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)

1. Anthoula Malkopoulou, (Uppsala & Lund), Theories of Democratic Self-Defence: An Introduction.
2. Patrick Nitzschner, (Lund), Critical Theory of Democratic Self-Defense.
3. Malin Holm (Uppsala) and Ludvig Norman (Stockholm), Platform Governance as Democratic Self-Defense: Shaping the digital public sphere in democratic societies.
4. Juha Tuovinen (Durham), The Facebook Oversight Board: What kind of Protection for Freedom Expression and from the Harms of Freedom of Expression Does It Provide?

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