Trust and Conflict in Democracies

International Workshop, ConTrust Working Group 1

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Registration to sekretariat.forst@soz.uni-frankfurt.de is requested.

Programme:

Thursday, Oct 20:

2:00 – 2:30
Registration

2:30 – 3:00     
Welcoming Remarks

3:00 – 5:30
Panel 1: „Trust and Conflict in Multicultural Democracies“

Chairs: Beatrice Brunhöber and Rainer Forst (organized in cooperation with the Research Institute Social Cohesion Frankfurt)

Uwe Volkmann (Frankfurt): Constitutions as Elements of Trust in Multicultural Societies

Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim): Does Diversity Erode Trust?

Patti Tamara Lenard (Ottawa): Allyship with oppressed groups under conditions of distrust

6:00 – 7:30
Keynote: Günter Frankenberg (Frankfurt): Trusting de Tocqueville

Friday, Oct 21:

09:30 – 12:30
Panel 2: „Populist versus Democratic Trust“

Chair: Ilaria Cozzaglio

Jonathan Floyd (Bristol): Public Political Philosophy: Forging trust and fighting populism

Emilia Palonen (Helsinki): Demography vs. Democracy: From liberal democratic anti-politics to populist engagement

David Owen (Southampton): Dynamics of Populism and (Dis)Trust: Circumstances, Mechanisms and Expressions

Camila Vergara (Cambridge): The Return of ‚Common Sense‘: Populist & Ethnonationalist Forms of Trust

12:30- 1:30    
Lunch

1:30- 4:00
Panel 3: „Antidemocratic Distrust and the Politics of Conspiracy“

Chair: Greta Wagner

Scott Radnitz (Seattle/Florence): The Construction of ‚Enemies Within‘ 

Nils C. Kumkar (Bremen): The Reality of Conflict and Conflicting Realities: The Communicative Function of Alternative Facts

Katarina Busch/Mardeni Simoni (Frankfurt): Distrust and Conspiracy Belief in Contemporary Authoritarianism