Name: Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Tània Verge
Start: 2026-05-05T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: BrIAS

March 2026
10 March @ 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Omar Gueye

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Register here Democracy and resilience in Africa : Case study of Senegal Abstract Following the political and societal debates that have been taking place around the world since the 1960s, the project explores issues specific to Africa in the context of nation building, decolonisation and/or neocolonisation: underdevelopment and precariousness; socio-political changes; the Cold War […]
12 March @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Colette Brin

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Challenges of himan-centric journalistic innovation in the era of artificial intelligence Abstract While generative AI promises efficiency gains in newsgathering, production, verification, and audience engagement, it also raises significant concerns regarding accuracy, bias,transparency, and professional autonomy. Drawing on a review of public service media AI initiatives and expert insights from Europe and Canada, as well […]
13 March @ 12:00 - 17:00

BrIAS x ABSP Workshop – Focus on the “Unusual Suspects”

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Focus on the “Unusual Suspects”: Exploring Understudied Underrepresented Groups in Representative Democracies The Election, Public Opinion and Parties Working Group of the ABSP and the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS) organise a workshop on Exploring Understudied Underrepresented Groups in Representative Democracies. About the Workshop This workshop focuses on the “unusual suspects” of representative democracies […]
18 March @ 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Edson Tandoc

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Register here Fake news and Asian perspectives: Lessons learned, problems persisting, and emerging threats This presentation reexamines the evolving landscape of misinformation and disinformation, focusing on the Asian region, drawing on insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, and extending into the current period shaped by rapid technological advancements, such as the rise of GenAI. Building on almost a […]
19 March @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Rebekka Kesberg

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Foes or Fellow Citizens? Perception of Democratic Legitimacy and Political Polarization Bio Rebekka Kesberg is a senior researcher at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She completed her PhD in social psychology at Ulm University (Germany), where she studied how human values shape perception, attitudes, and behavior. Following her PhD, she […]
26 March @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Alvaro Oleart and Philippe Braquenier

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation Abstract Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate within the deliberative democracy community appears to be that, while it is not a bulletproof solution, technology—and more […]
April 2026
2 April @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Mark Bray

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Trump's United States Abstract Mark Bray will speak about mounting authoritarianism in the United States through the lens of his experience fleeing the country after being targeted by the far right as a "domestic terrorist professor" for the publication of his 2017 book Antifa. He will analyze how the American far right has […]
8 April @ 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Isaac Owusu-Mensah

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Details TBD soon
9 April @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Sabri Derinöz

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Unpacking the Framing of Democracy in EU Institutional Discourses on Disinformation Mitigation Abstract How do European institutions frame democracy in their discourses and policies about disinformation mitigation? Disinformation is often presented by EU institutions as a threat to democracy that must be resolved (Navarro et al., 2025), which has led to the development of multiple intervention strategies. […]
29 April @ 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Luana Russo

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Political Identity as a Feature of Democracy: Belonging, Rejection, and Absence Political identities are often taken for granted as attachments to parties or ideological camps. Yet citizens differ profoundly in how much politics matters to who they are, in whether they define themselves through belonging or rejection, and in whether politics plays any role in […]
30 April @ 12:00 - 15:00

Thursday Seminars by Cristina Leston-Bandeira

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Are parliaments at risk of becoming irrelevant? More details soon
May 2026
5 May @ 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Tània Verge

BrIAS Boulevard Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

When We Are Not in the Room: Designing Feminist Institutional Change for Resilience and Reactivation Feminist institutionalism has long shown that feminist institutional change is rarely one-shot, given the “genderedness” of organisations/institutions (Benschop & Verloo, 2006), the “nested newness” of reform efforts (Mackay, 2014), and multiple forms of resistance (Tildesley, Lombardo & Verge, 2022). Recent work argues that inclusive reforms tend to follow cycles of repetition through which change is sedimented (Cianetti, […]

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