When: Friday 26 and Saturday 27 October 2018
Where: Department of Media and Communications, Tower Three , 7th Floor, Silverstone Room, LSE
Populism is on the rise across the world. The elections of Fidesz government in Hungary in 2010 and the Law and Justice party in Poland in 2015, the shocks of Brexit and Trump in 2016 as well as the recent elections in major European states, including Austria, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, have brought right-wing populist parties closer to power and presented them with an opportunity to shape policy. While there has been much discussion on different political aspects of populism, its persistent attacks on legal institutions of liberal democracy, its likely causes and consequences, our two-day symposium explores the communicative strategies and populist discourses of the ‘people.’ We will explore identity politics as well as the political, media and popular narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Europe and beyond.
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Programme
11:30-12:00: Coffee & Registration
12.00-13:30: Populists, Citizens and the Media: the complex relationship
- Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, LSE
Greco-German media depictions of the Self and Other during the Eurozone Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?
- Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, LSE Visiting Fellow
Media and citizens in Greece and beyond: Resistance and Domination through Euro-crisis
- Marzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, University of London
Five Star Movement ‘Online’ Populism in Historical Perspective
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Franco Zappettini, University of Liverpool
The Tabloidization of the Brexit Campaign: Power to the (British) People
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Chair: Charlie Beckett, LSE
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14:30-15:30: Keynote
- Michał Krzyżanowski, Örebro University & University of Liverpool
Discursive Shifts and the Normalisation of Exclusion: On Politicisation and Mediatisation of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe
- Chair: Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE
15:30-17:00: Discourses, Narratives and Ideologies of Populism
- Jonathan Hopkin, LSE
Post-truth, bullshit and bad ideas: deficit fetishism in contemporary politics
- Aurelien Mondon, University of Bath (with Aaron Winter, UEL)
Whiteness, Populism and the Racialisation of the Working-class in the UK and the US
- Benjamin de Cleen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (with Péter Csigó, Jason Glynos, Aurelien Mondon)
Discourses about Populism and Their Effects: Mimesis, Ideology, Bubble and Hype
17:00-17:30: Coffee break
17:30-18:30: Keynote
- Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Challenges in Contemporary Populism Research
10:00-11:15 : Politics of exclusion: media and political representations of ‘Other’
- Myria Georgiou, LSE and Rafal Zaborowski, King’s College London
Heroes and strangers: media representations of Europe’s “refugee crisis”
- Marek Troszynski, Collegium Civitas
Poland’s liberal and illiberal encounters with refugees
- Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London
Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor
11:15-12:15 : Keynote
- Michael Cox, LSE
The Rise of Populism and the Crisis of Globalisation: Brexit, Trump and Beyond
- Chair: Robin Mansell, LSE
12:15-12:45: Lunch
12:45-14:00: The New Right in the New Europe: political and popular narratives of change
- József Böröcz, Rutgers
The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around ‘Race’
- Stanislaw Mocek, Collegium Civitas, Eva Polonska, LSE
Poles Apart: political and popular discourses of nation, democracy and Europe
- Seán Hanley, UCL
Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republi
14:00-14:30: Coffee break
14:30-15:30: Keynote
- Francisco Panizza, LSE
Populism and Identification
- Chair: Robin Mansell, LSE
15:30-17:00: Discourses of democratic values and ‘Europe’
- Gilles Ivaldi, University of Nice
Radical right and EU-pessimism in France
- Roch Dunin-Wasowicz, UCL
Generation Brexit: what do young people in Britain say about Europe?
- Stijn van Kessel, Queen Mary University of London
The populist politics of Euroscepticism in times of crisis: comparative conclusions