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DESCRIPTION:Note: Any updates to this event, such as changes to the date o
 r location,  will NOT be reflected in this calendar appointment. For the 
 most current  event information for the 2014 Congress of the Humanities an
 d Social  Sciences, please visit www.congress2014.ca/calendar.\n\nSeries:
  Big Thinking\n\nAssociation: Federation for the Humanities and Social Sci
 ences\n\nAccess Level: General public\n\nDescription: In the face of the m
 ost perilous challenges of our time-climate  change, terrorism, poverty\
 , and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people-the  nations of the world s
 eem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too  interdependent, too divisi
 ve for the nation-state. Is the state, once  democracy’s best hope, toda
 y democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The  answer is yes. Although sta
 tes are obviously not going away, and cities  operated under the jurisdic
 tion of sovereign nations, cities and the mayors  who run them can do, a
 nd are doing, a better job. Cities share unique qualities across the worl
 d: pragmatism, civic trust,  participation, indifference to borders and
  sovereignty, and a democratic  penchant for networking, creativity, in
 novation, and cooperation.  City  mayors, singly and jointly, are respo
 nding to transnational problems more  effectively than nation-states mired
  in ideological infighting and sovereign  rivalries. When we change the su
 bject from Presidents and Prime Ministers to  Mayors, from dysfunctional 
 nation states to rising cities, we are offered a  compelling new vision o
 f governance for the coming century. In this vision, cities cooperating i
 n global associations like United Cities  and Local Governments and the C-
 40 Cities for Sustainability and CityNet are  already achieving notable pr
 ogress in addressing issues of immigration,  climate change, global mark
 ets and terrorism. As local communities defined by  neighbors, and a glob
 al association of cosmopolitanism, cities are truly  'glocal' -- local co
 mmunities capable of global governance. As venues of efficient and pragmat
 ic government and as partners in global  association of cooperation, citi
 es have the potential through a 'global  parliament of mayors' to offer in
 terdependent planet bottom up, consensual  form of interdependent governa
 nce. The city is democracy’s best hope in a  globalizing world, and great
  mayors are already proving that this is so. Benjamin R. Barber is a Senio
 r Research Scholar at The Graduate Center, CUNY,  Founder of the Interde
 pendence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus  at Rutgers Univer
 sity. Dr. Barber is the author of 17 books, including the  classic Strong
  Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld and  the new 
 book If Mayors Ruled the World. Dr. Barber appears frequently in  broadcas
 t media and domestic and international news publications, and he  consult
 s regularly with political and civic leaders in the U.S. (President  Bill 
 Clinton, Governor Howard Dean) and around the world. He writes and  speak
 s on a wide variety of questions connected to democracy and citizenship, 
  including the arts, education, globalization, terrorism, and the new 
 politics  of the Middle East and North Africa. See here for additional inf
 ormation about Benjamin Barber, compiled by Brock  University Library. Br
 eakfast is served. In English. Simultaneous interpretation available via c
 ell phone. The video of the Big Thinking lecture is now available below:\n
 \n  Big Thinking supporting sponsors:\n\n\n\n	Big Thinking The Big Thinking
  lecture series is held throughout Congress and is open to  all attendees 
 and members of the public. This series brings together leading  scholars a
 nd public figures who can present forward-thinking research, ideas  and s
 olutions to the critical questions and issues of our time. The 2014 Big  T
 hinking lecture series is organized by the Federation for the Humanities a
 nd  Social Sciences and Brock University. See the complete list of Big Thi
 nking lectures...
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140529T074500
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LOCATION:Welch Hall - David S. Howes Theatre
SUMMARY:If Mayors ruled the world: Is the city democracy’s best hope? (Benj
 amin  Barber)
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 ty-democracys-best-hope-benjamin-barber
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