Keeping the Republic Conference Agenda

Conference Agenda

Monday, May 8th

8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Breakfast and Opening Remarks 

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Paper Panel 1 

  • 1(a) (Anti-)Democratic Attitudes

  • 1(b) Understanding the Democracy Crisis

  • 1(c) Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Paper Panel 2 

  • 2(a) Democracy as a System

  • 2(b) Democracy at Work

  • 2(c) Citizenship, Reason, and Knowledge

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch (mentor/mentee meetings) 

1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Idea Blitz and Data Blitz

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Discussion Groups 

  • January 6th, 2025 Project
  • Political Psychology and the Erosion of Democracy

4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Break 

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Discussion Groups 

  • Big Data and Democracy

  • Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box

5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Posters and Reception

6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Dinner 

 

The Rooney Center would like to thank the following co-sponsors:

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Henkels Lecture Fund
Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society
Knight Foundation