Politics of demarcation and the radical right in post-war Europe: Defining what is right
26 February 2025
7.00 – 8.30 pm
Keynote Lecture Ruth Wodak (Wien/Lancaster): “Fortress Europe” and “Fortress Austria” – The Shame-less Normalization of Exclusionary Politics and Discourses
27 February 2025
9:45 – 11:30 am
Identity Crises?
Matheus Hagedorny (Leipzig): “I know what you are against, but not what you are for”. On post-homogeneity and the permanent identitarian-normative crisis in the New Right
Boris Popivanov (Sofia): Blurred Demarcations: Post-Communist Hybridizations of Radical Right and Conservative Left in Bulgaria and Beyond
11:45 – 1:15 pm
National Trajectories
Artemisia Athanasiou (Athens): Right and radical right in Greece. From anti-communists to nationalists and from marginalization to parliamentary representation
Massimiliano Livi (Trier): Self-Definition and Boundaries: The Case of the Italian Extreme Right since 1946
2:15 – 4:30 pm
Internal Dynamics
Laura Wolters (Hamburg): The malleability of far-right intellectual thought
Estelle Delaine (Rennes): The shifting contours of far-right political groups in the Eu-ropean Parliament; negotiating alliances as long-term process inside the Assembly
Tobias Adler-Bartels (Göttingen): The contested boundaries of German conservatism. Radical and moderate conservatives in the early Federal Republic
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Claiming and Rejecting Labels
Martin Hamre (Berlin): The Promises and Pitfalls of ‘Fascism’ as the Common Denominator of Fascist Internationalism, 1930s - 1950s
Alexander Hobe (Hamburg): Demarcating radicalism – war veterans’ transnational democ-ratization in the 1950s
28 February 2025
10:00 – 11:30 pm
Inside the Milieu
Lene Faust (Bern): What does it mean to be a fascist? A multi-generational perspective on neo-fascist identity and self-positioning in Italy
Stefan Wellgraf (Berlin): Radically contingent. Conceptualizations and self-understandings of the street-oriented right in Eastern Germany
11:45 – 13:15 pm
Becoming Part of the Far-Right?
Antonio Sauandaj (Paris): "More Joan of Arc, Less Algerian War!”: How Debates on School Curricula Influenced Young Parisians' Engagement in Éric Zemmour’s 2022 Presidential Campaign
Pablo Schmelzer (Hamburg): Violent Demarcations and the Demarcation of Vio-lence: Right-Wing Violence after German Reunification and Letters from Citizens to President von Weizsäcker