09:00 - 09:30: REGISTRATION
09:30 - 11:00: Session 1: Introduction to the workshop: Who is the Democratic Agent?
- Introduction - Paul Reynolds
- Who is the Democratic Agent? - Mark Devenney
11:00 - 11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00: Session 2: Democratic Agents: Liberalism and Economy
- Pragmatic Demands of Liberal Democracy: Individualism Reformed and Compromise
Questioned - Daniel Tigard
- Are Democratic Agents to be Financially Literate? - Jos D. Leys
13:00 - 14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:30: Session 3: The Democratic Agent in Contemporary Theory
- Ranciere's Lesson - Ian Sinclair
- Democratic Agency in Times of Neurologisation. A Critical Reading of "Neuropolitics" - Jan De Vos
15:30 - 16:00: COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30: Session 4: Interrogating the Democratic Agent
- The Means and Ends of “Democracy”, Or: Why There Is No Such Thing As “a Democrat” - Mathijs van de Sande
- Can Intellectuals Be Democrats? - Paul Reynolds
09:30 - 11:00: Session 5: Democratic Agents: Beyond Western Discourse
- Egyptian Politics and the Search for the “Democratic Agent” - Vivienne Matthies-Boon
- The Democratic Agent in the Writings of Ibn Khaldoun, John Milton and Thomas Hobbes - Adnan Bouachour
11:00 - 11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00: Session 6: Philosophising the Democratic Agent
- What Might Democracy Be? - Bob Brecher
- What Is It To Be a Democrat(ic Agent)? - Evert van der Zweerde
13:00 - 14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:30: Session 7: Roundtable – Thinking the Democratic Agent
15:30 - 16:00: Closing Comments /Looking Forward