How, if at all, can we square sustainability with economic growth?

Do the current measures of ‘green growth’ suffice to abate the problems of environmental degradation and climate change, or do we need more radical ideas of ‘degrowth’ and fundamentally different economic systems?

Join ODID staff, researchers, students and alumni as we debate how our department should position itself.

This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.

View more information and the provisional program.

A historian, biographer, and a former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s parliament), Rajmohan Gandhi has sought throughout his life to develop and protect a democratic India which respects all its citizens and enables all to thrive.

During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, Himmat, the weekly founded and edited by Rajmohan Gandhi, was among a handful of Indian journals that opposed the suspension of democratic rights.
In 1990, he led India’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

Panel: Behroze Gandhy, Dilesh Korya, Partha Mitter, Mishka Sinha, Shireen Azam
Chair: Faisal Devji