[ecrea] Call for panels and papers: Populism as movement and rhetoric

CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
Populism as movement and rhetoric
International conference
Jyväskylä, Finland on 17–19 March 2016
Venue: University of Jyväskylä, Seminarium (S)
Extended DL October 21th 2015


In Finland as elsewhere in Europe, rapid social change, multicultural 
challenges, social inequality, and the way different kinds of threat are 
disseminated by the media for public imagination, have given rise to 
populist protests and appeals to cultural values usually combining 
anti-elite and anti-immigrant nationalism with nationally and locally 
bounded demands of social justice. In the conference, the populist 
movement and populist rhetoric are in the focus. We invite papers that 
study populism as a phenomenon with multiple sources and multiple 
agendas. Issues of nationality, Europeanness, ethnicity, gender, and 
environmental issues can be explored against the backdrop of the new 
public sphere and the intermingling of the private and the public in it.


Keynote speakers:
Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ruth Wodak, professor emerita, Lancaster University
Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick,
Mikko Lehtonen, University of Tampere


Coordinators of the conference: PhD Urpo Kovala and PhD Tuija Saresma, 
Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Conference secretary: Irma Hirsjärvi (populistrhetoric2016 /at/ jyu.fi)  Tel 
+358 40 8053518


Possible topics of the panels and presentations include, but are not 
limited to:
·                abusive empowerment in the rhetoric of protest
·                articulations of religion in populist agendas
·                from protest to power: populism in the margin and in 
the centre
·                cultural expressions of populism; cultural populism
·                politics and culture of populism
·                populist discourse
·                populist movements
·      populist rhetoric
·      populism and the 'people'
·      populism and gender


Participation

Submissions for panel sessions

The deadline for proposals for panel sessions is October 21th 2015. The 
proposal has to include the title and a general description of the panel 
as well as the names of the individual contributors and the titles of 
their presentations. The maximum length is 300 words, excluding possible 
references.

Submissions for individual paper presentations

Individual paper presentations are organized in parallel sessions with 
30 minute slots that include discussion time. The deadline for 
individual paper proposals is October 21th 2015. The maximum length is 
300 words, excluding possible references. If you wish to also 
participate to a workgroup with your paper, please indicate this in your 
abstract.  The acceptance will be notified in two weeks after the deadline

Submissions for workgroups

We are looking for interdisciplinary and multidimensional workgroups and 
hope for openings also from fields not traditionally studying populism. 
The deadline for workgroup paper proposals is October 21th 2015. The 
maximum length is 300 words, excluding possible references. The 
acceptance will be notified in two weeks after the deadline.  Please 
indicate in your abstract if you wish to participate to a workgroup. If 
you wish to receive more information about the workgroups, please 
contact the workgroup coordinator (as indicated in the workgroup 
description).
·        “Populism in the history of political thought, philosophy 
and social theory” (for more information, see the conference website 
https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/populistrhetoric2016) Workshop 
coordinator: Mikko Jakonen, Lecturer in political science (fixed term), 
University of Jyväskylä. E-mail: mikko.p.jakonen [at] jyu.fi)
·        “Welfare chauvinism” Workshop Coordinator:  Tuija Saresma, 
E-mail (tuija.saresma /at/ juy.fi)
·        “Populism and parliamentary Politics” Workshop 
Coordinator: Tuula Vaarakallio, (tuumarva /at/ gmail.com)
·        “The Gender of populism” Workshop Coordinator: Tuija 
Saresma, E-mail (tuija.saresma /at/ juy.fi)
·        “Populism in Social Media” Workshop Coordinator: Maria 
Ruotsalainen (maria.a.t.ruotsalainen /at/ juy.fi)
·        “Cultural aspects of populism and populist rhetoric” 
Workshop Coordinator: Urpo Kovala, E-mail: (urpo.k.kovala /at/ juy.fi)
·        “Populism and the uses of religion” Workshop Coordinator: 
Laura Parkkinen, E-mail (lparkkin /at/ abo.fi)
·        “Populist discussion on immigration” Workshop Coordinator: 
Tuija Saresma, E-mail (tuija.saresma /at/ juy.fi)
·        “The Fans of Halla-Aho; Fandom in Populism” Workshop 
Coordinator: Irma Hirsjärvi, E-mail: (Irma.hirsjarvi /at/ juy.fi)
·        “ Populist dynamics”  Workshop coordinator: Emilia 
Palonen. E-mail:(Emilia.palonen /at/ helsinki.fi)


If you wish to participate without presenting a paper, please contact 
the conference secretary.

Submissions and registration 
https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/populistrhetoric2016

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