Lecture ’Human Rights and Populism: USA, Hungary and Serbia in Comparative Perspective’

Dr Zoran Lutovac will give a lecture titled ’Human Rights in Populism: USA, Hungary and Serbia in Comparative Perspective’ on Tuesday, 19 May, at the SASA Hall 2, at noon.

The lecture focuses on human rights through the lens of populism, examining them in three distinct political contexts which include the United States of America, Hungary and Serbia. There are three fundamental factors at the base of the comparative analysis: the relation toward the people and the elite, the attitude toward the representative democracy and the use of the concept ‘dangerous others’.

The lecture will also examine how the universal characteristics of populism are adapted to various geopolitical and historical circumstances, and what implications these processes have for human rights and the stability of democratic institutions, i.e., for liberal-democratic values in society.