Inequality, Immigration, and the Politics of Populism Symposium Saturday, Oct. 28 | 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM NYU Law Tishman Auditorium 40 Washington Square South More information & RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/inequality-immigration-and-the-politics-of-populi... NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a symposium on the politics of populism, convened by the New York Review of Books Foundation, the Dan David Prize, and the Fritt Ord Foundation. Populist parties and movements, mostly on the right, are becoming a powerful force in both the United States and Europe. The ascent of Donald Trump to the US presidency is the most spectacular electoral success in American history for a militant form of right-wing populism. The gains made by Alternative für Deutschland in the recent German elections mark the first time since 1945 that a populist party of the extreme right has achieved significant representation in the German Parliament. Why is this happening, and why is it happening now? Is it the product of exceptional events, such as the financial crisis of 2007-2008 or the mass migrations from the Middle East to Europe that reached their peak in 2015? If so, is the populist wave likely to be just a passing phenomenon? Or is it here to stay, linked to something more permanent such as the disruptions of globalization and the IT revolution, or the emergence of a more ruthless form of capitalism, especially in the United States? ________________________________ Program Saturday, October 28 9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks 10.00-11.30 Panel I-USA: The Roots of Populism Jacob Hacker (Yale), Richard Sennett (NYU and Cambridge), Michael Kazin (Georgetown). 11:30-11:45 Coffee break 11:45-1:15 Panel II-USA: Populism and the Right Frances Fitzgerald (Author of The Evangelicals, The Struggle to Shape America), Paul Krugman (CUNY), Nicholas Lemann (Columbia). 1:15-2:45 Lunch 2:45-4:15 Panel III-USA: Populism and the Left Bill Bradley (former US Senator and presidential candidate), Anne Case (Princeton), Angus Deaton (Princeton). 4:15-4:30 Coffee Break 4:30-6:00 Panel IV-The UK and France Francois Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics) and Simon Head (NYU and The New York Review). Sunday, October 29 10:00-11:30 Panel V-Germany, Scandinavia and The Netherlands Chair: Guri Hjeltnes (Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo); Grete Brochmann (Fritt Ord Foundation and University of Oslo), Hugh Eakin (Columbia and The New York Review), Henning Hoff (Executive Editor, Berlin Policy Journal). 11:30-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-1:15 Panel VI-Central and Eastern Europe Chair: Ludek Sekyra (Sekyra Group, Prague); Alma Dojcsak (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Budapest), Jirí Pehe (NYU Academic Center, Prague), Aleksander Smolar (Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw). 1:15-2:45 Lunch 2:45-4:15 Panel VII-Towards A Populist Future? Ian Buruma (The New York Review), Hadia Tajik (Member of The Norwegian Parliament), Kenneth Roth (Human Rights Watch).