UVA professor John Owen, who is the Karsh Institute's Advisory Board vice chair and was a featured speaker in our 'Touchstones of Democracy' event series, received the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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UVA’s Equity Center and the Karsh Institute of Democracy hosted an essay competition for 6th to 12th graders in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, prompting them to write about what democracy means to them.
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The high-profile rape case of Gisele Pelicot in France speaks to a possible shift following the rise of the #MeToo movement, writes Nomi Dave, co-director of the Karsh Institute's Sound Justice Lab.
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Anyone Kokas, faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, discusses the ongoing data regulation dispute between China and the United States and provides insights on how the Trump administration might regulate data collection.
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Local news is an essential building block of a vibrant democracy. But the shuttering of local media outlets, underfunded newsrooms, and declining trust in information threaten the nation's democratic health. The Karsh Institute is partnering with Virginia Humanities to examine ways to combat this challenge.
UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab faculty co-lead Aynne Kokas discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the TikTok ban case in January 2025 and provides her insights on the broader challenges TikTok poses to Western democracies.
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Cville Tulips, a nonprofit run through the Karsh Institute's Sound Justice Lab, builds communities and empowers local refugee women and children through art, English, and health classes.
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Devoted to transatlantic intellectual and cultural exchanges, this panel discussion included Laurent Dubois, academic director of UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy; Alain-Philippe Durand, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Arizona; and Jessica Kimpell-Johnson, director of research at the Karsh Institute.
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"For the past decade, I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics," writes Rachel Wahl, director of the Karsh Institute's Good Life Political Project. "People rarely change their minds about political issues, but they frequently feel much better about the people with whom they disagree."
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“If you look at demand, [trains are] actually skyrocketing in in Virginia,” said the Weldon Cooper Center's Terry Rephann. “Some of it is [clear preferences and] changing lifestyles. Young folks are much more keen on public transit.”
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Aynne Kokas, faculty co-lead for the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, delivered the keynote address at the Athens Security Forum on November 22, 2024.
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