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Past Seminars

The Centre holds weekly seminars on important topics in deliberative democracy with leading scholars from Australia and around the world.

Tue 14 July 2020

Policy making and democratic responsiveness: The explanatory potential of values

Speaker: Linda Botterill, University of Canberra / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Building 24, University of Canberra / Virtual Seminar

Tue 16 June 2020

Defending education: A democratic role for courts in education policy

Speaker: Alexandra Oprea, Australian National University / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 9 June 2020

People haven't had enough of experts: Technocratic attitudes among citizens in nine European countries

Speaker: Daniele Caramani, University of Zurich / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 2 June 2020

Hope for democracy

Speakers: John Gastil, Pennsylvania State University / Katherine R. Knobloch, Colorado State University / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 26 May 2020

The constraints on public debate about mining in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Speaker: Filipe Motta, Federal University of Minas Gerais / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 12 May 2020

Mediating the national conversation: Journalism and the Child Abuse Royal Commission 2013-17

Speaker: Kerry McCallum, University of Canberra / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 5 May 2020

Judging technical claims in democratic deliberation: A rhetorical analysis of two Citizens' Initiative Review panels in Oregon

Speaker: John Rountree, University of Houston-Downtown / 11:00am - 12:00pm

Virtual seminar

Tue 28 April 2020

Deliberation, inc.? The professionalization of public engagement in 2020

Speaker: Caroline W. Lee, Lafayette College / 11:00am – 12:00pm

Virtual Seminar

Tue 3 March 2020

Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong

Speakers: Stacy Carter, Annette Braunack-Mayer, Chris Degeling (University of Wollongong) / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 25 February 2020

Democratic proceduralism and its limits: From philosophical principles to political institutions

Speaker: Dannica Fleuss, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

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