Emotions, Populism and Polarisation

The international team studies hegemony, affects and political identification from interdisciplinary perspectives 

Faculty of Social Sciences building at the University of Helsinki
Welcome to the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP or HEPPsinki). Here you will find information on our major research projects, and a few individual research projects, and the people who make up our expanding hub led by Emilia Palonen (Political Science) and Juha Herkman (Media & Communication). This is a vibrant and international community with regular visitors and long-term participants from also outside Finland. HEPPsinki is known for its HEPP conferences. HEPP3 conference is going to take place on 15 -17 June. Please, visit our conference website for more information.
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21.09.2022
Dr. Emilia Palonen, she/hän 💙💛

Congratulations, you've got an all-male panel, #GoogleScholar! #AcademicTwitter #Manels No offence to my colleagues… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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22.09.2022
WhiKnow Project

👏 @VSalojarvi @zeaszebeni study of #Orbán's Instagram: Hungarian PM uses nationalism and masculinity as “ordinary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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21.09.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

We do know quite a few women working on populism to follow 🙄 twitter.com/epalonen/statu…

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20.09.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

Large artical on incels at the Finnish national daily, and our doctoral researcher Emilia Lounela is interviewed pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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19.09.2022
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius

🎉NEW #PUBLICATION OUT In Polish, to 'foul one's own nest' refers to damaging one's own community, rather than self-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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22.09.2022
WhiKnow Project

👏 @VSalojarvi @zeaszebeni study of #Orbán's Instagram: Hungarian PM uses nationalism and masculinity as “ordinary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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07.09.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

Congratulations on your excellent new article @RKazlauskaite! 🥳 #HEPPsters twitter.com/J_Phil_Hist/st…

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07.09.2022
Laura Olkkonen

"Hate is not feedback" was so well said! #mediacontradictions twitter.com/HEPPsinki/stat…

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08.09.2022
WhiKnow Project

Hankejohtajamme ajatuksia mediasta ja yhteiskunnasta! #ketju #journalismi #mediasoc @SuomenAkatemia Näitä… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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24.06.2022
WhiKnow Project

Our work is continuing in ENDURE's Trans-Atlantic context on these themes with @jahapaula twitter.com/tuohmas/status…

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23.09.2022
Populism

The first panel of our second day discussed populism, technocracy and the pandemic! Nice presentations by Margherit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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13.09.2022
Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece

Miren esta maravilla de la Universidad de Helsinski, en Finlandia: @HEPPsinki Emotions, Populism and Polarisation:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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07.09.2022
Dr. Emilia Palonen, she/hän 💙💛

Congratulations to @kpolynczuk (new to Twitter, follow her!) and @lani49 (whom I have the pleasure to supervise 😍)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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07.09.2022
Now-Time, Us-Space

Entanglements of space and time in #CEE? Count us in! Very excited to see @kpolynczuk and @lani49's new piece out i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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07.09.2022
Lani Hartikainen

🚨🚨 New pub!! 🚨🚨 It was such a pleasure to work with my good friend and brilliant colleague Kinga Połyńczuk-Alenius… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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