Videos
Interview with Renáta Uitz
Illiberal Democracies and Religion
In 2018, Hungarian Prime-Minister Viktor Orbán labeled the country’s political regime an “illiberal Christian democracy,” emphasizing his government’s interest in appropriating Christianity for the illiberal democratic context and Hungary’s clashes with more liberal members of the EU and with the Union itself. Professor Renáta Uitz (Royal Holloway, University of London; CEU Democracy Institute) discusses the origin and phenomenon of illiberal democracies in Eastern Europe and beyond and explains why and how these regimes utilize religion and religious groups for political ends. Uitz focuses on different sources of Hungarian and Polish political Christian theology and the role of “traditional values” incorporated into several Eastern European constitutions. She also elaborates on how illiberal regimes tame and silence democratically oriented religious communities and clergy by making oppositional activities too costly for them.
Hearing the Nation’s Heartbeat: Reproductive Rights in an Illiberal Age
Podium Discussion | 13 March 2022
About the (global) war on gender and reproductive rights discussed Marta Bucholc, Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes, Stefania Kapronczay, and Andrea Pető, moderated by Edit Zgut Przybylska. This public debate took part at the Central European University in Budapest. More Information.
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‚Darker Legacies of Law in Europe‘: The Florence Project Revisited -Accomplishments, Failings, Lessons
Key Note Speech by Christian Joerges | 2 December 2022
Christian Joerges talk was part of the Conference „Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism“ in Jena, 2-3 December 2022.
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