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City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
The United Nations General Assembly is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations. Comprising all 193 Members of the United Nations, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter.
The United Nations General Assembly is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations. Comprising all 193 Members of the United Nations, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter.
A few of the impassioned speakers around the sacred flame and ceremonial ground in front of Old Parliament House.
Uluru Statement from the Heart in English
5m
SBS Radio - in consultation with the Uluru Dialogue, Indigenous Law Centre UNSW - is sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in various languages to continue the national dialogue. For the first time, this podcast collection includes more than 20 Aboriginal languages (from communities in the Northern Territory and from Northern Western Australia), which will continue to grow as more First Nations languages are translated. The collection also includes more than 60 languages for Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people to walk with First Nations peoples to create a better future. In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people. The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia's First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma. Photo by Jimmy Widders Hunt. Video collection: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/uluru-statement-from-the-heart-in... Podcast collection: www.sbs.com.au/language/ulurustatement
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
March’s Friday Late welcomed attendees to engage with a myriad of contemporary activism practices, 100 years on from when a qualified group of women in the UK were granted the right to vote. From deliberative democracy workshops to installations depicting radically soft lives, from feminist zine making to tours of radical women in the history of art, this Late asked attendees to examine narratives that are too often left unaccounted.
Photos © PeanutButterVibes Photography
www.peanutbuttervibesphotography.com
@peanutbuttervibesphotography
March’s Friday Late welcomed attendees to engage with a myriad of contemporary activism practices, 100 years on from when a qualified group of women in the UK were granted the right to vote. From deliberative democracy workshops to installations depicting radically soft lives, from feminist zine making to tours of radical women in the history of art, this Late asked attendees to examine narratives that are too often left unaccounted.
Photos © PeanutButterVibes Photography
www.peanutbuttervibesphotography.com
@peanutbuttervibesphotography
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
March’s Friday Late welcomed attendees to engage with a myriad of contemporary activism practices, 100 years on from when a qualified group of women in the UK were granted the right to vote. From deliberative democracy workshops to installations depicting radically soft lives, from feminist zine making to tours of radical women in the history of art, this Late asked attendees to examine narratives that are too often left unaccounted.
Photos © PeanutButterVibes Photography
www.peanutbuttervibesphotography.com
@peanutbuttervibesphotography
Local members from the village of Bethany in Guyana examines proposed concessions on customary land as part of a workshop run by the Amerindian Peoples Association. In countries such as Guyana, which has initialed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the EU, stakeholder involvement extends beyond simple consultations to include genuine and deliberative processes.
Insecure land rights for indigenous forest-dependent communities is a recurrent obstacle to good forest governance in Guyana. The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme has supported the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) to develop pilot Free Prior Informed Consent (IPIC) protocols in the village of Bethany. These protocols stipulate that logging companies must obtain consent before undertaking projects within Amerindian customary land. Initiatives such as these protect customary land, territories, and natural resources, as well as protecting Amerindian culture, livelihoods, and way of life.
Since the start of Phase III in 2016, the Programme has undertaken 14 projects in Guyana around legislative and policy reform, institutional strengthening and capacity building, and creating VPA monitoring structures
©FAO/Amerindian People’s Association
I had a few other ideas rolling around, but when I asked my husband for a good "visual" song title, this was his first idea...brilliant! I got started that night and loved every minute of it. I listened to the song at least six times through while working on this. It's mostly improvisational. I just cut some rolling hills and arranged them right onto the batting and quilted them together. Then I stitched on the strawberries in a deliberatively sketchy way. I had just enough of that perfectly psychedelic binding fabric to do a single layer, so it is a fused binding cut with a wavy rotary cutter, because that's all I had!
10.5" x 18" I made a challenge to myself that no side could be more than 20" this time, because last time I started too big! Then I had to trim the sides a little because that's all the binding fabric I had! But I only used scraps and I'm proud of it!
