Populist Racism in Britain and Europe since 1945
An International Conference
Thursday, 22 Sept. and Friday 23 Sept. 2011, Park Campus, University of Northampton
The Radicalism and New Media research group at the University of Northampton will host a two-day international conference called "Populist Racism in Britain and Europe since 1945". Following an established tradition, this conference will bring together scholars, practitioners and third sector professionals, engaged in ground-breaking research on the causes, nature and effect of populist racism, or who are seeking to provide a practical response to a vast array of concerns associated with its impact. With the rapid rise of populist racism penetrating the political, social, and cultural spheres, as well as the mass media, a burst of studies on this cannot have come at a more apposite time. However, the scholarly works in general – to practitioners’ and officials’ disappointment – often fall behind the developmental trajectories of populist racism, sometimes due to the lag-time between writing and actual print publication of innovative research. The agenda behind the International Conference "Populist Racism in Britain and Europe since 1945" is exactly to reduce the lag time between undertaking research and disseminating important findings, so these have a timely impact on practice. At the same time scholars of populist racism will have an opportunity to engage in a much needed, dynamic dialogue with practitioners, which will allow academics align their research priorities. The conference will therefore provide a combination of theoretical and empirical studies on populist racism by established and young scholars, as well as papers and reports from practitioners and civil servants.
Day 1: Populist Racism across Europe
Day 1 will be country- and region-oriented, and feature four panels.
Panel 1 – Western Europe
Panel 2 – Northern Europe
Panel 3 – Central and Eastern Europe
Panel 4 – Southern Europe
Day 2: Populist Racism in Britain
Day 2 of the conference will focus on populist racism in Britain and will be case-oriented.
Themes:
– Comparative and/or historical analysis of British racist populism
– Prejudice against Travellers, immigrants and asylum-seekers
– The ever-changing face of anti-Semitism
– Religion is the new colour? The rise of Islamophobia
– Racism in the mass media, and cultural production
– Populist racism and crime
– English Defence League: from anti-extremist protests to a racist street army
– British National Party: ‘common sense’, ‘racial realism’, or plain racism?
– ‘Traditional’ vs. ‘non-traditional’ immigrants: tensions among minority groups
Keynote addresses: Dr Hans-Georg Betz and others to be confirmed.
Conference cost is £65 for 1 day, £120 for both, including conference dinner in town on 22 September.
To participate, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by 30 June 2011 to conference organisers:
Dr Mathew Feldman, matthew.feldman@northampton.ac.uk
Dr Paul Jackson, paul.jackson@northampton.ac.uk
Dr Anton Shekhovtsov, anton.shekhovtsov@northampton.ac.uk
19 April 2011
16 April 2011
International Scholars Issue Open Letter
International Scholars Issue Open Letter on the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
The following historic letter, signed by over 100 scholars from around the world, many of them leaders in their fields, is being circulated across Europe and through international scholarly associations and listservs. It will no doubt include many more scholars and their names will be added as they are submitted.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress have been campaigning against the plans of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to mount a permanent Holocaust gallery. The UCCLA has mailed out a postcard across Canada that reproduces the cover of an edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and implies that supporters of a Holocaust gallery are pigs. For its part, the UCC, which, in contrast to the UCCLA, is an elected body that represents major Ukrainian Canadian organizations, has complained that the planned Holocaust exhibit is “unacceptable” and has asked the Museum to provide the Holodomor, or Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, “no less coverage… than the Holocaust.”
We, the signatories to this letter, have all studied various aspects of genocide, fascism, antisemitism, Stalinism, war criminality, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust. We unequivocally recognize that the violence and oppression that Ukraine has experienced during its multi-totalitarian past ought to be remembered and commemorated in a Canadian museum devoted to the history and abuse of human rights. What we object to is the dishonest manner in which the UCCLA and UCC have distorted historical accounts of the Holodomor while at the same time refusing to acknowledge the Ukrainian nationalist movement’s role in the Holocaust.
The Ukrainian famine, which constitutes one of Stalin’s great crimes and one of Europe’s most devastating tragedies, deserves a place in any venue dedicated to commemorating and understanding the violation of human rights. Yet the way the UCC treats the Holodomor is problematic. All demographic studies place the number of famine deaths in Soviet Ukraine in the range of 2.6 to 3.9 million. This is, in itself, a grievous toll. Nonetheless, the UCC has, at times, inflated the number of victims to seven or even ten million. The implication is obvious: seven or ten million is more than six million; the Holodomor deserves more attention than the Holocaust. Such a manipulative attempt to exploit human suffering is reprehensible and should not be acceptable to the Canadian public.
We are also troubled by the attitude of the UCCLA and UCC toward the OUN, the UPA, and the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ (1st Ukrainian). OUN stands for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. UPA is the Ukrainian abbreviation for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the armed branch of the OUN. The Galicia Division, a military unit that was primarily involved in counterinsurgency activities, was established by the Germans in 1943. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians who belonged to these formations perished while resisting the ruthless imposition of Soviet power at the end of the war. Today many Ukrainians revere the members of these organizations as the champions of an oppressed people. In February 2010, the UCC called on the Canadian government “to make changes to Canada’s War Veterans Allowance Act by expanding eligibility to include designated resistance groups such as OUN-UPA.” Last Remembrance Day, the UCC asked Ukrainian Canadians to honour veterans who belonged to OUN, UPA, and the Galicia Division.
