Special Lecture by Dr. Natasza Styczyńska (Assistant Professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

About the speaker: Dr Natasza Styczyńska is an assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Her academic interests include party politics, nationalism, populism and Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She leads the JU team in Horizon Europe REGROUP Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic research project and is a director of studies of Joint BA in European Studies at Jagiellonian, which was developed within Una Europa University Alliance as the first ever joint BA programme.

Date and Time: Nov. 8 (Wednesday), 16:50 to 18:20

Place: Nakaniwa Conference Room, 1F Main Building, School of Letters  (中庭会議室、文学部本館一階)

Title: Populist Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Populism emerged in new post-communist EU member states alongside European integration, which accompanied the processes of transformation and modernization, but also the general trend of globalisation. Populism is often accompanied by Euroscepticism that appears both in the mainstream and at the margins of the political spectrum. The illiberal populist turn observed in the region poses a challenge not only to domestic politics but also to the future of the European project. The main aim of the lecture is to map, describe and discuss the populist politics in the selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The main focus will be on populist rhetoric and policy-making observed during times of crisis (refugee crisis, covid-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine).