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Zagreb, 2018

JESPHIL 2018
Thursday, August 30th – Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus (FFDI)
Zagreb, Croatia

IS THERE A CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, OR ARE THERE JUST UNRESOLVED DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES?

Conference Programme

THURSDAY 30th August 2018
14.00-19.00 Arrival
17.00-20.30 Registration and payment
19.00 Supper
20.30 Welcoming speech + Introducing each other + social

FRIDAY 31st August 2018
7.00-09.00 Breakfast
09.00-09.25 Heinrich Watzka, Frankfurt: Three Normative Models of Democracy (Habermas)
09.30-10.45 Dariusz Dankowski, Krakow: The Crisis of Democracy as Crisis of Rationality and Reasonableness?
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.30 Paul Valadier, Paris: Le concept de ‘peuple’. Pourquoi les populismes s´emparent-ils de cette notion?
12.50 Prayer
13.00 Lunch

15.15-16.45 Workshops
Workshop 1: Augusto Hortal, Madrid: The Crisis of Legitimacy of Democratic Institutions
Workshop 2: Jacek Poznański, Krakow: The Place and Role of Science and Technology in Democratic Societies
17.00 Coffee
17.15-18.30 Peter Rožič, Brussels: Measuring Democracy and Defining its Terms.
18.30 Eucharist
19.30 Supper and Informal session, recreation
20:15 Guest lecture: n.n., politician

SATURDAY 1st September 2018
7.00-09.00 Breakfast
9.00-10.15 Robert Deinhammer, Innsbruck: The Rule of Law: Its Virtues and Limits.
10.15-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.45 Peter Lah, Rome: Is there a Place, in a Communication Environment Defined by Social Media, for
Normative Presuppositions Inherent in the Principle of Free Expression?
11.45-12.30 Panel 1: observers & contributors; Preliminary result of our debate

12.50 Prayer
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Excursion: Historic district of Zagreb
Eucharist

SUNDAY 2nd September 2018
Breakfast
9.00-10.15 Andreas Gösele, Munich: Democracy or Expertocracy?
10.15-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.45 Raúl González Fabre, Madrid: Labor Market for the Young, Populism and Digitalization of the Economies.
11.45-12.30 Panel 2: observers & contributors
Perspectives for further debate
12.50 Prayer
13.00 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Evaluation & planning
18.00 Eucharist presided by Fr Dalibor Renič, Provincial of Croatia
Supper
Informal session

MONDAY 3rd September 2018
Breakfast
Departure

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