On October 7–8, 2025, Uppsala University will host a workshop on Nordic rightwing paramilitarism, Tools of Suppression: Nordic Paramilitarism and its Aftermath, 1918–1950s arranged by NORFAS in cooperation with the Swedish network for fascism studies, SWEFAS. At the workshop, researchers… Read More »Workshop on paramilitarism in the Nordic Countries
On 9-10 October 2025, the Contemporary History Working Group on the Extreme Right (Zeithistorischer Arbeitskreis extreme Rechte – ZAER) will host an international conference at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland titled Extreme Right Transnational: Towards a New Post-War History. The… Read More »Call for Papers: Extreme Right Transnationalism After 1945
The seventh convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas) has just been announced to take place in Barcelona, Spain on 28-30 May, 2025 and organised in cooperation with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Grup de Recerca en… Read More »Call for Papers: Comfas Convention 2025
On 22-23 May, 2025, the Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research (CONNOR) invites all interested researchers to participate in its second annual conference, this time held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Conference topics include historical perspectives, media mis-/disinformation, political… Read More »CONNOR Conference 22-23 May in Copenhagen
Based on our online PhD colloquium on fascism and far-right studies, NORFAS and SWEFAS, in collaboration with the Department of History at Uppsala University, will host a Nordic Doctoral Symposium on Fascism Studies. The symposium will take place in autumn… Read More »Upcoming PhD Colloquium on Fascism and Far-Right Studies
On June 16–17, 2025, NORFAS will together with the Department of History at Uppsala University arrange the international conference Flight, Adaptation and Resilience: Fascists, Collaborators and War Criminals in the Post-War Nordic Periphery. The early post-war history after the defeat… Read More »International NORFAS Conference on Post-War Fascism 16-17 June
On 4-5 September, 2024, several NORFAS scholars participated in an international workshop on then use of uniforms and accessories by political movements held at Malmö University, Sweden. The workshop, which was organised by professor Johan A. Lundin and postdoc Charlie… Read More »Workshop on Political Uniforms at Malmö University
Series of lectures and talks in Oslo, autumn 2024. One of the biggest threats to democracy today is the rise of anti-democratic, authoritarian and neo-fascist movements, parties, and regimes around the world. The fight against fascism and for democracy has… Read More »Antifascism Then and Now – what have we learned?
On 21–22 August 2024, we will launch the special issue “The Print Culture of Conspiracist Antisemitism 1917–1945: Universal Patterns and Nordic Particularities” at the Oslo Jewish Museum. Edited by Nicola Karcher and Kjetil Braut Simonsen and based on a cooperation… Read More »Special Issue on Antisemitism: Launch on 21–22 August
We are pleased to announce that NORFAS steering committee member Sofie Lene Bak has received a research grant of 6,19 million DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a groundbreaking four-year project titled Code and Conspiracy. Antisemitism in Denmark After… Read More »Research Grant for Project on Post-1945 Antisemitism