09:00-10:30 Welcome and panel:

•   Stephen Deets (Babson College) "Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism in Turkey 2013-2020."

•   Larissa Abou Harb (Exeter) “The Others and Ethnic Polarisation: Repertoires of Contention in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina”?”

10:30-12:00

•   Patrick Utz (Aberystwyth) “Changing borders, states and kinship: The Europeanization of kin-minority parties”

•   Henry Jarrett (Exeter) “The ‘squeezed middle’: Cross-segmental parties’ barriers for electoral success in consociations”

12:00 lunch

12:30-14:00

•  Roberto Belloni (University of Trento) “Gramsci on Civil Society: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Deeply Divided Societies”

•  CK Martin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) “Patriotism, Protests and Violence: Reflecting on Northern Ireland 1968 and Hong Kong 2019”

14:30 Roundtable on 2022 NI Assembly elections with Prof Adrian Guelke and TBC

16:00 Close