THE PROMISE OF DEMOCRACY

Centre for the Study of Democracy

Date: Saturday 3 November 2012

Time: 1.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: The Board Room, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, London.

13:00-13:30	Registration

13:30-15:15	(Panel) Democratic Renewal: Deliberative Judgement, Political Action and Social Change
	Chair Professor Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster) Paulina Tambakaki (University of Westminster) Agonism, Action, and Democratic Renewal Mihaela Mihai (York University) Curb Your Enthusiasm: Political Judgment and the Inertia of Political Habitus Albena Azmanova (Kent University, Brussels School of International Studies) Political Judgment for an Agonistic Democracy

15:15-15:30	Afternoon Break

15:30-17:15	(Panel) Modernity, Complexity and Democracy
	Chair Tom Moore (University of Westminster) Keith Breen (Queen’s University Belfast) Freedom, Non-Domination, and Workplace Democracy Matthew Fluck (University of Westminster) Transparency as fear: the dialectic of enlightenment in the age of Wikileaks David Chandler (University of Westminster) Democracy as Distributive Agency: Politics in the Complexity Age

17:15-17:30	Break

17:30-19:00	(Keynote) The Promise of Democracy, Fred Dallmayr, Emeritus Packey J. Dee Professor, University of Notre Dame

19:00-19:30	Wine Reception hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster

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Dr Thomas Moore

Saturday 29th Sep 2012