Euroculture Intensive Programme 2023

June 25 - July 1, 2023. Olomouc, Czech Republic

NO EUROPE FOR THE YOUNG?

Keynote Lecture:
Varieties of Illiberal backlash in Central Europe

Friday 30th June (9.00-10.30)
Aula of Faculty of Arts, Křížkovského 10, front tract, 3rd floor

Dr Petra Guasti

Charles University, Prague

In her lecture, Petra Guasti will focus on how illiberalism has emerged as a phenomenon within the  Central European context and how practices of democracy beyond liberal democracy have developed and emerged in a European context during the past 25 years. Based on her own research she will explain how these developments have been studied and made sense of and how this scholarship has helped to make sense of these societal and political developments. She will also present what big challenges and developments scholars might need to grasp and study for the coming years.

After her keynote lecture there will be a Roundtable discussion.

SOURCE: Triumph of Illiberalism on visegradinsight.eu

Petra Guasti is an associate professor of democratic theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on reconfiguring the political landscape and revolves around representation, democratization, and populism. Between 2022 and 2025, Petra is a co-PI of SYRI (National Institute for Research on the Socio-Economic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks), where she also leads a 22-member team focusing on polarization and populism. She is also leader of the Czech team in Horizon project Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response (AUTHLIB). In AUTHLIB Petra leads work package on mini publics.