CST Members in the COST Action “Depolarising EU”

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

The first Management Committee (MC) meeting of the COST Action CA22165, titled "Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media (DepolarisingEU)," was held on November 6, 2023, at the COST premises in Brussels. The meeting aimed to familiarize MC members with COST, establish a common understanding of the Action's challenges and objectives, elect mandatory leadership positions, and discuss the proposal for the Work and Budget Plan.

Several members of the CST Working Groups were elected to leadership positions. Marìa Luengo was elected Chair, and Nadya Jaworsky was elected Vice Chair. Ivana Rapoš Božič was named as Stakeholder Manager and Matthias Revers as Science Communication Coordinator. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid was selected as the Grant Holder Institution, represented by Marìa Luengo. Werner Binder was elected as leader oof the Working Group focused on the civil sphere and radical polarisation: academic state of the art, with Ondřej Klima as co-leader.

The meeting included breakout room discussions on various topics related to radical polarisation. These included academic state-of-the-art discussions, designing practical tools to counter and prevent radical polarisation, networking activities and grants, communication strategies, and more.

Working Groups members will be announced in the coming weeks. Applications to join one of the three working Groups are encouraged. See HERE for further information.

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Besides civil sphere theory, her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

https://www.cstnetwork.org/jaworsky-bio
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