9.15-9.30 OPENING WORDS and Speech by Timo Kaartinen, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki (Room 230, Aurora)
9.30–10.45 KEYNOTE 1: Mercedes Barros - What does populism have to do with rights? (Room 230, Aurora)
10.45–11.15: COFFEE BREAK
11.15–12.45 PANEL SESSION 1
1.1. Discursive Strategies and Political Dynamics in Social Networks during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from the ENDURE Project (Room 229, Aurora)
1.2. Populist Radicalisations (Room 223, Aurora)
1.3. Environmental Discourses and Populism (Room 224, Aurora)
1.4. Circulation of Narratives, Doxae, and Implicit Meanings in Populist Discourse (Room 225, Aurora)
1.5. Emotions in Electoral Discourses (Room 226, Aurora)
12.45-14.15 LUNCH
14.15–15.45 PANEL SESSION 2
2.1. Populism Theory and Emotions (Room 229, Aurora)
2.2. Social Media, Politics and Populism (Room 224, Aurora)
2.3. Discursive and Political Perspectives on the War in Ukraine (Room 225, Aurora)
2.4. Memory Politics in the Age of Populism (Room 226, Aurora)
2.5. Emotions, Religion and Populism (Room 115, Aurora)
15.45-16.15 COFFEE BREAK
16.15–18.00 PANEL SESSION 3
3.1. Theory of Populism and Laclau (Room 115, Aurora)
3.2. Emotions and Right-Wing Politics (Room 223, Aurora)
3.3. Conspiracy Theories and Populism (Room 224, Aurora)
3.4. Hegemony, Class, Affect: Everyday Experiences and Ideological Exploitation (Room 225, Aurora)
3.5. Identification and Online Misogynist Movements (Room 226, Aurora)
18.30–20.00 CITY OF HELSINKI RECEPTION
9.15–10.45 KEYNOTE 2: Benjamin De Cleen and Emilia Palonen - The Essence of Populism (Room 230, Aurora)
10.45–11.15: COFFEE BREAK
11.15–12.45 PANEL SESSION 4
4.1. Exploring Grievance Politics I: Extreme Ideological Tensions and Ressentimentful Affects (Room 224, Aurora)
4.2. Affective Polarization(s) and Datafication (Room 115, Aurora)
4.3. Theory of Populism and beyond (Room 209, Aurora)
4.4. Nationalism and Radical Right Populism across Europe in Romance Speaking Countries: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Room 223, Aurora)
4.5. Religious Populism Panel (Room 226, Aurora)
12.45-14.15 LUNCH
14.15–16.00 PANEL SESSION 5
5.1. Exploring Grievance Politics II: Affective and Discursive Dimensions (Room 224, Aurora)
5.2. Immigration and Populist Surges: Understanding the Connection (Room 209, Aurora)
5.3. (In)Security Imaginaries (Room 225, Aurora)
5.4. Crises in Politics (Room 226, Aurora)
5.5. Pandemic, Conspiracy Theories and (Counter)Media (Room 229, Aurora)
5.6. Gender and Right-Wing Politics (Room 212, Aurora)
16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30–18.00 PANEL SESSION 6
6.1. Exploring Grievance Politics III: Ressentiment, Authoritarianism, Public Outrage and (Anti)Democratic Preferences (Room 224, Aurora)
6.2. Emotions, Populism and Media (Room 226, Aurora)
6.3. Conceptualizing Tribalism: Advancing Shared Understanding through Collaboration, A Roundtable (Room 225, Aurora)
6.4. Anti-Populism (Room 209, Aurora)
6.5. Emerging and Polarizing Public Spheres (Room 212, Aurora)
18.15-19.45 HEPP4 RECEPTION
9.15-10.45 KEYNOTE 3 (panel): Hande Eslen-Ziya - Populism and Science: Exploring Counter-Knowledge and Academic Sustainability (Room 230, Aurora)
10.45–11.15: COFFEE BREAK
11.15.-12.45 PANEL SESSION 7
7.1. Affective Polarization(s) and Media (Room 212, Aurora)
7.2. Interconnections of Populism and Nationalism (Room 224, Aurora)
7.3. Visual Communication in Politics (Room 225, Aurora)
7.4. Research Center DESIRE Panel: Critical Approaches to the Study of the ‘Far Right’ and ‘Populism’ (Room 229, Aurora)
12.45-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 PANEL SESSION 8
8.1. Discussions on the “Mainstream” and “Mainstreaming” (Room 168, Athena)
8.2. Infrastructures of Unreality: Conspiracy Theories, Media and Illiberalism in Central Eastern Europe (Room 302, Athena)
8.3. Nation, Elites and Generations in Affective Bind (Room 167, Athena)
8.4. Polarization, Radicalization, and Discourse. A Comparative Transatlantic Perspective. (Room 303, Athena)
8.5. Cultural Populism (Room 169, Athena)
15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.00-17.30 PANEL SESSION 9
9.1 Special Session: D.Rad Hub on Ethnonationalism in Europe (Room 230, Aurora)
All HEPP4 Keynotes are hybrid events accessible for both conference participants and the public audiences.