By Emma Thomas-McGinnis, Urbandale, IA
Uluru Statement from the Heart in English
5m
SBS Radio - in consultation with the Uluru Dialogue, Indigenous Law Centre UNSW - is sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in various languages to continue the national dialogue. For the first time, this podcast collection includes more than 20 Aboriginal languages (from communities in the Northern Territory and from Northern Western Australia), which will continue to grow as more First Nations languages are translated. The collection also includes more than 60 languages for Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people to walk with First Nations peoples to create a better future. In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people. The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia's First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma. Photo by Jimmy Widders Hunt. Video collection: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/uluru-statement-from-the-heart-in... Podcast collection: www.sbs.com.au/language/ulurustatement
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
March’s Friday Late welcomed attendees to engage with a myriad of contemporary activism practices, 100 years on from when a qualified group of women in the UK were granted the right to vote. From deliberative democracy workshops to installations depicting radically soft lives, from feminist zine making to tours of radical women in the history of art, this Late asked attendees to examine narratives that are too often left unaccounted.
Photos © PeanutButterVibes Photography
www.peanutbuttervibesphotography.com
@peanutbuttervibesphotography
An overlooked gem at the Northwest corner of the Capitol grounds is a little brick summerhouse designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. A large fountain in the center, with water fountains for a cool drink in the summer heat and stone seats set into the walls with cover for shade. And the window on the eastern side of the structure looks out onto a little grotto, a little postage stamp piece of wilderness just spitting distance from the chambers of what used to be the most powerful deliberative body on the planet, till the modern GOP took over and stopped all serious work. I can imagine some Congressmen or Senators in the late 19th century coming out to the summer house in the spring just before summer recess, to sit in the shade, drink cool water and discuss weighty matters. But Congress has changed a lot since then.
Washington, DC
March 2015
Debra Hawhee, Ellen Dannin, Matt Jordan, Jeremy Engel and John Christman listen as a student accuses them of being left-wing ideologues.
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. its powers, composition, functions, and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 5:30-8 p.m. Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
Luther/Reformation Monument (Lutherdenkmal)
In 1521, an Imperial Diet was held in Worms at which time Martin Luther was summoned to appear. (In politics, a Diet is a formal deliberative assembly.) Luther was called to recant his writings, beliefs, and some of the 95 theses. Testifying before the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (Karl V), and the prince electors, he refused to recant. Legend holds that Luther ended his defense with the words, "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen." (Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders, Gott helfe mir, Amen.) At the end of the Diet, the Edict of Worms (Wormser Edikt) was issued declaring Luther to be an outlaw.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
So, I re-took the Strengthsfinder assessment. Nothing has really changed since I first did it maybe 7 years ago.
It still says my themes are:
1) Ideation
2) Strategic
3) Analytical
4) Input
5) Deliberative
The order may have changed, but I'm sure that it's otherwise all the same.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 5:30-8 p.m. Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa
An overlooked gem at the Northwest corner of the Capitol grounds is a little brick summerhouse designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. A large fountain in the center, with water fountains for a cool drink in the summer heat and stone seats set into the walls with cover for shade. And the window on the eastern side of the structure looks out onto a little grotto, a little postage stamp piece of wilderness just spitting distance from the chambers of what used to be the most powerful deliberative body on the planet, till the modern GOP took over and stopped all serious work. I can imagine some Congressmen or Senators in the late 19th century coming out to the summer house in the spring just before summer recess, to sit in the shade, drink cool water and discuss weighty matters. But Congress has changed a lot since then.
Washington, DC
March 2015
If politics relies on the art of compromise, Jo Ann was pre-emptive in establishing relationships with lobbyists from law enforcement weeks prior to the hearing. They offered no objections or amendments in our meeting. They used their pipeline to the Oregon Senate Judiciary leadership, making a mockery of hearings and deliberative bodies.
Local members from the village of Bethany in Guyana examines proposed concessions on customary land as part of a workshop run by the Amerindian Peoples Association. In countries such as Guyana, which has initialed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the EU, stakeholder involvement extends beyond simple consultations to include genuine and deliberative processes.
Insecure land rights for indigenous forest-dependent communities is a recurrent obstacle to good forest governance in Guyana. The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme has supported the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) to develop pilot Free Prior Informed Consent (IPIC) protocols in the village of Bethany. These protocols stipulate that logging companies must obtain consent before undertaking projects within Amerindian customary land. Initiatives such as these protect customary land, territories, and natural resources, as well as protecting Amerindian culture, livelihoods, and way of life.
