The Resistible Rise of the Far Right? Central European Perspectives

This international workshop is coordinated by Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po, CERI-CNRS) in connection with the Research Group “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”. The workshop is organized in cooperation with CEFRES (Prague) and Sciences Po (CERI).

Date: Friday November 15, 2024
Location: Salle de Sacy, Maison de la recherche, 2, rue de Lille, Paris
Language: English

Program

Friday, November 15, 2024

1.30–4.45 pm

Welcome address by Nadège Ragaru  (Sciences Po, CERI-CNRS)

1.30–3.00 pm

Panel 1 – The Extreme Right in France, Germany, Austria and Great-Britain seen from Central Europe 

President and discussant: Catherine Perron (Sciences Po CERI, Paris)

Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov, Central European University (Austria)
Russian Political Warfare and the European Far Right

Dr. Zora Hesova, Charles University, Prague
Why things are wrong in the West seen from the Czech Republic

Dr. Marcin Slarzynski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland (online)
The Rise of Extreme Right in Western Europe and its Reception in Poland: Perspectives of Polish Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations

3.00–4.30pm

Panel 2 – Transnational radical right networks in Europe:  Beyond East and West

President and discussant: Laure Neumayer, University de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens (France)

Valentin Behr, CNRS, CESSP- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Central European ‘illiberals’ and their Western friends: Hungary, Poland, and the ideological reconfiguration of the Right”

Anemona Constantin, Institute of European Studies-Center for the Study of Politics/Free University of Brussels – CEFRES, Prague (online)
Conservative intellectuals and transnational networks. The cases of the Center for European Renewal and of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

4.30–4.45pm

Conclusions by Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po, CERI-CNRS)