Final Program, Conference on ‘Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe’
Roskilde, 27-28 May 2024
Location: Building 25, Teorirum (25.1-035)
Times | Day 1 (27 May) |
8:45-9:00 09.00-09.30 | Registration Welcome by Morten Frederiksen, Dean of Social Sciences, Roskilde University Angela Bourne, Professor (MSO), Roskilde University Tore Vincents Olsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University |
09.30-11.00 | Panel 1 Mapping responses to populism: who, how and why Chair/discussant: Benedicte Laumond (Wrocław & Versailles) 1. Angela Bourne (Roskilde), Democratic Defence as Normal Politics: Everyday Opposition to Populist Parties in Multilevel Europe. 2. Matthias Holst Nicholaisen (Roskilde), Neighbours, but decades apart: Opposing and integrating the populist radical right in Denmark and Sweden. 3. Katarzyna Domagała (Wrocław) and Aleksandra Moroska-Bonkiewicz (Wrocław), Pincer movement’ model of opposition to populists in power in Poland: Law and Justice. 4. Francesco Campo (Roskilde), Anti-populism or tolerance? Modes of opposition to populism in Italy and Spain 2013-2021. |
11.00-11.15 | Break - Coffee |
11.15-12.45 | Panel 2 Defence of democracy: theories, and their use in the metaverse Chair/discussant: Tore Vincents Olsen (Aarhus)
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12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
13.45-14.45 | Keynote 1 by Nadia Urbinati 'Populist Anti-Party Parties’ |
14.45 -15.15 | Break – Coffee |
15.15-16.45 | Panel 3 Multilevel responses to populism: European, national and local responses Chair/discussant: Aleksandra Moroska-Bonkiewicz (Wrocław) 1. Alain Zysset (Glasgow), Subsidiarity at its Limits: The European Court of Human Rights Adjudicating Populist Political Parties. 2. Marko Krtolica (Skopje), The role of the EU in the fall and rise of populist leaders in the countries of the western Balkans. (the presentation will be online) 3. Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski (Leipzig) and Robert Sata (CEU), The Dual Judicial State of Illiberal Democracy. 4. Davide Rocchetti (Trento), Dynamics of contentious responses to far-right politics: a local comparative analysis. |
16.45-17.00 | Break – Coffee |
17.00-18.30 | Roundtable discussion How should democratic actors respond to populism? Chair: Anthoula Malkopoulou (Uppsala & Lund) Discussants: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia), Petra Guasti (Prague), Kaarlo Tuori (Helsinki), Joost Van Spanje (Royal Holloway London) |
20.00 | Conference Dinner at Llama Restaurant, Copenhagen |
| Day 2 (28 May) |
09.00-11.00 | Panel 4 Populism and the principles of democracy Chair/discussant: Anthoula Malkopoulou (Uppsala & Lund) 1. Gabriele Burbulyte-Tsiskarishvili, Edita Stumbraite-Vilkisiene and Alvyda Obrikiene (Klaipeda), Voter’s personal experience and conceptualisation of a (populist) politician: the case of ‘divergent’ trilogy. 2. Fedja Pavlovic (LMU Munich & Montenegro), Pseudo-Radicalism and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right. (the presentation will be online) 3. Peter Verpoorten (CEU), An exploration of populism as antidemocratic behavior. 4. Christian F. Rostbøll (Copenhagen), Populist Anti-Proceduralism. 5. Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus), Conceptualizing and Measuring Crisis of Democracy. |
11.00-11.15 | Break - Coffee |
11.15-12.45 | Panel 5 Civil society responses to populist challenges Chair/discussant: Franciszek Tyszka (Warsaw) 1. Rasmus Møller Hvid (Aarhus), Civilizing disagreement: developing a political culture for divided democracies. 2. Joanna Podgórska (UKEN Krakow), How civil society organisations forced decision-makers to include citizens‘ perspectives through citizens’ assemblies. Evidence from Poland. 3. Nicolò Pennucci (Scuola Normale Superiore), The Rise of Counter-Populism. A comparative analysis of social movements resisting right-wing populism in power in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. 4. Attila Mraz (Eotvos Lorand & Genoa), The Leftist Voter’s Burden: Political Equality, the Duty to Rescue, and the Fight against Far-Right Populism. |
12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
13.45-14.45 | Keynote 2 Petra Guasti ‘Mobilisation For and Against Liberal Democracy in Central Europe’ |
14.45-15.15 | Break-Coffee |
15.15-16.45 | Panel 6 The effectiveness of responses to populism Chair/discussant: Angela Bourne, Roskilde University. 1. Tore Vincents Olsen (Aarhus), On citizens’ duty to effectively resist populist parties. 2. Benedicte Laumond (Wrocław & Versailles), Civil society opposing right-wing populists: the effects of initiatives against Alternative for Germany. 3. Franciszek Tyszka (Warsaw), Aleksandra Moroska-Bonkiewicz (Wrocław), Civil disobedience - an effective act of resistance towards populists in power (cases of Poland and Hungary). 4. Iacopo Taddia (Milan), Assessing the Effectiveness of the European Union as a Militant Democracy Agent: Promoting and Defending Democracy in Post-Socialist Countries and Member States. |
16.45-17.15 | Final words and Au Revoir |