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Programme

ALL TIMES ARE ISTANBUL TIME, WHICH IS UTC/GMT + 3

Day 1 Monday 23 May
9:00 – 9:15

Registration, Tea & Coffee
9:15 – 9:45
Opening Remarks: Didar Erdem; TOHAV Chair, Prof Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen

9:45 – 10.45
Keynote: Prof Shalini Randeria, Central European University, Vienna
Including discussion

10:45

Break

11:15 – 12:30
Session 1: ‘Uncivil’, Illiberal, Co-opted Civil Society


11:15 – 11:30


11:30 – 11:45


11:45 – 12:30

A “Hybridised” Civil Society: Political, Religious and Cultural Contestations in Pakistan
Dr Farhan Hanif Siddiqi, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Collaboration imperative: survival strategies
among technocratic mobility NGOs in Mexico
Dr Raul Acosta, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich

Discussion

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch
13:30 – 16:30
Session 2: Repression, Contestation and Resistance – I Autocracy

13:30 – 14:30

Keynote: Illiberal Norm Diffusion and the Reconfiguration of Civic Space
Prof Dr Marlies Glasius, University of Amsterdam
Including discussion

14:30

Break

14:45 – 15:00


15:00 – 15:15

15:15 – 15:30


15:30 – 15:45
Politicization of Civil Society under Autocratic Pressure: Repression, Co-optation, and Contestation
Dr Bilge Yabancı, Northwestern University & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Islamic Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: Hegemony, Authoritarianism, and Contestation in Turkey
Dr Gorkem Altinors, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University

Mobilising the law as an alternative or supplementing strategy? Civil society’s legal mobilisation in times of democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland
Dr Regitze Helene Rohlfing, University of Copenhagen

Discussion

16:15 – 16:30
Break

16:30 – 18:00

Session 3: Repression, Contestation and Resistance – II Illiberal Democracy


16:30 – 16:45


16:45 – 17:00



17:00 – 17:15

17:15 – 18:00

Undermining human rights from within: Ultra-conservative and right-wing anti-gender movements and their part in rolling back human rights for all
Dr Anna Grudzinska, National Federation of Nongovernmental Organisations, Warsaw

“Unintentional Democratic Backsliders”. The Case of Civil Society in Poland
Dr Łukasz Zamęcki, University of Warsaw, Dr Adam Szymański, University of Warsaw

Ruining or Reshaping? The Civil Society of the Orbán-Regime through the Case of the Hungarian Academy of Arts
Kristóf Nagy, Central European University

Discussion
18:00

Dinner

Day 2 Tuesday 24 May

8:45 – 9:00

Registration, Tea & Coffee

9:00 – 11:45

Session 4: Repression, Co-optation, Contestation, Resistance – III Liberal Democracy and Hybrid Regimes  

9:00 – 10:00

Keynote: Civil society against ‘the people’
Dr Ajay Gudavarthy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Including discussion
10:00 – 10:15
Break

10:15 – 10:30


10:30 – 10:45


10:45 – 11:00


11:00 – 11:45

How Government Parties Constrain Civil Society in Western Europe: Democratic Backsliding or Business as Usual?
Dr Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Lund University

Civil society or class society?
Ruvimbo Natalie Mavhiki, University of Helsinki
 
Civil Society Versus Uncivil President: Human Rights Defenders leading the Resistance against Bolsonaro’s Hybrid Regime
Dr Ulisses Terto Neto, Goiás State University (UEG) and Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil


Discussion
11:45

Break
 
12:00 – 13:30
Concluding discussion & closing remarks
Prof Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen
13:30
Lunch

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