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Regina Jane Jere-Malanda is a Zambian-born, London-based journalist and currently the editor of the New African Woman magazine – the sister-publication of the New African magazine, of which she is the deputy editor. She is also a former Zambian correspondent for Agence France Press, and a former Africa researcher at Index on Censorship. She writes extensively on a wide range…

Amber Butchart is a fashion historian and author, working across cultural heritage, broadcasting and academia. She is an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion, and is regularly asked to speak at London’s cultural hotspots – from the Tate to the V&A. Amber is currently making a documentary to air on Radio 4 and the World Service in spring…

Maggie Alderson is an editor, journalist, columnist and bestselling novelist of 12 books. She has edited ES and ELLE magazines as well as various newspaper sections in the Evening Standard and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her fashion column, Closet Talk, also ran in The Times. You can follow Maggie on Twitter via @MaggieA. Information valid as of early 2017.

Bastiaan Rijpkema studied law and philosophy of law in Rotterdam and Leiden and now lectures in the philosophy of law at Leiden University. His most recent book is Weerbare democratie: de grenzen van democratische tolerantie [Defensive Democracy: the Limits of Democratic Tolerance] (2015), which is adapted from the dissertation for which he obtained his PhD at Leiden University. He is…

Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller professor of sociology and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Centre for Human Values at Princeton University. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was the John J. O’Brien professor of…

This page featured live footage of the De Balie discussion, Democracy in Europe: Hungary.  This discussion formed part of a series of events looking at the detoriation of democracy in Hungary, Poland and Turkey. This particular evening analysed the situation in Hungary and asked what other states in Europe, in particular the Netherlands, can learn from developments there. This event took place in…

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