Programme



Thursday, September 3rd


19:00: Opening Dinner - Venue Green Spirit, Hellichova 397/14

21:00: After Drink (optional) - Venue Lokal U Bile kuzelky, Míšeňská 66/12



Friday, September 4th


8:30 - 9:00: Registration - Room 112

9:00: Welcome speech

Dean TBC, Vice – Dean TBC

Alice Nemcova Tejkalova; Director of Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism
Denisa Hejlova - Head of Marketing Communication Department

9:30 - 11:30: Panel: Keynote Speeches - Room 215

Panel Chair: Anna Matuskova, Department of Marketing Communication and PR

The New Marketing of Terrorism
Paul Baines; Cranfield University, UK

International Political Marketing - A Future Research Agenda for Public Affairs
Phil Harris and Henry Sun; University of Chester, UK

Public Affairs and International Relations: Revisiting Traditional Distinctions in the Transnational Era
Ian Richardson; Stockholm University, Sweden

11:30: Coffee break - Room 212

11:45 - 12:45: Panel A: New Approaches to Campaign Strategy, Room 215

Panel Chair: Barbora Petrova, Strategic Communications Consultant, Cupé & co.

Why do marketers need to know political leader? Leadership style and its influence on leader and party evaluation
Wojciech Cwalina and Milena Drzewiecka; University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

New Means of Communication in Elections
Gabriella Kereszturi; Regent's University London, United Kingdom

Political PR and Government Communication – How Not to Loose Political Support
Denisa Hejlová and Anna Matušková Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break - Venue Pivovar Narodni, Narodni 8

14:00 - 15:00: Panel B: Specification and Refinement of Theories - Room 215

Panel Chair: Milos Gregor, Masaryk University Brno

Pragmatic Factors in Political Persuasion
Robert Mackiewicz and Paweł‚ Koniak; University of Social Science and Humanities, Poland

Re-conceptualizing Lobbying in the Swedish Context
Ian Richardson and Klaudia Eriksson, Stockholm University, Sweden

Framing in Political Persuasion: Gains and Losses in the Electoral Programs
Wojciech Cwalina, Andrzej Falkowski; University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

Defining the Stakeholder: Concept for Political Marketing
Robert P. Ormrod; Aarhus University, Denmark

15:20 - 15:35: Coffee Break - Room 212

15:40 - 17:00: Panel C: Political Marketing perceived by practitioners - Room 215

Panel Chair: Anna Matuskova, Department of Marketing Communication and PR

Opening Speech: Austria’s Campaign Against TTIP – A Consultants Perspective
Christian Scheucher, International Corporate Consultant, Austria

Politics and its Stakeholders: Political communication percieved by the business community
Vaclav Nekvapil, Managing Partner, CEC Government Relations,
Head of Public Affairs Agentures Association, Czech Republic

Twitter, Politicians – Impact on Electoral Results
Marian Nic, Business Consultant at Creative Dock



Saturday, September 5th


9:00 - 10:20: Panel D: Political Marketing and its Impact on Real Political Process - Room 215

Panel Chair: Anna Matušková, Department of Marketing Communication and PR

Ideology, Identity and the Marketization of Place Through Origin Effects as a (bio)political Apparatus
Andrea Lucarelli and Mikael Andehn; Stockholm University, Sweden

Fast and the Furious: Does Speed Kill Political Advert Intent?
Andrew Hughes; The Australian National University, Australia

"All Human Life is Here": Extending the Concept of Value Co-destruction to Online Social Media
Thom Iddon; Stockholm University, Sweden

Voting Behaviour in the Era of Political Marketing with Special Focus on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2014
Vikas Singh, Indian Institute of Plantation Management, India

10:20 - 10:35: Coffee Break - Room 212

10:35 - 12:35: Panel E: Special Track on Public Affairs - Room 215

Panel Chair: Denisa Hejlova, Head of Marketing Communication Department

Journal of Public Affairs Editorial Board: The State of International Public Affairs
Panel to include Paul Baines (Cranfield), Christian Scheucher (Vienna), Henry Sun
(Chester), Ian Richardson (Stockholm) & Phil Harris (Founding Editor, JPA)

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break - Venue Pivovar Narodni, Narodni 8

14:00 - 15:30: Panel F: Case Studies from Political Campaigns, Parallel Session - Room 215

Panel Chair: Anna Matuskova, Department of Marketing Communication and PR

Luring the Dutch voter: A study on Mobilization Campaigns in the Netherlands
Philippe De Vries and Willem Bochman; University of Antwerp, Belgium

Where Have All The Pledges Gone? An Analysis of Campaign and Manifesto Promises in the Czech Republic
Milos Gregor; Masaryk University, Czech Republic

50 Shades of Purple - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mainstream
Political Party Response to UKIP
Michael Parsons and Patricia Nicholls, University of South Wales, UK

Political Marketing and Performance: Where and How a New Political Party Won
General Elections in 2009 and 2014; The Marketing of the Democratic Progressive
Party in Malawi
Easton Simenti-Phiri, University of Bolton, UK

Panel F: Case Studies from Political Campaigns, Parallel Session - Room 014

Panel Chair: Denisa Hejlová, Department of Marketing Communication and PR

Positioning Challenges Toward the 2016 US Presidential Elections
Joseph Ben-Ur, University of Houston, USA

Personalization of Politics in the Czech Republic? Media Dimension of Personalization in 2013 Parliamentary Elections
Marcela Voženílková, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Electoral Strategy of Protest and Populist Parties from the Perspective of their Ideological and Programmatic Identity: Content Analysis of ANO 2011
Martin Kubanek, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic/i>

Local Election Campaign 2015: Political Race between Women (ONLINE – via Skype)
Romir Muka, University of Shkodër, Albania