Presentations

Conference Presentations

Archetypes of political style. The 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), Leiden University, July 4-7,  2023

Clusters of political concepts bridging the gap of signification. Discourse Theory: Ways Forward, 2nd Edition. Desire Conference, Brussels, March 23-24, 2023

The development of Trump’s political style. Towards a toxic mix of populism with elitism. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Conference in Innsbruck,  August 22-26, 2022

The left-right spectrum in relation to populism, elitism, and pluralism. International Workshop ‘Left’? ‘Right’? Federal University of Goiás, Faculdade de Filosofia (UFG/FAFIL), Brazil. December 14-15, 2021. Online Conference at Livestream/Youtube.

Leaderless populism versus leader centered populism – a comparison. Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares. Joint conference of the DVPW Populism Group & the PSA Populism Specialist Group, Freie Universität Berlin, September 8-10, 2021.

Populist and non-populist political styles and Corona. Second Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP2) on 4-8 May 2021, Zoom-conference.

Populism and anti-populism in the Netherlands. At the PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop: ‘The “Populist Moment”: Temporality, Transformations, Crises’. Zoom conference, 14-18 September 2020, online.

A Greimassian Analysis of Populism in relation to other concepts. At the conference: ‘Logics, Critical Explanation and the Future of Critical Political Theory: Applying Discourse Analysis in Multiple Contexts,’ May 31 – June 1, 2019. Essex University, Colchester, UK.

The Political Style of Speeches Before, During and After the Brexit Referendum. At the 69th PSA Annual International Conference, April 15- 17, 2019, Nottingham, UK.

The clashing freedoms of populism and liberalism. At the PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop ‘Populism, Liberalism, Democracy,’ April 12- 13, 2019. Loughborough, UK.

Metaphors in populist, elitist and pluralist political speeches. At the conference: ‘In the name of the people: representing the people in twenty-first century politics,’ November 22-24, 2018, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Populism, Elitism, and Pluralism in Political Speeches. At the conference: ‘Political Discourse-Multidisciplinary Approaches #2: New discourses of populism and nationalism,’ June 21-22, 2018. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

What populism is NOT: populism in relation to elitism and pluralism. At the conference: ‘New Directions in the Study of Populism,’ March 15-17, 2018. Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. USA.

Presentations for a broader public

Carola presents regularly for a broader public (see here), in Dutch and in English. You can contact her if you are interested.