Conference Event: “Citizens’ Assemblies 20 Years Later: Where are we now? Where are we heading?”
ISPS & MACMILLAN COSPONSORED CONFERENCE EVENT
Twenty years after the 2004 British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, a first of its kind, citizens’ assemblies generate increasing attention among academics, practitioners, and policymakers. For this anniversary, we convened a group of experts to reflect on this first experience and its legacies. Three questions will be explored during this conference. What lessons can we draw from the BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform? How should we understand the role of referendums in connection to citizens’ assemblies? What is the future of these processes in a time of polarization, crises, AI, and mega-corporations?
This event is free and open to the public. Please register by Monday, September 9 to attend.
Conference Program for Thursday, September 12, 2024:
| Time | activity |
|---|---|
| 9:45 AM | Coffee available |
| 10:15 AM | Welcoming Remarks: Hélène Landemore and Antonin Lacelle-Webster (Yale University) |
| 10:25 AM |
PANEL 1: BC Citizens’ Assembly on electoral reform: Lessons and ongoing questions
Discussant: Hélène Landemore (Yale University) |
| 11:55 AM | Lunch break |
| 1:45 PM |
PANEL 2: Citizens’ assemblies and referendums: what possible articulation?
Discussant: Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University) |
| 3:15 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:30 PM |
PANEL 3: Local and global challenges: What is the future of citizens’ assemblies in an age of polarization, crises, AI, and mega-corporations?
Discussant: Kevin Elliott (Yale University) |
| 5:00 PM | Concluding Remarks |
This event is part of ISPS’s Governing X series and is sponsored by The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale with support from The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, and by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies’ Democratic Innovations Program.