This event is part of a long running effort of the HEPP research group. We are proud to announce the 5th Helsinki Conference on Emotions Populism and Polarisation, HEPP5, taking place on 5-7 March 2025. As always, the event brings together scholars working on populist mobilisation, rhetoric, and logics across the world. We welcome submissions from scholars from across disciplines and levels of academic seniority.
This time, the event draws particularly on the research group’s work on the Social Contract in the CO3 Horizon project, and resilience, from the Trans-Atlantic ENDURE project. There will also be special sessions on the preliminary results of research done on the European Parliamentary Elections in 2024, which the group studied across Europe on social media focusing on short videos from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. We are very excited to welcome our three keynote speakers: Dr. Marina Prentoulis, Dr. Asel Doolotkeldieva, and Dr. Allan Dreyer Hansen. You can read more about them and their talks on our Keynote Speakers page.
The HEPP research group and the conferences are famed for their friendly, informal, and fun atmosphere, which we hope to replicate in 2025.
The HEPP4 conference was held at the University of Helsinki 11-13 December 2023, with a special symposium day at the University of Lapland on 14 December 2023.* The conference was organised on-site with hybrid options and streamed keynote sessions. The first edition took place before the pandemic in 2019, HEPP2 was fully virtual, and since HEPP3, we have operated in a fully hybrid format.
If you cannot make it in 2025, or if you like to plan ahead, we would like to add that HEPP6 is planned for May 2026.
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