Events

Throughout the year, we hold regular events and gatherings with Forum members and leading scholars, advocates, culture-makers, and others on issues related to democracy and belonging in Europe and the US. This page is regularly updated with our upcoming events and past activities.

Please note that some of our events are open only for Forum members, such as our monthly community space, while others are accessible to the wider public.

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Introducing Bridging in Practice: Initiatives that Counter Authoritarian Populism and Build Democracies Rooted in Belonging
Introducing Bridging in Practice: Initiatives that Counter Authoritarian Populism and Build Democracies Rooted in Belonging

We’re excited to launch our new paper series “Bridging in Practice: Initiatives that Counter Authoritarian Populism and Build Democracies Rooted in Belonging”.

In this series, we bring together articles from bridging practitioners from across Europe and North America. The authors share in common a belief that a better world, and democracies that come closer to the aspiration of belonging, are possible. They have in common that they are both dreamers and doers.

Public Event: (En)Gendering Authoritarianism: How Political and Cultural Leaders Weaponize Gender in Ways that Advance Authoritarianism
Public Event: (En)Gendering Authoritarianism: How Political and Cultural Leaders Weaponize Gender in Ways that Advance Authoritarianism

Join the Othering & Belonging Institute and Over Zero on Wednesday,  September 10, 2025 (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET) for the launch of (En)Gendering Authoritarianism: A Six-Strategy Framework Examining How Political and Cultural Leaders Weaponize Gender in Ways that Advance Authoritarianism. 

This report explores how political and cultural leaders weaponize gender to advance authoritarianism. It illustrates that attacks on women’s rights, feminism, and LGBTQ communities are neither random nor organic, but part of a larger strategy to manufacture division, distract from policy failures and corruption, and create a permission structure for power consolidation and violence.

Public Event: How We Can Block, Bridge, and Build Our Democratic Future Together
Public Event: How We Can Block, Bridge, and Build Our Democratic Future Together

This session is in response to the current moment in history that requires us to develop new organizing modalities where dialogue is complementary with other approaches. Civic actors have to come together to block the threats we are facing to our democratic values, we need to bridge across differences to foster broad-based movements with the widest participation, and we have to build together the future we want to live in our communities and our nation. As we seek to work towards belonging for all, protect democracy, and combat authoritarian trends, civic actors have to be and do several things at once: in this session we will explore together the many paradoxes of being both in resistance mode while also being restorative. How do we stay future-oriented and hopeful while acknowledging and redressing past and current harms? In conversation together, we will interrogate these seeming tensions and investigate how we can wrestle in practice with these paradoxes, allowing us to move forward together with the broadest participation possible along many lines of difference.