Day 1 – Conference
Thursday – 29 May
@ Venice International University, Room 1G
9:30 AM – 10:00 Opening remarks
Giancarlo Bosetti (Executive Chair, Reset DOC)
Jonathan Laurence (Boston College & Reset Dialogues US)
Umberto Vattani (President, Venice International University, TBC)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Session 1 – Keynote | Democracy’s Discontent: 30 Years Later
Michael Sandel (Harvard University) online
11:00 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Session 1 – The Roots of Resentment: Mass/Elite Polarization
Claus Leggewie (Institute of Social Sciences of Essen, University of Giessen)
Camila Vergara (University of Essex)
Chair: Pasquale Ferrara (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 AM – 3:00 PM Session 2 – Post-Liberal Perspectives: A True Alternative?
Mauro Magatti (Catholic University of Milan)
John Milbank (University of Nottingham) – The Economic and the Political: Rethinking their Relationship
Adrian Pabst (University of Kent) – Post-liberal Democracy as Social Corporatism: Re-Embedding the Polity and the Economy in Society
Chair: Chandra Mallampalli (Boston College)
3:00 PM – 3:15 AM Coffee Break
3:15 PM – 5:15 PM Session 3 – The Rage of the Losers and the Loss of Public Deliberation
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (City College of New York) – Twenty-Five Years of Rage. From the Anti-Globalization Movement to Trumpism
Michael Lind (Editor at Commonplace, Senior Fellow at New America) online
Charles Sabel (Columbia University)
Anina Schwarzenbach (University of Bern)
Chair: José Casanova (Emeritus, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University)
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Day 2 – Conference
Friday – 30 May
@ Venice International University, Room 1G
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Session 4 – The Degeneration of Democracy
Craig Calhoun (University of Arizona)
Julian Casanova (University of Zaragoza) – The Destruction of Democracy: Lessons From History for Today’s World
Stephen Macedo (Princeton University) – Noble Lies: How Elite Institutions Failed Under Covid
Chair: Jonathan Laurence (Boston College & Reset Dialogues US)
10:30 – 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Session 5 – Testing Democracy’s Limits
Marina Calloni (University of Milan Bicocca)
Jeffry Frieden (Columbia University & Emeritus, Harvard University)
Jean-Claude Kaufmann (National Scientific Research Center, France) – New Inequalities Tied to Social Contexts of Cognitive Functioning
Chair: David Rasmussen (Emeritus, Boston College)
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM Session 6 – Democracy For and Against the Good. Institutions: An Uncertain Future
Karen Barkey (Bard College) – Religious Leaders’ Democratic Discourse and Action in Navigating Diversity in Marseille
Vatsal Naresh (Harvard University) online – Majoritarianism and the Paradox of Democracy
Saskia Schäfer (Free University of Berlin) – Living Together Beyond Liberal Democracy: Examples of Local Decision-Making and Managing Resource Extractivism in Indonesia
Chair: Elias Opongo, SJ (Hekima University College)
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 4:25 PM Session 7 – Economic Inequality & the Scourge of Majoritarian Populism
Mustafa Akyol (Senior Fellow, Cato Institute) online
Fidan Ana Kurtulus (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ananya Vajpeyi (Fellow, Center for the Study of Developing Societies)
Chair: Daniele Archibugi (National Research Council – Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies)
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Day 3 – Conference and Seminars
Saturday – 31 May
@ Venice International University, Room 1G
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Student Presentations
11:00 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 1:15 PM Roundtable: Democracy vs. the Global Challenge of Authoritarian Powers
Giuliano Amato (Former President of the Italian Constitutional Court)
Karen Barkey (Bard College)
Alessandro Ferrara (Emeritus, University of Rome – Tor Vergata)
Adrian Pabst (University of Kent)
Charles Sabel (Columbia University)
Camila Vergara (University of Essex)
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti (Reset DOC)
To attend the Conference in person, please register here.
To participate in the Conference online, please register here.
Organizing Partners
Reset Dialogues on Civilizations
The Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy at Boston College
This research program and related results were made possible by the support of the NOMIS Foundation.