Since the start of Phase III in 2016, the Programme has undertaken 14 projects in Guyana around legislative and policy reform, institutional strengthening and capacity building, and creating VPA monitoring structures
©FAO/Amerindian People’s Association
Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman
Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987.
Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson.
There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact, there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are flags like those in Howard Chandler Christy’s Signing of the Constitution—the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible—and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic.
Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
The above commentary is based, in part, on the following email from Mr. Glanzman’s daughter:
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
I am writing to you on behalf of my father, Louis Glanzman. He requested that I contact you to give his permission to include his image of the Signing of the Constitution on your web-site providing you post his name alongside his work. Please have the credit line read; painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
As far as the history of the painting there is a long list of details of which you may be interested. To begin, my father was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create his painting which is the most historically accurate depiction of the event. He worked closely with several historians through the National Parks Department to create the correct color of the walls, the accuracy of the chandelier, wood moldings and various other room details. Through extensive research on his own and images of each delegate which was provided he had to appropriately age each portrait in his painting. There was no record of an image of the delegate from Delaware so my father painted him from the back signing the Constitution. Subtle details such as the snuff on the tables, the delegate with the wooden leg and a male secretary recording the event is accurate information that my father is famous for in his work. An important fact that he noted obviously is that everyone was not present at one time, but for the painting to be used as a educational tool he recorded all the signers. There is more information that my father would be glad to share with you but he would prefer you to call him so he may tell you in his own words.
Thank you for contacting his website and I wish you success in your endeavor. As you are probably aware enacted this year there is now Constitution Day on the public school teaching calendar requiring a lesson to be taught. FYI there is a poster available through the National Parks Department which has a legend included names and position of each delegate.
Sincerely,
Marybeth Glanzman Bortzfield
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
City of Fort Collins | Madeline Bechtel
CSU's Center for Public Deliberation CPD) collaborated with the City to host a Deliberative Forum on April 26, 2023 Approximately 50 participants attended including representatives from HOAs and neighborhood associations, the BIPOC Alliance, Boards and Commissions, and the business community. The agenda included roundtable discussions and activities guided by student facilitators.
Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman
Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987.
Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson.
There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact, there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are flags like those in Howard Chandler Christy’s Signing of the Constitution—the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible—and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic.
Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
The above commentary is based, in part, on the following email from Mr. Glanzman’s daughter:
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
I am writing to you on behalf of my father, Louis Glanzman. He requested that I contact you to give his permission to include his image of the Signing of the Constitution on your web-site providing you post his name alongside his work. Please have the credit line read; painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
As far as the history of the painting there is a long list of details of which you may be interested. To begin, my father was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create his painting which is the most historically accurate depiction of the event. He worked closely with several historians through the National Parks Department to create the correct color of the walls, the accuracy of the chandelier, wood moldings and various other room details. Through extensive research on his own and images of each delegate which was provided he had to appropriately age each portrait in his painting. There was no record of an image of the delegate from Delaware so my father painted him from the back signing the Constitution. Subtle details such as the snuff on the tables, the delegate with the wooden leg and a male secretary recording the event is accurate information that my father is famous for in his work. An important fact that he noted obviously is that everyone was not present at one time, but for the painting to be used as a educational tool he recorded all the signers. There is more information that my father would be glad to share with you but he would prefer you to call him so he may tell you in his own words.
Thank you for contacting his website and I wish you success in your endeavor. As you are probably aware enacted this year there is now Constitution Day on the public school teaching calendar requiring a lesson to be taught. FYI there is a poster available through the National Parks Department which has a legend included names and position of each delegate.
Sincerely,
Marybeth Glanzman Bortzfield
Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman
Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987.
Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson.
There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact, there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are flags like those in Howard Chandler Christy’s Signing of the Constitution—the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible—and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic.
Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
The above commentary is based, in part, on the following email from Mr. Glanzman’s daughter:
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
I am writing to you on behalf of my father, Louis Glanzman. He requested that I contact you to give his permission to include his image of the Signing of the Constitution on your web-site providing you post his name alongside his work. Please have the credit line read; painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
As far as the history of the painting there is a long list of details of which you may be interested. To begin, my father was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create his painting which is the most historically accurate depiction of the event. He worked closely with several historians through the National Parks Department to create the correct color of the walls, the accuracy of the chandelier, wood moldings and various other room details. Through extensive research on his own and images of each delegate which was provided he had to appropriately age each portrait in his painting. There was no record of an image of the delegate from Delaware so my father painted him from the back signing the Constitution. Subtle details such as the snuff on the tables, the delegate with the wooden leg and a male secretary recording the event is accurate information that my father is famous for in his work. An important fact that he noted obviously is that everyone was not present at one time, but for the painting to be used as a educational tool he recorded all the signers. There is more information that my father would be glad to share with you but he would prefer you to call him so he may tell you in his own words.
Thank you for contacting his website and I wish you success in your endeavor. As you are probably aware enacted this year there is now Constitution Day on the public school teaching calendar requiring a lesson to be taught. FYI there is a poster available through the National Parks Department which has a legend included names and position of each delegate.
Sincerely,
Marybeth Glanzman Bortzfield
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, jointly with the City of Mostar, is organising a Citizens’ Assembly as part of the first deliberative process of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the South East of Europe.
During four consecutive weekends, from 10 to 31 July 2021, the Citizens’ Assembly is bringing together a representative group of 48 randomly selected citizens to deliberate upon and make recommendations on the cleanliness of the city and maintenance of public spaces in Mostar. This topic was proposed by citizens of Mostar and chosen after consultations with civil society and the city authorities.
Where Has Democracy Gone?
Are the impacts of immigration and/or globalization the reasons for the actual crises in the world?
What Anglo-Saxons use to call “globalisation” in order to express the increase of trades around the world, is in fact an economic revolution triggered by technology which started more than a quarter of a century ago. Technology driven societies have transformed the world deeply and calmly but being the norm today they determine the entire world system of the 21st century and our regards towards democracy. Nowadays, we are questioning ourselves whether globalization is useful for African and Asian countries, or whether we are going to continue complaining about this situation like most European countries are likely to do or the United States which has elected D. Trump with his slogan “America First” for president in order to protect themselves against globalization? However, we have to face the facts and the reality of the actual conditions teaching us that the impact of the globalization will be even more important than the industrial revolution which had started about 300 years ago.
Being aware of the fact that communication and mutual understanding is the oxygen of a sustainable peace and assuming that the actual democracy of The People (German: “Das Volk”) is not in the position to manage these four different groups because they lack common interests, they don’t share common goals and above all, they have a low understanding of global facts, it is possibly maybe necessary to develop and extend and if necessary to substitute the actual deliberative Democracy by a pluralistic Expertocracy. Pluralistic Expertocracy refers to models whereby the votes of those, who have a proven better knowledge about important questions of a country, about critical political and societal issues, who have less prejudices, etc., are weighted higher than of those who do not fulfill such kind of criteria. And these criteria have to be fulfilled by the political candidates respectively actors as well.
Can we summarize, that the so-called dictatorship in Africa is a form of Expertocracy, as it is a common practice in several African countries that the language of public administration, services and education is that of their former colonial “masters”, meaning that the population do not understand what the political leaders are saying, planing or doing respectively? How and when will the population be taken into consideration as conversational partner?
Can the causality of south-south and south-north immigration be explained by the failures of the world system in terms of the international order and the redistribution of world resources? How to establish the new world order without a war?
The reality of globalization evolved four categories of people:
1. “The non-political Bohémien”, who is not interested in politics at all
2. “The Hooligan”, a type of political believer, who forms him/herself in groups of political activists
3. “The Vulcanian”, the rational intellectual, who is politically interested, who wants to break with the traditional belonging of the left or right wings
4. “The Terrorist”, the violent believer, who doesn’t respect anything else than his/her own believe and uses violence as language of communication.
In terms of these four character groups above, there is a further question: Is the impact of immigration (mass migration), discrimination and related societal conflicts an extended problem of the societal dysfunction in the Western hemisphere?
Am Podium diskutierten Dr. Yves Ekoué Amaïzo, Cindy Nägeli-Dupont, Dr. Camillus E. Konkwo, Dr. Jean-Alain Ngapout, Mag. Simone Prenner, Hubert Mvogo, Mag. Sintayehu Tsehay
Moderation: Dr. Di-Tutu Bukasa