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11 Dec 2023 9.30–10.45
Mercedes Barros - What does populism have to do with rights?
12 Dec 2023 9.15–10.45
Benjamin De Cleen and Emilia Palonen - The Essence of Populism
12 Dec 2023 9.15–10.45
Hande Eslen-Ziya - Populism and Science: Exploring Counter-Knowledge and Academic Sustainability
The HEPP4 Participants will be provided with three lunch tickets to UniCafe Olivia located nearby the Conference venue at Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, 00170 Helsinki. The ticket includes one meal consisting of one main dish, one side dish, salads, appetizers and drinks.
But! You can spice up your lunch breaks with wonderful sights nearby the conference venues. The iconic Helsinki Cathedral and Christmas Market square are just 10 minutes away. Also check out the Helsinki City Museum, their exhibitions are free and fit well for a light visit. You can gain fantastic sauna experiences with the SkyWheel Helsinki (sauna cabin with Helsinki view from above) or the public Kulttuurisauna (ice swimming included!).
* The order of presentations is subject to change.
** Panelists marked with a star are presenting online.
9.30–10.45: KEYNOTE 1 Mercedes Barros - What does populism have to do with rights?
1.1. Discursive Strategies and Political Dynamics in Social Networks during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from the ENDURE Project (Chair: Salla-Maaria Laaksonen)
Emilia Palonen & Juha Koljonen: Introduction: Post-foundational discourse theory in large data analysis
Kleber Carrilho, Marina Fontolan, Eurídice Hernandez, Gisele Silva: Polarisation and disinformation in Brazil's COVID-19 vaccination onset on X (former Twitter)
Christian Fröhlich: Anti-pandemic twitter discourse in Germany (2020-21)
Mateusz Karolak: Polarized Discourses on Lockdown Policies: An Analysis of Polish Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emilia Palonen, Henry Jokinen, Juha Koljonen and Tomi Toivio: Mask or not? Finnish authorities Covid-19 policy under scrutiny on the hashtag landscape
1.2. Populist Radicalisations (Chair: Hande Eslen-Ziya)
Pia Mikander & Jenny Högström: Encountering anti-pluralist movements in Nordic classrooms – The role of emotions
Michele Benazzo: Radical Poles in Motion: The Transition of British Muslim Radicalism from Ethno-Nationalism to Islamism, 1985-1992
Francesco Campo & Angela Bourne: Mincing their style? On the moderation of populist style in Spain and Italy
Miloš Gregor & Otto Eibl: Populism: An inevitable path towards radicalization
1.3. Environmental Discourses and Populism (Chair: Tero Toivanen)
Ivana Sesar: Populism and the politicization of the issue of anthropogenic climate change
Riku Löf: Can one make fun out of eco-crisis? Humor in environmental activist communication
Otto Snellman & Riku Löf: Rises and falls of Left environmental populism ‒ academic critique and affects for self-reflection
Nevio Moreschi: Left-wing Ideology, Populism, and Environmental Preservation in Latin America: Pink Tide’s patterns of commodity-driven deforestation, and Rafael Correa’s justifications.
