Thursday, 29.09.2022 |
18:00 (all times CET) | Welcome Adress (ERBA, WE5/00.022) - Markus Behmer (Faculty Dean)
- Hendrik Michael (Scandalogy Research Iniative)
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18:15 | Panel discussion: “Political scandals in the age of populism, partisanship, and polarization” (ERBA, WE5/00.022)
- Andreas Schwarz (TU Ilmenau)
- Benjamin Krämer (LMU München)
- Moderation: André Haller (Kufstein University of Applied Sciences)
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Friday, 30.09.2022 (all presentations in WE5/00.022) |
9:15-10:45 | Panel 1: Celebrity populists: Who are they, why do we elect them and with what effect? (hybrid) |
| - Berto Šalaj (University of Zagreb): Celebrity populism and liberal democracy: A threat or a corrective?
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| - Marijana Grbeša (University of Zagreb): Celebrity populism and the power of performative politics: Evidence from Croatia and Serbia
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| - Silvija Vuković (Charles University): Fictional populist candidates and how they master parody, scandals and fiction to win elections
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| | - Milica Vučković (University of Zagreb): Riding on insults: Furious populism of Croatian president Zoran Milanović
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10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–12:30 | Panel 2: Political Journalism and cultures of outrage (online) |
| - Maximilian Eder (Universität der Bundeswehr Munich): Up close and personal? Journalistic role performance during the Ibiza affaire on Twitter
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| - Abderrahim Chalfaouat (Hassan II University of Casablanca): Moroccan journalist scandals: Pre-emptive muzzling for uncritical coverage
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12:30-13:45 | Lunch (own your own) |
13:45-15:15 | Panel 3: Scandals, elections and the public image |
| - Tanja Drozdzynski (HAW Hamburg): Scandalization as a tool for political campaigning
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| - David Redlawsk (University of Delaware) & Annemarie Walter (University of Nottingham): Partisan differences in punitiveness in response to politicians’ moral transgressions
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| - Gabriella Szabó (Centre for Social Sciences/Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Unpacking shame management in politics: Strategies for evoking and steps to mitigate the feeling of shame
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15:15-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-17:00 | Panel 4: Scandals and scandal production as populist communication strategies (online) |
| - Juha Herkman (University of Helsink) & Joonas Koivukoski (University of Helsinki): "It was a joke!": Right-wing populist humor scandals
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| - Juan Cannata (Universidad Austral): Public discourse scandal: A dissent management approach
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| - LeAnn M. Brazeal (Missouri State University): Sorry, not sorry: The defiant image repair of Marjorie Taylor Greene
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17:00-17:15 | Coffee Break |
17:15-18:45 | Panel 5: Outrage, lionization, and resistance in a polarized public (hybrid) - Timothy Coombs (Texas A&M): Scandal or lionization: Political social actions in a polarized world
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| | - Anna Kleiman (University of Amsterdam): Manet's "Olympia": Inappropriateness as the ultimate resistance
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| | - Adriana Montanaro-Mena (independent scholar): Effervescent scandals: The Amazon, indigenous people and Bolsonaro
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19:30 | Conference Dinner (Kachelofen, Obere Sandstraße 1, 96049 Bamberg - directions from the conference venue) |
Saturday, 01.10.2022 |
9:30-11:00 | Panel 6: Media, partisanship and populist discourse (hybrid) |
| - Karl Mendoza (University of Canterbury): Vaccine scandals, news production, and journalistic 'trust culture': A thematic exploration of journalistic role orientations and practicesin the coverage of the Dengvaxia scandal in the Phlippines
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| - Roberto Mincigrucci (University of Urbino Carlo Bo), Matteo Gerli (University of foreigner of Perugia) & Marco Mazzoni (University of Perugia): The role of the media in the social construction of the "Tangentopoli" scandal
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| | - Jason Edwards (Bridgewater State University) & Coleen Alm (Bridgewater State University): America's first sex scandal: The rhetorical strategies in the Hamilton/Reynolds affair
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11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15-12:45 | Panel 7: “Tear down the statues, remove the dead!”: Scandalization of character as a timeless feature of Populism |
| - Jennifer Keohane (University of Baltimore): Holding out for a Hero: The Rhetorical Battle over the National Garden of American Heroes in the United States
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| - Martijn Icks (University of Amsterdam): The many deaths of Domitian: Scandal and image destruction in imperial Rome
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| - Eric Shiraev (George Mason University): Choosing from the memory menu: Character attacks, glorification and public amnesia
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12:45-13:00 | Closing Remarks |
