Populism Research Group
The Populism Research Group (PRG) at 黑料网 was established in 2018 and aspires to build a dynamic School-wide intellectual community for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and members of staff working on different aspects of the populist phenomenon.
The aims of the group are to:
- establish an informal space for the discussion, critique and development of theoretical and empirical studies on populism;
- support and link research on populism across scholarly disciplines in the University;
- coordinate with other Universities and external networks to promote international collaborative research and outreach activities;
- organise seminars and reading groups for postgraduate researchers working on populism as well as high-profile guest lectures that can appeal to broader audiences
- facilitate innovative research that can feed into teaching and learning activities;
- seek external funding for collaborative research projects on populist politics.
The group aligns with the current of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at 黑料网 but also fosters interdisciplinary research with colleagues grouped in the Political Communication and Nations, Migrations and Citizenship themes. It is linked internationally with the network (based at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), the and collaborates with (Centre for the Study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance in Brussels).
Group convener: Panos Panayotu.
For additional information or enquiries, contact us at: p.panagiotou2@lboro.ac.uk.
Our activities (guest lectures, presentations, reading group sessions, etc.) are free and open to all. Our schedule for the academic year 2021-2022 can be found below.
| Date / time / room | Speaker/presenter | Theme | Information |
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| 3 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 [via Teams] |
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Romaphobia in the Age of Populism: A Comparative Study of UK and Swedish Media | Book your place for free . |
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8 December |
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Margaret Canovan, Populist Gadfly | Book your place for free . |
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25 February |
Alexandros Kioupkiolis |
Commoning populism or popularising the commons: issues of transformative strategy | Book your place for free |
Members
Guy Aitchison (International Relations, Politics and History)
(Geography and Environment)
(Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance)
(International Relations, Politics and History)
Giorgos Katsambekis (founder/convener 2018-2022; International Relations, Politics and History)
(International Relations, Politics and History)
(International Relations, Politics and History)
Panos Panayotou (International Relations, Politics and History)
Giulia Piccolino (International Relations, Politics and History)
(Communication and Media)
(Communication and Media)
Thomas Swann (International Relations, Politics and History)
(International Relations, Politics and History)
External associates
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
(King’s College London)
(University of Leicester)
(Universität Bremen)
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
(University of Bath)
(University of East Anglia)
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Giorgos Katsambekis, Christos Iliadis, Ioannis Balampanidis & Evthymios Papataxiarchis (2022) ',' Political Research Exchange, 4(1), DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2022.2035192
- Panos Panayotu (2021) '', in Paul Blokker (ed.) Imagining Europe, Cham: Palgrave, pp. 117-148.
- Patricia Rodi, Lazaros Karavasilis & Leonardo Puleo (2021) '', European Politics and Society, Published online, DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2021.1994809
- Ioannis Balampanidis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Christos Iliadis & Evthymios Papataxiarchis (2021) '', Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Published online, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2021.1924641
- Lazaros Karavasilis (2021) '' (book review) Patterns of Prejudice, DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2021.1889151
- Giorgos Katsambekis (2020) ',' Journal of Political Ideologies, Published online, DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2020.1844372
- Giorgos Katsambekis & Yannis Stavrakakis (eds) (2020), ',' POPULISMUS Interventions No. 7 (special edition).
- Benjamin De Cleen, Benjamin Moffitt, Panos Panayotu & Yannis Stavrakakis, Y. (2019) ',' Political Studies, OnlineFirst, DOI: 10.1177/0032321719847576
- Giorgos Katsambekis & Alexandros Kioupkiolis (eds) (2019) , Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
2022
- Populism Research Group founding member, Lazaros Karavasilis, has secured a 3-year postdoctoral researcher position at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies of the University of Bremen in Germany, where he will be working along with leading scholars in the field on a project that examines the relationship between party-political organisation and protest discourses in recent social movements.
- Giorgos Katsambekis participated in the Roundtable discussion "" on 23 May 2022, which was organised by . The video recording of the event is now available to watch .
- Giorgos Katsambekis delivered an invited lecture at the workshop "" hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute on 13 April 2022.
