Democracy and Opinion: On Nadia Urbinati’s Theory of Democracy

Session I 10:00 – 11:00

• Jan Bíba (Charles University): On democratic solitude: the direct representative democracy challenge
• Pavel Barša (Charles University): The Question of Populism and Nadia Urbinati’s Rejection of Pierre Rosanvallon’s Theory of Democracy

Coffee break 11:00 – 11:30

Session II 11:30 – 12:30

• Ľubica Kobová (Charles University): The value of opinion/judging politically in Urbinati’s and Zerilli’s critiques of democratic practices
• Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho): What is democratic judgment?: Nadia Urbinati’s theory of representative democracy

Lunch break 12:30 – 13:30

Session III 13:30 – 14:30

• Milan Znoj (Charles University): Public Opinion and Partisanship
• Jakub Franěk (Charles University): Republicanism, liberty and democracy: On Nadia Urbinati’s Criticism of Republicanism

Coffee break 14:30 – 15:00

Session IV 15:00 – 16:00

• Ondřej Lánský (Czech Academy of Sciences): Oligarchy, Wealth and Liberal Democracy
• Michael I. Räber (University of California): The aesthetic configuration (or its disfiguration?) of democracy