We kindly invite the members of academia and media professionals to join us for enriching debates about the populist media and communication as well as the multiplicity of populist discourse and its effects!
Since Brexit in the United Kingdom, the anti-vaccine protests during the COVID-19 pandemic, election and re-election of populist leaders, and the rise of nationalist political parties across Europe, populism and populist communication continue to occupy a stable position in local and global media and political debates. A proliferation of social media and visual communication is providing new spaces, mechanisms and channels for the proliferation and amplification of populist communication.
Populism polarises people and divides them into binary groups of the “them” and the “us”, which causes a growing sense of distance between political elites and citizens, and a lack of political agency and participation for the latter. More increasingly, however, populist discourse (generally perceived as the voice of the people and the advocacy for the people’s greater control over their own lives) is used in the communication of mainstream political parties, politicians across Europe (including high rank officials) in order to ensure electoral support. The “virus” of populism is also spreading throughout mainstream media organizations and creative content (films, TV series, games) producers – the sectors which face increasing competition on local and global markets. It also thrives in political communication on social media. It is no coincidence, then, that Daniel Stockemer has named the twenty-first century, the time of “a populist tide” (2019).
In the light of these problems we delighted to be the host of the conference, which brings together 43 speakers from 21 universities, 13 countries for an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary debate on populist communication across media and countries!
Venue: Vilnius University, Theatre Hall and Library, Room 238 (Universiteto str. 3, Vilnius)
Date: 24-25 November 2023, 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Plenary talks:
Agnieszka Stępińska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), Populism By, Through, and According to the Media
Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK / University of Gdansk, Poland), The Meanders of Populism in Polish Cinema
Susana Salgado (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Populism and Denialism: Studying Interconnections and Processes
The full programme is available here: http://www.populism.kf.vu.lt/
The attendance is free of charge!
The conference presentations will be streamed live from the Theatre Hall on the VU Faculty of Communication's youtube channel.
1 st day link: International conference Populism in National and Global Media 1st Day - YouTube
2 nd link: International conference Populism in National and Global Media 2nd DAY - YouTube
From Room 238, the webcast will be available at: www.facebook.com/VUKomunikacijosfakultetas
Organizer and sponsor
Faculty of Communication (Vilnius University)
Other sponsors
Research Council of Lithuania
Vilnius University
Partners
Central European Journal of Communication (Polish Communication Association)
Journal of Studies in Eastern European Cinema (Taylor and Francis Group)
Lithuanian National Radio and Television