OPUS Graduate Seminars on Populism!

Dear colleagues and friends,

We hope this email finds you all well! As we gear up for the new academic year, we want to cordially invite you to the winter semester edition of OPUS Graduate Seminars on Populism!

Our first meeting will take place on October 11, 2021, at 4:30 pm (CEST). We will start with a brief introduction section where we introduce ourselves and talk a bit about OPUS’s structure, objectives and planned activities.

Then, we will welcome Yomna Elrouby (Sorbonne University) to present her work titled “Constitutional courts and populist regimes: between resistance and complicity”. The presentation will take around 20 minutes and be followed by a discussion and Q&A session with the audience. The discussant for our very first seminar will be Dr. Bruno Castanho Silva (University of Cologne), and the session will be moderated by Ebru Ece Özbey (IMPRS-SPCE).

You may register for the virtual meeting using the following link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom invitation as well as the draft paper prior to the meeting:https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kf-qqqT8sH9NSVsYGR7xEzLdIR2t8e1aM

You may find the schedule of presentations for this semester below:

• October 11, 2021: Constitutional courts and populist regimes: between resistance and complicity by Yomna Elrouby (Sorbonne University)
• November 15, 2021: The position of the main Nordic right-wing populist parties towards the EU, NATO and Russia by Aleksa Filipović (Saint-Petersburg State University)
• December 13, 2021: Totality, Malaise and Agitation — Critical Theory’s Contribution to an Understanding of Populism by Helge Petersen (University of Glasgow) & Alexander Struwe (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• January 17, 2022: The Impact of Varied Public Euroscepticism on Populist Voting, Conditional on Types of Populist Parties: Focused on the 2019 European Parliament Election” by Hyoungrohk Chu (Binghamton University)
• February 21, 2022: The parts do have their unique effects: The bifactor model of populist attitudes and its applications in voting behaviour within the Czech context by Veronika Dostálová (Masaryk University)

We look forward to seeing you all at our first session next Monday!

Sincerely,

OPUS Steering Committee