NORFAS anthology on Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History out now! 

The Network for Nordic Fascism Studies recently published the peer-reviewed joint volume Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History in the series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. Our book outlines the evolution of transnational cooperation between the far right across the Nordic region, through interdependent processes and interactions. With chapters ranging from the inception of fascism in the interwar years to the present day, this book offers the first glimpses into the entangled history of Nordic fascism. Read more… 

Wallenberg funding for our research project Inception: The Birth of Nordic Fascism 

We are grateful to announce that the Swedish Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, has in December 2022 awarded funding for a three-year NORFAS-research project, Inception: The Birth of Nordic Fascism. The aim of the project, covering the period from late 19th century up to the interwar years, is to analyse the intellectual underpinnings of what would later bloom into the Nordic far right. The project will be run by members of our research team (Nicola Karcher, Markus Lundström, Heléne Lööw, Oula Silvennoinen), and based at Uppsala University. Read more…

International NORFAS Conference on Nordic Fascism – Content, Continuities and Changes 

On 8 February 2023, NORFAS arranged an international conference on Nordic Fascism – Content, Continuities and Changes at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies in Oslo. The conference addressed a broad public and was well attended with several hundred interested participants directly or by stream. In our presentations, we explored the 100-year-old history of fascism and the far right in the Nordic countries and discussed threats to liberal democracies of today. Read more…

The Network for Nordic Fascism Studies (NORFAS) was established in early 2018 by researchers from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark on the initiative of Mattias Gardell. NORFAS consists of senior scholars, doing transnational and entangled research on the history of fascism and the far right in the Nordic countries. The aim is to allow researchers to collect, organise, compare, and together analyse the accumulating source material. To facilitate research cooperation across national borders, NORFAS organises regular meetings, workshops, joint conference participation, and joint publications by its members.  

NORFAS is led and coordinated by a steering committee, headed by Oula Silvennoinen (Finland) and Nicola Karcher (Norway), with Lars M. Andersson (Sweden), Sofie Lene Bak and Claus Bundgård Christensen (Denmark) as steering committee members. New members to the network are invited by joint agreement of all network members. 

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