[Commlist] HEPP5 Conference CfP - Emotions, Populism, and Polarisation

Due to a great level of interest, we have extended the submission 
deadline for the Fifth Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism, and 
Polarisation (HEPP5) until November 17th! We would love to have you with 
us for HEPP5, scheduled for 5-7 March, 2025 at the University of 
Helsinki and online.

You can find our full CfP, along with paper and panel 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>

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:

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 17 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 15 November 2024 through the link on the CfP page.

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

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