{"id":80351,"date":"2019-04-18T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=80351"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:04:22","slug":"apply-to-participate-in-the-athens-democracy-forum-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/apply-to-participate-in-the-athens-democracy-forum-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to Participate in the Athens Democracy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan seeks applicants to participate in the Athens Democracy Forum. OWU may nominate two applicants to participate; a GLCA committee will choose the final participants.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its seventh year, the Athens Democracy Forum has become a preeminent forum to debate critical questions about the state of liberal democracy in the world. Deree and the Alliance will coordinate Forum programming for a team of student delegates from Alliance institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum\u2019s theme, \u201cReinventing Democracy \u2013 New Models for a Changing World\u201d, speaks to the mission of Liberal Arts education to prepare global citizens who can work together to solve complex problems that bring positive change to a turbulent world. Forum sessions will focus on four topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We and Them: The tectonic plates of nationalism and multiculturalism<\/li>\n<li>The echo chamber and the Agora: The use and abuse of new and social media<\/li>\n<li>The cost of Inequality: Where has all the money gone?<\/li>\n<li>Back to Basics: What must be done to restore faith in Democracy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Athens Democracy Forum takes place in Athens, Greece. Student participation will be funded by OWU and the GLCA.\u00a0For more information and an application, contact Nancy Comorau at nacomora@owu,edu. Applications will be due May 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Ohio Wesleyan University.<br \/>\nContact: Nancy Comorau at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nacomora@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nacomora@owu.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan seeks applicants to participate in the Athens Democracy Forum. OWU may nominate two applicants to participate; a GLCA committee will choose the final participants. Now in its seventh year, the Athens Democracy Forum has become a preeminent forum to debate critical questions about the state of liberal democracy in the world. Deree and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80352,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80351\/revisions\/80352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}