Maya Tudor — The Tongues We Speak: How Monolingual Nationalism Feeds Democratic Decline
What is the relationship between nationalism and democracy? In recent decades, the rise of nationalism has driven democratic backsliding. But are all nationalisms equally prone to powering democratic backsliding? Through this comparative case study of India and Sri Lanka, Maya Tudor discusses how and why monolingual nationalism is a particularly potent driver of democratic decline.
The event will begin with opening remarks from Kathryn Stoner, Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and will be moderated by Šumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and Director of its Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations. The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations at the Hoover Institution.
speakers
Maya Tudor
Maya Tudor is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow at St. Hildas College. She researches the nature of nationalism and drivers of democracy with a regional focus on South Asia. She is the author of two books, The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan (2013) and Varieties of Nationalism (with Harris Mylonas, 2023), as well as twenty-three peer-reviewed articles. She is also the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Politics of Development series, the Inaugural Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Nationalism and Politics division, and a regular commentator on elections and the state of democracy in various media outlets.
Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and a Senior Fellow at CDDRL and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI. From 2017 to 2021, she served as FSI's Deputy Director. She is Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford and she teaches in the Department of Political Science, and in the Program on International Relations, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program. She is also a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.
Šumit Ganguly is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of its Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations. He is also the Rabindranath Tagore Professor in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Emeritus, at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he served as distinguished professor and professor of political science and directed programs on India studies and on American and global security. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Hunter College, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and James Madison College of Michigan State University. He has also taught at Columbia University, Sciences Po (Paris, France), the US Army War College, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Northwestern University, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He serves on the board of directors of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Room E-008, Garden Level
Encina Hall (616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford)
This is a hybrid event; only those with an active Stanford ID with access to E-008 Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person.
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