Continuity and Innovation of the Far Right: Practices, Symbols and Discourses
16th January 2025
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Welcome and Introduction
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Symbolism and Material Practices
• Giorgia Bulli (University of Florence): The Italian far right between innovation,
metapolicts and symbolic references to the Fascist past: not only CasaPound Italia
• Luciana Villas Bôas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): Storming Brazil's Three
Powers Square: Symbolism and Political Legacy
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Playful Far Right
• Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Bremen): "Eternal Values", Latest Tools:
The Far Right's Use of Generative AI for Meme-Driven Propaganda
• Karl Ekeman (University of Uppsala): From Metapolitics to Memes in 2016:
Continuity or Discontinuity?
17 January 2025
9:30 – 11:00 am
Far-Right Intellectuals
• Laura Wolters (Hamburg Institute for Social Research): The malleability of far-right
intellectual thought
• Valentin Behr (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CNRS): A
Global New Right? The International of Conservative Intellectuals
11:30 – 1:00 pm
The Elephant in the Room: The Question of Gender
• Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna): Only one single shade of grey. Right-wing
opposition to gender diversity as opposition to democracy. The cases of Germany and
Austria
• Christoffer Leiding Kølvraa (Aahrus University): Pick your Poison - Images of
Masculinity in Extreme Right Fiction
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Hybrid Far-Right Imaginary
• Mattias Lehtinen (University of Helsinki): A fused imaginary? The authoritarian
neoliberal imaginary of the True Finns
• Helge Petersen (Kiel University): Instrumental reason, emotional ambivalence and
collective narcissism: Re-examining the early Institute for Social Research’s theory of
far-right agitation
4:30 – 5:15 pm
Innovations and Continuities of the Far Right: Concluding Remarks
• Gideon Botsch (University of Potsdam)
• Paula Diehl (Kiel University)
Organizers:
• Hamburg Institute for Social Research
• Chair of Political Theory, History of Ideas and Political Culture at Kiel University
• International Populism Research Network
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