Programme
10th of March 2022
12.30 – 13.00 Welcome, Introduction and Research Prospects
Cathrine Bublatzky and Simone Pfeifer
13:00-13.30 Lisa Wedeen (USA): What is a Populist Aesthetics Anyway?
13:00 – 15:00 Panel 1: Populist Aesthetics, Affect, and Emotions
Discussant and Moderation: Simone Pfeifer
Presentations: 10 min input/10 Q&A (each)
13:30-13:50 Agnieszka Balcerzak (GER): “(Don’t) Make Abortion Great Again”:
Aesthetics and Affects in the Polish “War on Abortion”
13:50-14:10 Anagha Anil (IND): Analyzing the Corpothetics of Communist
Iconography in Contemporary Kerala
14:10-14:30 Luciana Chamorro Elizondo (USA): Being seen in post-
revolutionary Nicaragua: authoritarian populism, protagonism, and the enjoyment
of visibility
14:30-14:50 Robert Samet (USA): Animating Grievances: Theorizing Populism
from the Ground Up
14:50 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:30 Coffee Break & Walking Session (Philosophenweg)
16:30 – 18:30 Panel 2: Populist Activism & Spectacle
Discussant and Moderation: Christoph Günther
Presentations: 10 min input/10 Q&A (each)
16:30 – 16:50 Sindre Bangstad (NOR): ‚Free speech capture‘: Qu’ran-burning, free
speech and the far-to-populist right continuum in Norway
16:50 – 17:10 Ruthie Ginsburg (ISR): The Spectacle of Demonstration: Anti-
Netanyahu Protests During the Coronavirus Crises
17:10 – 17:30 Cathrine Bublatzky (GER): Populist activism, Image Politics after
9/11 and the Everyday: Emotion and Affect in the Iranian Diaspora
17:30 – 17.50 Sa’eed Husaini (NGA): Organizing Glass-Eating Sango Priests:
Time, Space, and the ‘Grassroots’ in Everyday Populist Activism
17:50 – 18:30 Discussion
19:00 Dinner
11th of March 2022
Coffee
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 3: Populist Digital Encounters & Media
Discussant and Moderation: Cathrine Bublatzky
Presentations: 10 min input/10 Q&A (each)
10:00 – 10:20 Robert Dörre (GER): In the Slipstream of Popular Culture: On Self-
Documentary Practices of Right-Wing Influencers in Germany
10:20 – 10:40 Simone Pfeifer (GER): Persuasive Sensations: Muslim Image-texts
and YouTube preaching as populist religious communication
10:40 – 11:00 Letícia Cesarino (BRA): The network esthetics of Bolsonaro’s
digital populism: between schismogenesis and plateau
11:00 – 11:20 Stefan Groth (CH): Aesthetic Felicity: Narratological Approaches
to the Aesthetics of Fact Checking, Counter-Narratives and Political Activism in
Germany
11:20 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15.30 Panel 4: Image Politics, Fake News, and Trust
Discussant and Moderation: Julian Genner
Presentations: 10 min input/10 Q&A (each)
13:30 – 13:50 Britta Ohm (GER/CH): ‘Fake News’ of a Pogrom and Image Politics
of Soap Opera: Populist Antedating and Continued Media Imperialism in India
13:50 – 14:10 Adrian Stoicescu (RO): In fake we (dis)trust – Vernacular
Language of Resisting Populism
14:10 – 14:30 Ioannis Stylianidis (GR): Antisemitism in Greece: how do
populism and amnesia culture promote a dystopian aesthetic
14:30 – 14:50 Mona Schieren (GER): Establishing in the Apocalypse. Prepper
Fantasies and their Image Politics
14:50 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Closing Session
Cathrine Bublatzky 