| 09:45 | Opening |
| 10:00 | |
| 10:00 | Keynote Speech: Palestra de Abertura James Bohman - Saint Louis University, EUA Title: The benefits of diversity for deliberation |
| 12:00 | |
| 14:00 | Session 1: Political Communication and Democratic Theory Wilson Gomes - UFBA, Brazil Title: Who fears the public sphere? Autocracies and the public sphere in Venezuela and Honduras. What can we learn about the relation between communication and democracy from these events? Mauro Porto - Tulane University, EUA Title: Pluralism and representative democracy: the relationships among State, Civil Society and the media. |
| 15:30 | |
| 16:00 | Session 2: Participatory publics and Deliberative Democracy Leonardo Avritzer – UFMG, Brasil Title: The concept of participatory publics Cláudia Feres Faria – UFMG, Brasil Title:The impact of change of scale in deliberative practice: a preliminary analysis of Public Policy State Councils Brian Wampler – Boise State University, EUA Title: Voice and Vote in new spaces |
| 18:00 |
| 09:00 | Session 3: Deliberação Pública, Representação e Públicos Críticos João Carlos Correia – Universidade de Beira Interior, Portugal Title: New Journalisms and democratic deliberation: media audiences as civic actors Rousiley Maia – UFMG, Brasil Title: Civic actors representation and deliberation: the problem of political judgment |
| 10:30 | |
| 10:30 | Concluding Lecture: Hartmut Wessler – University of Mannheim, Alemanha Título: Measuring media deliberativeness |
| 12:00 |