Times are indicated in Central European Time (CET).
Programme
Zoom Rooms Midterm (168 Ko)
- Thursday 10 November
- Friday 11 November - MORNING
- Friday 11 November - AFTERNOON
- Saturday 12 November
12:00 – 14:00 Welcome and Conference Registration
14:00 – 15:30 Online/hybrid Panels
1. European Political Structures between Neo- and Quasi-Militant Democracies
Chairs: Roman Bäcker, Nicolaus Copernicus University; Joanna Rak, Adam Mickiewicz University (joanna.rak@amu.edu.pl )
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/92162619106 (Géopolis Building, Room 2207)
• Neo-militant Democracy Measures in Ukraine During the War: Are They Sufficient for Victory and Safe for Further Democracy - Mykola Polovyi
• A Trap of a Technocratic Illiberalism: Czech Republic’s Experiences - Maciej Skrzypek
• Tensions between Neo- and Quasi-Militant Democracy in Poland and Hungary - Roman Bäcker
• The Baltic States in Anti-democratic Jeopardy? - Joanna Rak
• Limiting fundamental rights during the COVID-19 pandemic in illiberal Poland - Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
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2. Attending to the Transformations and Foresight of Disability - part 1
Chair: Philippa Mullins, American University of Armenia (phmullins@aua.am)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/97659162990 (Géopolis Building, Room 2208)
• Electoral reforms and electoral participation of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Nigeria - Afeez Kolawole Shittu
• Opportunities and risks for social movements within civil society: empirical notes from the field - Claudia Coveney
• Disability and the Sociology of the Group - Philippa Mullins
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15:45 – 17:15 Online/hybrid panels
1. Attending to the Transformations and Foresight of Disability – part 2
Chair: Philippa Mullins, American University of Armenia (phmullins@aua.am)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/97659162990 (Géopolis Building, Room 2208)
• Sizing the opportunities for social justice created by the pandemic? – Exploring disability transformation in the context of Higher Education in Sweden and the US - Marie Sépulchre
• Conceptualising the Future of UK Disability Activism through Utopian, Retrotopian, and Heterotopian Configurations - Miro Griffiths
• New Materialist Perspective on the Politics of Disability and Disability Activism in Japan - Akihito Kato
• Same worldviews but different action? How the organization of experience shapes minority activism - Baptiste Dufournet
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17:30 – 19:00 Keynotes (Géopolis Building, Room 1612) - Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/91622264193
Pauline Cullen - Associate Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University
Stefania Milan - Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam
09:00 – 10:30 Parallel hybrid panels
1. Political Behaviour, Engagement and Disengagement (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chair: Louisa Parks, University of Trento (louisa.parks@unitn.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/99897409765
• Political behaviour among youth. The importance of class origin, cultural capital and social context - Patrick Lie Andersen
• Shifting Patterns of Prejudice? Religion, far-right extremism and victimization in pandemic-impacted Europe, an analysis informed by a UK-Austrian survey - David Herbert
• The causal effects of having politically engaged peers on youths’ political engagement and participation. Are variations in the effects depending on geographic setting and the Covid19-situation? - Patrick Lie Andersen, Mira Aaboen Sletten
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2. Gender as a Political Variable in Pandemic Times: Style of Leadership, New Inequalities, Growing Violence - part 1 (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2137)
Chairs: Flaminia Saccà, Università della Sapienza, Roma (flaminia.sacca@uniroma1.it); Luca Massidda, Università della Tuscia (luca.massidda@unitus.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/93899653056
• The Strong Man Fighting the Virus. Viktor Orbán’s Masculine Narrative during the Covid-19 First Wave - Luca Massidda
• The pandemic in “dusty municipalities” in a Southern Italian region: the role of leadership and the possible impact of gender issues - Maria Mirabelli, Lucia Montesanti, Francesca Veltri
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT+ Communities - Fabio Mostaccio
• Populism’s Imaginary of Gender Issues During Pandemic Time in Italy - Antonio Tramontana
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10:45 – 12:15 Parallel hybrid panels
1. Leaders, Professionals and Ideas in the EU (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chair: Monika De Frantz, University of Vienna (monika.defrantz@univie.ac.at)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/91062493318
• Boundary Crossers: Political and business career trajectories of EU civil society leaders -
