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Oct 24

An Illiberal Transnational?

Join us on October 24 and 25 for an exciting two-day conference to discuss the growing trend of illiberal actors increasingly looking beyond the narrow scope of national interests to form stronger movements that result in both intellectual and material assistance to each other.

Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW, Linder Family Commons Room 602, Washington, DC 20052
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Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:30pm - Friday, October 25, 2024 06:30pm

Free

Conference Agenda

Thursday October 24


1:00 - 2:00 pm Keynote

Zack Beauchamp (Vox)


2:00 - 3:30 Panel 1 - Solidarity Among Illiberal States

Hadas Aron (The George Washington University), Emily Holland (US Naval War College) Maria Snegovaya (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University), Julian Waller (The George Washington University), Petra Guasti (Charles University), Lenka Bustikova (University of Florida)


4:00 - 5:30 Panel 2 - Central Europe as Laboratory of Illiberal Connections

Lorena Drakula (Freie Universitat Berlin, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)), Aleksandra Dziegielewska (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and University of Warsaw), Anastasia Mgaloblishvili (Freie Universitat Berlin, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)), Marko Žilović (University of Belgrade)


Friday October 25


9:00 - 10:30 Panel 3 - Illiberal Soft Power and Russia as Pole of Attraction

Gulnaz Sibgatullina (University of Amsterdam), Arsenio Cuenca (École pratique des hautes études), John Chrobak (The George Washington University), Dusan Bozalka (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)


11:00 - 12:15 Panel 4 - Mirror Games Across the Atlantic

Valentin Behr (CNRS), Eve Gianoncelli (Maison Française d'Oxford), H. David Baer (Texas Lutheran University), Grant Silverman (The George Washington University)


1:15 - 3:00 Panel 5 - The Circulation of Illiberal Ideas: Think Tanks and Thinkers

Tomás Gold (Brown University), Maryhen Jiménez (University of Oxford), Antulio Rosales (York University), Natasza Quelvennec (CNRS, CESSP), Anemona Constantin (Fellow CEVIPOL/Université libre de Bruxelles), Périne Schir (Rouen University, France, and George Washington University)


3:30 - 4:45 Panel 6 - Cross-National Comparison and Transnational Actors

Francesco Melito (University of Trieste), Avital Sicron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Daniel Trombly (The George Washington University)


This agenda is a draft and may be subject to change