The PERYCLES project is organizing a symposium on “Is there hope for deliberative democracy yet? Socio-technical solutions to current political challenges”, to discuss the prospects of scaling up deliberative democracy in the current geopolitical contexts and in light of the rapidly evolving technological infrastructures. The programme will include four presentations by project members: Fabio Paglieri on “Deliberation quality and political participation: some musings on a complex socio-cognitive relationship”, Carlo Proietti on “Exploring meta-consensus via multi-agent models of opinion dynamics”, Anna Mikhaylovskaya and Élise Rouméas on “Nurturing virtues with digital democratic innovations”, Davide Grossi and Andreas Nitsche on “Rethinking influence in liquid democracy: delegations as evolving representation patterns”.
The event will take place in Lucca as part of the 21st edition of the annual conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2025), 17-19 September 2025: AISC is the largest cognitive science event in Italy, and this year the conference is focused on “Connected minds. Dynamic interactions in cognitive, social, and artificial systems” (https://aisc2025.imtlucca.it/home). This will attract an ideal audience to showcase the preliminary results and long-term vision of the PERYCLES project, as well as to collect inputs from cognitive and computational scientists on our research plans, thus providing an excellent opportunity for academic outreach.