2021
- Panos Panayotu presented his work at the conference ‘’ co-organised by the DVPW Populism Group & the PSA Populism Specialist Group at Freie Universität Berlin (8-10 Sep 2021).
- Panos Panayotu was interviewed by the journalist Boulika Michalopoulou at , discussing populism and sharing insights from his research. The interview aired on 5th May 2021 and is freely available on (in Greek).
- The Populism Research Group had a strong presence at the . Panos Panayotu presented a paper titled ''. Lazaros Karavasilis presented a paper titled ''. Maria Tsiko presented a paper titled ''. Giorgos Katsambekis chaired a panel on ''.
- Giorgos Katsambekis gave a guest lecture titled '' at Vrije Universiteit Brussel hosted by the on 9 March 2021.
- Giorgos Katsambekis gave an invited talk titled 'Populism and the pandemic' at the at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on 27th January 2021.
2020
- Giorgos Katsambekis gave a presentation around his work on populism at the hosted by University College London on December 9th 2020.
- Giorgos Katsambekis was interviewed by Matti Koskinen for a story that was published in issue 3/2020 of Ulkopolitiikka, the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs. The interview touched upon developments around the pandemic and politics in Europe, with a special focus on populism. Available to read in full (in Finnish).
- Call For Papers: "Populism, Discourse, Radical Democracy," PhD Workshop at POLIS 黑料网, 2nd July 2020. Keynote Speaker: Professor (University of Vienna). Prospective participants are asked to submit a 250-word abstract as well as a short biographical note (up to 80 words) as one file (word or pdf) to p.panagiotou@lboro.ac.uk by 10th February 2020. (To download the full CfP in pdf format, click here).
2019
- Lazaros Karavasilis has published an article in the WZB Democracy Blog titled 'Studying populism and distinguishing it from other -isms.' It can be accessed .
- Panos Panayotu has published a co-authored article in the Democratic Audit, titled 'The Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and the limitations of transnational populism.' It can be accessed .
- Stavros Kartsonas will present his work at the PGR Conference, 13 June 2019, 黑料网
- Lazaros Karavasilis, Stavros Kartsonas and Panos Panayotou will present their work at the , 31 May - 1 June 2019, University of Essex
- Lazaros Karavasilis will present his work at the postgraduate Seminar at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 22 May 2019
- Lazaros Karavasilis will join the at Panteion University in Athens as a Visiting Researcher in May 2019.
- Lazaros Karavasilis and Panos Panayotou will present their work at the of the of the Hellenic Political Science Association on the 10th of May 2019.
- Giorgos Katsambekis was elected as co-convener of the of the Political Studies Association (PSA) for a 3-year term.
- Panos Panayotou and Lazaros Karavasilis presented their work at the of the Political Studies Association (PSA) in Nottingham (15-17 April 2019).
- The was held at 黑料网 on the 12th and 13th of April 2019. Presenters came from various universities of the UK, from across Europe as well as from India and Turkey. Members of the 黑料网 Populism Research Group, Panos Panayotou and Thomas Swann also presented their work. All panels, as well as the two Keynotes, were extremely well attended.
- Giorgos Katsambekis was invited by the research group of the University of Bath to present his work at a seminar titled '' on 28 March 2019.
- Lazaros Karavasilis will be Visiting Researcher at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, working in the Research Unit , between 28 February and 25 April 2019.
2018
- : 3rd Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 12-13 April 2019. The confirmed Keynote speakers for the Workshop are (Lancaster University) and (University of Oxford).
