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Graduate Conference: 'Populism Left, Right, and Centre'

3 November 2017, 9.00 to 18.30
PhD Academy, LSE 

Conference Programme

Format: Panel format, presentations 15 minutes each, followed by discussant comments and Q&A

9.00 - 9.30: Registration, teas and coffees

9.30 - 9.40: Opening remarks

9.40 - 11.10: Panel 1: ‘Defining populism’

Nick Barlow, Queen Mary University of London, Populism and the centre

Georg Plattner, University of Vienna, Policy (In-) Congruence of Populist Radical Right Parties in the European Parliament

Ines Gundlach, King’s College London, Gender Ideology is Anti-Constitutional’: The Populist Radical Right, Gender, and the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’

Chair: Julian Göpffarth

Discussant: Dr. Elizabeth Morrow, King's College London

11.10 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00: Panel 2: ‘Populism in Practice’

Julia Peetz, University of Surrey, Every Election is a Change Election - Representation and the Performance of Legitimacy in Times of Populism

Ragnar Weilandt, University of Warwick and Université libre de Bruxelles, A tale of two parties: UKIP, AfD and the highjacking of centrist Euroscepticism

Fred Paxton, European University Institute, The Populist Performance of Urban Crisis: A study of populist radical right leadership of local government in Austria and Italy

Chair: Marta Lorimer

Discussant: Dr. Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics

13.00 - 13.45: Lunch break

13.45 - 15.15: Panel 3: ‘Measuring populism: methodologies for the study ofpopulism'

Irene Esteban, Università degli Studi di Milano and Universidad Autónoma deMadrid, and Dieter Stiers, KU Leuven, Same problem, different solutions. Stealth democracy as a moderator of the relationship between populist attitudes and the vote for a populist party.

Philip Warncke, King’s College London, Do Populists Increase the Inaccuracy of Opinion Polls?

Sophia Hunger, European University Institute, Populist Times or Contagious Populist Parties? – Measurement, Occurrence, and Diffusion of Populist Discourse in Europe

Chair: Carl Truedsson

Discussant: Prof. Luke March, University of Edinburgh

15.15 - 15.30: Coffee break

15.30 - 17.00: Panel 4: ‘Explaining the vote for populist parties’

Jennifer Simons, University of Virginia, Explaining cross-time variation in supportfor the Populist Radical Right

Paul Vertier, Sciences Po Paris, Dismantling the “Jungle”: Refugee Relocationand Extreme Voting in France

Donatella Bonansinga, University of Birmingham, Affective Perceptions and Populist Securitization Narratives: A Psychological Approach

Colleen Driscoll, Harvard University, Social Democrats and the Populist Threat: A Self-Made Crisis

Chair: Diane Bolet

Discussant: Dr. Julian Hoerner, London School of Economics

17.00 - 17.15: Break

17.15 - 18.30: Keynote and conclusion

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Francisco Panizza, London School of Economics

Attendance is open to all but priority will be given to current PhD students.

To register, please email m.lorimer@lse.ac.uk

Deadline for registration: 13 October

Supported by the LSE PhD Academy, the LSE European Institute and the Economic and Social Research Council