2nd annual edition Thursday 28 May 2026

Salle Goguel, Sciences Po, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris

Session I: 9:00-11:00

Break: 11:00-11:10

Session II: 11:10-13:10

Lunch break: 13:10-14:30

Session III: 14:30-16:30

1. Economic Conditions

• Vanessa Wittemann: Covid school closures and education
• Noam Titelman: The cumulative effects of macromacroeconomic performance on political and economic attitudes
• Marylou Hamm: The experts behind the conditions. A mapping of European technical assistance.
• Ulysse Lojkine: Labour relations under constrained employers

2. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Sophia Stutzmann: Untangling Support for Retraining in the Green Transition
• Léa Antonicelli: Artificial Intelligence and Regimes of Truth in the Field of Art: A Foucauldian Inquiry
• Salim Hafid: Democratic biases of AI

3. Polarization and Voting Behavior

• Antoine Marie: Political psychology and polarisation
• Bartholomew Konechni: When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis
• Jaime Coulbois: Fluctuation patterns in vote recall and its consequences for electoral analyses
• Fernando Sánchez: Attitudes towards inequality and redistribution

1st annual edition 14 May 2025

Sciences Po, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin 75007 Paris, Room K.008

Introduction / coffee

Session 1: 9:00-11:00

Chair: Pauliina Patana, Georgetown University

Antoine Vendeville - Population of X/Twitter Users and Web Domains Embedded in a Multidimensional Political Opinion Space

Carlo Santagiustina - Expressing One's Identity Online

Catarina Leão - Authoritarian Privileges Withdrawal and the Emergence of Contemporary Extremism

Break: 11:00-11:10

Session 2: 11:10-13:10

Chair: Lorenza Antonucci, University of Birmingham

Can Zengin - Effects of Source Verification on Social Media Engagement, Perceived News Accuracy, and Political Attitudes

Elena Cossu - Measuring Illiberalism in Society Using Text Data and Machine Learning

Noam Titelman - Why Does Subjective Socio-Economic Insecurity Remain So High in Latin America? Revisiting the Question during the 2000-2024 Period

Lunch break (in K.008): 13:10-14:30

Session 3 (in room C.S25): 14:30-16:30

Chair: Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University

Oda Nedregard - Minority Strategies and Political Representation

Matteo Mandelli - The Comparative Politics of Just Transition Policies: Building Green-Red Winning Coalitions in Spain and Ireland

Ulysse Lojkine - Outsourced Workers: Exploitation across Firms

To register to attend, please email Allison Rovny.