1.4. Circulation of Narratives, Doxae, and Implicit Meanings in Populist Discourse (Chair: Simo Määttä, Discussant: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen)
Julien Longhi: Ethos, authority, and legitimacy of the “scientific leader” in the circulation of conspiratorial discourse about Covid-19
Samuel Vernet: Constructing the antagonistic populist figure: Doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th 2021 events at the US Capitol on a French radio channel
Mélanie Buchart: Catalysis, victimisation and demonisation in the populist leader’s rhetoric
Mattia Retta: Circulation of hate speech through implicit meanings in the tweets of Italian extreme-right politicians
1.5. Emotions in Electoral Discourses (Chair: Annastiina Kallius)
András Hettyey: Hungarian exceptionalism: narcissism of a small state
Otto Eibl: It’s the Personality that Matters: Divided by Emotions and Style - An Analysis of Czech Presidential Elections
Bianca Alighieri Luz Monteiro: All we need is love' - Bolsonaro and Lula's affective investment to construct 'the people during the electoral campaign in 2022
Luiz Farias & Vânia Penafieri: Brazil’s digital articulations on political-electoral behavior
2.1. Populism Theory and Emotions (Chair: Mercedes Barros)
Sebastián Ronderos: Critical Fantasy Studies and the Study of Populism: Methodological Challenges and Strategies
Roland Zarzycki: On The Structure of Emotional Anchoring of Ideological Narratives
Ana-Maria Bliuc, Susan de Groot Heupner & Robb Norrie: Emotions and populism: a systematic review
Liv Sunnercrantz: A post-foundational problem of method
2.2. Social Media, Politics, and Populism (Chair: Erfan Fatehi)
Anna Catharina Sampaio Vale & Adriana Lima de Oliveira: Polarized scenario and the shift to a non-partisan relationship of young people with politics in social media in Brazil
Nuppu Pelevina: Influencer politics in different political systems
Hossein Derakhshan: Deeper fakes A case study on the dangers of 'malinformation'
Jaisal E. K.: A Crisis in the Middle East Spilling Over to Kerala’s Digital Public Sphere
2.3. Discursive and Political Perspectives on the War in Ukraine (Chair: Alina Mozolevska)
Marta Giallombardo: Covering a world of crisis: uses and emotional implications of the word ‘sacrifice’ in Covid-19 and Ukrainian war news.
Roman Kyrychenko: Uncovering the Complexities of Polarisation Dynamics: A Social Media Data Model Analysis of Political Discourse in Ukraine
Sabine Volk: Between ‘Brother Nations’, ‘Asian invaders’, and ‘defenders of Fortress Europe’: War-time Representations of Ukraine and Russia in the German(-speaking) Far Right
Dragan Jurić: The Effects of Populism on European Security and Defence
2.4. Memory Politics in the Age of Populism (Chair: Szilvia Horváth)
Zea Szebeni & Ilana Hartikainen: Dueling Pseudohistories in Slovakia and Hungary: Collisions of Memory, Disinformation, and the Politics of the Past
Maria Pardo: Zero Results for Censorship: Venezuela’s Vanishing Archive
Barbara Markowska-Marczak: Museum as a war machine: politics of affect in the Ukrainian museal narratives
Laura Horsmanheimo: Breaking the Taboo – Performativity, Space for Becoming Visible and a Case of Helsinki City Museum’s Sex Work Exhibition
2.5. Emotions, Religion and Populism (Chair: Feeza Vasudeva)
Susan de Groot Heupner: Religious populism in Turkey, Pakistan, and Indonesia
Valerio Aversano: Emotions, Religion and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
Ali Alsayegh: The Content of Grand Ayatollah Sistani's Charisma: the Affective Bond
Pragya Yadav: Populism, Religion and the Media in Global South: A case study of Hindutva and Nationalism Politics in India
3.1. Theory of Populism and Laclau (Chair: Emilia Palonen)
Allan Dreyer Hansen: The Spectre of Populism
Alessandro Volpi: Political Theology and Political Hauntology: About the Logic of Populism in Laclau through Schmitt
