[Commlist] CFP: The Third Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP3)

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Call for papers for HEPP3 conference

15–17 June 2022, Helsinki


The Third Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation 
(HEPP3) will take place in person (pandemic allowing, with a 
hybrid/virtual back-up option) on 15-17 June 2021, and our Call for 
Papers is now open. We welcome both abstracts and panel proposal 
submissions from colleagues in all career stages.


This conference will build upon the themes and discussions that we 
opened during our successful First and Second Helsinki Conferences on 
Emotions, Populism and Polarisation in August 2019 and May 2021, 
respectively. The conference has a focus on discursive, interpretive and 
postfoundational approaches on the triage of populism, affects and 
polarisation. This conference is particularly focused on the Whirl of 
Knowledge: Cultural Populism and Polarisation in Contemporary European 
Societies Academy of Finland project 2019-21; as such, we aim to explore 
the creation, flow, and mediations of knowledge and the various actors 
from different segments of society who play a role in this process in 
online and offline spaces. It is also an important meeting point for 
other HEPPsinki research groups projects as well, such as Now Time Us 
Space: Contemporary Mobilisations in Central Eastern Europe, which, 
besides online spaces, deals with urban cityscapes and polarisation and 
is funded by the Kone Foundation (2020-23). Other currently running 
HEPPsinki projects deal with (de)radicalisation, political humour and 
populism.


Please send in your submissions, including a title, a 200-250 word 
abstract and five keywords through this link 
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/115317/lomake.html 
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/115317/lomake.html>by 15 February 
2022. The early bird registration will be 50 EUR for students, early 
career and unemployed and 80 EUR for all others.


The conference will assemble a range of international researchers at all 
career stages, with the aim of examining populism particularly from a 
discursive and cultural approach. We welcome contributions from 
political science, media and communication studies, social psychology, 
history, anthropology, sociology, memory studies, gender studies, urban 
studies, and other related fields. The conference encourages papers that 
approach the following and related themes:

    *Populism and polarisation as political and cultural phenomena
    *Empathy and ressentiment
    *Agonism and antagonism
    *Gender in populism and polarisation
    *Cultural populism
    *Politicisation of and within Europe and its regions
    *Common grounds and communities of knowledge
    *Epistemic populism
    *Pandemic populisms and antagonisms
    *Political communication and media in times of crisis and polarisation

Organisers: HEPPsinki research group

Organising Committee of HEPP3: Virpi Salojärvi (chair), Ilana 
Hartikainen (co-chair), Sabine Volk (co-chair), Ionut Chiruta, Emilia 
Palonen, and Marina Vulovic


You can reach the HEPP3 team and conference secretaries (Laura 
Horsmanheimo and Roosa Kylli) at (hepp /at/ helsinki.fi) <mailto:(hepp /at/ helsinki.fi)>.


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