Book Tour: Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism
Berggruen Institute Founders Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels kicked off their book tour in March 2019 at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Join them on their journey as they unveil their bold approaches for renovating democracy.
As a follow-up to Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East, their latest work Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism (April 2019) is the first in the Berggruen Institute series on the “Great Transformations” published by the University of California Press (UC Press).
Current book tour dates are listed below with additional dates being added as they are confirmed. Please check back frequently for updates.
Note: Exclusively for our Berggruen Institute network, UC Press is offering a limited time 40 percent discount code: 19W6125. To use this code, please click here.
Upcoming Book Tour Dates:
March, 2020
Action With Vision
Delphi, Greece
March 5: 3:15 p.m. (Private Event)
*Final date and time to be confirmed
Previous Book Tour Dates (2019):
March
SXSW
Austin, TX,
March 12: 9:30 – 10:30am
April
LA Times Festival of Books
USC Campus
Where Do We Go From Here? Contextualizing This American Moment
April 14: 1:30 – 2:30pm
Live Talks Los Angeles
Moss Theatre in Santa Monica
April 24: 8:00 p.m.
Milken Global Conference
Los Angeles
April 27: Private Event
A Conversation with Evan Spiegel, CEO, Snap Inc.
Los Angeles
April 30: Private Event
May
Stanford University
Social Media and Democracy Workshop
May 1-2*: Private Event
Commonwealth Club
Moderated by: Reid Hoffman
San Francisco
May 11: 2:00pm
UC Berkeley
Moderated by: Laura D. Tyson
Social Science Matrix
May 13: Noon
June
Chatham House: Members Only Talk & Book Signing
Direct Democracy: Participation Without Populism?
Chaired by Hans Kundnani, Senior Research Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House
London, England
June 24: 6 pm to 7:30 pm
July
European University Institute – School of Transnational Governance
Florence, Italy
July 8 & 9
September
Blavatnik School of Government – University of Oxford
Moderated by: Dean Ngaire Woods
Oxford, UK
September 9: 5:30 p.m.
October
The Brookings Institute
Washington, D.C.
October 1: 1:00 p.m.
University of Pennsylvania Perry World House
Philadelphia
October 2: 4:30 p.m.
Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 3: 5:30 p.m.
Campbell Brown Salon
New York City
October 7: 6:00 p.m. (Private Event)
Asia Society | New York
Moderated by: Josette Sheeran
New York City
October 10: 6:30 p.m.
Harvard Club
New York
October 11: Noon
Private Event
LA World Affairs Council
Moss Theater, Santa Monica
October 14: 7:00 p.m.
Asia Society | Southern California
Moderated by: Dick Drobnick
Los Angeles
October 21: 6:00 p.m.
UCLA Book Talk (Luskin 2355)
Co-sponsored with Luskin School of Public Affairs
Los Angeles
October 24: 1:15 p.m.
Burkle Center Salon
Sponsored by Burkle Center
Los Angeles
October 24: 6:30 (Private Event)