Jun-han Yon: What to Do with the People? Lefort, Laclau, and Rancière on the (Radical) Democratic Politics of Peoplehood
Dr Matko Krce-Ivančić: The Political Frontier and the Emergence of the Neoliberal Subject
3.2. Emotions and Right-Wing Politics (Chair: Katinka Linnamäki)
Mary-Ann Cherry: The radicalising effect of affective discourse: Developing a psycholinguistic dictionary of contempt
Kunal Nath Shahdeo: Hindutva and Affective Politics: Exploring the Emotional Foundations of Political Mobilization in Contemporary India
Jogilė Ulinskaitė & Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz: Emotional chronopolitics of Lithuanian populist far-right
Archibald Gustin: From Illiberal to Liberal Sexism: femonationalism in Vlaams Belang's discourse
3.3. Conspiracy Theories and Populism (Chair: Ilana Hartikainen)
Lukasz Swiecicki: Right-wing populism in Poland and anti-technological conspiracy theories on YouTube
Zichen (Jess) Hu: Going beyond the dichotomised 'elite versus mass' dichotomy: Mapping social networks in vaccine controversy
Anam Kuraishi: Talking Post-Truth: Newspaper Discourse and Suspended Democracy in Pakistan
Steffen Göths: Populism and Conspiracy Theories - Siblings or distantly related Cousins
3.4. Hegemony, Class, Affect: Everyday Experiences and Ideological Exploitation (Chair: Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, Discussant: Daniel Bodén)
Daniel Bodén: “I understand where you’re coming from!”: An autoethnographic exploration of the base and superstructure-problem in classical Marxism
Aleksandra Reczuch: Strike, solidarity and feminist demands – the role of affect and emotions in popular mobilisations in Poland
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne: Reproducing ‘the people’: Reflections on kinship, social reproduction and class in times of neoliberalism and authoritarianism
Federico Vernarelli: A Fordist requiem: Nostalgia and haunting in former mining communities
3.5. Identification and Online Misogynist Movements (Chair: Laura Horsmanheimo)
Kristin Jung Ståhle: Methodological Challenges Faced in Doing Research of the Manosphere: Reflections from Ethnographic Fieldwork Experiences
Luca Mancin: Hate Thy Neighbour: Incels’ and Far-Right’s Paranoia Between Nostalgia and Victimhood in Italy
Emilia Lounela: Interviewing current and former incels: experiences, life events, worldviews
Pekka Kolehmainen: Gender and Antagonism in the Populist Rhetoric of PragerU
9.15–10.45: KEYNOTE 2 Benjamin De Cleen and Emilia Palonen - The Essence of Populism
4.1. Exploring Grievance Politics I: Extreme Ideological Tensions and Ressentimentful Affects (Chair: Tereza Capelos, Discussant: Mikko Salmela)
Ayhan Kaya: Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe: Co-Radicalisation of Young European Citizens
Gavin Brent Sullivan, Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels & Martijn van Zomeren: Moral and emotional dimensions of politicized identity in established political parties and new populist rivals: a mixed-method study
Christian von Scheve, Mikko Salmela, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova: Collective ressentiment
4.2. Affective Polarization(s) and Datafication (Chair: Emilia Lounela)
Silvia Modena & Vincenzo Gannuscio: Exploring Emotional Appeals in Populism: A Corpus-based Analysis of Identity Construction in French, German and Italian Discourses
Martin Lange: No reason to smile? A machine learning approach to recognize facial emotion expressions in parliamentary speeches of German right-wing populists.
Emre Erdoğan, Pınar Uyan Semerci & Tuğçe Erçetin: The micro dynamics of affective polarization: Three-stage multimodal research for understanding opinion formation
Maik Herold: Beyond Party Identities: Issue-Based Affective Polarization in Europe
4.3. Theory of Populism and beyond (Chair: Alexander Alekseev)
Szilvia Horváth: The Other and the middle position: Democratic agonism in the context of autocratic transformations
Taneli Viitahuhta: Populist language: mimicry or mimesis?
