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2025-2026 / Certificate

Inter-University certificate and high school populism and extremism in Europe

10 crédits
Inter-University certificate and high school populism and extremism in Europe
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  • Bloc
  • Organization
  • Theory
  • Practical
  • Others
  • Credits
This programme is organised in partnership with the Haute École Libre Mosane (HELMo).

Compulsory courses

B1
10Cr
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Inter-university and university college certificate: Populism and Extremism in Europe - [300h Autres]
Nicolas Baygert, Romain Biesmans, Arthur Borriello, Patrick Charlier, Camille Chiavetta, François Debras, Benjamin De Cleen, Pascal Delwit, Nathalie Denies, Hicham Abdel Gawad, Sibylle Gioe, Veronica Granata, Jérémy Jamers, Jérôme Jamin, Nicolas Lebourg, Jérôme Nossent, Quentin Pironnet, François Provenzano, Philippe Raxhon, July Robert, Zoé Vrolix
B1TA28-[+]10
Module 1: Extremism and human rights: grey areas and red lines
- What does extremism stand for? (François Debras - ULiege)
- Human rights, a bulwark against extremism? (Sibylle Gioe - Lawyer and President of the Human Rights League)
- Is gender an ideological target? (Romain Biesmans - ULB)
Module 2: Memory and history: confronting extremism past and present
- 20th-century extremisms: forgotten lessons? (Véronica Granata and Philippe Raxhon - ULiège)
- Memory laws: which histories, which strategies? (Jérôme Nossent - ULiège)
- Tools to combat the far right (François Debras - ULiège)
Module 3: Populism in practice: the appeal to the people
- Populism: a chameleon discourse (Arthur Borriello - UNamur) - Populism and/or left-wing extremism? (Pascal Delwit - ULB)
- Populism and nationalism? (Benjamin De Cleen - VUB)
Module 4: Confronting hate speech
- Feedom of expression: how far can it go? (Zoé Vrolix - HELMO and lawyer and Quentin Pironnet - ULiège et référendaire at the Constitutional Court of Belgium)
- Online hate: new weapons, old dimons? (Jérémy Hamers and François Provenzano - ULiège)
- Contering hate: what can institutions do? (Patrick Charlier, Nathalie Denies and Camille Chiavetta - UNIA)
Module 5: Lectures
- The far right, an appealing brand? (Nicolas Baygart - IHECS, ULB)
- The far right at the ballot box, in the media and in the streets: how far can it go? (Nicolas Lebourg - University of Perpignan)
- Religious extremism: what solutions against dogmatism? (Hicham Abdel Gawad - CIMEDE)
- Trumpism: between populism, extremism or fascism? (Jérôme Jamin - ULiège)
- Accelerationism: what if extremism aimed to hasten chaos? (July Robert - translator and reseach officer for Présence et Action culturelle)

Module 6: Podcasts

Module 7: Readings and files

Module 8: Final training assignment

Module 9: Mooc "Discourse analysis"