MEDIATIZED EU researchers have presented their work in the 30th International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies (CES), themed “Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation and Reaction”. The conference took place in Lyon, France, at Sciences Po Lyon and the Université Lyon 2, on July 3-5.
The project’s research featured a two-part panel on July 4, Political Polarization in the EU and Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. The panel had MEDIATIZED EU researcher Lia Tsuladze, Executive Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Tbilisi State University, as Chair, and Attila Melegh, Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest, and senior researcher at the Demographic Research Institute, as the papers’ Discussant.
-
- Lia Tsuladze
-
- Attila Melegh
The panel tackled the results of MEDIATIZED EU research in Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Holger Mölder (Tallinn University of Technology) presented “Media Discourses in Polarized Societies: The Case of Estonia”. Lia Tsuladze presented “The Deviation Discourse as a Manifestation of Polarization: The Case of Georgia”. And Attila Melegh presented “Peace Discourse and Hegemonies. Further Polarization in Hungary”, co-authored with György Lengyel (Corvinus University of Budapest).
In the second part of the panel, MEDIATIZED EU Project Coordinator Tetyana Lokot presented “Neutrality vs. European Values: Irish Elite Discourses in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”, co-authored with Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University). Moara Crivelente presented “Political polarization in Portugal in the context of the war in Ukraine”, co-authored with Maria Raquel Freire, Sofia José Santos and Luiza Bezerra (Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra). Sonia Boulos and Juan Racionero (Nebrija University – UANE) presented “The Construction and Deconstruction of the EU as a Normative Power by Media and Political Elites in Spain”.
The program can be accessed at this link.
