“Performance, Affect and Media Cycle”
Location: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Date: 14 march 2025
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Round Table
Description: Political culture, emotions and identities on the populist radical right in southern Europe

Performance, Affect and Media Cycle
Location: Institute of Communication, New University of Lisbon
Date: 14 march 2025
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Narratives of anger and discourses of hate

“XII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política”
Location: Lisboa
Date: 7 março 2025
Team Members (UNPOP): Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: A semiótica Populista: imigração e identidade em Portugal e Itália

Italian Sociological Association (AIS) International Conference on Political SociologyContesting the Political: Myths and Demands in Populist Narrative
Location: University of Bologna
Date: 12 October 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla & Andy Knott
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: Contesting the Political: Myths and Demands in Populist Narrative

International Conference on ‘Democratization and Autocratization
Location: New University of Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation
Date: 13 September 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla, Lisete Mónico & Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Speakers
Description: Emotion Narratives in Populist Leaders and Voters

International Seminar of Instituto da Democracia
Location: Instituto da Democracia, Edifício Bolsa do Rio de Janeiro
Date: 2 September 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Emotion narratives on the political culture of radical right populist parties in Portugal and Italy

European Sociological Association (ESA) 16^th Conference
Location: University of Porto
Date: 28 August 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla & Andy Knott
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Demands, Myths and Emotions in Populism: Contemporary European Politics

Colloquium, ‘Ascensão da extrema direita no mundo: discursos e práticas de violência’ [The rise of the extreme right in the world: discourses and practices of violence]
Location: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Date: 10 July 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Manifestações de racismo: como as políticas de extrema direita mobilizam a noção de raça e o ódio racial’ [Manifestations of racism: how far-right politics mobilize the notion of race and racial hatred]

International Conference on ‘Emotional Dynamics of (In)security and Politics’
Location: University of Saarland
Date: 11 June 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla & Lisete Mónico
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Emotion Narratives and Populist Attitudes

Ascensão da extrema direita’ [Rise of the far right]
Location: FEUC – University of Coimbra
Date: 8 May 2024
Membros: Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: ‘Populismo: teorias e praticas’ [Populism: theories and practices]

Emotions, Digital Participation, Social State in Populism and Anti-Populism
Location: Valongo
Date: 17 outubro 2024
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla, Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Oradores
Description: “Populist Threats: Building Democratic Resilience with Participatory Communities”

Political culture, emotions and identities on the populist radical right in southern Europe
Location: Lisboa
Date: 14 março 2024
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: “Political culture, emotions and identities on the populist radical right in southern Europe”

Theorising citizenship and sovereignty: new and old epistemological and methodological questions
Location: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Date: 12 march 2024
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla,
Participation Type: Roundtable
Description: Theorising citizenship and sovereignty: new and old epistemological and methodological questions

Uniting Futures, Re-Imagine Europa’s 2024 Annual Forum ‘Depolarising Europe. Redefining Narratives’
Location: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
Date: 1 fevereiro 2024
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: “Reimagine Deliberative Democracy‘ and ‘Reimagine Climate Narratives“

45th KUALA LUMPUR International Conference on “Humanities & Social Sciences” (KHSS-23)
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Date: 26 December 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Lisete Mónico
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: Construction and Psychometric Validation of the Populist Attitudes Scale
Additional Information: Oral Best Paper

International workshop on populism, social contract, Global North and South and multimodal media in hegemonic struggle
Location: University of Lappland, Rovaniemi and Pyhätunturi
Date: 13-16 December 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Rapporteur
Description: ‘Postcolonialism and decolonial approaches“

Forth Helsinki, Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media, and Culture (HEPP4) Conference
Location: University of Helsinki
Date: 12 December 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Presentation
Description: ‘Populist ambiguity in the entanglement of reason and emotion“

Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean
Editors: Alberta Giorgi, Júlia Garraio, Teresa Toldy
Location: University of Coimbra
Date: 7 December 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Book presentation
Description: ‘Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean“

Populism and the Politics of Emotion
Location: Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton
Date: 24 november 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker

Populism, Liberalism and Democratic Politics
Location: Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton
Date: 21 november 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker

The frontiers of populist identities formation in cognitive-affective narrative
Location: Northeaster University London
Date: 14 November 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker

Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (SPF) [Portuguese Philosophical Society], International Congress
Location: University of Évora
Date: 16 September 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Presentation
Description: Visualising populist mythologies and their emotional charge

European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 11 (Sociology of Emotions) Mid-term online workshop
Location: Online
Date: 14-15 September 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Presentation
Description: ‘Emotions & cognition’, ‘Emotions & power’, ‘Researching emotions empirically’, ‘Epistemic – positive/negative emotions’

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference
Location: Prague
Date: 5 september 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Presentation
Description: Emotion Narratives of Far Right Populist Mythologies

Global South Critical Psychology Conference
Location: University of Arden (Online)
Date: 26 May 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Presentation
Description: Emancipatory Emotion Narrative in Postcolonial Lenses

International Conference – Hate Speech: How to Counteract?
Location: University of Azores
Date: 4 May 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Invited Speaker
Description: Hate of others, love of self, and other emotions narrated by the populist identity creation processes

2º ISUP International Summerschool On War and Peace: how tensions and conflicts across societies
Location: ISUP, Porto
Date: 3-7 July
Team Members (UNPOP): Sofia José Santos
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: “(De)Constructing masculinities and monstrosities in mediatized international politics“

Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists
Location: Iceland University, Reykjavik
Date: June 28
Team Members (UNPOP): Giovanni Allegretti
Participation Type: Moderation
Description: “Democracy, the Radical Right, and the Elites“

XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology - APS (Portuguese Sociological Association)
Location: University of Coimbra
Date: 6 de abril
Team Members (UNPOP): Lisete Mónico, Clara Margaça, Cristiano Gianolla, Nicky Huijboom
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Emotions and Populism: (im)Possibilities? in a growing research agenda”

XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology - APS (Portuguese Sociological Association)
Location: Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra
Date: 6 de abril
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Understanding populist polarisation through emotion theories“

XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology - APS (Portuguese Sociological Association)
Location: University of Coimbra
Date: 5 de abril
Team Members (UNPOP): Maria Izabel Weber
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “‘Building a Critical Processes Matrix on suicide. Analyzing the emotional impact of structural violence in polarized societies through a critical review and a meta-analysis“

IV International Congress of the Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC)
Location: University of Coimbra
Date: 31 de março 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Clara Margaça, Nicky Huijboom
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: ‘Emotions and Populism: (im)Possibilities? in a growing research agenda‘

IV International Congress of CINEICC
Location: University of Coimbra
Date: 31 March
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Understanding populist polarisation through emotion theories“

5th Annual U.K. Political Psychology Conference (PSA Political Psychology Specialist Group)
Location: Online
Date: 30 de março
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “The Emotion Narrative of Populism beyond Affective Intelligence and Intergroup Emotions“

XI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política
Location: Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal
Date: 30 de março a 1 de abril de 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Cognitive Affective Representation of the political mythologies of right-most parties in the Portuguese and Italian Parliaments”

No Fact without Fiction: Narrative as an Emancipatory Tool
Location: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 17 march de 2023
Team Members (UNPOP): Manuel João Cruz
Course Level: Doctorate
Course Unit: Critical Intercultural Dialogue

India against its own citizens
Location: Liquidanbar, Coimbra
Date: 22 November de 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Speaker
Description:  Open conversation with José Manuel Pureza and Amit Singh

Seminário Internacional “Media, Populismo e Corrupção
Location: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova
Date: 10 November 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: The re-appropriation of populist flags to fight populism

Seminário Internacional “Media, Populismo e Corrupção
Location: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova
Date: 9 November 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Manuel João Cruz
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: Political mythologies of the right-wing (populist) parties in southern European parliaments

European Conference on Politics and Gender
Location: Universidade of Ljubljana
Date: 06 to 08 of July 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Maria Elena Indelicato and Maíra Magalhães Lopes
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Queering populism: far-right women leaders, non-normative heterosexual families, and (white) national belonging in Italy”

12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Location: Universidade of Minho, Braga
Date: 27 to 28 of June 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Reason and emotions narrated in political mythology”

Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP3)
Location: Universidade of Helsinkia
Date: 15 to 17 of June 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Paper Presentation and Panel Member
Description: “Presentation title: The Narrative and Emotional Structure of Populist Mythology | Panel chaired: Commemoration, Heritage and Identity in Populism”

11th European Feminist Research Conference ‘Social Change in a Feminist Perspective’
Strand 10 – ‘Citizenship, Nationalism(s) and Racism(s)’
Location: University of Milan
Date: 05 to 08 of June 2022
Team Members (UNPOP): Maria Elena Indelicato and Maíra Magalhães Lopes
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Queering the far-right in Italy, Giorgia Meloni’s modern motherhood, non-normative heterosexual families, and the white nation“

Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence
Location: Centre for Social Studies
Date: 18 to 22 July 2022
Team Members (UNPOP):Maria Elena Indelicato, Cristiano Gianolla, Manuel Cruz, Gaia Giuliani, Annalisa Frisina and João Figueiredo
Participation Type: Organization and Presentation

Activism for Citizenship through Postcolonial Heritage Discourses
Location: New University of Lisbon (online)
Date: 14 July (online)
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress of Political Science

Emotions in Southern European populist movement-parties institutionalisation the shift from participation to representation
Location: Minho University
Date: 6 November 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla, Antoni Aguiló and Jesus Sabariego
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: International Conference on Populismos e suas linguagens [Populisms and its languages]

Activism for Citizenship through Postcolonial Heritage Discourses
Location: New University of Lisbon (online)
Date: 14 July 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Speaker
Description:  International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress of Political Science

Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) Congress 2021
Location: University of Lisbon + ISCTE
Date: 29 a 31 March 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla (co-authored by Antoni Aguiló and Jesus Sabariego)
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Analyzing the role of emotions in the shift from participation to representation in populist movement-parties’ narratives”

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2021
Location: Universidade of Innsbruck
Date: 30 August to 03 September 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla and Lisete Mónico
Participation Type: Table Organization and Paper Presentation
Description:
. Table Organization: “Emotion and populism within and beyond the negative correlation”
. Article Presentation “Emotion narratives of presidential candidates and populist voting behaviour”

European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference 2021
Location: Universidade of Barcelona
Date: 30 August to 03 September 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Sara Araùjo, Sofia José Santos and Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Hate and Love as Social Media Political Mobilising Forces”

Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares
Location: Freie University Berlin
Date: 08 a 10 September 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla (co-authored by Antoni Aguiló and Jesus Sabariego)
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Emotions for participation in southern European populist movement-parties: form grassroot activism to ICT membership”

Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) Conference
Location: Italian Society of Political Science (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, SISP)
Date: 09 to 11 September 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Myths and emotion in populist narrative”

«Deconfined Talks II» Seminar series
Location: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Date: 27 July 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Article Presentation
Description: “Reasons for anxiety during the populist pandemic”

Seminar
Location: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Date: 29 March 2021
Team Members (UNPOP): Cristiano Gianolla
Participation Type: Speaker
Description: “Democracy in the light of affections: politics, economy and the sense of community”