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12/02/2022
DI Joins Project on Illiberal Constitutionalism
Joachim von Puttkamer will investigate references to the interwar regimes and their institutional setup in the political discourse of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, both in public and internal debates, and their impact on providing the new democracies of the 1990s with a presumed national tradition. Such references can be traced on various levels, starting with administrative and legal terminology and going all the way to basic constitutional principles. Attempts to reestablish presumed national continuities tended to reach out to the 1930s rather than the 1920s and therefore to emphasize authoritarian rather than democratic elements. The Hungarian debate on how to properly label the Horthy regime’s character is a case in point. While public discourse on collective memory and summary assessments have been well researched, the project will investigate specific debates in the legal, administrative and constitutional fields and analyze them in a comparative framework. Joachim von Puttkamer is a historian of Eastern Europe. He is editor of the Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century and director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena.
DATE? 22/02/22 | TIME: 19:30 est | WHO? Vertreter der Uni
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DI Joins Project on Illiberal
Joachim von Puttkamer will investigate references to the interwar regimes and their institutional setup in the political discourse of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, both in public and internal debates, and their impact on providing the new democracies of the 1990s with a presumed national tradition.
DATE? 22/02/22 | TIME: 19:30 est | WHO? Vertreter der Uni
DI Joins Project on Illiberal
Joachim von Puttkamer will investigate references to the interwar regimes and their institutional setup in the political discourse of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, both in public and internal debates, and their impact on providing the new democracies of the 1990s with a presumed national tradition.
DATE? 22/02/22 | TIME: 19:30 est | WHO? Vertreter der Uni
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Warsaw Expert Forum
The Warsaw Expert Forum, which will take place on 29 September at Dom Spotkań z Historią, is the first in the series of forums of the „Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives“ project.
The Forum aims at bringing together historians, legal scholars, justice practitioners and political stakeholders to discuss the pressing issues of the role of rule of law in democratic transition and the challenges of illiberal authoritarianism in national, European, and global scope.
The forums are planned to take place in the cities of all the project partners (University of Jena, University of Erfurt, Institute of Contemporary History Prague, Democracy Institute CEU Budapest, and University of Warsaw).
The first Warsaw forum will focus on recent Hungarian and Polish experience in broader European context.
WHEN? 29/09/22 17:30-19:30 | WHERE? Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw, ul. Karowa 20 | WHAT ELSE? In-person, no pre-registration needed; a small reception will follow the forum