Organisers and Scientific Committee:
 

• Balša Lubarda ([email protected]) & Camil Ungureanu ([email protected])
• Johns Hopkins University – UPF Public Policy Centre & Social and Political Theory  Research Group

Where? 

• 4 February 2025, UPF/Online
• Zoom link https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/98609697557

Workshop Programme

11:00–11:30: “Introduction: Riding the Eco-populist Wave? The Ambivalent Centre- Right Environmentalism as Research Agenda” Balša Lubarda (UPF/Damar Institute) & Camil Ungureanu (UPF).

11:30–12:00: Robyn Eckersley, School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne) “Nationalism, populism and opposition to climate policy in Australia: comparing radical right and the centre-right discourses” (9:30 PM locally)

12.00-12.10: - Break

12:10–12:40: Mukul Sharma (Ashoka University) Imagining a Hindu Nation through Climate Change: RSS, Modi and BJP Government in India” (5:10 PM locally)

12:40–13:10: Omosefe Oyekanmi (University of Johannesburg) and Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo (University of Johannesburg) - Centre to What? The Democratic Alliance and the Ambivalences of Environmental Politics in South Africa (1:40 PM locally)

13:10–13:40: Lunch break

13:40–14:10: Balša Lubarda (UPF) and Aron Buzogany (BOKU University, Vienna), “The limits of the ‘far-right mainstreaming’ thesis in the environmental domain: a comparison of three right-wing groups in the European Parliament”

14:10–14:40: Camil Parvu and Péter Bori In Experts We Trust: The Geopolitics of Climate Optimism in Romania and Hungary Camil Parvu (University of Bucharest) and Peter J. Bori (Central European University) Experts We Trust: The Geopolitics of Climate Optimism in Romania and Hungary

14.40-14.50 - Break

14:50–15:20: Mirjam Gruber (Centre for Advanced Studies, EURAC Research) “Between Climate Action and Obstruction: Unravelling the Discourse of the Centre-Right in Austria and Germany”

15:20–15:50: Camil Ungureanu (UPF), Marc Sanjaume i Calvet (UPF), and Sofia Tipaldou (Panteion University) “Patterns of eco-nationalist contamination in Southern Europe: a comparative approach”

15.50-16.00: Break

16:00–16:30: Lisa Zanotti (University of Santiago de Chile), Carlos Mele ndez (University of Santiago de Chile) and Gonzalo Espinoza-Bianchini (University of Santiago de Chile) “Ideological Identity vs. Attitudes: What Drives Climate Change Skepticism on the Centre and Radical Right in Chile?” (noon locally)

16:30–17:00: Jesse Callahan Bryant (Yale University) Environmentalism and Nationalism in the Republican Party in the United States: An Embedding Regression Analysis of 75 years of Congressional Speeches (9:30 AM locally)

17:00–17:20: Concluding remarks and next steps - Balša Lubarda & Camil Ungureanu