Lecture Series “Populismus: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven” at the University of Potsdam
Lecture series “Populismus: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven/Populism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (in German and English)
Where: University of Potsdam, Institute for Slavic Studies, Campus Am Neuen Palais, Haus 9, HS 1.02
When: Thursdays, 4-6 p.m., starting 17 October 2024
Organisation: Prof. Magdalena Marszałek, Prof. Brigitte Obermayr, Dr. Aleksandra Szczepan
In the winter semester 2024/25 at the Institute for Slavic Studies of University of Potsdam, the team members Prof. Magdalena Marszałek and Dr. Aleksandra Szczepan in collaboration with Prof. Brigitte Obermayr are organising a lecture series on populism with prominent researchers and guest lectures from various disciplines.
“Populismus: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven / Populism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
Today political populism is regarded as a challenge and threat to democracy that is to be taken seriously. Right-wing populism in particular, with its authoritarian, even fascist features, has become a subject of intense discussions in political sciences and social studies in the past two decades. Recently there have been more and more calls for a cultural turn in populism research.
The lecture series sets out to trace and classify the current debates around the phenomenon of populism from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions present current trends in populism research and offer a historical contextualisation of the phenomenon, together with its key concepts, such as ‘the people’ or ‘the elites.’ One of the focal points of the lecture series is the relationship between populist politics and cultural processes, whereby the following questions are considered: What are the cultural politics of populists? Are there interdependencies between political populism and (popular) culture? What role do social media play in this?
Program:
24.10. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton): Was ist Populismus?
7.11. Kai Hirschmann (München): Populistische Entwicklungen und gesellschaftliche Fragilitätsprozesse
14.11. Slawomir Sierakowski (Warschau): Society of Populists
21.11. Julia Leser (Berlin): “Wolf politics“: (Nicht)Regierbarkeit, (Un)Sichtbarkeit und Polarisierung von Differenz in Ostdeutschland
28.11. Agnieszka Graff (Warschau): Saving the Children vs. Saving Democracy: Looking back at Poland’s Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Feminist responses
5.12. Alina Mozolevska (Mykolaiv/Berlin): Exploring Visuality and Performance of Contemporary Populism: the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky
12.12. Marie Moran (Dublin): Critical Populism and the Idea of ‘Elites’
9.1. Paula Diehl (Kiel): Populismus und Politainment: Von Berlusconi zu Trump
16.1. Ruth Wodak (Wien): Rechtsruck: Die schamlose Normalisierung rechtsradikaler und rechtsextremer Diskurse
23.1. Lars Rensmann (Passau): Nostalgischer Nationalismus: Erinnerungspolitische Ideologien und Strategien der radikalen populistischen Rechten in Europa