黑料正能量

ABSTRACT
The lecture examines new pathways for strengthening democratic resilience in the face of rising polarization, disinformation, and oppositional extremism. The lecture highlights how collaborative practices: linking citizens, policymakers, media actors, and civil society, can create spaces for dialogue that do not erase conflict, but transform it into a resource for democratic renewal.

This launch event will bring together researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to discuss the report鈥檚 key findings and their implications for democratic practice across Europe and beyond. Participants will engage with the Democracy Collab鈥檚 vision of inclusive governance, learn about innovative tools for attunement and dialogue, and explore strategies for countering extremist narratives without sacrificing pluralism.

BIO
Umut Korkut is Professor of International Politics at Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. He completed his DPhil (magna cum laude) at Central European University in Budapest in 2004. In 2009, he was awarded Associate Professorship by the Turkish Higher Education Council. He became professor in 2018. In the 2005-2006 term, he was a junior fellow at Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study. In 2015-2016, he was a visiting fellow of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre at Hokkaido University. He is interested in how political discourse, aesthetics and visual imagery create audiences. He follows this theoretical interest across various empirical fields central to European politics and beyond such as migration and social inclusion, de-radicalisation, arts and culture as participatory democratic tools, internet studies, populism and everyday extremism. He has established expertise in Hungarian and Turkish politics. Professor Korkut has an extensive experience with media and public dissemination. In the past, he has been interviewed on populism, Hungarian and Turkish politics, illiberalism, migration and wider international politics-related issues by UK, Chinese, Australian, Indian and other international media research.