Democracy, Disruption, and Antisemitism (Closed Workshop)
This is a closed academic workshop dedicated to investigating the potential empirical and conceptual links between the contemporary rise of antisemitism and the decline of democratic institutions.
Time & Location
May 25, 2026, 9:00 a.m. – May 26, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
University of Toronto, 27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada
About the event
Lots of reports and statistics have been adduced in recent years to support claims for antisemitism’s
spread in democratic societies generally as well as in several specific institutional contexts. Lots of
arguments and evidence have also been advanced in recent years to demonstrate claims about a decline
in democracy’s sustaining institutions and values. How are these two claims and the phenomena to
which they point related to each other? Is their concurrence in contemporary public discourse
accidental? Or is there some empirical or conceptual link between them? If they are linked, is their