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Event participation
Participation in symposia
(2023) “Critical Fantasy Methods, or how to study the role of desire in populism”. Discourse Theory: Ways Forward, 2nd edition. Research Centre Desire. Bruxelles, Belgium, March 2023.
(2022) “Les Gilets jaunes au-delà de la subjectivation [The Gilets jaunes beyond subjectivation]”. 16ème Congrès de l’AFSP. Association Française de Science Politique. Lille, France, July 2022.
(2022) “Populism: Radical Democracy or Cynicism?”. 12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy. Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society. Braga, Portugal, June 2022.
(2022) “Cholericly Emancipated? Political Affect in the Yellow Vests movement”. 3rd Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP3). University of Helsinki. Helsinki, Finland, June 2022.
(2022) “Critical Fantasy Methods”. 72th PSA Annual International Conference. Political Studies Association. York, Britain, April 2022.
(2021) “The ‘empty signifier’ in theory and in action. Assessing the democratic character of Latin American left-wing populism”. Colloque Le populisme de gauche. Université de Liège. Liège, Belgium, October 2021.
(2021) “‘It is all a matter of image’: Radical democracy and aesthetics in the Yellow Vests movement”. Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization. DVPW Populism Group & PSA Populism Specialist Group. Berlin, Germany, September 2021.
(2021) “Symptom or Sublimation: Psychoanalytic Metaphors to Study Populism and Democracy”. 2021. Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, & Ethics (CAPPE) Annual Conference. University of Bristol. Online, January 2021.
(2019) “Representing the Non-Represented: The Rejection of Parties and Elected Officials in Nuit Debout and the Gilets Jaunes”. 15ème Congrès de l’AFSP. Association Française de Science Politique. Bordeaux, France, July 2019.
(2019) “When The Republic Was Populist: Populism and Its Detractors in the Brazilian Press During the Fourth Republic (1946-1964)”. 69th PSA Annual International Conference. Political Studies Association. Nottingham, Britain, April 2019.
(2019) “Are Theorists of Populism Cynical?”. Discourse Theory: Ways Forward. Research Centre Desire. Bruxelles, Belgium, February 2019.
(2019) “‘Indignation’ and ‘Colère’: Two Affects in Contemporary French Protests”. Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy. Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society. Braga, Portugal, January 2019.
(2018) “Identity, Enjoyment, and the Democratic Potentialities of Populism”. Democracy, Rights & Populism: Contested Concepts and Rhetorical Uses. Civic Constellation Project. Vercelli, Italy, November 2018.
(2018) “Populismo(s) e o Futuro da Política [Populism(s) and the Future of Politics]”. Encontro Temático República do Amanhã. República do Amanhã. São Paulo, Brazil, July 2018.
(2018) “Populism: Between Radical Democracy and Fantasy”. 7th Annual Radical Democracy Conference: What is to be done? The New School. New York, USA, May 2018.
(2017) “Demands for ‘Real Democracy’: Constructing ‘The People’ Beyond Representative Claims”. ECPR General Conference. European Consortium for Political Research. Oslo, Norway, September 2017.
Participation in workshops and seminars
(2023) “Vers une théorie esthétique du populisme: le cas du Brésil [Towards an aesthetic theory of populism: the case of Brazil]”. Séminaire général du CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris, February 2023.
(2022) “Brazil’s post-electoral scenario”. What next? Ciclo Populismo e post-populismo in America Latina. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy, November 2022.
(2022) “Populismo na imprensa, na política e na academia brasileira [Populism in the press, in politics and in the Brazilian academy]”. Seminário Internacional Media, Populismo e Corrupção. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Online, November 2022.
(2022) “Anti-populist language games in Brazil during the pandemic”. 6th PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop. University of Brighton. Brighton, Britain, September 2022.
(2021) “The Polysemy of an Empty Signifier”. 5th PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop. Online, June 2021.
(2021) “A polissemia de um significante vazio [The polysemy of an empty signifier]”. Encontro da Rede Brasileira de Teoria do Discurso. Online, March 2021.
(2021) “Lessons from the Brazilian Populist Hype, 70 years later”. 2021. Beyond the Populist Hype Workshop, University of Aberdeen. Online, January 2021.
(2020) “Is there such a thing as ‘economic anxiety’? Desire and materiality in the Yellow Vests movement”. 4th PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop. Online, Septermber 2020.
(2019) “Populism and Yellow Vests Movement: A Psychoanalytic Approach”. Populism Study Circle. Populismus Observatory at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2019.
(2019) “Is ‘Symptom’ An Adequate Metaphor To Describe Populism?”. 3rd PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop. Political Studies Association. Loughborough, Britain, April 2019.
(2018) “Populism: Instituting Fantasy or Traversing Fantasy?” 2nd PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop. Political Studies Association. Bath, Britain, April 2018.
(2017) “Brésil, juin 2013: Les paradoxes de la représentation [Brazil, June 2013: The paradoxes of representation]”. Séminaire du Cartel franco-brésilien de psychanalyse. Association lacanienne internationale. Paris, France, March 2017.