FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
9 – 9:30 a.m. / Registration
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. / OPENING REMARKS / John Shattuck | President and Rector, CEU
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. / KEYNOTE SPEECH / Ivan Krastev | Chairman, Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. / Panel I: Parties and Elections in Illiberal Political Systems
MODERATOR / Goran Buldioski | Open Society Think Tank Fund / SPEAKERS / Jan Teorell | Lund University / Andreas Schedler | Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas / Ali Carkoglu | Koc University / Zsolt Enyedi | CEU
13:00 – 14:30 p.m. / Panel II: Religion and Illiberal Politics
MODERATOR / Aziz Al-Azmeh | CEU / SPEAKERS / Bassma Kodmani | Former Spokesperson of the Syrian National Council Arab Reform Initiative / Ghassan Salamé | Sciences Po / VIDEO MESSAGE: Aijaz Ahmad | Nehru Memorial Museum and Library / Tamas Pal | Hungarian Academy of Sciences
14:45 – 16:15 p.m. / Panel III: Media and Illiberal Governance
MODERATOR / Ellen Hume | CEU / SPEAKERS / Miklos Haraszti | CEU / <LQΑ&KDQ| University of Hong Kong / Ilya Yablokov | University of Leeds / Dunja Mijatovic | OSCE
16:30 – 18:00 p.m. / Panel IV: Big Business Interests and the State
MODERATOR / Serge Schmemann | New York Times / SPEAKERS / Peter Akos Bod | Corvinus University / Margarita Balmaceda | Seton Hall University / Vladimir Avtonomov | Higher School of Economics in Moscow
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
10:30 – 12:30 a.m. / Panel V: Illiberal Govern and International Relations
MODERATOR / Igor Zevelev | MacArthur Foundation / SPEAKERS / Fyodor Lukyanov | Russia in Global Affairs / Zsolt Nemeth | Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian National Assembly / Richard Sakwa | University of Kent / Ivan Krastev | Center for Liberal Strategies / Ali Carkoglu | Koc University / Georgiy Kasianov | Institute of History of Ukraine
12:30 – 12:50 p.m. / CLOSING REMARKS / John Shattuck | President and Rector, CEU
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19-20 | AUDITORIUM RIUM
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Illiberal governance has been accepted in some countries because it seems to promise stability. What is the nature of illiberal
governance? What are its forms and manifestations? Why does it appear to be gaining ground at the expense of democratic freedoms?
How do constitutional democracies and illiberal autocracies play out in a global context?
“Illiberal Governance” will discuss forms of governance in states that retain aspects of democracy. The conference aims to draw lessons and develop possible solutions for improving the quality of democracy.
