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The second chapter of Nathan's聽dissertation will attempt to address聽a more nuanced understanding of Poland鈥檚 Law and Justice party (PiS) and their effort to instrumentalize relations with the sphere of civil society organizations (CSOs). The context of 鈥渕emory鈥� offers a unique vantage point on this state-CSO relationship, and further, how this relationship is driving a shift away from 鈥渓iberal鈥� norms. This chapter will illustrate this shift in both in a discursive sense as it relates to memory and historical narrative, but also in terms of practice, or how the state is able to influence and coerce non-governmental memory actors.

聽To explore this process Nathan聽will examine two mechanisms of influence seen in both the 鈥淣ational Freedom Institute鈥� (Narodowy Instytut Wolno艣ci) and the 鈥淧atriotism of Tomorrow鈥� program (Patriotyzm Jutra), both associated with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. With the help of these institutions, the PiS government has been able to foster a robust and ideologically aligned cadre of CSOs which work to further the party鈥檚 narrative, while at the same time embodying a new and illiberal mode of governance.聽聽

About the speaker:聽

Nathan was formerly a research assistant on the Horizon-2020 project 鈥淧OPREBEL,鈥� focusing on the emergence of populism in Central and Eastern Europe.聽 He completed his Masters degree in European studies at the Jagiellonian University, focusing on illiberalism and party politics in Poland.

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