Webinar – Mini-publics, citizen washing, and AI

The Citizen Action for Democracy (CitiDem) series is designed to explore and promote innovative ways to strengthen democracy by connecting researchers, policymakers, and citizens. The upcoming webinar, “Mini-publics, Citizen Washing, and AI,” continues this series by examining how deliberative practices—like mini-publics—are being used in European politics.

4 March 2026
18:00 – 19:30
Online

In the seventh webinar, we will discuss the use of deliberative mini-publics in European politics and ask whether European deliberative events have helped to empower European citizens, enhance the EU’s democratic legitimacy, and to promote democratic innovation. We will also ask the ‘hot’ question of the role of digital technology and AI in deliberative practices, and whether digital tools help to strengthen democracy and fix its troubles, or rather fail to address democracy’s most urgent problems.

Speaker: Alvaro Oleart, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Registration: https://shorturl.at/Vl8vf