Conference with a special panel

Posted: June 25, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

This week a huge conference (20th International Conference of Europeanists) is being held in Amsterdam entitled ‘Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)Stability’. However we know it’s too late to register we call your attention to a panel called ‘Does Populism Have a Gender?’ with 4 presentations.

Details and abstract can be accessed here: https://ces.confex.com/ces/2013/webprogram/Session2202.html

Special issue of SEN

Posted: June 24, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Leave a comment

In the latest issue of SEN (Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism)  three articles have been published on queering nations and nationalisms.

1. V. Spike Peterson: The Intended and Unintended Queering of States/Nations

2. William J. Spurlin: Shifting Geopolitical Borders/Shifting Sexual Borders: Textual and Cultural Renegotiations of National Identity and Sexual Dissidence in Postcolonial Africa

3. Leticia Sabsay: Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights?

 

Articles can be accessed via the following link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sena.2013.13.issue-1/issuetoc

Call for book review

Posted: June 24, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Leave a comment

The journal of ‘Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism’ has announced its call for book reviews. Among the offered pieces there is one that might be interesting for our followers:

Strange Affinities: Gender and Sexual Politics of
Comparative Radicalization
Duke University Press, 2011
Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick Ferguson

 

If you are interested in writing a review you can find the details here: http://senjournal.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/books-available-for-review-for-studies-in-ethnicity-and-nationalism/

A new open access journal on radicalism

Posted: June 17, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

It is our pleasure to spread the word about a new online available and open access journal (in German) about radicalism and the culture of democracy.

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All for Hungary (with English subtitles)

Posted: June 17, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

This is a recently published 20-minute-long video shot by Folia TV (University of Amsterdam) about the popularity of Jobbik in Hungary.

News on conferences

Posted: June 12, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group for Extremism and Democracy announced a few calls for papers and news on upcoming conferences. Here is a short list of them.

Full link with details: http://www.extremism-and-democracy.com/ead/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=58

1.

Workshops: ‘Populism: A historiographic category?’

Location and date: Florence, Italy. Call for papers deadline: 15 June 2013

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a biosketch (max 100 words) to seminari_populismi@libero.it by 15 June  2013.

2.

Symposium: ‘The British Far Right in Transition’

Location and date: University of Northampton, UK, 28 June 2013

3.

Conference: ‘Fascist Ideologues Past and Present’

Location and date: Teesside University, UK, 4-5 July 2013

An ongoing project: Gender and the Prevention of Right-wing Extremism

Posted: June 6, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Done by Amadeu Antonio Stiftung.

Details can be found here: http://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/eng/we-are-active/topics/gender-and-the-prevention-of-right-wing-extremism/