Symposium Programme (Program)
Internationellt Symposium - ‘Un-Civility, Racism and Populism: Interactive Practices and Discourses in Europe, USA & Beyond’
6-7 December 2018, Uppsala Universitet, Sverige - Språk: Engelska - Program att ladda ner.
Onsdag 5 December, 2018
Plats: JMK - Stockholm University (Adress: Karlavägen 104, 11593 Stockholm)
- 16:30-19:00 Pre-Symposium Event/Panel Discussion
Love Speech, Hate Speech - Media, Politics and “Civil” Debate in Modern Sweden Niklas Orrenius, Dagens Nyheter, Seher Yilmaz, Rättviseförmedlingen, Mårten Schultz, Stockholm University, Michał Krzyżanowski, University of Liverpool/Örebro University, Christian Christensen, Stockholm University (Moderator/Chair)
Torsdag 6 December, 2018
Plats: Blåsenhus, Uppsala University (Adress: Von Kraemers Allé 1, Uppsala)
- 08:45-09:00 Welcome and Preliminary Remarks Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool & Örebro University), Christian Christensen (Stockholm University), Mattias Ekman (Örebro University), Mattias Gardell & Per-Erik Nilsson (Uppsala University)
- 09:00-10:30 Theorising Un/In-Civility (Chair: Michal Krzyzanowski) If Incivility Means Everything – It Starts to Mean Nothing - Gina Masullo Chen (University of Texas at Austin) Edward Shils and the Paradoxes of Civility - Daniel Strand (Uppsala University) The institutiionalisation of populist political discourse and un-civil society in the EU: From the margins to the mainstream? Carlos Ruza (University of Trento)
- 10:30-11:00 Kafepaus
- 11:00-12:30 Uncivility Past and Present: Journeys to/from the Mainstream (Chair: Mattias Gardell) Licensing Uncivility: How relevant is the Journey of Interwar Fascism to the Mainstream to the Dynamics of Contemporary Populism? - Aristotle Kallis (Keele University) Free Speech, Postracialism and the Networked Public Sphere - Gavan Titley (Maynooth University & University of Helsinki)
The Normalisation of Uncivility: Discursive Shifts, Interactive Racism and Right-Wing Populism in Europe - Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool & Örebro University)
- 12:30-13:45 Lunch
- 13:45-15:00 Normalisation of Uncivility in/and Contemporary Populism (Chair: Ekaterina Balabanova) Normalising Right Wing Populism? The Role of Opinion Leaders in Swedish Media Discourses on Immigration - Mattias Ekman (Örebro University) The Weaponization of Doubt: New Authoritarianism and Attacks on Journalism and Technology - Christian Christensen (Stockholm University)
- 15:00-15:30 Kafepaus
- 15:30-17:15 Uncivility, Immigration and the Media (Chair: Per-Erik Nilsson) Communitarianism, Populism and (In)civility: The Migrant Crisis in the European Press - Ekaterina Balabanova (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Immigration, that’s what everyone’s thinking about, whether they say so or not’: The 2016 British EU Referendum in the Eyes of the Beholder - Simona Guerra (University of Leicester)
Media, Memory and Mobile Minorities: Material and Mental Border Crossings - Anna Roosvall (Stockholm University?
- 19:00 Middag
Fredag 7 December, 2018
Plats: Blåsenhus, Uppsala University (Von Kraemers Allé 1, Uppsala)
- 08:30-10:00 Uncivility, Citizens and Democratic Values (Chair: Simona Guerra) Assessing the Quality of Political Talk Across Different Spaces: Evidence from Italy Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University) The Politically Abandoned: Evidence from Germany and France on Right-Wing Populist Voting Tendencies - Maria Skóra (Das Progressive Zentrum Berlin) “The New Extreme Right”: Sarcasm and Displacement in the French “Re-Infosphère” Per-Erik Nilsson (Uppsala University)
- 10:00-10:30 Kafepaus
- 10:30-12:30 Uncivility in Online Mediated Practices (Chair: Cristian Vaccari) Un-civility and the impossibility of black women’s online presence - Ylva Habel (Uppsala University) Mimicking and cloaking: Manufacturing racism on social media platforms - Christina Neumayer (IT University of Copenhagen) Toxic for Whom? Examining the Targets of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk - Patricia Rossini (Syracuse University)
´Fuck the clowns from Grease!!´ The participatory fantasy and its ethnic-nationalist frustations in the YouTube comments on a Cypriot Problem documentary - Nico Carpentier (Uppsala University)
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:30 Uncivility, Subjectivity and Emotions: Spaces and Practices (Chair: Mattias Ekman) The Terrorification of the Swedish Suburb - Irene Molina (Uppsala University) Mourning the Dead: The Assimilatory Im/Possibilities of Black & Muslim Death in Canada and Sweden - Jan-Therese Mendes (York University) White Nostalgia and the Politics of Love, Nation and Memory - Mattias Gardell (Uppsala University)
- 15:30-15:45 Coffee Break/Fika
- 15:45-16:30 Final Discussion (Chair: Christian Christensen & Mattias Gardell)