The Capitol Coup One Year Later - Keynote Address Live from GW

805 21st St NW,Washington DC 20052

06 January, 2022

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The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol demonstrated the real and ongoing threat of democratic decay in the United States. The George Washington University's Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) and The University of North Carolina's Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) invite you to join them for The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research Can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy, a two day conference exploring key questions surrounding January 6, 2021. Day One features a keynote from Emily Van Duyn. Duyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Illinois, Van Duyn earned her PhD in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with the Program on Democracy and the Internet. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography. Her forthcoming book, Democracy Lives in Darkness, explores secret political affiliations and our increasing distrust and desire to harm our political opponents. Across two years, she follows a secret group of progressives in rural Texas who, out of fear of their conservative community, meet in secret to talk about politics and take political action. Her work is concerned with the effects of social, geographic, and political polarization and how these phenomena threaten liberal democratic norms. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR THOSE PLANNING TO ATTEND IN PERSON PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE INFORMATION BELOW. Beginning Monday, September 27, the George Washington University will require all visitors coming to campus for tours, meetings, activities and university events to follow the protocol below: Register with the university at go.gwu.edu/visitor.Complete a COVID-19 symptom screening form.Attest that they are vaccinated. If visitors are unvaccinated, they need to attest that they have received a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their visit to campus.All guests must wear a mask while on campus.Following completion of the form, visitors will receive a registration confirmation to the email address provided. Provide a copy of the registration confirmation to their campus host upon arrival. If visitors are unvaccinated, they will need to arrange testing on their own before visiting campus. Visitors are not eligible for COVID-19 testing at GW’s test centers. If a visitor is unable to present an approved registration form, they are not permitted to access university facilities.