[Commlist] CFP: Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media, and Culture

Call for Papers for the Helsinki MaPo/WhiKnow Conference


Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media, and Culture


August 19-20, 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland


Description


Globally hyped populism and polarised politics require attention to the 
ways in which emotional engagements and performance intertwine. Our 
two-day conference looks at cases of politics, media, and culture, and 
explores the link between emotions and populism, polarizing politics 
that spills over to media and culture.


The conference is organized by two Academy of Finland funded projects, 
Mainstreaming Populism in the 21st Century 
(MaPo)(https://blogs.helsinki.fi/populismi/), andWhirl of Knowledge: 
Cultural Populism in European Polarised Politics and Societies 
(WhiKnow)(https://blogs.helsinki.fi/whi-know/). It is also organised in 
connection with two Helsinki Summer School courses 
“Rhetoric-Performative and Post-Foundational Analysis” 
(https://www.helsinki.fi/en/admissions/helsinki-summer-school/courses/rhetoric-performative-and-post-foundational-analysis
) and “Populism on the Loose in Europe and Beyond” 
(https://www.helsinki.fi/en/admissions/helsinki-summer-school/courses/populism-on-the-loose-in-europe-and-beyond). 
Both draw on the political philosophy of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal 
Mouffe, taking forward the discourse theoretical, hegemony-focused Essex 
school approach.


The aim of the conference is to bring together a variety of 
international researchers at all career stages dealing with a broad 
range of topics that employ a post-structuralist and/or 
post-foundational approach to critical enquiry. The conference seeks to 
address different issues from both theoretical and empirical 
perspectives, especially those exploring the intersection of different 
positionalities and challenging bounded national contexts. Some 
indicative themes are:


  * Populism and social movements
  * Radical democracy
  * Subjectivity, affects and gender
  * Politics, polarisation, hybrid media
  * Cultural populism and politics


Confirmed keynote speakers

Emmy Eklundh (King’s College London)

Mark Devenney (University of Brighton)


Participant profile

We look forward to researchers from different fields of humanities and 
social sciences (political science, sociology, area and cultural 
studies, history, media and communication studies, gender studies, 
indigenous studies, anthropology etc.) whose research deals with 
post-structuralist and post-foundational discourse theory and its 
affiliated fields. We encourage the participation of early-career 
researchers. MA and PhD students, who are participants of the 
aforementioned summer school courses, can take part in the conference as 
guests. They can also take part as presenters in panel sessions devoted 
specifically to their research projects on Wednesday, August 21.


Organisation, and costs

In order to apply, please send your abstract (200-300 words) with 
heading to: /(marina.vulovic /at/ helsinki.fi)/by April 15, 2019. Selected 
participants will be notified by April 30, 2019. Participants are 
encouraged to submit written papers by August 5, 2019.


The modest conference fee 50/80 euros includes tea, coffee, and lunches, 
as well as the conference dinner on Monday. The summer school course 
students do not pay extra for participating at the conference.



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