Social Democracy in the Age of Right-Wing Populism: Strategies and Visions?

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On Bruno Kreisky's 114th birthday
The courage to be unfinished

Social Democracy in the Age of Right-Wing Populism: Strategies and Visions?

Opening
Andreas Babler, Federal Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria

Commemorative Lecture:
Dr Manès Weisskircher, TU Dresden

Head of the REXKLIMA research group (Right-wing extremism versus climate protection?), Institute for Political Science at TU Dresden; visiting researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, and at the Centre for Civil Society Research at the Berlin Social Science Centre. Teaches at universities in Bonn, Bucharest, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Vienna and at the Social Sciences College of the German National Academic Foundation, and is a commentator for media outlets including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt and Der Standard. Research interests: social movements, political parties, democracy, and right-wing extremist actors. Publications include: "Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose" (Oxford University Press) and editor of the collected volume "Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics" (Routledge).

Follow-up conversation with Manès Weisskircher and

Professor Sylvia Kritzinger, Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences at the Institute of Political Science

Master of Business Administration Ferdinand Lacina, Head of Cabinet for the long-serving Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky; State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery from 1982 to 1984, amongst other things for economic affairs; Federal Minister for Transport from 1984 to 1986; Federal Minister for Finance from 1986 to 1995

Moderation
Christa Zöchling, Journalist and publicist