An international conference to be held on February 17 and 18, 2020, at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin will address the strengthening of conservative and right-wing populist movements worldwide, especially in Brazil. The focus will be on the situation in Brazil after the first year of government of President Jair Bolsonaro. In lectures and panel discussions, social scientists will speak about the background of the shift to the right in countries such as Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, and Poland; about right-wing populist communication strategies; about the political capture of the judiciary and the political instrumentalization of ethnic and gender differences by conservative forces in the various countries. The reactions of progressive movements against the conservative pressure in Brazil and also in Germany will be discussed in a panel. The aim is to compare the challenges for democracy and cohesion that the shift to the right in Brazil brings with other countries, and to seek explanations for the global phenomenon of the so-called conservative backlash. The conference entitled “The Conservative Backlash: Brazil in Comparative Perspective” was organized by LAI of Freie Universität Berlin. The cooperation partners are the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, and the ETSAL/IESP/State University of Rio de Janeiro. It is being sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The conference language is English. Journalists are welcome to attend. Please register by email to: leander.badura@fu-berlin.de.