Professor Stasavage will be presenting work from his exciting new book project that explores the history of government by consent in a global setting, charting the long rise of democracy in Europe in comparison with China, the Middle East, and other world regions.

A sandwich lunch will be available at the session and is booked according to numbers. If you would like to order lunch for this session, please reply to aoife.dudley@politics.ox.ac.uk no later than noon on Friday 2nd June.

For more information, please visit: https://oxfordpoliticaltheory.wordpress.com/

**Conference Schedule**

Friday, June 2

9 – 9:30 am | Manor Road Building Lobby

Registration + coffee & tea

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9:30 – 11 am | Seminar Room A

Panel 1: Emancipatory Possibilities under Late Capitalism

Discussant: Dr. Dan Butt (Oxford)

Helge Petersen (Glasgow) & Hannah Hecker (Goethe University Frankfurt)

“A Critique of Left-Wing Populism”

Leonardo Sias (Southampton)

Political radicalism and extremism no longer constitute marginal phenomena in European societies and politics. The consecutive financial crises, the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, religious terrorism and geopolitical uncertainties create a multifaceted setting that exacerbates insecurity, anxiety and fears among European citizens.

There’s no clear dividing line between bad journalism and what is often called “fake news”. It’s futile to expect regulators or tech companies to be able to make editorial judgments. But what we can determine easily is the “realness” of a site. Does it have a real-world address, phone number, WhoIs, named contributors – in short, a colophon or impressum. Furthermore, does it adopt basic procedures indicating fairness – does it ever publish apologies, corrections etc? These tests are binary and easy to automate – and would make life much harder for the peddlers of disinformation.