Venue & Programme
Venue
The 5th Ideas in Politics conference Rethinking Representation will be held at the Charles University Faculty of Arts Building located at náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1 (next to Staroměstská metro/tram station).
Conference Programme
NB: This is a draft version of the programme. If you discover a mistake in the spelling of your name or precise wording of your paper, please indicate so in the conference participant registration form. The final version of the programme will be published a couple of days prior to the conference.
Thursday, November 19th
9.30–10.00 AM Registration
10.00–11.30 PM Plenary Session I (Room P018)
TBA
11.30 AM–12.00 PM Coffe Break
12.00–1.30 PM Panel Session 1
Room P018 – Panel 1.1 – Machiavelli: Rhetoric, Passions, and Republican Politics
- Panel chair: TBA
- Inês Pinheiro: Passions in Play: Affect and Persuasion in Machiavelli’s Minor and Literary Writings
- Giovanni Damele: Machiavelli as a Speechwriter: From the Minor Political Writings to the Florentine Histories
- Giuseppe Ballacci: Machiavelli on Rhetoric, Deliberation, and Republican Liberty: Between Aristotelian Prudence and Sophistic Technique
Room P010 – Panel 1.2 – Narratives, Imaginaries, and Fractured Publics
- Panel chair: TBA
- Joseph Kunkel: Fractured Resonance: Towards a General Cognitive Semiotics of Political Speech
- Georgekutty Muriankari Varke: Temporal Globalities and Affective Communities: Media, Pilgrimage and the Making of ‘Judeo-Christian Civilizational Imaginaries’ among Kerala Christians, India
- Zurab Bezhanishvil: The Interplay of Competing Value Narratives in Georgia: Implications for Policy, Resilience,and Self-Defence
1.30–2.30 PM Lunch Break
2.30–4.30 PM Panel Session 2
Room P018 – Panel 2.1 – Rhetoric in the Canon: Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft
- Panel chair: TBA
- Diana Fuhr: Metaphor and Political Rhetoric in the Leviathan
- Hana Fořtová: The Conflict through Language: The Use of Rhetoric in the Openings of Rousseau’s Political Works
- Ľubica Kobová: Beyond Immutable Principles of Political Thought
Room P010 – Panel 2.2 – Digital Rhetoric, AI, and Political Agency
- Panel chair: TBA
- Alexandru Mateescu: Persuading Either Way: AI Companions as a Limit Case of Political Rhetoric
- Antonio Ruiz Capilla: The Limits of RWho Answers for the Words? AI-Generated Political Speech and Rhetorical Risk
- Ishani Mukherjee: From Scrolling to Mobilisation: How Social Media Rhetoric Transforms Political Emotion into Collective Action
4.00–4.30 PM Lunch Break
4.30–6:00 PM Panel Session 3
Room P018 – Panel 3.1 – Rhetoric, Crisis, and Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
- Panel chair: TBA
- Wojciech Engelking: From Absolute Metaphors and the Rhetoric of Crisis after the Great War
- Samuel Zeitlin: Maoism, the Chinese Communist Party and DemagogiCarl Schmitt in Franco’s Spain, March 1962
- Anna Winkler: Situationist Détournement as a Means to Counter Propaganda
Room P010 – Panel 3.2 – Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric
- Panel chair: TBA
- Alessandro Volpi: Turning Authority’s Words Against It: Folk Internal Critique and the Rhetoric of Legitimation
- Jan Křovák: Populism as a Communication Strategy: A Comparative Analysis of Populist and Non-Populist Political Actors in Three Countries
- Solomiia Trachuk: Rhetorical Features of Evading Political Responsibility in Populist Discourse
Friday, November 20th
9.00–10.30 AM Panel Session 4
Room P018 – Panel 4.1 – Affect, Democracy, and Political Imagination
- Panel chair: TBA
- Martina Insero: Rhetoric and the Mobilization of Emotions in Democratic Politics: Between Fear and Hope
- Jan Bíba: Ressentiment and the Resignification of Democracy: Why Illiberal Politics Speaks a Democratic Language
- Víctor Alonso-Rocafort: Against the Double Closure to the Future and to Others: Recovering Democratic Fantasy
Room P010 – Panel 4.2 – Rhetoric of War and Strategic Communication
- Panel chair: TBA
- Nicolò Radice-Fossati: Russian War’s Narrative: The Case of State Media in Kremlin’s Strategic Communication regarding the Conflict in Ukraine
- Gal Yavetz: One Nation Under God: The U.S. Administration’s Use of Social Media During Operation Epic Fury
- Maria Theodorou: Rhetoric: Why and How Does It Advance the Theorization and Conceptualization of Strategic Communication?
10.30–11.00 AM Coffee Break
11.00 AM–12.30 PM Plenary Session II (Room P018)
TBA
12.30–1.30PM Lunch Break
1.30–3.00PM Panel Session 5
Room P018 – Panel 5.1 – Legitimation, Hypocrisy, and Anti-Political Language
- Panel chair: TBA
- Stanislav Hrubiznyi: The Problem of Legitimation in Quentin Skinner’s Methodology
- Kristina Broučková: Hypocrisy in Democratic Discourse: A Defence
- Paweł Bącal: Conceptualising the Problem of a ‘Dirty Word’: From Anti-Politics to Anti-Political Language
Room 325 – Panel 5.2 – Memory, Identity, and Rhetorical Conflict
- Panel chair: TBA
- George-Ciprian Lungu: Armageddon Without Culprits: Yanukovych, Tabachnyk, and the Symbolic Reclaiming of Soviet Memory
- Larisa Vasileska: “Cultural Genocide” and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination: Constructing Macedonian National Identity in the Shadow of EU Conditionality
- Janice (Jae) Yang: DON’T LOOK AWAY: Political Martyrdom and Collective Memory in the Age of the Platformed Public
3.30–3.30 PM Coffee Break
3.30–5.00 PM Panel Session 6
Room P018 – Panel 6.1 – Judgement, Storytelling, and the Public Sphere
- Panel chair: TBA
- Veronika Konrádová — The Affective Dynamics of Logos: Protagoras and Gorgias on Collective Judgement
- Kateřina Labutta Kubíková — Storytelling and the Public Sphere: Sortition, Deliberative Mini-Publics and Narrative
- Eduardo Guerrero Riesco — Madness, or the Troubling of Public Judgement
Room P010 – Panel 6.2 – Constructing Peoples, Nations, and Belonging
- Panel chair: TBA
- Yung-Hsuan Cheng — Constructing “the People” Without Victory: Populist Mobilization in Taiwan and Romania
- Sanchita Srivastava — ‘Softcore’ Hindutva: Everyday Nationalism and Gendered Subjectivities on YouTube
- Mihai Tatomir — Universalising the National Struggle: A Framing Theory Approach to Kurdish Diaspora Activism in Europe