Trust and Conflict in Democracies
International Workshop, ConTrust Working Group 1
Building “Normative Ordnungen” | Room EG 01 + 02 (ground floor)
Max Horkheimer Str. 2
Frankfurt am Main, Hessen 60323
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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
Presented by:
„ConTrust. Vertrauen im Konflikt. Politisches Zusammenleben unter Bedingungen der Ungewissheit“ – ein Clusterprojekt des Landes Hessen am Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
