Trajectories of civil society in a de-democratizing context
Workshop programme
Venue: Centre for Social Sciences,
4. Tóth Kálmán Street, Budapest, Hungary 1097, room 11-12
Date: 17-19 November, 2021
The workshop takes place in a hybrid format, each panel is available via ZOOM as well. Links are provided separately at each panel.
Wednesday (17th November)
12:00- registration, arrival
12:45-13:00 Welcome address
13:00-14:30 Polarization of civil societies
Chair: Szabina Kerényi
Daniel Platek: Protesting Civil Society in Poland. Towards a Pillarized Structure?
Boris Strečanský: Church and the civil society: Overlapping organizational fields in an emancipatory struggle.
Ágnes Kövér-Van Til: Double attack on civil society - which is more hazardous marketization or authoritarianism?:
Discussant: Brigitte Horvath
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82581380072?pwd=dWQ3N3M2QUE1THJyZ2k3dTN5MWtyQT09
14:30-14:50 coffee break
14:50-16:20 Civil society and crisis
Chair: Róza Vajda
Piotr Kocyba: Corona deniers in Poland - engagement under pandemic conditions
Margit Feischmidt, Violette Zentai and Eszter Neumann: Civil society and politics in solidarity actions during the COVID-19 crisis
Zsuzsa Árendás and Vera Messing: Navigating immigrant integration in a non-integration regime. The role of NGOs and self-help initiatives.
Discussant: Márton Gerő
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82581380072?pwd=dWQ3N3M2QUE1THJyZ2k3dTN5MWtyQT09
16:20-16:40 coffee break
16:40-18:10 Civil society in an economic and cultural context
Chair: Márton Gerő
Denis Ivanov: Varieties of Capitalism, Civil Society and Vested Interests in the Times of Populism: Hungary and Lithuania
Viktor Papházi, Andra Szabó and Márton Gerő: Civil Society Discourses in the Mainstream Print Media – the Hungarian Case
Alexandra Samonek: Can Identity Pluralism Help Undo the de-democratization in CEE?
Discussant: Henry P. Rammelt and Ruxandra Gubernat
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82581380072?pwd=dWQ3N3M2QUE1THJyZ2k3dTN5MWtyQT09
Thursday (18th November)
9:00-10:30 Shrinking space of civil society: aspects and approaches
Chair: Anna Fejős
Nicole Bolleyer: The Shrinking of Civil Society Space in Europe
Zsolt Körtvélyesi: Law used for and against authocratizating tendencies: The case of civil society in Hungary
Márton Gerő: Destroy or domesticate? The relationship between state actors and civil society organizations in a de-democratizing context.
Discussant: Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86165092190?pwd=TXBMTEJBeEJFR21MS3NQTmc2VnB3Zz09
10:30-10:50 coffee break
10:50-12:40 Strategies of civil society organizations to democratic backsliding
Chair: Margit Feischmidt
Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves: The Role of Civil Society in Democratic Backsliding: the case of Poland and Hungary
Áron Buzogány and Arpad Todor: Protest or participate. Dilemmas of post-socialist civil society during democratic backsliding
Tom Junes: Civil society’s conundrum: Bulgaria’s year of democratic limbo
Henry P. Rammelt and Ruxandra Gubernat: Movement parties and populist civil society claims in Romania: The case of USR and AUR
Discussant: Margit Feischmidt and Szabina Kerényi
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86165092190?pwd=TXBMTEJBeEJFR21MS3NQTmc2VnB3Zz09
12:40-13:50 Lunch break
13:50-15:40 The different faces of civil society
Chair: Dorottya Szikra
Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska: Caught up in ‘culture wars’: Civil society elites’ contestation in the UK
Katerina Vrablikova and Paulina Pospieszna: Determinants of culturally conservative civic activism in CEE
Håkan Johansson, Stela Kosova: Boundaries and Closure: Acts of protecting and breaking privilege in the UK Charity Sector?
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Francesca Chiarvesio: “Riding a Motorcycle in the Rain at a Wild Speed, You Get Wet and Dirty” Service Providing CSOs as Values Promoters in Russia
Discussant: Dániel Mikecz and András Morauszki
zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89295502927?pwd=MDFFQlBZZEl0YVlXNzZpYkgvSUFxdz09
15:45-16:00 coffee break
16:15-17:45 Strategy for Civil Society under a Hybrid Regime
Keynote lecture by Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89295502927?pwd=MDFFQlBZZEl0YVlXNzZpYkgvSUFxdz09
18:00-18:45 Future cooperation, ideas
19:00 - dinner
Friday (19th, November)
9:30-11:00
Civil society, policy making and advocacy
Chair: Márton Gerő
Brigitte Horváth, Michael Dobbins and Labanino Rafael: “Post-Truth Post-Communism” or much ado about nothing?
Dorottya Szikra, Anna Fejős and Róza Vajda: Sticks and Carrots. Women's organizations under de-democratizing rule in Hungary between 2010 and 2020
Elifcan Celebi: Authoritarian Influences on Gender Politics: Women GONGOs in Turkey
Discussant: Pál Susánszky
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83691148483?pwd=REhpV21kRWhkeWtCZDg0QVVRSmEyUT09
11:30-13:00 The fight against populism
Chair: Dorottya Szikra
Jiří Navrátil and Milan Hrubeš: Fight fire with fire: Czech liberal activism challenging “populist government”
Kerényi Szabina: How does the rise of populism affect spaces of civil society?
Dániel Mikecz: Anti-regime protests in Hungary.
Discussant: Márton Gerő
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83691148483?pwd=REhpV21kRWhkeWtCZDg0QVVRSmEyUT09
13:00 Closing remarks