Fashions in Politics offers a unique interdisciplinary forum for the professional discussion of intellectual, substantive, rhetorical, and symbolic trends in politics, featuring professors from institutions including Harvard Business School, the University of Marne-La-Vallée, the University of West Bohemia, DePaul University, the University of Leicester, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Széchenyi István University.

Program

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.20 Opening Speech by Gábor Csepregi, Consultant, MCC Leadership Academy & Visiting Fellow, University of Manitoba

9.25 – 9.30 Video Message by John Fonte, Senior Fellow & Director, Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute

Panel Discussions – First Session

9.40 – 11.10 Tailoring Political Ideologies – “Luxury Beliefs and the Clandestine King,” Transformation of classical ideologies; modern challengers and blended versions;(ir)relevance of ideological governance

Keynote Speech by Chantal Delsol

Participants:

− Chantal Delsol (Professor, University of Marne-La-Vallye)

− Jeremy Friedman (Associate Professor, Harvard Business School)

− Titus Techera (Researcher, MCC European Center of Political Philosophy)

− Moderated by Gábor Csepregi (Consultant, MCC Leadership Academy)

11.10 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Lines of Thread in (Geo)politics – Power, Sovereignty, and (In)stability, Theories and patterns of power; limits to and regaining of sovereignty; conditions of international and domestic (in)stability; trends in politics

Keynote Speech by Petr Drulák

Participants:

− Petr Drulák (Professor, University of West Bohemia)

− Marco Malaguti (Researcher, Fondazione Machiavelli)

− Márton Ugrósdy (Deputy State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office)

− Moderated by Bálint L. Tóth (Researcher, MCC Center for Political Science)

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break

Panel Discussions – Second Session

14.30 – 16.00 Pattern-making in Political Communication and Rhetoric, Changing media structure; politicians in social media; populist rhetoric, visual politics, and voter persuasion

Keynote Speech by Petra Aczél

Participants:

− Bruce I. Newman (Professor, DePaul University)

− Paul Baines (Professor, University of Leicester)

− Petra Aczél (Professor & Head, AI and Future Strategies Centre, University of Győr)

− Moderated by Szabolcs Janik (Researcher, MCC Center for Political Science)

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break

16.15 – 17.45 Embellishing Symbols and Political Attire, Political symbolism; political styles and attires; voter perceptions and the politics of appearance

Keynote Speech by Dominik Pietzcker

Participants:

− Dominik Pietzcker (Professor, Shanghai Academy of Global Governance)

− Miklós Schiffer (Owner, Galaxy Cosmetics, Schiffer Style Consulting, Schiffer Interior)

− Todd P. Newman (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

− Moderated by Benedek Kovács (Bursar researcher, MCC Center for Political Science)

17.45 – 18.00 Closing Remarks