Who is the Democratic Agent?

Programme

Friday 1st March 2013

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
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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

Saturday 2 March 2013

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