[ecrea] Event: We, the people: political, media and popular discourses of 'us' and 'them'

WE, THE PEOPLE: POLITICAL, MEDIA AND POPULAR DISCOURSES OF 'US' AND 'THEM'

WHEN: Friday 26 and Saturday 27 October 2018

WHERE: Department of Media and Communications,

Tower Three, 7th Floor, Silverstone Room, London School of Economics

DESCRIPTION

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.

TO REGISTER:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-the-people-political-media-and-popular-discourses-of-us-and-them-tickets-50904726407


PROGRAMME:

Friday 26 October

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/

Franco Zappettini, Liverpool University, /The Tabloidization of the 
Brexit Campaign: Power to the (British) People?/

Chair: Charlie Beckett, LSE

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Key Note: 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: Lily 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 Key Note: Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of 
Thessaloniki

/Challenges in Contemporary Populism Research/

Saturday 27 October

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 Civita, /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 Key note: Michael Cox, LSE Ideas

//

/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 University, /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 Republic/

14:00-14:30 Coffee break

14:30-15:30 Key note: Francisco Panizza, Government Department, LSE

/Populism and Identification/

Chair: Robin Mansell, LSE

15:30-17:00 /Discourses of democratic values and ‘Europe’/

Gilles Ivaldi, University of Nice, France, /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, London/, The populist politics 
of Euroscepticism in times of crisis: comparative conclusions/



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