After Life

The Democracy Institute at Ahimsa Center, a CPP initiative dedicated to questions democratic and constitutional, hosted to its inaugural symposium on March 10-11, 2023, at the Kellogg West Conference Center. The theme for the inaugural was “After Life: Identity and Indifference in the Time of Planetary Peril.” Twelve internationally-renowned speakers from across disciplines in STEM, social sciences, and the Humanities participated in conversations on the politics of “free speech inequality,” epistemic justice, and democratic hope. At the center of these arguments, says The Democracy Institute Founder Dr. Aishwary Kumar, is the moral history and future of civil rights, and of life itself — as philosophical humanism had once known it — as we stare unavoidably at climate catastrophe, technological mutation of life-forms, and a resurgent “color line” worldwide. The event was co-sponsored by the Institute for New Global Politics.