Book symposium at Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe Conference

It will be a great opportunity and honour to speak about my book The Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orbán Regime (Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2019) at Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe Conference, 20-22 May 2021, organized by the Institute for Social Solidarity (ISS) and the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the Babeș-Bolyai University.

The book symposium will be 21 May 2021 4.00-6.00 PM (Bucharest Time Zone) 3.00-5.00 PM (Eastern European Time).

From the crisis of liberalism to the rise of illiberalism in Hungary: Perspectives from political economy

Conveners:

Gábor Scheiring (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)

Kristóf Szombati (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle - Saale, Germany)

Moderator:

Don Kalb (University of Bergen, Norway)

Participants:

Q1. Book: The Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orbán Regime (Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2019) Attila Antal (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Q2. Book: The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020). Gábor Scheiring (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)

Q3. Book: The Revolt of The Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary (New York, Berghahn, 2018). Kristof Szombati (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle - Saale, Germany)

Q4. Book: Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism and Citizenship. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, October 2021) Mary N. Taylor (City University of New York, US)