discussed the pressing challenges and questions deriving from the election result.

Only a few days after the presidential election,  Alexander Görlach, expert on liberal democracies and Adjunct Professor at NYU, sat down with Raghav Joshi, Max Sasak, Sylvia Breaux, and Sibel Hadzimusovic, NYU political science students, and discussed the pressing challenges and questions deriving from the election result.

Event Photos: Sarah Blesener

Biography:

Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015. Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.

Photo: Hong Kiu Cheng

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Only a few days after the presidential election,  Alexander Görlach, expert on liberal democracies and Adjunct Professor at NYU, sat down with Raghav Joshi, Max Sasak, Sylvia Breaux, and Sibel Hadzimusovic, NYU political science students, and discussed the pressing challenges and questions deriving from the election result.

Event Photos: Sarah Blesener

Biography:

Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015. Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.

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Nov
12
NYC
Quo Vadis, America?
November 12, 2024
/
6:30 pm
-
8:00 pm
In-Person
Talks
30 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003
Only a few days after the presidential election, Alexander Görlach, expert on liberal democracies and Adjunct Professor at NYU, sat down with Raghav Joshi, Max Sasak, Sylvia Breaux, and Sibel Hadzimusovic, NYU political science students, and discussed the pressing challenges and questions deriving from the election result.

Only a few days after the presidential election,  Alexander Görlach, expert on liberal democracies and Adjunct Professor at NYU, sat down with Raghav Joshi, Max Sasak, Sylvia Breaux, and Sibel Hadzimusovic, NYU political science students, and discussed the pressing challenges and questions deriving from the election result.

Event Photos: Sarah Blesener

Biography:

Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015. Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.

Photo: Hong Kiu Cheng

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