Monday, 16th October 2023
Arrival of participants
02:00 pm
Paula Diehl / Birgit Sauer: Welcome and Introduction
02:30 pm
Historical Culture and Memory Politics
CHRISTINA MORINA (Bielefeld): Back to Where? History and Memory in Far-Right Discourses
BALAZS TRENCSENYI (History, CEU Budapest): Interpreting History in Hungary
FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN (History, New School New York): Faschism in the past and today
04:30 pm
COFFEE BREAK
05:00 pm
Moving Towards the Far Right (Parties and Movements)
JEAN-YVES CAMUS (Political Science, IRIS, Paris): From Le Front National to Rassemblement National
LUCIANA VILLA BÔAS (Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Rio de Janeiro): Bolsonaro and The Case of Brazil
06:15 pm
BREAK
06:30 pm
Keynote:
JAN-WERNER MÜLLER (Political Science, Princeton University): “Right-Wing Populism’s Building Complex”
Chair: Paula Diehl
Tuesday, 17th October 2023
09:00 am
Strategies and Practices/Influencing Public Sphere
PAULA DIEHL (Political Science, University of Kiel): Normalizing the Far Right: The Relationship between Populism and Media
KATRINE FANGEN (Sociolgy, University of Oslo) / ANITA NISSEN (Political Science, Aalborg University): Influencing the General Public? The Self-Perceived Communicative Roles of Anti-Immigration Actors in Norway and Denmark
11:00 am
New Far-Right Alliances and Protest
DIETER RUCHT (Sociology, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin): Far Right and Anti-Covid Protest
PRISKA DAPHI (Sociology, University of Bielefeld): Transformation of Protest and Right-Wing Dynamics
01:00 pm
LUNCH at ZiF
02:30 pm
Law, Politics, and Policy Making
ECE GÖZTEPE (Law, Bilkent University, Ankara): Law and Legal Practice Transformation in Turkey
GÀBOR HAMAIL (Law, European University Institute, Florence): Abusive constitutionalism and autocratic legalism in the autocratization process in Hungary
04:30 pm
COFFEE BREAK
05:00 pm
Struggles and Resistances
CHRISTOFFER KOLVRAA (History, Aarhus University): Populism and Post-Democracy
THERESA KOLOMA BECK (Sociology, Bundeswehr University Munich): Identities and Political Struggles
06:00 pm
General Discussion
Chair: SÉRGIO COSTA
06:30 pm
End of the Conference