Venice Seminars
May 23rd-25th, 2019 | Giorgio Cini Foundation, Mominoun Foundation and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Venue
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Giorgio Cini Foundation
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice
Program
Thursday, 23 May
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9.15 am – Welcome Coffee
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Introduction
Pasquale Gagliardi | Secretary-General Giorgio Cini Foundation
Giancarlo Bosetti | Chairman Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
10.00 am – 10.45 am
Yael Tamir: The Nationalism of the Vulnerable
10.45 am – 11.00 am, Coffee break
11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Jon Elster: Compensating the Losers from Globalization
Patrick Deneen: In Praise of Populism
12.30 pm – 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Dilek Kurban: When Authoritarian Regimes are Mis-labelled as Democracies: Lessons Learned from Turkey’s Experience with Europe
Micheline Ishay: Against the Current: Human Rights in the West and the Levant
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Mona Siddiqui: Religious Pluralism: Essential or Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Karen Barkey: Contemporary Turkey and the Discourses of Religious Pluralism
4.30 pm – 4.45 pm Coffee break
4.45 pm – 5.30 pm
Alan Patten: Majority Rights
Friday, 24 May
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9.30 am – 11.00 am
Albena Azmanova: Prosperity, Equality, and Nature: The Trilemma of Democratic Capitalism
Sheri Berman: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of Illiberal, Populist Politics
11.00-11.15 am, Coffee break
11.15 am – 1.15 pm
Mohsen Kadivar: Democracy and Ethical Values from an Islamic Perspective
Tahir Abbas: Islamophobia as Racial Biopolitics in the Global North
Mounir Kchaou: The Political Culture of the National Liberation Movement and the Change Toward Democracy: The Case of North Africa
1.15 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Daniel A. Bell: Social Cohesion without Electoral Democracy: The Case of China
With Comments by Pei Wang
Sean Golden: How to Construct a Common and Consensual Multicultural Civic Discourse
4.00 pm – 4.15 pm Coffee break
4.15 pm – 6.00 pm
Hussain Shaban: The Issues in Modern Democracy and the Challenges Yet to Come
Giulio Azzolini: Mediated Politics, between the Revolt of the Masses and that of the Elites
Michel Wieviorka: Populism… and After
Saturday, 25 May
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9.30 am – 10.15 am
Paolo Costa: Masters of Our Own House. What’s the Matter with Democratic Sovereignism?
10.15 am – 11.50 am
ROUNDTABLE: Ethics, Ideology, Religion: Sources or Dangers for the Liberal State
Speakers: Giuliano Amato, Sheri Berman, Mohsen Kadivar, Yael Tamir, Michel Wieviorka
11.50 – 12.00 am, Coffee break
12.00 am – 1.00 pm
Presentations of the Summer School Workshops
1.00 pm
Closing Remarks
Tiziana Lippiello | Vice Rector Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giancarlo Bosetti | Chairman Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
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Participants: Tahir Abbas • Fiona Adamson • Mohamed Al-Ani • Giuliano Amato • Albena Azmanova • Giulio Azzolini • Karen Barkey • Daniel A. Bell • Sheri Berman • Giancarlo Bosetti • Marina Calloni • José Casanova • Paolo Costa • Patrick Deneen • Jon Elster • Alessandro Ferrara • Pasquale Ferrara • Patrizio Fondi • Seán Golden • Andrea Graziosi • Micheline Ishay • Mohsen Kadivar • Volker Kaul • Mounir Kchaou • Dilek Kurban • Jonathan Laurence • Tiziana Lippiello • Alan Patten • David Rasmussen • Abdel Hussain Shaban • Mona Siddiqui • Marcella Simoni • Yael Tamir • Francesca Tarocco • Pei Wang • Michel Wieviorka