Populist Racism In Britain and Europe since 1945 – conference page

Event Date: 22 and 23 September 2011
Sunley Management Centre
Park Campus,
University of Northampton

Radicalism and New Media Group presents:

Populist Racism In Britain and Europe since 1945

KEYNOTING:

Professor Aristotle Kallis,
Dr Hans-Georg Betz

Additional analysis:

Professor Nigel Copsey,
Dr Gavin Schaffer,
Dr Jane Callaghan,
The Think Project,
Searchlight
and others

Following in tradition established by the Radical-ism and New Media research group, this two-day conference will bring together scholars, practitioners and third sector professionals either working on innovative research, or front line engagement with, the causes, nature and effect of populist racism in Britain and Europe.

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MAJOR THEMES COVERED:

Topics to be discussed by practitioners and academics will include:

The relationship between populist racism and violent extremism;
The latest developments with the BNP, EDL and European far-right movements;
Analysis of how the mass media represents populist racism;
State responses to forms of populist racism;
Factors that create ‘fertile conditions’ for popu-list racism to develop;
The role of the new media.

ENCOURAGING NEW APPROACHES

As well as talks from experts, up-and-coming researchers, and professional perspectives, there will be networking opportunities for informal engagement with these themes, to encourage new approaches to tackling populist racism.

Programme:

22 September 2011

Welcome and Opening Keynote:

Hans-Georg Betz, ‘Populism, Nativism and Contemporary Radical Right-Wing Ideology’
Due to technical failure we cannot provide you with the audio recording of this talk. However, we will attempt to bring you this sometiome in the near future.

Parallel panels I:

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Panel 1a: Northern Europe

Daunis Auers, ‘Mapping Populist Racism in the Baltic States’
[AUDIO HERE]

Simon Oja, ‘From Skinheads and Shouting to Suits and Debating’
[AUDIO HERE]

Kristina Boreus, ‘Right-Wing Populism and Discursive Discrimination in Austria, Denmark and Sweden’
[AUDIO HERE]

Panel 1a discussion .

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Panel 1b: Populist Racism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Europe

Matthew Feldman, ‘Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism’
[AUDIO HERE]

Paul Jackson, ‘Lone Wolf Terrorism and Right-Wing Extremism’
Rafael Pantucci, ‘How Xenophobic Are Lone Wolf Islamists?’

Due to technical failure we cannot provide you with the audio recording of these talks. However, we will attempt to bring you this sometiome in the near future.

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Parallel Panels II

Panel 2a: Eastern Europe

Alina Polyakova, ‘Civil Society and Right-Wing Politics: Explaining the Rightís Success and Failure in Central Eastern Europe’
[AUDIO HERE]

Parikrama Gupta, ‘Racism in Russia: Not a Problem for the Russian State’
[AUDIO HERE]

Andreas Umland, ‘Zhirinovskii as a Fascist: Palingenetic Ultra-Nationalism in Documents of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia in the early 1990s’
[AUDIO HERE]

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Panel 2b: Populist Racism against Roma and Sinti travellers

Zbigniew Wojcik and Lukasz Gazda, ‘Roma: NOT Hard to Reach Community’
[AUDIO HERE]

John Coxhead, ‘Roma: Deconstructing Populist Xenophobia’
[AUDIO HERE]

Gabriela Augustynowicz-Casey, ‘The Roma: The Need of a New Language of Social Communication‘
[AUDIO HERE]

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Parallel Panels III

Panel 3a: Western Europe

Brigitte Beauzamy, ‘The Role of the Radical Right in the Politicization of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia’
[AUDIO HERE] Aurelien Mondon, ‘Nicolas Sarkozyís Legitimisation of the Front National’
[AUDIO HERE]

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Panel 3b: The Psychological Dimension of Populist Racism

Jane Callaghan, ‘There’s Something Happening Here: Visual Images of the EDL and BNP’
[AUDIO HERE]

Paul Crofts, “Us” and “Them” in Defining the “Other”. A Case Study on Framing Muslims and Islamaphobia and Racism from Kettering’
[AUDIO HERE]

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Panel 4 ‘Representing ‘Otherness’

Darya Malyutina, ‘From Racism to Cosmopolitan Sociability: Perceptions of ëOthersí in the Conditions of Superdiversity by Russian-speaking Migrants in London’
[AUDIO HERE]

Trev Preston, ‘Boots, Braces and Blogs: Representations of Right-Wing Extremism in Britain’
[AUDIO HERE]

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23 September 2011

Opening Welcome

Prof. Nick Petford, Vice-Chancellor, University of Northampton .

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Keynote

Aristotle Kallis, ‘The “Contagion” Dynamic of the Far-Right’
[AUDIO HERE]

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Launch of RNM Groupís report on the English Defence League

Dr Paul Jackson and Dr Mark Pitchford .

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