01 — Quarterly Convening
Seasonal Dialogues
Not a retrospective seminar but a real-time response to what is happening now.
Each quarter, TDE Institute convenes a focused dialogue around a single subject of immediate salience. Partners, research associates, TDE fellows, and practitioners from relevant fields are brought together for a structured exchange designed to produce insight under pressure.
Knowledge produced at the speed the world demands.
The proceedings are published as a state-of-the-field update — available on the TDE Institute website and circulated as a working document to policymakers, academic networks, and institutional partners. Not a journal article written months after the fact, but a document intended to meet decision-makers in the moment they need it.
Quarterly·
Published Proceedings·
By Invitation
02 — Annual Gathering
TDE Annual Conference
Three days of living, working, and thinking together in a secluded location.
Once a year, TDE Institute gathers scholars and practitioners for a working conference. This is not a conventional academic event — there are no passive audiences, no parallel sessions, no panels delivered to half-empty rooms. By invitation only, the conference brings together experts from across disciplines and frontlines to assess the state of democracy: where the real dangers lie, where institutional responses are failing, and where the work should go next.
Communication, dialogue, and partnership that outlasts the conference itself.
The format is designed to build relationships that extend beyond the scope of the Institute. If you wish to recommend someone for invitation, please write to director@tde.institute.
Annual·
Three Days·
By Invitation Only
03 — Accountability Forum
Partners Town Hall
A full accounting of the Institute's work — and a consultation on what should come next.
Once a year, TDE Institute opens its doors to all partners and associates for a full accounting of its work. The Board of Directors presents a year-long report — what was researched, what was published, what reached policymakers, and what impact the Institute's work had in practice.
If we ask the world's democracies to be accountable, we begin with ourselves.
But the Town Hall is not a presentation — it is a consultation. Partners are asked directly: what are the salient subjects the Institute should address in the coming year? Where are the gaps? Where should we push harder?
Annual·
Open to Partners & Associates·
Consultative
04 — Ad Hoc Exchange
Subject-Specific Consultations
Ad hoc calls specific to urgent or prominent subjects where we believe that policy makers could benefit from the expertise of academics, or when practitioners can inform academics of the most pressing subjects in the field.
Ad Hoc·
Subject-Specific·
Bi-Directional
