The Provost's Office invites you to the University-wide Seminar
Crisis and Ethnopopulism:
In Search of a New Framework of Interpretation
P ANEL I : POP UL IST W ELT ANSCHAU UNG EN: ID EO LOGICA L R E SOU RCES A ND NA R RAT I V E S
CONST AN TIN I O RD ACHI / HIST O R Y, CEU / ON FA SCIS M A ND P OP UL IS M
M IKKEL THOR U P / D EP ART MEN T OF CULT URE AND SO CIET Y, A ARHUS UNIVE RS IT Y / POPULI ST CONS T RUCT IO NS OF ET HNIC OT HERN E SS IN SCAN DIN AVIA
JU AN F R ANCI SC O FUENT E S / HI ST ORY, C O MP L UT ENSE UNIV ER SIT Y MA DRID / NAT IONALIS M A ND POP U LIS M I N T HE SPANI SH CONT EXT
TOM ASZ Z ARY C KI / INST IT UT E FOR SOCI AL ST U DIES, W ARSAW UNIVER SIT Y / O N T HE SOCIAL AN D GEOG R APH IC AL I MA GINARI ES OF POL ISH ET H NO - POP ULIS M AN D R AS BOZ OK I / DEPA RT ME NT OF POL IT ICAL S CIENCE, C E U / O N T HE POPUL IS T CRIT ICS OF T HE T RANS IT ION
P ANEL II : MOB IL IZAT ION AND I N S T IT UT IONALIZA T ION
P AUL A DIEHL / GRADU AT E SCH OOL IN H IST OR Y AND SO CIOL OG Y , UNIV ERSIT ÄT BIELEF ELD / PO PULIS M AND DE MOCRA C Y
AG NES B ATO RY / SCHO OL OF P UBLIC P OL IC Y, CEU / P OPULI S M IN GOV ERN ME N T REN AT A UITZ / DEPART MENT O F LAW , C E U / PO PULIS M AND T H E RUL E OF L AW BEL A G RESK OV ITS / DE PART ME NT OF POLIT ICA L SCIEN CE, C EU / R I G H T -W ING CIVIC A CT IVIS M AND PA RT Y P OL IT ICS
S ANJ AY KUM AR / DEPA RT ME NT OF HIST OR Y, CE U / NEO LIBER AL IS M AND ET H N O - POPULI ST MO BI LIZAT IO N IN IN D IA
AN D RE A PIRR O / POLIT ICAL S CI ENCE , S NS PI SA / CO MP ARISO N OF POP ULI ST POLIT ICAL FO R CES IN EAST ER N EURO PE AN D B E YON D
CONVE NER
B AL AZ S TREN C SENYI / DEPA RT MENT OF HIST O R Y, CEU
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ABSTRACT / The workshop, forming part of the University-wide Seminar Series of CEU, focuses on crisis discourses and ethno- populist mobilization in a comparative perspective. In contrast to the fashionable approaches which start from a definition and then seek to analyze particular manifestations, we hold it more fruitful to bring together a number of research traditions and regional competences to a dialogue, hoping to generate a more context-sensitive understanding of the phenomenon. Particularly interesting in this sense is comparing the East Central European, Western European and non-European cases, as well as the dialogue of intellectual history, social history, political science, and legal perspectives. Using these approaches as vantage points for a multi- dimensional analysis, we seek to focus on three aspects in particular: 1) perceptions and symptoms of socio-economic and cultural crisis triggering populist responses; 2) modalities of populist mobilization, social networks, symbols, rhetoric, narratives of identity;
and 3) populists in government, policies and (para)legal frameworks, similarities with pasts configurations of authoritarianism, and also the question of resistance to these regimes.
Organized by Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies at CEU, the seminar is intended as a starting point of a lasting international cooperation on the topic. Along these lines, the format of the seminar is also intended to enhance intensive dialogue, with short position papers and then a discussion on the panel and also with the audience.
