THE NEW PROMISE? LEFT-WING AND RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN EUROPE
The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and the University of Vienna invite you to the symposium
CONFLICTING POPULISMS. LEFT AND RIGHT WING POPULISM IN EUROPE
The event begins on Thursday, 9 June 2016, 19:00 at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Vienna with a panel discussion:
THE NEW PROMISE?
LEFT-WING AND RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN EUROPE
Now more than ever, the ambivalence of the phenomenon of populism is becoming clear. Populism is a concept of conflict. If we want to discuss left-wing populism in Europe today, we must also address right-wing populism. The discussion aims to explore this controversial side of populism on the basis of its many current manifestations. Among other things, the following questions will be addressed: What differences can be identified between left-wing and right-wing populisms? Is left-wing populism a possible way out of the crisis - both the economic crisis and the crisis of the left? Can it offer adequate, genuinely left-wing answers to the current political challenges? Can, may, should the left be populist? What is the relationship between populism and democracy? Are they irreconcilable opposites? Or is populism possibly a tendency that is inherent to democracy as such?
On the podium:
Micha Brumlik; Centre for Jewish Studies, Berlin
Chantal Mouffe; University of Westminster in London
Jan-Werner Müller; Princeton University
Peter Pilz: Member of the National Council, The Greens
Moderation
Isolde Charim; philosopher and author
On Friday, 10 June 2016, the event will continue at the University (1010 Vienna, Institute of Political Science, Universitätsstraße 7/2, Lecture Hall 1) from 9.15 a.m. with the following speakers:
Oliver Marchart (University of Vienna): Introduction. The Amorphous Shape of Populism
Catherine Colliot-Thélène (Université de Rennes 1/University of Frankfurt): Populism as a conceptual problem
Emilia Palonen (University of Helsinki): Populist Dynamics and Democracy: the Cases of Finland and Hungary
Chantal Mouffe (Westminster University): Populism and Radical Democracy
Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): Why Populism is a Danger to Democracy
Yannis Stavrakakis (University of Thessaloniki): Populism vs. Anti-populism in the Greek Crisis: Divisions of Public Discourse
Ingolfur Blühdorn (Vienna University of Economics and Business): Populism and its Unlikely Siblings. Discursive Practice in Simulative Democracy
ATTENTION!
Registrations for Thursday: einladung.kreiskyforum@kreisky.org
Registrations for Friday: politische.theorie@univie.ac.at
Details of the times on Friday can be found under the link: http://www.theorieblog.de/index.php/2016/05/wien-9-11-juni-2016-podium-symposion-und-workshop-mit-cfp-zu-conflicting-populisms-left-and-right-wing-populism-in-europe/