Please note: the time of this event changed from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST.
Mershon’s Ralph D. Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology Laura Dugan will give a brief introduction to the growing momentum of the far-right that resurged during the 2008 election but had largely remained absent from public discourse as a source of serious threat. Dugan will then lead the discussion of what happened that day and the implications for accountability and the outlook for democracy.
Prior to the session, please try to watch HBO Max’s Four Hours at the Capitol. Here is the trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcdaAx5hu8.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Kyle McCray, mccray.44@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
Speaker
Laura Dugan is Ralph D. Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research is motivated by the broader question of how leaders can reduce or enhance the risk of violence and other types of insecurities due to extremist ideologies and hateful intent. This work requires open-source data collection to capture more subtle day-to-day activities by leaders across the globe. As such, Dr. Dugan is co-co-principal investigator of the Government Actions in Terrorist Environments (GATE) datasets. The GATE data record government actions related to terrorists and their constituencies for a select set of countries since 1987. She is also a founding co-principal investigator for the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), the most comprehensive terrorism database available, as it records all known attacks across the globe since 1970 Furthermore, she also designs methodological strategies to overcome data limitations inherent in the social sciences.
