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Populism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20^th Century

Workshop -11-12 May 2017

EHESS - Room M. et D. Lombard - 96 boulevard Raspail - 75006 Paris, France

Thursday 11 May 2017

09h15-09h30 Introduction

• Roman Krakovsky (Global Studies Institute, Université de Genève / CERCEC, EHESS / LabEx Tepsis)

09h30-10h45 Session 1. Defining Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

• Jacques Rupnik (CERI/Sciences Po), Populism in Central and Eastern Europe and its Post-1989 Forms
• Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University), The Ambivalence of 'the People' as a Source of Political Legitimation: Contemporary Right-Wing Populism in Historical Perspective
• Chairs: Jan Rovny (CEE-LIEPP/Sciences Po), Catherine Durandin (Inalco)

11h00-13h00 The Representation of Political Community

• Federico Tarragoni (Université Paris-Diderot), “The Populism is a Page of European Socialism”. Reconsidering the Sociohistoric Debate about Narodnischestvo
• Wim van Meurs (Radboud Universiteit), Peasant Parties and Populism in Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Century
• Reana Senjković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb), Socialist Populism Yugoslaw Way?
• Traian Sandu (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Ceausescu and the Building of the Myth of Socialist Nation in Romania
• Chairs: Irina Gridan (Inalco), Georges Mink (ISP/College of Europe)

14h00-16h00 Session 3. Populism in Action

• Xavier Galmiche (Université Paris-Sorbonne), A Populist Humour?
• Estelle Bunout (Université de Lorraine), A Populism of Knowledge? Olgierd Górka's Polemics with the Tenants of a Polish Conservative Discourse (1930-1955)
• Raul Cârstocea (European Centre for Minority Issues), The Populist Elements in the Ideology and Practices of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania
• Chairs: Jean-Charles Szurek (ISP/Université de Paris 10), Yves Cohen (CRH, EHESS)

Friday 12 May 2017

10h00-12h00 Session 4. The Constitution of People

• Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University), Race and National Community in Interwar Romania
• Mate Zombory (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Populism and Democracy. The Constitution of the Political Community in Early Post-War Hungary
• Attila Antal (Eötvös Loránd University), Communist Populism in Hungary
• Chairs: Paul Gradvohl (Université de Lorraine), Clara Royer (CEFRES & Université de Paris-Sorbonne)

12h00-12h30    Conclusions

Organisation: Roman Krakovsky (Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva / CERCEC, EHESS / LabEx Tepsis) – roman.krakovsky@ehess.fr

This workshop is generously funded by Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (EHESS/CNRS, Paris, France), Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (EHESS/CNRS, Paris, France), Centre d’Histoire de l’Europe centrale contemporaine (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France), Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (MAEDI/CNRS, Prague, Czech Republic), Global Studies Institute (Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland), Institut d’histoire du temps présent (CNRS, Paris, France) and LabEx Tepsis (Paris, France).