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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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