Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Founders Room in the School of International Service
The Thurber Dialogues on Democracy is an ongoing series of conversations with prominent thought leaders about how to strengthen democracy in the US and abroad. Thousands of attendees have joined the Dialogues to listen and learn from Senator Cory Booker, then-House Majority Whip James Clyburn, current-House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, journalists Anne Applebaum, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser and others.
Please join us on November 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm for this timely conversation with CCPS Acting Director Tom Kahn and the authors of the Brookings Institution Democracy Playbook, Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz.
Know Before You Go:
Driving/Parking:
The School of International Service is at the intersection of New Mexico and Nebraska Avenues NW. There is a parking garage under the School of International Service that can be entered by heading north on New Mexico Ave NW or by heading west on Nebraska Ave NW, but not east.
American University offers flexible parking options for individuals who do not hold a parking permit. Pay-As-You-Go parking is available in hourly or daily increments ($2/hour, or $16/day) through pay stations located in select University facilities. There is a pay station in the elevator lobby of the School of International Service, where this event will take place.
Public Transit:
American University is also serviced by the DC Metro. The Tenleytown-AU stop is on the red line. You can take the free AU shuttle from the corner of Albemarle and 41st Streets NW to the Kerwin Hall stop. The Blue Route Shuttle will stop in front of Kerwin Hall. The School of International Service is a short walk from the Kerwin Hall stop.
The D90 and C81 bus routes also have stops near the School of International Service on Nebraska Ave NW.
Finding the Event Space:
If you park in the garage under the School of International Service, take the elevator to "T," exit to your right, then proceed through the wooden doors.
If you enter the building on foot, walk through the atrium and down the large staircase in the center of the space. The Founders Room is at the bottom of the large staircase.
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