Matteo Antonini: A cultural-psychological approach to populism. Theoretical grounding of a contested phenomenon
4.4. Nationalism and Radical Right Populism across Europe in Romance Speaking Countries: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Chair: Morgane Belhadi; Discussant: Christian Lamour)
Cristiano Gianolla: Populist ambiguity in the entanglement of reason and emotion
Christian Lamour: The use of the "Great Replacement" in the discourse of the French radical right: A comparative approach
Elena Berezkina: The discourse transformation of the Italian right-wing populist parties: from nationalism to medium eurosceptocism
Ioana Cristina Hritcu: Is the Success of French Populist Discourses the Sign of a Renewal of the Left-Right Divide? An Analysis through the Lens of Poststructuralist Discourse Theory
4.5. Religious Populism Panel (Chair: Miro Leporanta)
Metin Koca: Religious Moderation into Populist Radical Right: How the politics of “Muslim (de)radicalization” confront religious Christian youths in France and the Netherlands
Gábor Ferencz: “The bulwark of European civilization”? Civilizationism in the discourse of Hungarian right-wing
Srijan Basu Mallick: Trajectories of Populist Politics in West Bengal: From Agrarian to Ethno-Religious Populism
Dayei Oh: ‘Fighting for the God-given right to life in a secular society’: Epistemic contestations over foetal personhood in the American anti-abortion movements
5.1. Exploring Grievance Politics II: Affective and Discursive Dimensions (Chair: Tereza Capelos, Discussant: Mikko Salmela)
Dolors Palau-Sampio: Vox and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Grievances against ‘the globalist plan’
Alina Mozolevska: Visual Performances of Grievances in French Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour
Ruta Kazlauskaite: Memory Politics in the Metaverse: Presencing, Storyliving, Feeling the Past
Tuomas Forsberg: Loyalty, Solidarity, and the War in Ukraine
Gabriella Szabo: Mediating moral emotions. How online news media cover guilt, shame and pride messages during the 2022 General Election Campaigning?
5.2. Immigration and Populist Surges: Understanding the Connection (Chair: Kleber Carrilho)
José Javier Olivas Osuna: A fence of opportunity: on how populist narratives frame and fuel crises in the border between Spain and Morocco
Seda Mohul: The Media Representations of Immigrant Criminality on Turkish Print Media
Maria Gracia Pardo: On the expertise of migrants, the Venezuela case
Magdalena Domeradzka: Balancing between indignation and empathic concern. Immigration discourse of the Swedish right-wing government after the 2022 election
Naman Rawat: Far-right extremism and social marginalisation of immigrants
5.3. (In)Security Imaginaries (Chair: Niko Pyrhönen)
Alexandra Homolar & Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado: Winning the Future? The Populist Imaginary of Trauma and Victimhood in the Context the ‘China threat’ in Contemporary US Security Discourse
Susannah Mandel: From “Traitors” to “Grooming” via “Fixed Beliefs”: A 40-Year Arc of Anti-Pluralism in U.S. Political Discourse
Helena Rovamo: Populist threat discourse as a resource for identity construction: A narrative-discursive approach
Zafar Ullah & Hassan Zaheer: Populism as Popular Sovereignty: Imran Khan, Constitution, and Democracy in Pakistan
5.4. Crises in Politics (Chair: Zea Szebeni)
Veronika Kövesdi, Gábor Polyák: The Power of Crisis - Emotional Campaigning in Hungary
Mario Alberto Vega Yañez: The fraud coup: political crisis and polarization in Bolivia 2019
Rana Nur Ulker: Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speeches after the Earthquake in the context of Populist Rhetoric and Polarization
Zsófia Rakovics & Robert Sata: Performing crisis to polarize society - Ethnopopulist discourse in Hungary
Lucia Morales Lizarraga: Crises and radicalization of identity and nationalist discourses in Germany: The case of the German political party Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD)
5.5. Pandemic, Conspiracy Theories and (Counter)Media (Chair: Matti Pohjonen)
Mette Marie Roslyng & Bolette Blaagaard: Revisiting publics: Mediated counter-publics as public counter-media
Márcia Aparecida Amador Mascia: Populism and fake news in Brazil: impacts in schools
Švecová Martina: The Role of Media Discourse in Shaping Political Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study Slovakia
Janne Lehtonen & Tuukka Ylä-Anttila: Navigating Pandemic Waves: Consensus, Polarization and Pluralism in the Finnish Parliament During COVID-19
Diana Petkova: Populism and Conspiracy Theories during the Pandemic of Covid-19: Rethinking Rumor Theories in the Eastern European context
5.6. Gender and Right-Wing Politics (Chair: Katja Kahlina)
