Democracy Seminar and Transregional Center for Democratic Studies welcomes you to the "Democracy and the Pandemic" conference. The conference was hosted online in May and featured prominent academics from around the world who discussed the implications of the pandemic for democracy and authoritarianism. The second session addressed the question: How are the responses to the pandemic strengthening the centralization of power, and the municipal and community power that resists it? The presenters for session 2 include: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Assistant Professor, Kozminski University Kristóf Szombati, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Halle Utku Balaban, Visiting Associate Professor, Amherst College Daniel Gerbery, Assistant Professor, Comenius University in Bratislava Nazan Bedirhanoglu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellesley College Session 2 was moderated by Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, Instytut Spraw Publicznych (Institute of Public Affairs) **************************************************************************** For more information about the conference and read the articles presented visit the TCDS website: https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/2020/07/20/democracy-the-pandemic-contributions-from-the-may-conference-of-the-democracy-seminar/