The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the in-person workshop and hybrid book launch titled
Comparing Illiberal Legacies and Ideological Morphologies
organized in co-operation with Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, CEU,
and supported by the Department of Historical Studies.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
9:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. CET
at
CEU Democracy Institute, Room 101
(1055 Budapest, Nádor utca 15.)
REGISTER HERE
Registration deadline: November 12, 2024
The book launch will also be available on Zoom. For the link, please, contact jegese@ceu.edu
PROGRAM
I. Comparing Illiberal Legacies and Ideological Morphologies
Workshop, November 14, 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Liberal democracy faces a multitude of challenges: it is confronted by various forms of illiberalisms from across the political spectrum. Systematically exploring these different varieties, their appeal and their historical appearances is a crucial endeavor for crafting strategies for a liberal democratic response. This is precisely the goal of the Horizon project “AUTHLIB – Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response”. This one-day workshop is part of Work Package 8 of the project and focuses on identifying the historical background and contexts of illiberalism. It brings together leading historians from across Europe who will share insights into various forms of illiberal political projects in our continent’s history.
Registration – 9:15-9:30 a.m.
Introduction – 9:30-9:45 a.m.
Zsolt Enyedi (CEU)
Panel 1 – 9:45-11:30 a.m.
– Balázs Trencsényi (CEU) – Agrarian Populism, Ethno-populism, National Communism: Illiberal Legacies and Undercurrents in East Central Europe
– Manueala Caiani (SNS – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) – The Development of Illiberal ‘Visions of Europe’ with a Historical Focus
– Tommaso Giordani (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon): Sorel and Sorelianism in 20th Century Anti-liberal and Anti-democratic Political Thought
– Izabela Mrzygłód (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies): Illiberal Hope / Temporalities of Illiberalism – Youth Radicalism and Visions of Modernization in the Interwar Poland
Coffee Break – 11:30-11:45 a.m.
Panel 2 – 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
– Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw, Institute for Social Studies) – Socialist Movements and (il)Liberal State Crafting in Successor States of the Russian Empire
– Ondřej Slačálek (Charles University, Prague): Ambivalent Roots of Czech Illiberalism
– Jaroslav Bílek (Charles University, Prague) – The Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948) as an Illiberal Regime
– Krystof Dolezal (CEU): Christian Democratic Post-Modern: The Unlikely Origins of Human Rights Talk in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Lunch Break 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Panel 3 – 2:30-3:30 p.m.
– Péter Csunderlik (CEU DI): “The Hungarians are not…” – The Roots of Orbánism in the Hungarian “Soil” – Historical Precursors and Intellectual Inspirations of the Contemporary Hungarian Illiberalism
– Constantin Iordachi (CEU) – Securitization and the Far Right: Interwar and Post-Communist Hungary in Comparison
– Julian Casanova (CEU) – Vox and the History of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s Dictatorship
– Péter Techet (Institut für Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Vienna): Austria: When Nationalism Meant Rejecting the Own Nation – The “Third Camp” and its Role for the FPÖ
Coffee Break – 3:30–3:45 p.m.
Concluding Debate – 3:45–5:00 p.m.
Invited Contributors: Marco Bresciani (University of Florence, Florence); András Bozóki (CEU); Lucile Dreidemy (University of Vienna); Radoslaw Markowski (SWPS University, Center for the Study of Democracy, Warsaw); Diana Mishkova (Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia); Gergely Romsics (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Budapest); Zoltán Gábor Szűcs (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest); Csaba Zahorán (Ludovika University of Public Service, Institute of Central European Studies / HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History)
Coffee Break – 5:00-5:30 p.m.
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II. New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe
Book launch co-organized with Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, CEU and supported by the Department of Historical Studies, November 14, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
The book launch will also be available on Zoom. For the link, please contact jegese@ceu.edu
Moderator: Una Blagojević (Central European University/Babeș-Bolyai University).
Welcome Remarks – 5:30-5:40 p.m.
Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)
Book presentations – 5:40-7:00 p.m.
East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?, eds. Balázs Trencsényi, Lucija Balikić, Una Blagojević, Isidora Grubački.Presented by Lucija Balikić (Central European University/European University Institute) and Isidora Grubački (Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana).
Discussion led by Diana Mishkova (Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia), Marco Bresciani (University of Florence).
Learning from the Enemy. An Intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe. Presented by Marco Bresciani (University of Florence).
Discussion led by Isidora Grubački (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana) and Adam Hudek (Slovak Academy of Sciences).
Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe. Presented by Diana Mishkova (Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia).
Discussion led by Lucija Balikić (Central European University/European University Institute) and Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University).
Czechoslovakism, eds. Adam Hudek, Michal Kopeček, Jan Mervart. Presented by Adam Hudek (Slovak Academy of Sciences).
Discussion led by Martin Babička (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Marko Zajc (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana).
Q&A with the audience – 7:00–7:30 p.m.
Reception – 7:30 p.m.
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This workshop is organized in the framework of the project AUTHLIB – Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response funded by the European Union and UK Research and Innovation. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and participants only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, or the UK Research and Innovation.
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