APRIL 22-23, 2022
NORMAN HALL 0110 CONFERENCE CENTER (N.B. This is an in person event)

Register here, to attend. 

The electoral defeat of Donald Trump and his removal as President of the US, as well as the weakening of support for several other populist governments and movements, may well mark a change in the direction of political dynamics globally. However, nothing is yet irrevocably decided. To understand our current political dilemmas, the conference “Still the Age of Populism?” seeks answers to the following questions:

_Has the populist surge passed its highwater mark?

_What are the lasting legacies of populism?

_How should democracies deal with such legacies?

_Will the weakening of populism with the defeat of Donald Trump’s incumbency and his attempted coup d’etat have ramifications for the movement globally? and more

Agenda

DAY 1

9:00 am  Welcome & introductions

9:45 – 11:30 am
Panel 1: POPULIST PATHS TO POWER

• Kenneth M Roberts Populist Resiliency in Contemporary Global Politics: Structural and Institutional sources 
• Jan Kubik A political crisis or a tectonic cultural shift? The meaning of the current right-wing populist wave
• Hannah Alarian Populism and Prejudice: The Normalization of Anti-Immigration Attitudes in Germany 
• Amie Kreppel, moderator

11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Panel 2: POPULISM AND REPRESENTATION

• Jonathan White  Is Climate Change a Populist Issue? 
• Frances Lee Populism and the Post-2020 Republican Party in congress  
• Enrique Peruzzotti Populism and Accountability
• Michael Bernhard, moderator

2:15 – 3:45 pm
Panel 3: POPULISM IN POWER

• Margarita Lopez-Maya Left-wing populists in power. The Venezuelan experience
• Kurt Weyland  How Populism Dies:  Political Weaknesses of Personalistic Plebiscitarian Leadership 
• Marco Garrido The Ground for the Illiberal Turn in the Philippines
• Carlos de la Torre, moderator

4:00 – 6:00 pm
Panel 4: POPULISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM

• Maria Snegovaya When Alt-Right Media Meets Alt-Right Politics. Engagement with Alternative Sources on U. S. Twitter
• Joe Lowndes Margin to Center: The Political Creativity of the Far Right
• Esther Romeyn Das Boot ist Voll: The Boat is Full: Genealogy and Policy Consequences of an Ecological-Nativist Paradigm
• Jonathan Laurence, moderator

DAY 2

9:45 – 11:30 am
Panel 5: POPULISM AND RELIGION

• Debora Spini The religious legacy of and within Populism 
• Philip Gorski “Religious Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism: Possible Lessons from the American Case”
• Cristian Pérez, moderator

11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Panel 6: POPULISM AND UNCERTAINTY

• Venelin Ganev The Legacies of Illiberal Rule in Post-Accession Eastern Europe
• Wendy Hunter Populism and the Military: Bolsonaro Government in Brazil
• Berk Esen Populists after an Electoral Defeat: a Preliminary Analysis 
• Andrew Janusz, moderator

2:15 – 4:00 pm
Panel 7: POPULISM IN CRISIS

• Mabel Berezin Nativism, Nationalism, Fascism: Is There Anything to Compare Between the US and Europe
• Lenka Bustikova  Democratic Resilience and Power Grabs during the Pandemic?
• Marcel Lewandowsky Populists and the pandemic: the case of the Alternative for Germany
• Conor O’Dwyer, moderator

4:15 – 6:00 pm
Panel 8: TRANSNATIONAL POPULISM

• Aida Hozic  Political Infrastructure of the Global Right 
• Carol Mason Opposing Abortion to Protect the People: Transnational Strategies
• Stephen E. Hanson Populism or Patrimonialism?  A Weberian Approach to Conceptualizing 21st Century Anti-Liberalism
• Juliana Restrepo, moderator

Sponsors:

Reset Dialogues on Civilizations
UF Center for Latin American Studies
UF Center for European Studies
Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Political Science