University of Bremen

We'll continue to upload new episodes of Democracy in Question on the second Wednesday of each month.

You can stay in touch with the work of my research group on soft authoritarianism and on pro-democracy youth activism at the University of Bremen at the webpage of the Worlds in Contradiction, Bremen University, and the work of the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy at www.graduateinstitute.ch backslash democracy.

It's gonna be one of the people I probably won't wind up not meeting in my life.

Professor Annelie Keel of the University of Bremen in Germany said, "Life is not a program.

It seems to be an invitation, a challenge to take the next step into the darkness and uncertainty of creativity.

If you go into it thin- knowing that it's uncertain, there's where your creativity begins," Annelie Keel.

We'll continue with a new episode of Democracy in Question every month in season 12 as well.

I'm Shalini Randeria, Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen, Germany, and Senior Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.

This is the first episode of Season 12 of Democracy in Question, which was recorded in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Center.

I'm very pleased to welcome today Gina Romero.

Please go back and listen to any episode you might have missed, and let your friends know about the podcast if you're enjoying it.

We will continue to upload new episodes of Democracy in Question on the second Wednesday of each month.

You can stay in touch with the work of my University of Bremen research group on soft authoritarianism and on pro-democracy youth activism at the website for the Worlds of Contradiction webpage of the University of Bremen, www.woc.uni-bremen.de/research-centers, and the work of the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy at www.graduateinstitute.ch/democracy. [instrumental music]