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You will find updates on the conference activities of our consortium members here. We share insights into their presentations, panel discussions, and keynote speeches at international events, highlighting their contributions to advancing research on challenges to liberal democracy across Europe.

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2025.12.22.

AUTHLIB’s Youth Forum in Liberec

On November 29–30, 2025, the first Youth Forum entitled “A Region for the Young” took place in the building of the Regional and Research Library in Liberec. A total of 54…
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2025.10.23.

AUTHLIB Practitioners of Democracy Forum

On 10–11 October 2025, the Prague AUTHLIB team, hosted the Practitioners of Democracy Forum in Prague. The two-day workshop brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss the findings and insights developed…
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2025.10.09.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Summer School on Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict in Florence and Cortona

Manuela Caiani and Batuhan Eren (both Scuola Normale Superiore) presented their AUTHLIB project findings in the Summer School on "Democratic backsliding and political conflict" organised by the European Governance and…
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2025.06.18.

AUTHLIB Presentation: “Contested Solidarities” Conference in Vienna

Batuhan Eren (Post-doctoral research fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore) presented the paper titled “Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices Through an Event Chronology Based Approach” at “Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics…
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2025.06.07.

AUTHLIB at ECPR Joint Sessions

Marta Vukovic (PhD candidate, University of Vienna) presented her paper titled "Ideological Attitudes and Re-elaborations of WWII History in Europe: Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Antisemitism" at the ECPR…
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2025.06.07.

AUTHLIB at the “Democracy, Illiberal Alternatives, and Culture Wars” conference

Liberal democratic institutions and values face significant challenges today. Political polarization, declining trust, the erosion of fundamental democratic norms, and the rise of strongman leaders have weakened the post-war consensus.…
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2025.04.17.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices

Batuhan Eren (Post-doctoral research fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore) presented the paper titled “Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices Through an Event Chronology Based Approach” at the Annual Conference of…
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2025.02.13.

AUTHLIB Presentation: The transnationalization of the far right

The far right is generally considered to be a significant phenomenon of the first two decades of the 21st century, and it perhaps also represents the defining academic publishing phenomenon…
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2024.12.05.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Disagreement and Freedom of Speech

Marta Vukovic (PhD candidate, University of Vienna) presented her paper titled "(Un)conditional Support? How Disagreement Affects Perceived Relevance of Free Speech for Democracy in Europe" at the 10th Annual Conference of…
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2024.11.10.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy

Jan Rovny (Sciences Po) presented his new book "Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals” at the Nuffield College Seminar Series on October 29, and at the University of…
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2024.11.03.

AUTHLIB Presentation: The non-economic varieties of illiberalism

Professor Zsolt Enyedi (CEU) presented preliminary research findings at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Serbian Political Science Association, held in Belgrade on 26-27 October. The paper, co-authored by Professor…
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2024.07.19.

AUTHLIB at the 30th CES International Conference of Europeanists

The AUTHLIB team participated with three panels at the 30th International Conference of Europeanists in Lyon, France, where our researchers had the opportunity to discuss their research on various challenges…
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2024.03.26.

Protecting Democracy in the EU: AUTHLIB’s Dániel Hegedűs at VP Jourová’s Democracy Tour

On February 28, the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, embarked on a strategic initiative known as the Democracy Tour, commencing in Helsinki. Since…
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2023.09.10.

AUTHLIB at the ECPR General Conference

The autumn conference season started strongly for the AUTHLIB consortium in early September with our project represented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research with two…