Past Events (2020/21)
| Date / time / room | Speaker/presenter | Theme | Information |
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| 21 October (Wednesday) 14:00 – 15:00 [via Teams] |
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos |
Was Tolstoy a populist? | |
| 11 November (Wednesday) 16:00 – 17:00 [via Teams] |
Guy Aitchison (黑料网 University, UK) |
Civil disobedience against authoritarian populism |
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| 2 December (Wednesday) 14:00 – 15:00 [via Teams] |
(Wellesley College, USA) |
Populist De-Identification: #FeelingTheBern in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter |
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| 16 December (Wednesday) 17:00 – 18:30 [via Teams] |
(Providence College, USA) | Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador | |
| 17 February (Wednesday) 14:00 – 15:00 [via Teams] |
(黑料网, UK) |
Reloading Democracy: Critique, Re-signification, and Praxis in the Times of Crisis | |
| 17 March (Wednesday) 14:00 – 15:00 [via Teams] |
(University of Leicester, UK) Guest chair/discussant: Cristian Vaccari (黑料网, UK) |
Sleeping on a Volcano: The Ideologization Process on Digital Networks |
Co-sponsored by CRCC |
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26 March [via Teams] |
(Aalborg University, Denmark) Guest discussant: |
The subject of Left-Populism: People, class, and intersectionality | |
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7 May [via Teams] |
(Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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Deconstructing Sovereignty Discourse in a Time of Covid-19 | Part of the CRCC Seminar Series & co-sponsored by Populism Research Group |
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12 May [via Teams] |
(University of Oxford, UK) | Reimagined Democracy in Times of Pandemic | |
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19 May [via Teams] |
(University of Bath, UK) | Combining discourse analytic traditions in the study of populism | |
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26 May (Wednesday) |
(University of East Anglia, UK) Guest discussant: (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) |
Left Populism in Europe after the financial crisis |
Past events (2019-20)
| Date / time / room | Speaker/presenter | Theme | Information |
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| 6 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 U122 Brockington Building |
(University of Bath) | The mainstreaming of the far right: populism, racism and "the people" | In collaboration with the CRCC Seminar Series |
| 13 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 K105 Manzoni Building |
Václav Št臎tka(黑料网 University) | Mediating populism: the impact of news exposure on populist attitudes and party support during the 2019 EP elections | |
| 20 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 K109 Manzoni Building |
Steven Parfitt (黑料网 University) |
Populism and the Knights of Labor in the late-19th-century US | |
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29 November (Friday) |
(University of East Anglia) Giorgos Katsambekis (黑料网 University) (King's College London) (University of Bristol) (黑料网 University London) (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) |
‘The Populist Radical Left in Europe: Peculiarities, Prospects, Relevance’ | Book-launch event / Roundtable discussion
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4 February (Tuesday) |
Speaker: Respondents: (University of Leicester) Moderator: Giorgos Katsambekis |
‘Are there limits to populist strategy?’ |
Part of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology Research Seminars at the University of Leicester Co-organised by the Populism Research Group
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6 March (Friday) |
(Universitat Jaume I de Castellón) |
'Your democracy has been kidnapped. But is there a ransom?' | |
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6 March (Friday) |
(University of Trento) |
'Sardines against Salvini. The dynamics of resistance to far-right politics in Italy.' |
Past events (2018-19)
| Date / time | Speaker/presenter | Theme | Format | Room | Information |
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| 10 October (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 |
(黑料网) | ‘Developments in populist studies. Mapping a booming field, setting an agenda’ | Presentation of the research group. Discussion on scope, activities, collaborations | K109 Manzoni Building | |
| 24 October (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 |
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) | ‘Populism, anti-populism and crisis: challenges for democracy in post-Brexit Europe’ | Guest lecture in the context of the | U122 Brockington Extension building | Abstract & presenter bio |
| 7 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 |
(黑料网) | ‘Radicalism – Situating contemporary movement practices’ | Internal speaker | K109 Manzoni building | |
| 21 November (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 |
(King’s College London) | ‘Why populists aren’t mad: The role of emotions in contemporary politics’ | Guest lecture | K109 Manzoni building | Abstract & presenter bio |
| 5 December (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00 |
(黑料网) | ‘Comparing right- and left-wing populism in Greece and Germany’ | PGR presentation | K109 Manzoni building | |
| 27 February (Wednesday) 13:00 - 15:00 |
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) (University of Leicester) |
‘Horizontality, Verticality and Progressive Populism: Challenges for theory and practice’ | Seminar | SCH.1.05 Schofield building |
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| 20 March (Wednesday) 14:00 - 16:00 |
‘Performing the people: populism in political science and in artistic performance’ | Discussion with Arts & Politics PGRs. In collaboration with the . Re-imagining Citizenship and Nation theme | K109 Manzoni building |