Katinka Linnamäki: “No migration, no gender, no war!”: Family as a “symbolic glue” in the Hungarian Fidesz-KDNP government's discourses
Edurne Bartolomé Peral: Ideological polarization on gender roles in Europe
Didem Unal Abaday: “Rainbow Europe” versus “Anti-gender Europe”: Islam, Gender, and the Shifting Frames of Europe as the Civilizational “Other” in Islamist Populism
Ayse Akalin: Anticipated Death, Irrepressible Anger: Young Feminists in Turkey
Sabine Volk: Rallying ‘round the Drag: Anti-Gender Far-Right Protest in Catholic Bavariafe
6.1. Exploring Grievance Politics III: Ressentiment, Authoritarianism, Public Outrage and (Anti)Democratic Preferences (Chair: Tereza Capelos and Mikko Salmela)
Maxim Alyukov & Gulnaz Sharafutdinova: Political Psychology of Authoritarianism: A Research Agenda
Tereza Capelos, Mikko Salmela, Gabija Krisciunaite, Grete Krisciunaite: Anger Issues: Unpacking public outrage through the emotional mechanism of ressentiment
Karen Celis, Soetkin Verhaegen, Virginie Van Ingelgom, Louise Knops & Kenza Amara-Hammou: What do resentful citizens want from democracy? Analysing the relationship between resentment and (anti-)democratic preferences
Stavroula Chrona & Cristiano Bee: Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism
6.2. Emotions, Populism and Media (Chair: Juha Herkman)
Paula Čatipović: Emotional public sphere and what it has to do with populism and fake news
Fabian Virchow: Sentiment-driven demands and scenarios for political participation in nativist SNS
Ricardo Soares: Populist Profiles of Portuguese Young Adults: Differences in Emotional, Media and Political Dimensions
Omri Cohen: Transformative Populism
6.3. Conceptualizing Tribalism: Advancing Shared Understanding through Collaboration, A Roundtable (Chair/Discussant: Zea Szebeni)
Niko Pyrhönen, Ilana Hartikainen, Emmi Lounela, Eemil Mitikka will present their two submitted projects, “Tribalist Tendencies: Dissecting Knowledge, Identity, and Mobilization in Varied Democratic Landscapes (DIVIDE)” and “Back to Roots: Nostalgia, Spirituality, and the Gendered constructs of the ‘Natural’ in Contemporary Finland (ROOTS)” and then open a discussion on ideas for potential future collaboration.
6.4. Anti-Populism (Chair: Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado)
Charles Postel: Populism and the Conservative Mirror World
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer: Anti-Populism and the Long History of Post-Politics in Japan
Aleš Michal: Representation facing Populism, Anti-Populism and Anti-System Challenges
Claudia Annovi & Francesco Antonelli: Understanding the nexus between technocracy and populism: the case of Tunisia
6.5. Emerging and Polarizing Public Spheres (Chair: Dayei Oh)
Ane Mestvedthagen & Scott Eldridge II: Building an anti-public, counter-sphere: Scandinavian right-wing media and their place in the journalistic public sphere
Munira Cheema: Populism and Polarisation: The Case of Podcasting in Pakistani Context
Viljami Vaarala: Contesting through podcasting: Challenging journalism's epistemic authority through video podcasting
Oren Livio: "I Have Never Read Chekhov or Amos Oz and I Am Proud of It”: Strategic Cultural Ignorance and the Populist Mobilization of Ethno-National Identity in Israel
9.15-10.45: KEYNOTE 3 (panel) Hande Eslen-Ziya - Populism and Science: Exploring Counter-Knowledge and Academic Sustainability (Chair: Kleber Carrilho; Comment: Niko Pyrhönen)
7.1. Affective Polarization(s) and Media (Chair: Viljami Vaarala)
Daniel Thiele: Vox Populi(st): Contexts and consequences of populism in user comments on news media Facebook pages
Kannasto Elisa, Laaksonen Salla-Maaria, Pelevina Nuppu & Hanna Reinikainen: Breeding Affective Polarization in Political Instagram and TikTok
Anna Catharina Sampaio Vale: social media and emotional perception of politics in Brazil
Caterina Mosca & Jérémy Dodeigne: Evolution of affective polarisation towards marginalized groups in Italian media coverage (2008-2023)
7.2.Interconnections of Populism and Nationalism (Chair: Olena Siden)
Michaelangelo Anastasiou & Jacopo Custodi: The Populism-Nationalism Nexus
Arthur Chapman: A Toolkit for Characterising Populist National Story: a schematic proposal
Torgeir Fjeld: National signification: a reappraisal
Odelia Oshri: Voices from the margins: How national narratives are linked to support for populist parties
7.3. Visual Communication in Politics (Chair: Juha Herkman)
Agnes Virag: “…Cannot be too picky..!”: Populist characteristic features of Viktor Orbán’s caricaturistic figure
Artur Lipiński & Gabriella Szabo: Discursive and visual construction of sympathy-based solidarity. Polish and Hungarian PM's communication compared
Pınar Uyan Semerci, Tuğçe Erçetin & Emre Erdoğan: The affective power of audio-visual politics: How to analyze video campaigns in Presidential Elections in Turkey?
