Welcome to Open Plenary Sessions!
Symposium on Populism
Institute for Advanced Social Research, Tampere University
4–5 December 2019
Programme: Symposium website
While populism is often defined as the dividing of political space into two antagonistic forces as people and elite, it always carries a high level of ambiguity as to its political meaning and its extremely varied manifestations in different national and historical contexts. The symposium aims to shed a critical light on populism as a class, discursive and affective formation, especially how these manifold dimensions are effective in distinguishing political varieties, forms and limits of populism.
Some of the questions we would like to explore are: the relationship between populism, authoritarianism and racism; rhetoric of populism; populism and media; populism and gender; populism and democracy; populism and class; populism and nationalism; populism, state and security; continuities and discontinuities between left- and right-wing populisms; populism as subjective and affective formation; and various national cases of populism.
You are warmly welcome to join us for the open plenary sessions on 4-5 December 2019
4 December 2019, Auditorium Pinni B1097
12:00–13:45 Plenary
Opening
Risto Heiskala
Chair
Mahmut Mutman
Keynotes
Juha Herkman
Welfare state as a floating signifier: Populist articulations in the Nordic countries
Tuula Vaarakallio
French Yellow Vest Movement and Populism
5 December 2019, Auditorium Pinni B1100
10:00–11:45 Plenary
Opening & Chair
Robert Imre
Keynotes
Pertti Alasuutari
The Populist Turn in a Global Perspective
Tuija Saresma
Affective Populism: Gendering and Racialization through Social Media
Programme: Symposium website
Organiser
Tampere University Institute for Advanced Social Research, IASR
Further information
Marjukka Virkajärvi, marjukka.virkajarvi@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6697