Laura Landorff, Anders Uhlin, Malin Arvidson
• “Our shared values”: Identity and Values in the EU - Maria Cristina Marchetti
• Culture and the arts as a source of social resilience in societal crises: An ethnographic case study of activist art in Latvia - Liene Ozoliņa
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2. Climate Change Issues between Citizens, Media, Parties, and Social Movements: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda - part 1 (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2129)
Chairs: Cecilia Biancalana, University of Turin) (cecilia.biancalana@unito.it); Riccardo Ladini, University of Milan (riccardo.ladini@unimi.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/94999814715
• “This is the bet”: frames, strategies and theories of change in climate justice action - Lorenzo Zamponi, Marco Deseriis, Diego Ceccobelli
• “If it Weren’t for COVID-19…”: The Effects of Communication on the Economic Consequences of Climate Change Policies - Mauro Bertolotti, Luca Valla, Patrizia Catellani
• Together against climate change? Public attitudes towards solidarity for a greener European Union - Alessandro Pellegata, Ann-Kathrin Reinl
• It is now time to get to work: experts and UE regulation of Sustainable Finance - Tiziana Nupieri
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3. Gender as a Political Variable in Pandemic Times: Style of Leadership, New Inequalities, Growing Violence - part 2 (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2137) Chairs: Flaminia Saccà, Università della Sapienza, Roma (flaminia.sacca@uniroma1.it); Luca Massidda, University of Tuscia (luca.massidda@unitus.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/93899653056
• The journalistic representation of domestic violence in pandemic times - Rosalba Belmonte
• Practices and strategies of anti-violence centres in Italy in the Covid era: the political dimension of violence against women - Milena Meo, Valentina Raffa
• Gender as a Political Variable in Pandemic Times: Style of Leadership, New Inequalities, Growing Violence - Michele Negri
• Gender and Leadership Styles in Pandemic Governance: a Lesson from Jacinda Ardern and Angela Merkel’s Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis - Flaminia Saccà
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Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel hybrid panels
1. The Impacts of the Pandemic (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chair: Roberto Scaramuzzino, University of Lund (roberto.scaramuzzino@soch.lu.se)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/93586194049
• Engaging in Classification Struggles: A Reflexive Sociology of Pandemic Othering and Polarization - Barbara Rothmüller
• Interplay between science and politics in Spain during COVID-19 pandemic - Liviu- Catalin Mara
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2. Climate Change Issues between Citizens, Media, Parties, and Social Movements: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda - part 2 (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2129)
Chairs: Cecilia Biancalana, University of Turin) (cecilia.biancalana@unito.it); Riccardo Ladini, University of Milan (riccardo.ladini@unimi.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/94999814715
• “Litigious politics” and the repertoire of climate activism - Louisa Parks
• From big farms to Big Pharma? “New” lines of conflict among environmental activism - Niccolò Bertuzzi, Elisa Lello
• The dynamics of climate change and environmental attitudes in Italy: Exploring political and social polarisation - Cecilia Biancalana, Riccardo Ladini
• Towards a methodology for co-creating just transitions: Combining policy analysis, discourse analysis, participatory action research, and documentary film-making - Liv Sunnercrantz, Kristiane Marie Fjaer Lindland
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15:45-17:15 Parallel hybrid panels
1. Migration, Politics, and the Legal Framework (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chair: Alberta Giorgi, University of Bergamo (alberta.giorgi@unibg.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/94565043177
• Living in Legal Limbo: Challenges and Opportunities to live in a "Refuge City" for Undocumented migrants - Gulce Safak Ozdemir
• From Deindividualization to Political Individualism. Growth of Multi-dimensional and Extra-party Political Consciousness among Rojhelat Kurdish Immigrants with Left Political Backgrounds in Western Europe - Sabah Mofidi
• Struggling for legality in a time of pandemic: (de-)politicisation avenues and dilemmas in legal support for migrants - Paola Bonizzoni, Minke Hajer
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2. The Role of Space: Urban Governance and Environment (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2129)
Chair: Monika De Frantz, University of Vienna (monika.defrantz@univie.ac.at)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/98270939545
• The party and the town. PRR in local government and social polarisation - Elisa Bellè
