The 4th International Conference Pathologies and Dysfunctions of Democracy in a Media Context accepts work that aims:
a) Generally identifying thematic agendas, communicational strategies, and discursive practices of populism, in the various contexts of its emergence and ascension.
b) Specifically identifying the existence of thematic, communicational, and discursive mutations recently observed in populist movements and parties, coincident with their electoral growth and /or approach to power.
c) Works that focus on pathologies associated with populism in media contexts such as hate speech, xenophobia, racism, polarization, etc. are also accepted.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation
This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today's increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.