[Commlist] Call for proposals - Protagoras symposium: Europe facing populists in power: communication strategies and practices

Protagoras symposium: “Europe facing populists in power: communication 
strategies and practices”, IHECS Bruxelles/Brussels, June 4 & 5, 2020

Call for Paper Proposals

See the complete call on our website: http://protagoras.ihecs.be/aac4.html

Deadline for Proposals: February 7, 2020

Since the early 2000s, "populist" governments as well as governments 
with a populist coalition partner, both right wing and left wing, have 
led to democratic paradigmatic shifts such as the advent of the 
so-called "illiberal" democracy in Hungary, the "conservative 
revolution" in Poland, the "entrepreneurial populism" in the Czech 
Republic and the unprecedented "anti-system" coalitions set up in Italy 
and Greece (Taguieff, 2015; Dieckhoff, Jaffrelot & Massicard, 2019). 
Once in power, populists seek to control all aspects of the state. By 
practising a form of mass clientelism in order to win the loyalty of the 
people (Laclau, 2005) or by distinguishing themselves by means of their 
undeniable hostility towards organised civil society and the media, 
populists can be described through their constitutive anti-elitism and 
assumed anti-pluralism. Research shows that a key element of populist 
strategies is the discursive construction of the "homogeneous", "good", 
"honest", and "hard-working" people on the one hand, in opposition to 
the "lazy" and "corrupt" elites on the other hand (Canovan, 1999; Jamin, 
2009; Mudde, 2004; Taggart, 2004; Tarchi, 2015). However, the notion of 
populism – as it is regularly framed in the news – remains blurred. Some 
scholars conceive populism as a communication phenomenon and describe 
populism as an expression of political communication content and style 
(De Vreese et al., 2018). Populism as content refers to communicating 
and staging elements deriving from its ideological corpus. Populism as a 
style describes a characteristic set of elements to present these ideas 
(Charaudeau, 2011). For others, populism can only be fully understood 
through the decisive role played by (digital) media (Reinemann et al., 
2019). As such, the aim of this international symposium is to bring 
together academic scholars from a wide variety of communication-related 
disciplines to discuss how “populist" European political parties and 
European leaders communicate during the exercise of their mandate at 
local, regional or national territorial level.

We are looking for proposals of 500-word abstracts (*.doc/*.docx). Paper 
proposals may include case studies, empirical analyses, and theoretical 
pieces. Practitioner perspectives and cross-disciplinary studies will be 
particularly welcome.

Proposals must be sent by e-mail before February 7, 2020 to 
(colloque /at/ protagoras.be) <mailto:(colloque /at/ protagoras.be)>. All proposals 
will undergo a double-blind review process. Authors will be notified by 
15 March at the latest. Participation fee is 100 Euros.


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