• The urban governance of AI: policies and practices of the Italian municipalities – Ernesto d’Albergo, Tommaso Fasciani, Giorgio Giovanelli
• The Right to the City and Inclusive Urban Development - Michele Grigolo
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3. Democracies on the Move. Rights, Political Actors, New Movements in the Transition from Party Democracies to Democracies of the Public (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2137)
Chair: Andrea Millefiorini, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (andrea.millefiorini@outlook.com)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/95921059670
• From inclusive policymaking to private rule-making? Discussing the role of corporateled multi-stakeholder processes in the transition to sustainability - Edoardo Esposto
• Politicizing care “to cure” democracy: a feminist proposal - Sara Fariello
• Reassessing human rights vs Democracy of the public: a necessary challenge? - Laura Guercio
• Social movements, collective action and democratic change - Antonio Putini
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17:30 – 19:00 Roundtable on Academic Freedom (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 1612) - Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/93730552468
Alexander Dmitriev, Andrea Pető, Daniel A. Smith
(Chair: Alberta Giorgi)
09:00 – 10:30 Parallel hybrid panels
1. Conspiracy Myths and Antisemitism in Vaccine-Related Protests (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chair: Anja Schmidt-Kleinert, University of Potsdam (anja.schmidt-kleinert@uni-potsdam.de)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/92768003139
• Resistance during lockdown: Fake news and conspiracies as a form of political protest - Hans-Joerg Trenz
• Covid-19 and the extreme right. The extremist side of the pandemic protests in Germany - Andrea Grippo
• “Conspiracy” or “counter-hegemonic project”? Vaccine hesitancy, protests and boundary work - Maria Francesca Murru, Alberta Giorgi
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2. Populism, Anti-Populism and The Rule of Law (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2137)
Chairs: Carlo Ruzza, School of International Studies, University of Trento (carlo.ruzza@unitn.it); Carlo Berti, School of International Studies, University of Trento (carlo.berti-1@unitn.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/96961669610
• Gender rights and opposition to populism - Milena Meo, Valentina Raffa
• Populism, constitutional politics, and (un-)civil society - Paul Blokker
• Democracies under pressure in pandemic times. The Relationship between State of Emergency and Rule of Law in Angela Merkel and Victor Orbán’s Political Communication - Flaminia Saccà, Luca Massidda
• The Debate on the Rule of Law in the European Parliament - Carlo Ruzza, Carlo Berti
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10:45 – 12:15 Parallel hybrid panels
1. Rethinking Leadership and Elites in the Populist Phase of Democracy (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2121)
Chairs: Manuel Anselmi, University of Bergamo, (manuel.anselmi@unibg.it); Fabio De Nardis, University of Foggia, (fabio.denardis@unifg.it); Lorenzo Viviani, University of Pisa, (lorenzo.viviani@unipi.it)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/94413097895
• “The Paradox of Elites in Civil Society: A Comparative Study on Civil Society Leaders’ Satisfaction with Democracy in the UK and Sweden” - Megan K. Baxter, Jayeon Lindellee, Minja Odai, Roberto Scaramuzzino
• Charismatic leadership and populist leadership: Beyond the similarities - Lorenzo Viviani
• Recruiting civil society elites: Comparing recruitment actors, practices and criteria in Sweden, UK and Poland - Håkan Johansson, Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Niklas Altermark
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2. Supply- and Demand-side of the European Radical Right-Wing Populism. Insights from Socio-Economic Perspectives (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 2137)
Chair: Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne (oscar.mazzoleni@unil.ch)
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/92607274375
• Producerism at home, protection from outside, populism throughout: the (non-welfare) socio-economic agenda of the populist radical right - Koen Abts, Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Caterina Froio, Stijn van Kessel
• Producerist Attitudes and Right-Wing Populist Support in the United States and Western Europe - Gilles Ivaldi, Oscar Mazzoleni
• Divergence in the Populist Radical Right: the socioeconomic programs of Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour - Elie Michel
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch-Break/Book launch (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 1612)
Populism and Science in Europe, edited by Hande Eslen-Ziya and Alberta Giorgi - Palgrave MacMillan 2022.
14:00 –14:30 ESA RN32 meeting and Conclusions (GEOPOLIS BUILDING, Room 1612)
Everybody welcome!
Zoom Link: https://unil.zoom.us/j/98240588410
