The School of Global Studies and Languages in the College of Arts and Sciences welcomes prominent democracy experts Francis Fukuyama and Larry Diamond to the Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom Thursday, May 1, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

The first half of the event will be moderated conversation among the two speakers, while the second half will be a question-and-answer session with audience members. As democracy faces unprecedent challenges worldwide, citizens face questions about what they can do in the present and what to expect in the future. This represents a forum for those across campus and in the Eugene community to think more deeply about these challenging questions.

Best known for his post-Cold War book “The End of History and the Last Man” (1992), Fukuyama has been studying the conditions of democracy and democratization across the globe for over four decades. He is currently senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a member of its Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

Diamond is the author, most recently, of “Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency” (2019) and has written, edited or coedited fifty more on democratic development around the world. He is currently senior fellow of global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and chairs the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

The event is cosponsored by the Wayne Morse Center, the Global Studies Institute, the US-Vietnam Research Center and the Department of Political Science. The event is open to the public and preregistration is not required.

—Top photo: Francis Fukuyama and Larry Diamond.