Some scholars claim that we are experiencing a global rise of the right,
pointing to patterns of nativism, nationalism, militarization, terrorism
scare, anti-immigration sentiments, disillusionment with the established
political parties and enmity towards further economic globalization.

Yet is it appropriate to speak about a global shift towards the right? Are
these global patterns or rather Western phenomena? And is it a rise of the
right, a decline of the left, or the disappearance of the political center?

9:00-9:15 Welcome Address
9:15-10:45 Global Faculty Roundtable
11:00-12:20 Global-Local Perspectives Panel
1:00-2:45 Europe Panel
3:00-4:20 Asia Panel
4:35-5:30 The Americas Panel
6:00-7:00 Keynote speech by Macarena Gomez Barris, Chair of the
Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, New York

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