Virpi Salojärvi: Familiarity, intimacy and affect on political TikTok - Multimodal rhetoric-performative discourse analysis of Latin American and European politicians
7.4. Research Center DESIRE Panel: Critical Approaches to the Study of the ‘Far Right’ and ‘Populism’ (Chair: Benjamin De Cleen)
Omran Shroufi: Is there a far right ideology?
Savvas Voutyras: Socio-cultural Aspects of Anti-populism: Depictions of Brexiters in online Remain communities
Jana Goyvaerts: Anti-populism: Normativity and beyond Conceptualizing the Public Debate and Discourses about Populism
8.1. Discussions on the “Mainstream” and “Mainstreaming” (Chair: Didem Unal Abaday)
Ryan Switzer: "Waking Up" and "Coming Out" on the Far Right: Managing Stigma in Times of Mainstreaming
Katy Brown: Mainstream constructions of the far right: how talking ‘about’ can lead to mainstreaming
Alexander Alekseev: Rights and Freedoms in Far-Right Electoral Discourses: A Concept Between Reason and Emotion?
Jon Järviniemi: Populist communication during times of crisis across party lines
8.2. Infrastructures of Unreality: Conspiracy Theories, Media and Illiberalism in Central Eastern Europe (Chair: Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, Discussant: Zea Szebeni)
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius: Migration as a Russian imperialistic plot: A conspiratorial infrastructure of the Polish right-wing media
Annastiina Kallius: The Absence of A Soros Plan: The Polish-Belarusian humanitarian border crisis in Hungary’s illiberal media
Ilana Hartikainen: Illiberalism from the East: The Russian hand in Czech and Slovak conspiracy theories
8.3. Nation, Elites and Generations in Affective Bind (Chair: Hande Eslen-Ziya)
Michaelangelo Anastasiou: The Affective Consolidation of “the Nation”
Lelde Luik: Reconsidering the democratization paradigm with case studies from Estonia and Latvia
Kostiantyn Yanchenko, Artur Lipiński & Giorgos Venizelos: We, the… elites? How populist parties in power solve the “anti-elitism dilemma” in their political communication
Emre Erdoğan, Pınar Uyan Semerci & Tuğçe Erçetin: “Game-changer” Generation? Analysing the crystallization of democratic discontent of Turkish youth in the ballot box
8.4. Polarization, Radicalization, and Discourse. A Comparative Transatlantic Perspective. (Chair: Rosa María Alonzo Gónzalez)
Lucía Morales Lizárraga: Crises, emotions and radicalization of identity and nationalist discourses in Germany: The case of the German political party Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD)
Rosa María Alonzo Gónzalez: Videogames, narcoculture, and warning discourses in México: The case of the official discourse against war videogames peril to children.
David Ramírez Plascencia: The use of digital media to radicalize and recruit children and the young for illicit activities.
8.5. Cultural Populism (chair: Virpi Salojärvi)
Maria Esperanza Casullo: Polarization, Representation and Populist Performativity
Joonas Koivukoski & Juha Herkman: Populism, humour, scandal! Humour controversies related to the Finns Party in the 2010s
Anna Cichecka: The aesthetics of populism across the central-periphery divide. Poland, USA, and Tanzania from a comparative perspective
Ezgi Gül Ceyhan: Politics, Culture and Populism: ''Sociocultural Aestheticizations'' Sociocultural Aesthetics, Discursive Emphases in Turkish Politics
9.1 Special Session: D.Rad Hub on Ethnonationalism in Europe