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University, and i will provide over this panel, talking about the 17 nineties. Then and, now thinking about allegedly put between that fragile moment between the 17 nineties and how we might think about what we can learn about that moment and how it connects or does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. So i will introduce the four panelists, each person will talk for five to seven minutes and develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few people based on what people said and folks will have a chance to have a conversation here, but we want to leave the last 45 to 30 minutes for questions for the audience. So, as we are going have in mind thinks that you want to say or things you want to ask about. I want to introduce folks from my left to right. So, first is katlyn carter. Katlyn its a visiting University Professor at the university of notre dame, her ph. D. Is from president. She spent two years as a post doctoral fellowship as a wiser cente
What we can learn from that moment i how it connects our does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. The way this is going to work, i will introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five minutes or so. Develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few questions based upon what people have said. Folks will have a chance to have a conversation. We want to leave the last 35 or 40 minutes for questions. Please have in mind things that you want to say or ask about. I will introduce folks from my left to my right. First is katlyn carter. She is a visiting professor at the university of notre dame. Her phd is from princeton. She spent the last two years with a postdoctoral fellowship at the university of michigan. She is working on a book entitled houses of glass, secrecy, transparency, and the Representative Democracy and i have had the pleasure of reading the manuscript. It is about the french revolution in the 1790s and the american const
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