The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the in-person workshop titled
Defending Liberalism – Normative Boundaries of Safeguarding Democracy
organized on
Monday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at
CEU Democracy Institute, Room 101
(1055 Budapest, Nádor utca 15.)
REGISTER HERE
Registration deadline: March 27, 2025
Please note that this is an offline event and places are filled on a first-come first-served basis.
This two-day workshop is part of the AUTHLIB Horizon project, which investigates the sources and implications of the normative divergence from the model of liberal democracy in Europe. It is based on the premise that liberal democracy faces not one ideological challenge but many. Against that background, it carefully and systematically explores the varieties of illiberalism and their appeal, in their contemporary forms and historical appearances, in opposition and in power, in the domestic political arena and at the level of international networks. The workshop will host lectures by a number of distinguished political philosophers and will focus on the normative boundaries of interventions aiming to safeguard the liberal order. To close the conference Jan-Werner Müller from Princeton University will give a public lecture.
Discussants: Paul Billingham (AUTHLIB – Oxford), Batuhan Eren (AUTHLIB – SNS), Sylvia Kritzinger (AUTHLIB – Uni Wien), Bálint Mikola (AUTHLIB – CEU), Petra Guasti (AUTHLIB – Charles University), other discussants to be confirmed
PROGRAM
March 31
9:20 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Registration
9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Welcome Remarks – Zoltán Miklósi (Central European University) and Andres Moles (Central European University)
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. AUTHLIB Introduction – Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University)
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Fabio Wolkenstein (University of Vienna): What’s New About the New Catholic Anti-liberalism
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Coffee Break
12:00 p.m. – 13:00 p.m. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): Political Trust
13:00 p.m. – 14:00 p.m. Lunch
14:00 p.m. – 15:00 p.m. Zsolt Kapelner (University of Oslo): Democracy Embattled: Reconciliation and Antagonism Under Democratic Decline
15:00 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. Maxime Lepoutre (University of Reading): Counterstereotypical Models and Counterspeech
16:00 p.m. – 16:30 p.m. Coffee break
16:30 p.m. – 17:30 p.m. Nicole Bolleyer and Paula Falci (Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich): Liberal Conceptions of State-Society Relations and the Evaluation of Civil Society Regulation in Democratic Regimes
18:00 p.m. Standing dinner at CEU (in front of N15/101 Quantum)
April 1
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University): Do the Intolerant Have a Complaint When Not Tolerated? What Follows If Not?
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Gabriele Badano (University of York): Liberalism, the Media, and Democratic Erosion
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Coffee break
12:00 p.m. – 13:00 p.m. Attila Mraz (Stockholm University): The Asymmetrical Political Ethics of the European Parliament: Responding to Undemocratically Elected Representatives from Backslid(ing) EU Member States
13:00 p.m. – 14:15 p.m. Lunch
14:15 p.m. – 15:15 p.m. Antoinette Scherz (Stockholm University): Democratic Frontsliding in the European Union: Political, Normative and Legal Paths Forward
15:15 p.m. – 15:30 p.m. Coffee
15:30 p.m. – 16:15 p.m. Radoslaw Markowski (AUTHLIB – SWPS University) (title TBA)
17:00 p.m. – 18:30 p.m. Public lecture by Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy
REGISTER HERE
This event takes place in the framework of the “AUTHLIB – Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response” project funded by the European Union and the UK Research and Innovation. Views and opinions expressed are however do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or UK Research and Innovation. Neither the European Union nor the UK Research and Innovation can be held responsible for them.
