NORFAS researchers have participated in drawing up the report When neo-Nazis march on Norwegian streets, you hear a lot of Swedish: Pan-Nordic and transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism. The report is based on a research project financed by the Nordic… Read More »Launch of report on Nordic far-right extremism on 29 March 2023
Nordic Fascism: Historical origins, Contemporary Expressions and Gendered Dynamics – Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism – Uppsala universitet (uu.se) In extension of an open lecture by Aristotle Kallis, Professor of Modern History at Keele University, NORFAS members Heléne Lööw,… Read More »CEMFOR Roundtable on Nordic Fascism: Historical Origins, Contemporary Expressions and Gendered Dynamics on 8 March 2023
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… Read More »Wallenberg funding for our research project Inception: The Birth of Nordic Fascism
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… Read More »International NORFAS Conference on Nordic Fascism – Content, Continuities and Changes
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… Read More »Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History by NORFAS
This conference sheds light on the character, long lines, and various manifestations of Nordic fascism. With contributions from leading researchers in the field and a keynote by Roger Griffin, the conference reaches out to scholars, students, teachers and the general… Read More »Open Conference on Nordic Fascism
The next conference of ComFas, the International Association for Comparative Fascism Studies, will be held in Florence, Italy, on 14-16th September, 2022. This year’s theme will be “Beyond the Parandoid Style: Fascism, Radical Right and the Myth of Conspiracy”: “In… Read More »ComFas coming up!
Due to the Covid-19 -pandemic, most NORFAS inter-Nordic workshops in 2021 were arranged remotely. We thank all the participants for their patience and contribution through Zoom and Teams. As travel restrictions gradually were relaxed, we were able to also meet… Read More »NORFAS Workshops 2021-2022
Organizers: Leena Malkki, Saija Benjamin, Pia Koirikivi, Tommi Kotonen, Tarja Mankkinen, Juha Saarinen and Daniel Sallamaa. The 4th Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism will be organized by the University of Helsinki on 10–12 March 2021. Due to COVID-19, the conference… Read More »Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism 2021
The Standing Group on Political Violence is introducing a new online seminar and workshop series to foster collaboration and networking opportunities between scholars of political violence at all career levels. This exciting venture, launching December 2020, comprises monthly two-hour workshops… Read More »Online Seminar Series in Political Violence