Today Western democracies are still experiencing the first shock of witnessing the authoritarian leaders taking the political stage. It must already be clear that no democracy is immune to this global cancer of politics. It is now time to imagine a counter political current. "Winter is coming" is passe. The new motto is "Spring is coming." But how? When? And most important question is "Are we still competent enough political subjects to imagine a better world?"
Speaker's biography:
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow on Knots, and the Ambassador of New Europe Award. She has been twice recognised as Turkey’s most-read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people in social media (with three million twitter followers).
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