{"id":7331,"date":"2015-11-25T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T05:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/center_eng\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2018-10-22T03:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T03:36:43","slug":"past-events-monitory-democracy-citizens-active-role-for-overcoming-risk-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/past-events-monitory-democracy-citizens-active-role-for-overcoming-risk-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitory Democracy: Citizen\u2019s Active Role for Overcoming Risk Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
SNUAC Special Lecture<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Title:\u00a0Monitory Democracy: Citizen\u2019s Active Role for Overcoming Risk Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 4:00 pm \u2013 6:00 pm<\/p>\n

Language: Lecture will be given in English<\/p>\n

Venue: Seoul National University Asia Center Rm #303<\/p>\n

Presenter: Dr. John Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bio<\/p>\n

Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN).\u00a0 Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King\u2019s College, University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Well before the European revolutions of 1989, he first came to public prominence as a defender of \u2018civil society\u2019 and the democratic opposition in central and eastern Europe. His political and scholarly writing during that period was often published under the pen name Erica Blair. In 1989 he founded the world\u2019s first Centre for the Study of Democracy in London. During his many years living in Europe, The Times ranked him one of Britain\u2019s leading political thinkers and writers whose work has \u2018world-wide importance\u2019. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has described him as \u201cone of Australia\u2019s great intellectual exports\u201d.<\/p>\n

Among his many books are The Media and Democracy (1991), which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages; Democracy and Civil Society (1988; 1998); Reflections on Violence (1996); Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions (1998); the prize-winning biography Tom Paine: A Political Life (1995); and a study of power in twentieth century Europe, V\u00e1clav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts (1999). His more recent works include Democracy and Media Decadence (2013), (with Wolfgang Merkel and others) The Future of Representative Democracy (2010), Violence and Democracy (2004) and Global Civil Society? (2003).<\/p>\n

He is completing book-length projects on the future of democracy in China, the rise of despotism in the Eurasian region and the politics and government of Antarctica. His other research interests include the growth of global institutions; the twenty-first century enemies of democracy; power, public life and freedom of communication in the digital age; religion and the history of secularism; philosophies of language and history; the origins and future of representative government; and the history and politics of Islam.<\/p>\n

He writes a column for the London\/Melbourne-based web platform The Conversation. He wrote the timeline for the new Museum of Australian Democracy and served as a member of the American-based Institutions of Democracy Commission. His Life and Death of Democracy was short-listed for the 2010 Non-Fiction Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Award. It is the first full-scale history of democracy for over a century. Portuguese, Greek, Brazilian and Japanese translations have appeared and Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Arabic editions are on their way.<\/p>\n

Keeping Tabs on Power and a discussion of the reception of The Life and Death of Democracy provide a brief introduction to John Keane\u2019s life and writings.<\/p>\n