February 16, 2022

Join Us for a Virtual Cocktail Hour

Honoring Douglas Chalmers

Friday, February 18 at 3:30pm

We will be dedicating this cocktail hour to former EPIC President Douglas Chalmers, whose ninetieth birthday is on February 22. Prof. Chalmers will not be joining us, but with the enthusiastic support of his family, we are creating this occasion to video record brief messages (no more than one minute) wishing him a happy birthday. 

If you are not able to join, please consider sending a recorded video message to Prof. Chalmers via email (afh4@columbia.edu or epic@columbia.edu) and we will include it in the recording we send to the Chalmers family. Alternatively, we can arrange with you a time to record a message on Zoom, if this would be more convenient.

If you know of individuals who would like to send a birthday greeting to Prof. Chalmers, please send us their names and emails and we will invite them as well.

About Douglas Chalmers

Douglas Chalmers is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, former Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Retirement, and former Executive Director of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia, a group of retired professors who teach in the Core Curriculum of the College. After 38 years of teaching at Columbia, he retired in 2005. He was the President of EPIC from 2014 to 2016. He continued to teach in the Core Curriculum of the College until Spring 2019. He was awarded a Doctorate of Letters (honoris causa) by Columbia University in 2019.

Prof. Chalmers is author and co-editor of The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America (1997), co-edited The Right and Democracy in Latin America (1992), and wrote articles and books about the organization and institutions that link civil society to government in Europe and Latin America. His most recent publication is Reforming Democracies: Six Facts about Politics that Demand a New Agenda (Columbia University Press, 2013).

Do you have questions about EPIC? Email us at epic@columbia.edu.