On 25 March, NORFAS-researcher Celestine S. Kunkeler will be presenting their latest research on gender and far-right activism at a digital seminar at Pennsylvania State University. The lecture is titled “Women of the Counter-Revolution: The mobilisation of reactionary femininity in… Read More »Digital Seminar with Celestine Kunkeler on 25 March
We are delighted to announce that NORFAS-researcher Gustaf Forsell, Uppsala University, successfully defended his PhD thesis “Blodet och korset: tankefigurer i kristen nationalsocialism i Sverige, 1925–1945” on 19 January 2024. The opponent was Professor Stefanie von Schnurbein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The… Read More »NORFAS Member Defended his PhD Thesis
We are glad to announce that NORFAS, as part of a multi-disciplinary consortium, has received funding to establish a network and a hub, SWEFAS, for fascism studies at the Uppsala University. The funding source is CIRCUS, the Centre for Integrated… Read More »Funding for Fascism Scholars at Uppsala University
We are happy to announce, that NORFAS-member Charlie Krautwald has been awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship grant for his postdoctoral research project, Street-fighting Women: Gender, Body, and Violence on the Far Right in interwar Scandinavia. The project aims at… Read More »Carlsberg Grant for Project on Gender in Far-Right Politics
We are delighted to announce that NORFAS-researchers Markus Lundström and Tomas Poletti Lundström received funding from The Swedish Research Council for a 3 year-project, titled The Free Church and the Holocaust: On the Swedish Pentecostal Movement’s Relation to Antisemitism in… Read More »Funding for Project on Antisemitism in the Pentecostal Movement
The NORFAS online colloquium provides a platform for PhD students working on the topic of fascism and the far right in the Nordic countries to share their research, discuss their projects and findings, and receive feedback from peers and NORFAS… Read More »Online PhD Colloquium on Fascism and Far Right Studies
NORFAS researchers Claus Bundgård Christensen, Nicola Karcher, Celestine Kunkeler and Oula Silvennoinen participated at the Sixth ComFas Convention “Radicalization to Violence: Paramilitarism in Fascism and the Radical Right” held in Vienna 6-8 October, 2023 with a panel on paramilitarism in the… Read More »NORFAS on the 2023 ComFas Convention
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 14 June 2023 CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS include Prof. Jonathan Olsen Prof. Laura Pulido Irma Kinga Allen, PdD Uppsala University, 11.1.-13.1.2024 A conference organized by the Political Ecologies of the Far Right (PEFR) network, the Centre for Studies of… Read More »Political Ecologies of the Far Right 2024 (PEFR 2024) Conference
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 on 8 March 2023