Past Seminars

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

Tue 6 August 2019

Backstage orchestration: The problem of the corporation in the public sphere

Speaker: Jensen Sass, University of Canberra / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 2 July 2019

Inclusion and the meta-conversation: Structural topic modelling the Scottish Independence Referendum

Speaker: John Parkinson, Maastricht University / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 18 June 2019

Designing permanent deliberative democracy: The Ostbelgien Modell in Belgium

Speaker: Min Reuchamps, Catholic University of Louvain / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 4 June 2019

Reasoning together: Understanding and measuring the deliberativeness of a situation

Speaker: Simon Niemeyer and Francesco Veri, University of Canberra / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 7 May 2019

Rhetorics of expertise and local knowledge in citizens' juries on wind farm development

Speaker: Sara Drury, Wabash College / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 2 April 2019

Deliberation in schools

Speakers: Pierrick Chalaye, University of Canberra / Kei Nishiyama, University of Canberra / Wendy Russell, Double Arrow Consulting / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 19 March 2019

Turnout decline in Western Europe: Apathy or alienation?

Speaker: Viktor Valgardsson, University of Southampton / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 12 March 2019

COMPROMISED DEMOCRACY: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN THE AGE OF FINANCE CAPITALISM

Speaker: Hendrik Wagenaar, King's College London / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 5 March 2019

MEASURING EPISTEMIC DELIBERATION ON POLARIZED ISSUES: THE CASE OF ABORTION PROVISION IN IRELAND

Speaker: David Farrell, University College Dublin / 12:00pm – 1:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra

Tue 5 March 2019

DELIBERATION IN TRANSITIONS: A PRACTITIONER'S REFLECTIONS FROM NEPAL AND AFGHANISTAN

Speaker: George Varughese, Niti Foundation / 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Dryzek Room, Building 22, University of Canberra