We highlight three names from the new round of conferences that La Nau puts at our disposal while it cannot open its doors due to the pandemic. First of all, the French sociologist Michel Wieviorka, regular contributor to the Catalan newspaper The vanguard well versed in Islamophobia, talk about populism, extremism and democracy in Europe and proposes a refoundation based on social and cultural changes. After analyzing the birth of the original populism in different parts of the Western world, where very contradictory movements were mixed, Wieviorka concludes that what we have today, Since the years 80, it is a "neo-populism" that is not necessarily related to the right. It began to be structured around issues such as the fear of migration and the new Islamic religion that was spreading across Europe or the need to dilute the European Union and end political mediators. It is a current that flags "with me or against me", criticizes the elites and presents itself as anti-system, although he aspires to come to power in a "respectable" way, renouncing extremism and violence. The sociologist states that populism is not always linked to situations of economic crisis, rather to crises of political systems, and that he is much stronger in the opposition than when he approaches power and has to make concrete proposals to lead a country. Finally, newspaper, populism is the last form of politics before the worst can emerge: authoritarianism, xenophobia, extremism, the dictatorship, the violence…
In second place, the journalists take the microphone Gervasio Sanchez i Conchi Cejudo, Ser Chain serial drivers Buried lives (together with Javier del Pino) what does she see the thousands of people who suffered all kinds of abuse during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. On the other hand, the vice president of the government Carmen Calvo discourses on equality as the backbone of democracy. You can also listen to the music of Antonio Vivaldi, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Sebastian Bach performed forAncient Music Ensemble; and the readings recommended by Javier de Lucas, professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Valencia, and by journalist Manuel Peris: I notice very changed by José Luis Cuerda i Life instructions for use by Georges Perec. AU
