Transmitting Democracy: Legacies and New Struggles
November 5, 2025 | Cleveland Park Library
Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: French and American Perspectives
Talk
Illustration by Pierre Buttin
Multiple Locations
Through 2026
A new series of public conversations from Villa Albertine explores challenges to liberal democracies in France, the United States, and around the world.
“Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: French and American Perspectives,” a public discussion series from Villa Albertine taking place in person in and around Washington, DC, brings together French and American experts and US-based audiences alike on topics as diverse as disinformation, civic and youth engagement, and more. Kicking off in 2024, the series will continue through 2026, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Events are free and open to all and will be added to this page continually.
Events
“Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: French and American Perspectives” is made possible thanks to the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation.
In partnership with
The Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation
The Foundation’s work has included the underwriting of public spaces. This includes being the largest supporter of Washington’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the principal donor for the Emmett Till Exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a major donor to New York’s Statue of Liberty Museum and to Washington’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and an early donor to Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center, its latest effort after decades of assistance on Chicago’s South Side.
In connection to French culture and history, it has long supported the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and has only accelerated this work since the 2019 fire; the Louvre Endowment; and education on Holocaust and Deportation scholarship including the 1988 Academy Award-winning documentary, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.
