Populism seems to have swept the globe, with the election of Donald Trump to the presidency among the most prominent examples of how expectations about politics have recently been upended. This conference will consider the ways political identities have been at the forefront of these populist narratives that have shaped contemporary democracy, with profound implications for national security.
For more information and to register, visit: https://mershoncenter.osu.edu/eventcalendar/eventdetail/676/-/populism-and-race-in-the-trump-era.html
Conference Schedule
Friday, November 9, 2018
12-12:45 p.m.: Lunch
12:45 p.m. Introductions
1-2:30 p.m. Panel I
Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford College), “‘A People,’ ‘The People,’ and Populism”
Joseph Winters (Duke University), “Opaque Constellations: Progress, (Anti-Black) Terror, and the Intractable Specter of Fascism”
Chair: Heather Pool (Denison University)
3-4:30 p.m. Panel II
Laura Grattan (Wellesley College), “Populism, Race, and Radical Imagination: #FeelingtheBern in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter”
Joseph Lowndes (University of Oregon), “The Perils of Left Populism”
Chair: Cindy Burack (The Ohio State University)
Saturday, November 10, 2018
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Panel III
Paul Apostolidis (Whitman College), “Confluences of Right-Wing Populism and Racialized Precarity: A Critical-Popular Analysis”
Edwina Barvosa (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Building Interracial Solidarity & Equity from Turmoil: Proven Patterns and Present Opportunities”
Benjamin McKean (The Ohio State University), “Populism, Anti-pluralism, and the Ordinary”
Chair: Kirstine Taylor, Ohio University
1-2:30 p.m. Panel IV
Ella Myers (University of Utah), “‘Feeding Their Vanity”? Du Bois and the Contours of Contemporary U.S. Whiteness”
Inés Valdez, (The Ohio State University), “Populism and Global Affect: The Crisis of Western Internationalism as a Problem of Global Justice”
Chair: Dan Skinner (Ohio University)
3-4:30 p.m. Panel V
Jakeet Singh (York University), “Decolonizing Left Populism”
Lester Spence (Johns Hopkins University), “On the Possibilities (and Pitfalls) of ‘Black Populism’”
Chair: Emma Saunders-Hastings (The Ohio State University)
4:45-5:45 p.m. Closing Session
Chair: Lisa Disch (University of Michigan)