Public Deliberation and Freedom of Expression in a More Inclusive Society: Can we have both? / Deliberación pública y libertad de expresión en una sociedad más inclusiva: ¿Podemos tener ambos?

Timezone: CLT

Language: Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation

As Chileans write a new Constitution aimed at representing a more diverse and more inclusive society, intense new debates have begun to test the limits of public deliberation and freedom of expression. What are the appropriate standards for public debate in a diverse and democratic public sphere, and which institutional arrangements will best sustain them?

International Keynote Speaker: Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School

Local Panelists: Patricio Bernedo, Dean of the Faculty of History, Geography and Political Science, Universidad Católica; Paula Molina, Host and editor at Radio Cooperativa, general editor at Cooperativa Podcast, contributor to the BBC and Harvard Nieman Fellow ’13; Chiara Saez, Associate Professor, Institute of Communication and Image, Universidad de Chile and head of the project to measure news pluralism: pluralismotv.org; Francisco Urbina, Assistant Professor, Public Law Department, Universidad Católica

Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University; Co-author, How Democracies Die

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