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SUMMARY:'On Constellations of Populism’
DESCRIPTION:‘On Constellations of Populism’  \nOliver Simpson (Lancaster University)  \nOne of the consistently slippery and illusive aspects of populism for social and political research is specifying exactly what the term designates. Attempts to define populism as a political ideology often leave one with a definition so broad it seems to apply to all politics\, or a definition so narrow it can be undermined with a few empirical examples. To be sure\, populism is a highly politicized term\, often used by apologists for the status quo who claim populism is an aberration of the “normal” operations of democratic politics.  The use of the term populism to conjure up the image of a dangerous and regressive mob presenting an external threat to the internal order ironically mirrors what is generally understood to be the populist framing of politics: to find an external enemy (refugees\, immigrants\, the poor) to which all social problems can be attributed. In this respect populism can be simultaneously attributed to the exterior and interior of politics today. In this context\, rather than trying to resolve the paradoxes\, ambiguities and indistinctions of populism as a signifier\, I instead focus on and intensify these very inconsistencies and ambiguities as a productive feature for thinking populisms multiple instantiations across a range of historical\, intellectual\, and literary milieus. I argue populism can be understood as a constellation of concepts which are as follows: perversion\, superstition\, carnival\, spectacle\, sovereignty\, the masses. My use of the term constellations I take in part from Walter Benjamin’s introduction to The Origin of German Tragic Drama in which he argues that in order to grasp an idea which cannot be directly represented one must explore the concepts that gather themselves around this idea (Benjamin 1995:37). Constellations then have their actual contents\, the key concepts and a virtual excess\, the idea of populism they animate\, mobilise and refract depending on their proximities to one another within a given context. Populism is the virtual idea and the constellations of concepts I develop throughout the thesis are a map through which this idea can be understood and framed in a manner that is not reducible to the deadlock I outlined above characteristic of the contemporary political situation and the meaning of populism within it. \nAll welcome!
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/on-constellations-of-populism/
LOCATION:Room 331\, Aras Moyola\, University of Galway
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SUMMARY:University of Galway History Research Seminar: Ireland in the Ottoman press\, 1914-1918
DESCRIPTION:University of Galway History Research Seminar \nIreland in the Ottoman press\, 1914-1918  \nDr Merve Doğan Kader \nAbstract\nIn this study the news about Ireland in the Ottoman press between 1914-1918\, that is\, during the First World War\, is analysed. In the first months of 1914\, it is seen that the Curragh Incident was reported in detail in the Ottoman newspapers. After the outbreak of the war\, the press of the Ottoman state\, which was one of the Central Powers\, included news about Britain and the Entente states\, which were its enemies.  Therefore\, both the Home Rule Bill and other events in Ireland were reported in the newspapers at the end of 1914 and throughout 1915. It is observed that the most news about Ireland during the war appeared in 1916. The reason for this was the Easter Rising in Ireland.  Ottoman newspapers covered every detail about the Easter Rising and supported the Irish in this matter. Throughout 1917 and 1918\, the rise of Sinn Fein following the Easter Rising was frequently emphasised and the measures taken by the British on the island were highly criticised. \nSpeaker Biography\nDr Merve Doğan Kader is a lecturer in History at Biruni University. She completed her PhD at Celal Bayar University in 2021. She has written in Turkish and in English on Irish relations with the Ottoman Empire\, including an article (with Seán Patrick Smyth) in History Ireland (2020) on Kemalist support for the Irish War of Independence. \nRegistration\nThis is an in-person event\, in Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person\, the talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92995054484. \nTo attend via Zoom\, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/T6uHWQeJvu \nThis talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and organised jointly with the Centre for the Study of Religion at the Moore Institute. \nImage: Detail from Ralph Stockman Tarr and Frank Morton McMurry\, New Introductory Geography (MacMillan\, 1916)\, p. 152\, via Wikimedia Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1916_political_map_of_Europe.jpg
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/university-of-galway-history-research-seminar-ireland-in-the-ottoman-press-1914-1918/
LOCATION:THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room\, Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway & online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Gear%C3%B3id%20Barry%20gearoid.barry%40universityofgalway.ie":MAILTO:kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
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