Opening remarks – 12:00
Marlene Laruelle, Director, Illiberalism Studies Program, GW
Diego Abente Brun, Latin American and Hemispheric Studies, GW
Opening speaker – 12:10-12:50
Julio F. Carrión, University of Delaware, United States
Populism, Illiberalism, and Popular Sovereignty in Latin America
Panel I. Successes and failures of illiberal trajectories across the continent – 13:00-14:30
Chair: Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University, United States
Mollie J. Cohen, University of Georgia, United States
Mobilizing illiberalism? Null vote campaigns and support for democracy in Latin America
Leandro Gonzalez, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina
Populist Radical Right in Latin America: the experiences of Jorge Antonio Kast in Chile and Javier Milei in Argentina
Francisco José Alfaro Pareja, Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela
Illiberal experience in Venezuela. The transition from representative democracy to authoritarianism
Benjamin Garcia Holgado, University of Notre Dame, United States
Political radicalization, illiberalism, and the threat to liberal democracy in Latin America: lessons from the Argentine case (2007-2015)
Panel II. Gender perspectives on illiberalism – 14:40-15:50
Chair: Diego Abente Brun, George Washington University, United States
Ángela María Bohórquez Oviedo, University of Delaware, United States
Framing Gender to Derail Peace: The Organized Counterforce of the Colombian Campaign against ‘Gender Ideology’
Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Ryerson University, Canada
The Divergent Gender Strategies of Women Leaders in Programmatic Parties and Charismatic Movements: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Michelle Bachelet in Comparative Perspective
Stéphanie Rousseau, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
Anti-Gender Politics and Populism in Peru
Panel III. Domestic Context, Ideological Roots, External Influences – 16:00-17:30
Chair: Julio F. Carrión, University of Delaware, United States
Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Illiberalism in Brazil: From Constitutional Authoritarianism to Bolsonarism
Paulo Henrique Paschoeto Cassimiro, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil; Christian Edward Cyril Lynch, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Brazilian Illiberalism in power. The ideological roots of Bolsonaro’s government
Michael McCarthy, George Washington University, United States
Illiberal Liberalism in Chile: Between Limited Democracy, Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism. The impact of the political thought of Friedrich von Hayek and Jaime Guzmán.
Armando Chaguaceda, El Colegio de Veracruz, Mexico; Johanna Cilano, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Understanding Illiberal Confluence in Latin America. The political-media projection of Russia in the Venezuelan crisis
