8:30
Opening Remarks
Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University
8:45 – 9:15
Keynote speech by Clara Mattei, The New School, author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
9:15-10:45
Panel I: Central Europe, a Laboratory for Challenges to Democracy and Liberalism
Chair: Luke March, University of Edinburgh
Petra Guasti, Charles University
Mobilisation For and Against Liberal Democracy in Central Europe
Aleš Michal, Charles University
Dynamics of the Demand Side of Contemporary Czech Anti-System Protest Mobilization
Ben Stanley, Center for the Study of Democracy
Lip-service Liberalism? Declared and Revealed Attitudes to Democracy in Poland
Keith Prushankin, Freie Universität Berlin
How to Break a State: How Populists Challenge the Liberal Order in Post-Communist Central Europe
10.45 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
Panel II: Drivers of Dissent
Chair: Gulnaz Sibgatullina, University of Amsterdam
Josh Vandiver, University of Colorado
Grassroots Masculinism
Mikko Salmela, University of Copenhagen, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Kings College London, and Christian von Scheve, Freie Universität Berlin
What is Collective Ressentiment?
Sang Kyung Lee, The George Washington University
Inequality and the Crisis of Democracy
Jose Pedro Zúquete, ICS University of Lisbon
The Great Reset, its Opponents, and Democracy
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00
Keynote speech by James Ball, Demos, author of The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
14:00 – 15:30
Panel III: The Minorities Mirror: The Core Tension of Exclusivness/Inclusivness
Chair: Petra Guasti, Charles University
Luke March, University of Edinburgh
Movement Parties and the Radical Left: New Radical Democracy or Transitional Forms of Party Organisation?
Gulnaz Sibgatullina, University of Amsterdam
Opportunism or Ideological Convergence? Evolving Stances of European (Far-Right) Parties Toward Muslims
Courtney Blackington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Disseminating Disgust: Disgust Rhetoric & Protest against Stigmatized Minority Groups
Roman Hlatky, University of North Texas
Revenge Revisited: The Representation of Ethnic Minorities, Resentment, and Radical Right Electoral Success
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Panel IV: Conceptual Perspectives
Chair: Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University
Antonio Campati, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan
Illiberalism and Political Representation: The Pluralism and the future of Liberal Democracy in Europe
Mikhail Zabotkin, Freie Universität Berlin
Friend or Foe? Conservative Parties, Populism, and Liberal Democracy
Alexander J. Klein, Freie Universität Berlin
To Exclude or to Enlighten? On the Use of Civilizational Discourse by Liberal EU Actors
Jack Thompson, University of Amsterdam
Identifying Informal Illiberalism: Toward a Typology of Norm Erosion
17:30
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