Probing Democracy Conference
Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Online Event
October 7-8, 2021Budapest, Hungary and Online
The CEU Democracy Institute (DI) invites all OSUN members to its “Probing Democracy” conference, a hybrid online and offline event to be held on the DI premises in Budapest on October 7 and 8, 2021.
The event showcases the richness of the scholarly work conducted at DI on the crises and resilience of democratic societies. From law to history and political science, from environmental resource management to gender dynamics, and from social inequalities to the rule of law, DI is a research center that prides itself on studying democracy in a multidisciplinary format.
In line with this broad-based intellectual stance, the conference features roundtable discussions instead of traditional panels. These roundtables allow prominent experts to engage in fresh dialogue with colleagues hailing from different disciplinary backgrounds to reflect collectively on shared scientific and relevant policy research themes.
The four themes of the roundtables are: (1) Knowledge Production and (Re-) Democratization, (2) Illiberalism and the (Ab)Use of the Public Sphere, (3) Access to Water and Energy: Accommodating Social Justice, Security and Sustainability, and (4) The Robustness of the Rule of Law: Past and Present Perspectives.
Three book launch events present recently published works by DI scholars to foster a dialogue between the authors, expert discussants, and the attending public. The first book event presents DI Co-Director Eva Fodor’s The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary and Andrea Krizsan’s co-authored work Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. The second focuses on Zsolt Enyedi’s co-authored work Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe, while the last one is devoted to Andras Sajo’s already widely-discussed recent work Ruling by Cheating.
The Keynote Lecture is delivered by Professor Branko Milanovic, whose seminal research on the distributive dimensions of democracy offers a conceptual anchor to the entire event.
For in-person attendance, proof of vaccination is required and wearing a mask is obligatory in all common areas and strongly recommended in rooms.
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For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/probing-democracy-conference-ceu-democracy-institute.
Location: Online Event