Monday, May 26, 2025, 6 pmFaculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, nám. Jana Palacha 1, room 300 Liberal democracy is failing, and the symptoms of this sombre breakdown are abundant everywhere. There seems to be no way to politically tackle the most disturbing failures of capitalist modernity: corporations continue to wreck the ecosystem; the rich […]

Prague – November 20–22, 2024 Democratic theorists have long been suspicious of representation, seeing it as alien or contradictory to democracy. Some still consider representation and democracy, in Hanna Pitkin’s words, an“uneasy alliance”. The discontent expressed by citizens in the slogan “We have a vote, but we donot have a voice!” during various protest movements […]

Prague – November 20–22, 2024 Democratic theorists have long been suspicious of representation, seeing it as alien or contradictory to democracy. Some still consider representation and democracy, in Hanna Pitkin’s words, an“uneasy alliance”. The discontent expressed by citizens in the slogan “We have a vote, but we donot have a voice!” during various protest movements […]