Foster Europe Foundation will be the host of the upcoming COST ConstDelib Working Group 1 Meeting, April 28-29 2022 in Eisenstadt Austria.
The COST Action “Constitution-making and deliberative democracy” is part of the COST Association which was established with the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. COST Association (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks, with 39 states as members.
The Main Aim of the Action is to bring together all these actors – who are usually not in contact – to discuss and reflect on this democratic challenge, not only in terms of normative ideals but also and above all on the empirical challenges raised by this complex and multi-faceted democratic transformation.
AGENDA
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 14:00 – 18:00
Session 1 - Special Issue
Short presentation by the author, to be followed by discussion of two reviewers:
14.00 Elisabeth Alber, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Italy - Subnational deliberative constitutionalism
14.40 Eiríkur Bergmann, Bifröst University, Iceland - Three Cases of Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Wake of Crisis: Iceland, Ireland, and Chile
15.20 Paul Blokker, University of Bologna, Italy - Deliberative democracy at the transnational level – the case of the Citizens’ Panels in the Conference on the Future of Europe
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania; Aiste Lazauskiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania; Andrius Puksas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania - Revising deliberations in referendum campaigns: citizen participation and power of changing constitution
17.10 Dobrinka Chankova, Institute of Conflict Resolution, Bulgaria - Deliberative democracy and constitution-making in hard times: lessons unlearned
18.00 End of Day 1
followed by Dinner, Restaurant Henrici, Eisenstadt (upon invitation by Foster Europe)
Friday, April 29, 2022, 9:00 – 17:00
Session 2 – Special Issue
09.00 Peter Stone, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Reason, Interest, and Passion in Deliberative Constitutionalism
09.40 Elena García Guitián, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Representing “the will of the people”: deliberation and participation in constitution-making processes
10.20 Volkan Gül, Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Turkey - Introduction: Reflections on Deliberative Constitutionalism
11.00 Deven Burks, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Trajectories of deliberative constitution-making: Lessons from the country reports
Coffee Break
11.30 Discussion Deliverable 1 (Report) and Deliverable 2 (Analysis Country Reports)
13.00 Light Lunch, Restaurant Henrici, Eisenstadt (upon invitation by Foster Europe)
14.00 Discussion General COST Meeting September & CoFoE
17:00 End of Day 2