[Commlist] CfP: 5th Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism, and Polarisation (HEPP5)

The fifth HEPP Conference will be held 5-7 March, 2025 at the University 
of Helsinki and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open 
until 10 November 2024.

Since 2019, the HEPP conferences have provided a space to explore themes 
related to populist mobilisation, polarisation, and the dynamics of 
emotional engagement in various political and mediatised contexts. Our 
thematic core remains the same this year, and the HEPP5 conference will 
also include a special focus on the relationship between populism, 
polarisation, and emotions and the heuristic device of the social 
contract, understood as a tacit agreement among the members of society 
on the principles of the polity. The conference particularly invites 
investigations into how social contracts as societal consensuses and 
sources of solidarity are challenged by polarisation and exploited by 
populist politics and how these phenomena affect societies’ well-being 
and democratic trajectories. We also encourage contributions on the 
notion of resilience. We also aim to explore how populism and emotional 
mobilisation renew or create new social contracts. HEPP5 also marks the 
40th anniversary of the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: 
Towards a Radically Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal 
Mouffe, which has been an inspiration at HEPPsinki since its founding.

Traditionally, HEPP conferences have welcomed contributions with a focus 
on semi-peripheral regions such as the Global South and East Central 
Europe, and we hope to continue that this year. We also invite papers 
addressing ongoing conflicts, such as those in the Middle East, Ukraine, 
Ethiopia, or Venezuela. HEPP maintains a broad take on populism, 
polarisation, and emotions, and the following themes:

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    Affects, a(nta)gonism, and political polarisation
  *
    Audiovisual political communication
  *
    Authoritarianism and illiberalism
  *
    Climate, crises, and grievances
  *
    Cultural populism, conspiracy theories, and misinformation
  *
    Datafication and methods in large social media data
  *
    Gender in populism and polarisation
  *
    New social contracts and challenges to democracy
  *
    Political theory of populism, resilience, and social contracts
  *
    Memory politics and the political (mis)use of time and space
  *
    Tribalism, nationalism, and racism
  *
    Political communication in the 2024 European elections
  *
    (Post-)Pandemic populisms and resilience
  *
    Hegemony, common grounds, and epistemic populisms
  *
    Populist logics and dynamics
  *
    Post- and de-colonialism
  *
    Political frontiers and “us” building
  *
    Political humour and populist rhetoric
  *
    Political communication and media in times of war and crisis
  *
    Religion and populism

After the conference, presenters are invited to submit their papers to 
be considered for our Working Papers series.

We always aim to cultivate a friendly, fun atmosphere at the HEPP 
conferences. To this end, we seek to gather various international 
researchers at all career stages and from various fields engage in 
conversation around our critical areas of interest.

The conference is organised in collaboration with the Continuous 
Construction of Resilient Social Contracts through Societal 
Transformations (CO3) Horizon Europe project and with the ENDURE project.

Important dates and submission details:

HEPP5 will take place on 5-7 March 2025 at the University of Helsinki 
and online (as with previous conferences, HEPP5 will be fully hybrid).

Please submit your papers and pre-formed panels by 10 November 2024 
through the links below. Submissions should include:

  *
    A paper title
  *
    A 100–150-word abstract
  *
    Five keywords answering the paper’s topic, method, theory, data,
    country case (if applicable)
  *
    A short bio of the presenter, with a link to preferred social media
    and/or personal website (e.g. LinkedIn)

We further encourage the submission of panel proposals comprising three 
to five papers with a panel chair. Please include paper abstracts 
according to the description above. Panel proposals should be submitted 
by 10 November 2024 through the links below.

Acceptances will be sent in early December, and registration will open 
shortly thereafter.

Please find the CfP page with submission links here: 
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emotions-populism-and-polarised-politics-media-and-culture/call-papers 
<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emotions-populism-and-polarised-politics-media-and-culture/call-papers>

And feel free to reach out to the organizing committee with any 
questions at (hepp /at/ helsinki.fi)


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