Populist and Radical Political Discourses in Europe
Online Guest Lecture Series
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
​9.3.21 - 4.5.21

DESIRE organizes several guest lectures as part of the course “Populist and Radical Political Discourses in Europe”, taught by Benjamin De Cleen in the Journalism and Media in Europe Master. The lectures are followed by ample time for debate.

The guest lecturers in the series are:

• Giorgos Katsambekis: populism and ‘the people’: beyond moralism and homogeneity (9 March)
• Ruth Breeze: nationalism and populism on the radical right: discursive approaches to populist claims and style (16 March)
• Jacopo Custodi: nationalism and populism in Podemos (23 March)
• Léonie de Jonge: the media and the populist radical right (30 March)
• Jana Goyvaerts: media and populism: defending what kind of democracy? (20 April)
• Katy Brown & Aurelien Mondon: media, populism and the mainstreaming of the radical right (27 April)
• Louise Knops: media, populism, indignation: insights from the radical-right (4 May)