Politics Program and Center for Civic Engagement Present
The Concept of Populism at the Time of Crisis
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Olin Humanities, Room 205
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Ertuğ Tombuş (Humboldt University, Berlin) in conversation with Bard's own Pinar Kemerli and Archie Magno
Ertuğ Tombuş presents: When is a Populist No Longer a Populist? From Laclau to Arato and the Lifecycle of Populist Politics. Ertuğ Tombuş is Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2017 to 2020, he was Academic Coordinator of the Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies Program at HU Berlin. Ertuğ Tombuş is Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. He holds two PhDs, in Political Science and Sociology. His teaching and research focus on democratic theory, politics and law, constitution-making, comparative constitutionalism, populism, contemporary social theory, and Turkish politics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 205
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