IV International Congress of Political Theory and Philosophy. “Democracy. What Future?”

Universidade do Minho/ Minho University
Campus de Gualtar, Braga

Auditório do Piso 0
Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas (ILCH)

5- 6 Novembro 2013/ 5-6 November 2013-08-21

Day 1

9:00 – 9:30 – Registration

9:30 – 9:45 – Opening Remarks

9:45 – 11:15 – Theoretical Questions I

Chair: Marta Nunes da Costa

• Kant’s appeal to the public, Daniel Peres (UFB, Brazil)

• Outra democracia é possível? (a ideia de democracia no pensamento de Rancière, Zizek, Bensaïd e Badiou ), Carlos Carujo (Portugal)

• Pode o encontro entre althusserismo e pós-operaismo constituir uma ferramenta teórica para refletirmos sobre crise e democracia na nossa era global?, Irene Viparelli (NICPRI, Portugal)

• Seeking Common Ground: Courageous Citizens, Polarized Democracies and the Rhetorical Approach, Daniel Blanch (Complutense University, Spain)

11:15 – 11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 – Theoretical Questions II

Chair: David Alvarez

• John Dunn on the Future of Democracy, Jason Dockstader (University College Cork, Ireland)

• Resisting nudging. Some critical comments on Cass Sunstein’s libertarian paternalism, Francisco Javier Gil Martín (University of Oviedo, Spain)

• “On Richard Rorty and the Rhetorical Divide between Private Self-Creation and Public Commitment”, Giuseppe Ballacci (CEHUM, Portugal)

• Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of “Trouble-makers” – the Case of LEADER in Finland, Marko Nousiainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 – Plenary Conference

“The People and the Public in Democratic Theory”

Professor Dario Castiglione

Discussant: João Cardoso Rosas (UM)

16:00 – 16:15 – Coffee-break

16:15 – 17:30 – Democracy, Citizenship and War

Chair: Maria João Cabrita

• The degeneration of democracy in Plato’s thought, José Colen (Cehum/ Cespra) and Lucas Williams (Chicago University)
• Austerity, Citizens’ Rights and Just War Theory, Adrian Walsh and Pekka Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)
• How Democracy sees War?, Lívia Franco (UCP, Portugal)

6th November, Day 2

9:30 – 11:00 – Europe in context

Chair: José Colen

• A legitimidade democrática em tempos de crise. Novos desafios à governação na União Europeia, Francielle Vieira Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

• The cosmopolitan reply to current democratic deficit”, Maria João Cabrita (CEHUM, Portugal )

• “An Enviro-Social Contract for Europe: Taking the European project ahead in an Age of Transition”, Bruno Rego (FLUL, Portugal)

11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 – Plenary Conference

“Democracia y nacimiento de la política”

Professor Jorge Yaguez Alvarez

Consello de Cultura Galega

Discussant: Marta Nunes da Costa

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 – The Future of Democracy

Chair: Michele Loi

• Redefining power relations: the future of democracy in the internet paradigm, Diego Lazzarich (University of Naples II – Italy)
• Lei de acesso a informação nos tribunais de justiça das capitais brasileiras, Marciele Berger Bernardes (UFSC, Brazil)
• Green Democracy: Constructing sustainability for a new democracy, Alberto Franco Barrera (University Santiago de Compostela)

16:00 – 17:30 Plenary conference

“The Future of Democracy and the Renewal of Political Liberalism”

Professor Alessandro Ferrara
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Discussant: Jorge Yaguez Alvarez

17:30 – 17:45 – Coffee Break

17:45 – 18:45 – Democracy and Participatory Budgeting

Chair: Marta Nunes da Costa

• “Os fatores críticos de sucesso identificados no processo de elaboração do orçamento participativo de Braga (Portugal) e de São Bernardo do Campo, SP (Brasil)”, Ângela de Castro Correa Gomes, UFRO, Brasil

followed by

Lançamento do Livro Orçamento Participativo – leituras comparadas entre Portugal e Brasil

By

Rui Gomes, Ângela da Castro Corrêa Gomes e Marta Nunes da Costa