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Conference Presentations
2023
11-14 December, 2023
HEPP4 (Fourth Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism, and Polarised Politics)
University of Helsinki / University of Rovaniemi, Finland
From “Traitors” to “Grooming” via “Fixed Beliefs”:
A 40-Year Arc of Anti-Pluralism in U.S. Political Discourse
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9-11 November, 2023
Negative Solidarities: The Age of Anger and Hate Speech in the Anglophone Globalized Public Sphere
University of Naples "L'Orientale"
400 Years of Racial Fear[s]:
Eschatology, Epistemology, and the Role of Post-Confederate “Dog-Whistle” Fearmongering in 21st-Century U.S. Political Discourse
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27-28 November, 2023
Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in U.S. Popular Culture
University of Alcalá / PopMeC
“Where No Human Being Would Want to Live,”
or, Trump in Philadelphia: Maligning Black Neighborhoods and Delegitimizing Black Voters from 1865 to 2020
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25-27 October, 2023
Poznań, Poland
America and Deep Time: Alternate Temporalities, Geographies, and Histories
Adam Mickiewicz University / Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS)
The U.S. vs. the" Rest of the West":
Is the U.S. a Moral Outlier in the 21st-Century Western World?
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20-22 October, 2023
Lisbon, Portugal
American Dreams, American Crises
NOVA University of Lisbon FCSH
Split Epistemologies, or, Who Believes in the “Benefits” of Slavery?:
Confederate Catechisms, Mediated Histories, and 200 Years of Divergent U.S. Public Education
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12-13 October, 2023
Kalmar, Sweden
Media and Emotional Mobilization
Linnaeus University/ Linnaeus Media Observatory (LMO)
Subjective Nationalisms:
Structuring ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in the Emotional Appeals of U.S. Right-Wing Political Discourse
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4-6 October, 2023
Oulu, Finland
(Un)Common Worlds III: Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes
University of Oulu / Finnish Society for Human-Animal studies (YKES)
Mushrooms and Axolotls, or, Love Beyond the Megafauna:
New Affective Cross-Organism Relationship Patterns in U.S. Children of the Permacrisis
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11-13 September, 2023
Cambridge, UK
Environmental Endings and Religious Futures
Clare College, Cambridge, UK / British Assoc. for the Study of Religions
Toward a Discourse of “Substitute Apocalypse”:
On the Intersections of Climate Denialism, Rapture-Focused Religiosity, and Anti-BLM Post-Confederate Panic in Contemporary Emic Political Discourse of the U.S. Evangelical Right
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