COST Action CA 16211

Reappraising Intellectual Debates on

Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe

RECAST TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE HUMANITIES & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
2018 Edition

Framing Rights and Democracy

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
Faculty of Political Science, Plac Litewski 3, room 026
5–7 December 2018

Programme

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

9:00 – 9:30 Registration, Signing of Attendance List

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome, Prof. Maria Marczewska-Rytko and Prof. José María Rosales
Brief presentation of participants

10:00 – 11:30 Opening Session

Prof. Maria Marczewska-Rytko, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Populism as a Challenge for Liberal Democracy and Human Rights

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:15 Framing Rights (I)

Dr. Graham Finlay, University College Dublin

From Rights to Equality

13:15 – 14:45 Lunch Break

14:45 – 16:15 Framing Democracy (I)

Prof. Leszek Koczanowicz, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty on Wrocław
Making an Illiberal Democracy: The Polish Case

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Methodological Session (I)

Prof. Jan Harald Alnes, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Principles of Argumentation in an Interdisciplinary and Loaded Context
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 COST Action CA 16211
Reappraising Intellectual Debates on
Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe

Thursday, 6 December 2018

9:00 – 10:30 Framing Rights (II)

Prof. Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Åland Islands Peace Institute, Mariehamn

Universalism–Particularism and Rights: Are Rights a Component of, or an Obstacle to
Democracy?

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00 Methodological Session (II)

Prof. José María Rosales, University of Málaga

Beyond the Traditional Divide between the Humanities and the Social Sciences: On Some
Consequences of Interdisciplinary Research

12:00 – 13:30 PhD and Postdoctoral Projects Presentations (I)

Ada Lui Gallassi, PhD candidate, social work, Örebro University, Sweden
‘International Mobility and the Socio-Economic Conditions of Older Migrants’
Lucia Leontiev, PhD candidate, human rights and global politics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies,
Pisa, Italy
‘Human Rights Protection in De Facto States’
Mariana Rosca, PhD candidate, human rights, University of Deusto, Spain
‘Religious Minorities and European Social Integration: An Evaluation of Political Instruments’
William Underwood, PhD candidate, international law, Stockholm University
‘Transitional Power-Sharing Governments and International Law: The Struggle for Democracy after Civil War’

13:30 – 14:45 Lunch Break

14:45 – 16:15 Framing Democracy (II)

Prof. Anna Schober, University of Klagenfurt

Democracy, Visual Media and Political Imagination: Between Popularisation and Populism

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 PhD and Postdoctoral Projects Presentations (II)

Dr. Miruna Balosin, European studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

‘Civil Society and Anti-Corruption: The Case of Romania’
Dr. Branko Bošković, humanistic studies, University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro
‘Populist Movements and Welfare Chovinism: Endangering Rights and Flawing Democracy?’
Dr. Gilda Hoxha, political science, University of Tirana
‘New Socio-Political Movements in Albania’
Dr. Özge Zihnioğlu, political science, Bahçeşehir University
‘Conservative Civil Society’
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COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme

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 COST Action CA 16211
Reappraising Intellectual Debates on
Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe

Friday, 7 December 2018

9:00 – 10:30 PhD and Postdoctoral Projects Presentations (III)

Francisco Javier Bellido, PhD candidate, philosophy, Universities of Jyväskylä and Málaga
‘Democracy in Constituent Moments: A Philosophical-Political Exploration of Constitutional Debates in
Spain, 1931 and 1977-78’
Ozan Utku Çam, PhD candidate, political science, Central European University, Budapest
‘Ideology and Politics of Islamic Parties’
George Eyong Tabe, PhD candidate, political science, University of West Bohemia
‘The European External Action Service Response to Emerging Security Crises: Migration and Terrorism’
Dr. Emre Turkut, doctoral researcher, law, Ghent University
‘State of Emergency in Turkey’

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15 Framing Democracy (III)

Dr. Ruzha Smilova, Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ & Centre for Liberal Strategies
The Lost Concept of ‘The People’ and Its Populist Revival

12:15 – 13:45 PhD and Postdoctoral Projects Presentations (IV)

Dr. Kamil Aksiuto, philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

‘The Fate of Universalism in the Contemporary World: Richard Rorty’s Case’
Alicia García Álvarez, PhD candidate, philosophy, University of Oviedo
‘Epistemic Injustice and Feminism: The Case for Women’
María Isabel Holgado González, PhD candidate, philosophy, University of Málaga
‘The Concept of Blame and its Methodology’
Joanna Panciuchin, PhD candidate, pedagogy and cultural studies, University of Lower Silesia in Wrocław
‘Dialogue, Action, Emancipation: Non-Formal Education as a Tool for Social Change’

13:45 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 16:30 PhD and Postdoctoral Projects Presentations (V)

Asad Shukhrat-Zade, PhD candidate, European studies, University of Flensburg

‘Pax Europa and Edenic Tree of Neoliberalism’
Svetozar Matejašev, PhD candidate, history, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences
and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘Continuity and Empathy: Problems of Historical Narrative in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century’
Javier Gutiérrez Espinosa, PhD candidate, political science, Complutense University of Madrid
‘Euroscepticism, Populism and the Decline of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe’
Dr. Dorota Maj, political science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
‘Referendum as a Tool of Political Demagogy: The Cases of Poland and the Baltic States’

16:30 – 17:00 Concluding Remarks

Prof. Maria Marczewska-Rytko and Prof. Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark
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COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme

Horizon 2020