Participatory Governance Initiative announces seminar series

PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE

School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University

SEMINAR SERIES 2011-2012

Location: With the exception of the Nov. 9, 2011 session (to be held in UCENT 279), all sessions will be held in UCENT 822A.

Participatory Governance: Current Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 4:30–6:00 pm

A panel discussion with Robin Beltramini (City Councilwoman of Troy, Michigan; Chair of Democratic Governance Panel, National League of Cities), Mike Huggins (City Manager of Eau Claire, Wisconsin) and Matt Leighninger (Executive Director, Deliberative Democracy Consortium).

Community building through collaborative governance and 10,000 Solutions

Friday, December 2, 2011, 3:00-4:30 pm

Erik W. Johnston and Tanya Musgrave, School of Public Affairs, ASU

Forms of Democratic Governance

Friday, January 20, 2012, 3:00-4:30 pm

Amit Ron, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Materializing Futures: How Artifacts, Prototypes and Objects Support Public Deliberation of Alternative Futures *

Friday, February 24, 2012, 11:30 am–12:45 pm

Cynthia Selin, School of Sustainability, ASU

Experiments in Democracy: Science, Governance and the Challenges of Participation

Friday, March 23, 2012, 3:00-4:30 pm

Ben Hurlbut, School of Life Sciences, ASU

A focus on Arizona: Report back from the 100th Town Hall on Civic Engagement

Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:00:4:30 pm

Kelly Campbell Rawlings, Participatory Governance Initiative, School of Public Affairs, ASU

Discussant: James Svara, School of Public Affairs

* In collaboration with the Colloquium Series of the School of Public Affairs.