Conference: 2nd Prague Populism Conference
Location and date: Prague, 23-24 May 2016
For further details: Conference website

The Institute for International Studies Charles University in Prague together with Heinrich Böll Stiftung organizes on 23 and 24 May 2016 the 2nd Prague Populism Conference titled “Current Populism in Europe: Impact on the Political Landscape”. The conference is dedicated to a comparative analysis of individual EU member states where populism represents an important element of politics.

Within this context and aiming to explore populism from various conceptual, empirical and methodological perspectives, the conference encourages papers in the following topics:

1) Conceptualization and approaches towards “new” European populism
2) Populist attitudes towards refugees and migrants
3) Populism and new social movements in Europe
4) Welfare chauvinism and entrepreneurs in politics
5) Impact of populism on the political culture and political mainstream

Confirmed speakers: Hélene Miard-Delacroix (Paris-Sorbonne University), Paul Taggart (University of Sussex), Daniele Albertazzi (University of Birmingham), Takis S. Pappas (European University Institute, Florence).

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 300 words and short CVs to mejstrik.m@fsv.cuni.cz by 29 February 2016. Accepted papers will be announced on 15 March 2016. There is no conference fee for participants. 

More details will follow on the conference website, where you can find a summary of the previous edition of the conference (http://populism.fsv.cuni.cz/). 

Any queries can be directed to the conference email address: mejstrik.m@fsv.cuni.cz