Event Date: 28 June 2013
Sunley Management Centre
Park Campus,
University of Northampton

Radicalism and New Media Group presents:

The British Far Right in Transition

A One Day Conference at The University of Northampton

Programme:

Introduction to the conference themes by Dr Paul Jackson (University of Northampton)

Welcome to the conference by Doug Rae (Deputy Dean, School of Social Sciences at University of Northampton

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Launch of the Searchlight archive with Dr Paul Jackson, Gerry Gable and Dan Jones:

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Journalists on Reporting the Far Right in Transition

– Daniel Trilling (Assistant Editor New Statesman) – On the Contemporary Far Right

– Gerry Gable (Editor Searchlight) – Is This A Watershed Time for the British Far Right?

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Tackling the Far Right on the Front Line

– Sarah Soyei and Paul Mortimer (Show Racism the Red Card) – Challenging Contemporary Racisms and Educating Young People about the Dangers of Far Right Groups

– William Baldet (St Phillip’s Centre, Leicester) –  The Hate Equation

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The Impact of Contemporary Islamophobia

– Alexander Hitchens (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London) – The EDL and the International Counter-Jihad Movement

– Fiyaz Mughal OBE (Faith Matters) – Far Right On-Line Sympathisers and Promotion of Anti-Muslim Hatred

– Dr Matthew Feldman (University of Teesside) – Islamophobia and the Far Right in Britain Today

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Historical and Comparative Contexts

– Paul Stott (University of East Anglia) –  British Jihadism

– Professor Jérôme Jamin (University of Liège) – The BNP and the FN: Between Islamophobia and the “Defence” of Democratic Values

– Dr Stephen Woodbridge (Kingston University) – Extremely Nazi: The Ideology and Networking Activities of a British Extreme Right “Umbrella” Group