CMC hosts the 2019 ECREA Communication History Section Workshop on Jeopardizing Democracy throughout History. Media as Accomplice, Adversary or Amplifier of Populist and Radical Politics
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Venue: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna
OPENING SESSION
19.00–21.00 Chair: Josef Seethaler (Austrian Academy of Sciences/ University of Klagenfurt)
Keynotes: Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna / Lancaster University) Revisiting Orwell’s 1984: News, Fake News, and Alternative News
Reka Kinga Papp (Editor-in-chief at Eurozine, Vienna) Post-Turth Panic. The News That Never Was
Respondent: Anton Pelinka (University of Innsbruck/ Central European University, Budapest)
21.00: Conference Dinner at Ristorante Rossini, Schönlaterngasse 11, 1010 Vienna
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna | 1st floor, Sitzungssaal (conference hall)
8.30–9.00 Registration 9.00–9.15 Opening remarks | Welcome address
KEYNOTE SESSION 9.15–10.15 Chair: Gabriele Balbi (USI, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano)
Keynote: Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London) Digital platforms and the cyberplebeian public sphere
10.15–10.30 Coffee Break
PANEL I JEOPARDIZING OR SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY? MEDIA AND POPULISM THROUGH THE AGES
10.30–12.00 Chair: Valérie Schafer (University of Luxemburg)
Juraj Kittler (St. Lawrence University, Canton NY) The Origins of the Populist Print in Europe. Captured in the Collection of Ferdinand Columbus in Seville
Josef Seethaler & Gabriele Melischek (Austrian Academy of Sciences/ University of Klagenfurt) The Collapse of the First Democratic Republic in Austria and Germany. Leading Newspapers as Indicators of Political Crisis
Dominic Wring & David Deacon (Loughborough University) Partial Accounts. A Century of Newspaper Editorialising by the British Press
Hanna Suh (Seoul National University) Media governance and democracy – the case of South Korea
12.00–13.15 Lunch Break
PANEL II CREATING FRIENDS AND FOES. ANTAGONISM AND ALLIANCE IN, AND THROUGH AND AGAINST THE MEDIA
13.15–14.45 Chair: Cornelia Branter (IWAF)
Balasz Sipos (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) How to turn an enemy into friend – and vice versa. Pro-Soviet and anti-Soviet extreme right propaganda in Hungary
Stephanie Seul (University of Bremen) The woman war correspondent as accomplice of militarism? The charges of Austrian satirist Karl Kraus against photojournalist Alice Schalek during World War I
Sanna Ryynänen (University of Jyväskylä) Bad for any good reason. The jews in the finnish press during 1855–1939
Jacinto Godinho (University Nova Lisboa) May 68 and Coimbra 69 in RTP. Why did the Portuguese television censored the Portuguese students protests but showed the revolts in Paris?
14.45–15.00 Coffee Break
PANEL III MAKING A POPULIST. HOW MEDIA AND RESEARCH SHAPE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF POPULISM AND RADICAL POLITICS
15.00–16.30 Chair: Gabriele Falböck (University of Vienna)
Paschal Preston (Dublin City University) Mediatization and Features of Nationalism and Rightest Populism in Europe. Contrasting the 1900-1920 and 2000-2019 Eras
Benjamin Krämer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) A historical and historicized (research on) right-wing populism
Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Augsburg) Radical Media. The historical transformation of a concept between progressive counter-publics and antagonistic disinformation ecosystems
Roei Davidson (University of Haifa) Populism and the mediated crowd. A historical and contemporary examination
16.30–17.00 Coffee Break
PANEL IV PERESTROIKA, POVERTY AND PEOPLE. PATTERNS AND PRACTICES OF (ANTI)-POPULIST DISCOURSE
17.00–18.30 Chair: Susanne Kinnebrock (University of Augsburg)
Stefani Šovanec (University of Novi Sad) Antifascist discourse. Values through discourse strategies
Hendrik Michael (University of Bamberg) The Poor are Pigs! Populist Discourse and the Social Question in American periodicals of the Gilded Age
Juliane Prade-Weiss (University of Vienna) Complaining as Speech of “the East”. Discourse, Geography and Complicity in Populism
Olga Baysha (National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Moscow) Democracy without Demos. On the Negative Dialectic of the Progressive Historical Imaginary
18.30–19.30 ECREA Business Meeting and Book Launch Reception
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna | 1st floor, Sitzungssaal (conference hall)
PANEL V WEAPONIZING THE PAST. HISTORY AND MEMORY AS MEANS OF PROTEST AND POLARIZATION
9.15–10.45 Chair: Christian Oggolder (Austrian Academy of Sciences/ University of Klagenfurt)
Simon Ganahl (University of Vienna) Mediating Sovereignty. The “Turks Deliverance Celebration” in Vienna on May 14, 1933
Nelson Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) Using History to exclude the ‘Other’. Nationalistic and Xenophobic Discourses in Salazar’s regime
Merja Ellefson (Umea University) Remembering the civil war. From hatred to conciliation
Juan Manuel González (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja) & Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern) Re-mixing histories, re-shaping protests. Internet memes as a form of (counter) resistance in Ukraine and Venezuela
10.45–11.00 Coffee Break
PANEL VI REGULATING AGAINST HATE AND DECEPTION? THE ROLE OF MEDIA GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
11.00–12.15 Chair: Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Augsburg)
Ely Lüthi (USI, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano) Media as Swiss defence forces. The role of radio and supercomputing in the preservation of democracy
Inessa Arzumanyan & Gayaneh Oshakanyan (Armenia) Media governance, the development of media activity: use of media as a tool for Democracy in Armenia
Erik Koenen (University of Leipzig) The League of Nations in the fight against public hate campaigns, false news and propaganda. Remarks on an almost forgotten chapter in the history of international communication and media politics
12.15–12.30 Concluding Remarks 12.30–14.00 Farewell Lunch
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