Centre for Democracy Research Launch

Friday, 19^th January 2024

University College Dublin (precise location TBD)

9.30 am – Arrival

9.45 am – President’s address – Orla Feely

09.55 am – Director’ introduction to CDR – Joseph Lacey, SPIRe

10.00 am – Project presentations

• ELECT – Joseph Lacey, SPIRe
• Democracy Challenged – Aidan Regan, SPIRe
• WorkPoliticsBIP – Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, School of Geography
• The Irish Polling Indicator – Stefan Müller, SPIRe

11.00 am – Guest speaker: Sanne Kruikemeier, Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University & Research

            ‘Hunting for Voters: Implications of Political Targeted Advertising for Democracy ‘

12.00 pm – Lunch

1.00 pm – Maeve Cooke, School of Philosophy

            ‘Repoliticizing Democratic Theory’

1.40 pm – Lucia Tiscornia, SPIRe

            ‘TBD’

2.20 pm – Coffee

2.40 pm – Marco Bastos, Information and Communication Studies

            ‘The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil’

3.20 pm – Benedetta Lobina (Presenter) and Laurent Pech, Law

‘Illiberal democracy and EU law: Is there such a thing as “illiberal democracy” and is it compatible with EU membership?’

4.15 pm – Public lecture: Michael Ignatieff, Central European University

What if Democracy’s Greatest Enemy is Democracy Itself?