Civil Sphere and Populism ~ Program

Time

Friday, June 14 ~ Omni Hotel, Harbour Room

8:00 ~ 8:45

Continental Breakfast

8:45 ~ 9:00

Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University

9:00 ~ 10:00

Poland
Authoritarian-Populist Echoes in Poland:
Polarization, Conspiracy, Nativism, Cults - and the Destruction of Civil Solidarity Too?

Maria Luengo ~ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Malgorzata Kolankowska ~ University of Wroclaw, Poland

10:00 ~ 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 ~ 11:30 Czech Republic
The “Thirteenth Immigrant”? Migration and Populism in the 2018 Czech Presidential Election
Nadya Jaworsky ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic
11:30 ~ 12:30

Lunch

12:30 ~ 1:30 Turkey
Uncivil Populism in Power: The Case of Erdoğanism
Ateş Altinordu ~ Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
1:30 ~ 2:00

Coffee Break

2:00 ~ 3:00 Mexico
The populist Transition and the Civil Sphere in Mexico
Nelson Arteaga Botello ~ FLACSO, Mexico
3:00 ~ 3:30

Coffee Break

3:30 ~ 4:30 Philippines
#Disente and Duterte: The Cultural Logic of Antipopulism in the Philippines, 2001-2019
Celso Villegas ~ Kenyon College
7:00

Dinner for participants at home of Jeffrey Alexander

Time

Saturday, June 15 ~ Omni Hotel, Harbour Room

8:00 ~ 8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 ~ 9:30 China
Bo Xilai’s Populism: Implications for Civil Sphere Theory
Andrew Junker ~ Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:30 ~ 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 ~ 11:00 Germany
Memory Culture, Civil Sphere and Right-Wing Populism in Germany:
The Resistible Rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)

Werner Binder ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic
11:00 ~ 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 ~ 12:30 Sweden
Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden Democrats
Henrik Enroth ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden
12:30 ~ 1:30

Lunch

1:30 ~ 2:30 United States
The Civil Sphere and populism: The noncivil origins of Trumpist populism
Jason Mast ~ Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2:30 ~ 3:00

Coffee Break

3:00 ~ 4:00 England
Populism as Civil Repair
Marcus Morgan ~ University of Bristol, England
4:00 ~ 4:15

Coffee Break

4:15 ~ 4:45

Comments
Giuseppe Sciortino ~ University of Trento, Italy
Peter Kivisto ~ Augustana College

4:45 ~ 5:00

Closing Remarks ~ Next Steps
Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University

6:00 ~ 9:00

Private banquet at the Omni Hotel, Harbour Room