Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the Online Kick-Off-Workshop of the ERC-funded project Intangible and Invisible Interests, Concealed Constituents and Excluded Electorates (INCONEX) where we will discuss representative claims, groups' appeals and the crucial role of absence in representation. Friday, 12 December 2025, 13:45–17:45 (CET), online via MS Teams Panel “Giving or Taking Voice: Representative Claims and Group Appeals in the Public Sphere”: August De Mulder (University of Antwerp) Andrea Vik (Royal Holloway University of London) Felicia Riethmüller (University of Göttingen) Clint Claessen (University of Salzburg) Robin Weisser (University of Basel) Discussant: Pieter de Wilde (University of Groningen) Chair: Anna-Lotta Dechow (University of Salzburg) Keynote Conversation “Rethinking Representation Through Absence”: Suzanne Dovi (The University of Arizona) Petra Guasti (Charles University) Eline Severs (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Moderator: Lucy Kinski (University of Salzburg) To participate and receive the link, please register here<https://forms.office.com/e/aYRYiS80n0>.<https://forms.office.com/e/aYRYiS80n0> You can find the full program here<https://www.inconex.eu/news/kick-off-workshop>. For more information about the INCONEX project, please visit our website<https://www.inconex.eu/>. Funded by the European Union (ERC, INCONEX, Grant No. 101163258). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Best wishes, Lucy and the INCONEX team ----------------------------- Join us for our INCONEX Online Kick-Off Workshop on 12 December 2025, more info: https://www.inconex.eu/news The EU’s recovery playbook: solidarity, conditionality, and resilience in European Parliament debates on the Recovery and Resilience Facility<https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2025.2580639> (2025). Journal of European Integration. Populist Party Responsiveness and Populist Party Voter Satisfaction With Democracy in Europe<https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8420> (2024). Politics & Governance. Mainstream party agenda-responsiveness and the electoral success of right-wing populist parties in Europe<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2155214> (2024). Journal of European Public Policy. Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> Bundesverfassungsgericht <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> and EU economic governance<https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> (2023). Journal of European Public Policy. Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14651165221137994> (2023). European Union Politics. [Ein Bild, das Schrift und eine Grafik enthält und das Logo der Universität Salzburg zeigt.] Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lucy Kinski European Union Politics | PI of ERC INCONEX<https://www.inconex.eu/> Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies | Department of Political Science Edmundsburg, Mönchsberg 2 | 5020 Salzburg | Austria Tel.: +43 662 8044-7624 | Email: lucy.kinski@plus.ac.at