11:30-12:00: Coffee & Registration

12.00-13:30: Populists, Citizens and the Media: the complex relationship

• Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, LSE
  Greco-German media depictions of the Self and Other during the Eurozone Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?
• Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, LSE Visiting Fellow
  Media and citizens in Greece and beyond: Resistance and Domination through Euro-crisis
• Marzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, University of London
  Five Star Movement ‘Online’ Populism in Historical Perspective

• Franco Zappettini, University of Liverpool
  The Tabloidization of the Brexit Campaign: Power to the (British) People
  

• Chair: Charlie Beckett, LSE

13.30-14.30: Lunch

14:30-15:30: Keynote

• Michał Krzyżanowski, Örebro University & University of Liverpool
  Discursive Shifts and the Normalisation of Exclusion: On Politicisation and Mediatisation of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe
  
• Chair: Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE

15:30-17:00:  Discourses, Narratives and Ideologies of Populism

• Jonathan Hopkin, LSE
  Post-truth, bullshit and bad ideas: deficit fetishism in contemporary politics
• Aurelien Mondon, University of Bath (with Aaron Winter, UEL)
  Whiteness, Populism and the Racialisation of the Working-class in the UK and the US
• Benjamin de Cleen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (with Péter Csigó, Jason Glynos, Aurelien Mondon)
  Discourses about Populism and Their Effects: Mimesis, Ideology, Bubble and Hype

17:00-17:30:  Coffee break

17:30-18:30: Keynote

• Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 
  Challenges in Contemporary Populism Research

10:00-11:15 :  Politics of exclusion: media and political representations of ‘Other’

• Myria Georgiou, LSE and Rafal Zaborowski, King’s College London
  Heroes and strangers: media representations of Europe’s “refugee crisis”
• Marek Troszynski, Collegium Civitas
  Poland’s liberal and illiberal encounters with refugees
• Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London
  Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor

11:15-12:15 : Keynote

• Michael Cox, LSE
  The Rise of Populism and the Crisis of Globalisation: Brexit, Trump and Beyond
• Chair: Robin Mansell, LSE

12:15-12:45: Lunch

12:45-14:00: The New Right in the New Europe: political and popular narratives of change

• József Böröcz, Rutgers
  The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around ‘Race’
• Stanislaw Mocek, Collegium Civitas, Eva Polonska, LSE
  Poles Apart: political and popular discourses of nation, democracy and Europe
• Seán Hanley, UCL
  Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republi

14:00-14:30:  Coffee break

14:30-15:30: Keynote

• Francisco Panizza, LSE
  Populism and Identification
• Chair: Robin Mansell, LSE

15:30-17:00: Discourses of democratic values and ‘Europe’

• Gilles Ivaldi, University of Nice
  Radical right and EU-pessimism in France
• Roch Dunin-Wasowicz, UCL
  Generation Brexit: what do young people in Britain say about Europe?
  
• Stijn van Kessel, Queen Mary University of London
  The populist politics of Euroscepticism in times of crisis: comparative conclusions