Racism, Antisemitism and the Radical Right - Conference at Yale

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Timothy Snyder, Yale University – On Tyranny

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale University Brendan McGeever, Birkbeck, University of London - Brexit, Class, Racism, Crisis Ferruh Yılmaz, Tulane University - The Elite and Media Response to Populist Interventions David Seymour, City Law School, University of London - ‘The People’ and its 'Enemies’: The Personalizing of Politics in an Age of Reaction

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Kathryn Lofton, Yale University Erdoan Shipoli, Georgetown University- Securitization of Religion in post-Cold War America Arvind Rajagopal, NYU - Religious Populism and Communism's Afterlife: Thinking through the Long Half-Century of the Cold War Federico Finchelstein, New School for Social Research – Populism, Racism and Antisemitism in History

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Carolyn Dean, Yale University Cecile Alduy, Stanford University - The New Faces of Racism and Antisemitism in France: The National Front, Mainstream Xenophobia and The Alt Right Galaxy Marcus Funck, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin - The Widening of the Thin Line" Antisemitism and Racism in Germany's 'New Right'

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Adam Stern, Yale University Mark Weitzman, Simon Wiesenthal Center - Beyond Denial: Holocaust Distortion in the Service of a New Nationalism David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London - What Can a Study of the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism on the Left Teach Us about the New Right Wing Populisms?

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Nancy Khalil, Yale University Balbir K. Singh, University of Texas at Austin- The Quotidian Violence of Islamophobia Algernon Austin, Demos - Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism and the "Post-Racial" Presidency

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Marci Shore, Yale University Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon- Middle American Radicalism to Racial Rule: Sam Francis and the Political Formation of Trumpism Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Julius Evola and the Racist Right between Past and Present: A Reassessment Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University - Raging against the Enlightenment: The Ideology of Steve Bannon

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara- Working for the Clampdown

The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies and ideas, to consider the features they share in common, as well as their divergences and tensions. Chair: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University Anton Shekhovtsov, Institute for Human Sciences, Austria - The Far-Right Front of Russian Active Measures in the West Daniel Hummel, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Reconciliation or Realpolitik? The Alliance between the American and Israeli Right Geoff Eley, University of Michigan - Anxiety about Borders: Refugees, Migrancy, and the Radical-Nationalist Imaginary