08.06.2026
Call for Papers: Workshop "Populism on the Far Right: Concepts and Critiques"
DVPW Working Group on Populism – Annual Conference: University of Tübingen, 23-24 September 2026 (hybrid event)
The 2026 annual conference of the DVPW Working Group on Populism, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex) at the University of Tübingen, specifically with the Research Unit on Political Actors and Ideologies, led by Léonie de Jonge, responds to the continued salience of far-right actors, parties, movements, and discourses across democratic and authoritarian settings alike. Over the past decade, research on the far right has frequently intersected with the concept of populism.
Many influential studies have analysed far-right mobilization through the lens of populism, while others have questioned whether populism remains an analytically useful or normatively desirable concept for understanding contemporary far-right politics. Debates persist over whether populism clarifies, obscures, normalizes, or depoliticizes exclusionary and authoritarian projects.
Against this backdrop, we invite contributions that critically examine the relationship between populism and the far right. We welcome theoretical, conceptual, empirical, historical, comparative, and methodological perspectives that engage with the promises and limits of the populism concept in research on the far right.
We invite submissions of abstracts of max. 250 words, alongside with institutional affiliation and a biographical note before 15 June 2026 to: populismus@dvpw.de.
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