• U.S.: What are the main features of the current authoritarian dynamic? Are antidotes against authoritarianism at work and what is the role of economic elites and civic society? How much is the current trend the result of national specificities?
• India: What is the current situation of the world’s largest democracy? What are the main features and what is the extent of the current authoritarian dynamic? What are the prospects for reaction?
• China: How are strategic decisions taken? Does the decision-making process involve the people and how? What is the ultimate nature of the institutional system and of the coexistence of capitalism and authoritarianism?

h.15.30

Lectio by Jayati Gosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) in connection from India

h.16.00

Lectio by Federico Masini (Università Sapienza, Roma)

h.16.30

Lectio by Susan Stokes (Chicago University, Chicago), in connection from US

h.17.00

Comments on the three lectio by Lucio Caracciolo (Limes), and Fulvio Lorefice (Bistoncini Partners)

◊ Session III. Second part. New Generations and Democracy

• What obstacles prevent the ideas, experiments and practices of several new generation avant gardes from reaching out to a larger share of the new generations themselves and society?
• And how can art and communication help overcome those obstacles and challenge the prevailing common sense?

 h.17.30

Dialogue between Melissa Aglietti (journalist), Lorenzo Cirino (Scomodo), Raffaele Giuliani (influencer), coordinated by Eugenio Damasio (No Panic Agency).