Events

Giacomo successfully completed the public defense of his PhD thesis titled: “Glitches In The Spectacle: Three Articulations of Hybridity and Fictionality in Migration Visual Culture”

On the 20th May, and in the framework of Prof. Kevin Smets’ ERC Reel Borders, we are organizing a public lecture titled "The Aesthetics of Subversion: Resistance at the Borders." This talk will explore the intersection of politics and aesthetics, with a focus on border art and visual production. The lecture will be delivered by Federica Mazzara, a cultural studies scholar from Westminster and a contributor to Minor Keywords of Political Theory, a recently published yet widely referenced text in critical border studies.

The paper 'Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups', co-authored by ECHO co-director prof. dr. Benjamin De Cleen has been announced winner of The 2024 Harrison Prize by the editors of Political Studies, Sage.

Journalism Practice welcomes ECHO researcher prof. dr. Yazan Badran as new member of its editorial board.

ECHO postdoctoral researcher Dr. Omran Shroufi contextualises and analysises the recent Bundestag election results in Germany for the Belgian press agency ‘Belga’ and the website ‘Factcheck.Vlaanderen’.

ECHO researcher prof. dr. Kevin Smets writes about participatory film making and how to guarantee a sustainable "afterlife" of films made in projects, such as our own ERC-funded Reel Borders.

The interview surrounds the researchers' recently published article, 'Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’: Nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang’s discourse about farmers'.

The topic of January's seminar includes the “French” discourse analysis approach to political discourse.

In this research seminar, Bernhard Forchtner considers a wide range of multimodal constructions of environmental issues by the far right.

Yuejue Zhang successfully completed the public defense of her PhD thesis titled: “China as an ‘Imagined Other’ in Belgium: An analysis of Belgian perceptions towards China and Chinese people”.