In their calls to honour the members of these organizations as veterans, what the UCCLA and the UCC do not fully acknowledge is that all three groups have been implicated in violence against civilians on a massive scale. Significant historical research indicates the political responsibility of the OUN in anti-Jewish violence in the summer of 1941. Emerging research also demonstrates that many former policemen who aided the Nazis in genocidal operations subsequently joined the UPA, created in early 1943. Moreover, the UPA murdered tens of thousands of civilian Poles in the western province of Volhynia to undercut the ability of postwar Poland to make claims on the area. The Galicia Division was also involved in anti-civilian military actions, although mainly outside of Ukraine.
By pointing out the historical record of the OUN, UPA, and the Galicia Division, we do not mean to suggest some sort of collective responsibility for genocide on the part of all the men and women who served in them, and certainly not on the part of all Ukrainians. Nevertheless, in an age when the mass murder of civilians is regarded as a crime against humanity, the mixed record of these organizations has to be openly debated, particularly when the significance of the Holocaust is being questioned in a public campaign pertaining to a fair representation of the history of human rights.
We therefore assert that since the UCCLA and UCC have not understood that confronting the historical record openly and honestly is preferable to manipulative falsehood, have engaged in a competition of suffering, and have failed to acknowledge both the vices and the virtues of the nationalist movement, they ought to stay out of a debate about the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
Signatories:
Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Christine Achinger, Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Warwick
Alexander Babyonyshev, Davis Center, Harvard University
Alejandro Baer, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Bayreuth & Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad Complutense Madrid
Karyn Ball, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University
Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University
Delphine Bechtel, Associate Professor for Central European Studies, University Paris IV Sorbonne
Elissa Bemporad, Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York
Paul Bogdanor, Independent Scholar, London
Richard Breitman, Professor of History, American University
Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aleksandr Burakovskiy, Independent Scholar, Clifton, NJ
Marco Carynnyk, Writer and Independent Scholar, Toronto
David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Catherine Chatterley, Founding Director, Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Paul A. Chilton, Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University
Brian K. Daley, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Alberta
Johan Dietsch, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Lund
Karin Doerr, Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia U
Roman Dubasevych, Ph. D. Candidate, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Eirik Eiglad, Editor, New Compass Press, Norway
Gary Evans, Adjunct Professor, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa
Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Robert Fine, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
David Fraser, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Nottingham
Christian Ganzer, Deutsche Akademische Austauch Dienst Lecturer, National Pedagogical Drahomanov University, Kyiv
Norman J.W. Goda, Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida
Frank Golczewski, Professor, Historisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg
Nora Gold, Associate Scholar, Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education and University of Toronto
Chad Alan Goldberg, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Brian Goldfarb, Principal Lecturer in Sociology, De Montfort University
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Independent Scholar, Boston
Alain Goldschlager, Professor of French Literature, University of Western Ontario; Chairman, National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
Andrew Gow, Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Lisa Grekul, Associate Professor, Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia
Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union College, NY
Bella Gutterman, Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Bernard Harrison, E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
Steven Haberman, Director and Deputy Dean, Professor of Actuarial Science, Cass Business School, City University, London
Guido Hausmann, Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena
Jeffrey Herf, Professor of Modern European History, Department of History, University of Maryland
John-Paul Himka, Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Sara R. Horowitz, Professor, Humanities, York University
Pavel Ilyin, Geography Consultant, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, NYU
Dovid Katz, Editor, Defendinghistory.com, Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute, Professor emeritus, Vilnius University
Steven T. Katz, Professor & Director of the Elie Wiesel Centre for Judaic Studies, Boston University
Sir Ian Kershaw, Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield
C. Richard King, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University at Pullman
Myrna Kostash, Writer, Edmonton
Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosphy, University of Cambridge
Frederick Krantz, Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Director, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Montréal
Matthias Küntzel, Research Associate, Vidal Sassoon Centre for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University
Taras Kurylo, Independent Scholar, Edmonton
Marija Kropuves-Berg, Ph.D., Bloomington, IN
Alexandr Kruglov, Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy, Kharkiv University of Radio Electronics
Francis Landy, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Dartmouth College
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University
Meir Litvak, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Wendy Lower, Research Fellow, Department of History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Andrei S. Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
David Matas, Human rights lawyer, Order of Canada, Winnipeg
Jared McBride, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, UCLA
Maureen McNeil, Professor, Lancaster University
Oleksandr Melnyk, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
Erin Moure, Poet and essayist, Montréal
Eduard Nižňanský, Professor, Department of Universal History, Commenius University
Nina Paulovicova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Srdja Pavlovic, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Dina Porat, Head, Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University
Moishe Postone, Professor, Department of History, Center for Jewish Studies, Co-Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago
Alexander V. Prusin, Associate Professor of History, Humanities Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Doron Rabinovici, Historian, Vienna
Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sub-Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
John E. Richardson, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
William Risch, Associate Professor of History, Georgia College
Andrew Roberts, Historian, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna
Robert Rozett, Director of Libraries, Yad Vashem
Per A. Rudling, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Clemens Ruthner, Assistant Professor of European Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris
Anna Sommer Schneider, Ph. D. Candidate, Jagiellonian University, and Research Assistant, Emory University
Guy Sela, Ph. D. Candidate, University of Oxford
David M. Seymour, School of Law, Lancaster University
Anton Shekhovtsov, Kreisau Fellow of the George Bell Institute, Sevastopol
Ivan Sloboda, Translator, London
David Silberklang, Senior Historian and Editor of Yad Vashem Studies, Yad Vashem; Lecturer in Jewish History, Hebrew University
Charles Small, Director, Interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Yale University
Peter Stachel, Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Lionel Steiman, Senior Scholar & Professor of History, University of Manitoba
Daniel Stone, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Winnipeg
Terri Tomsky, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Albertahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Marin Turk, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Rafał Wnuk, Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of Lublin
Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor, Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
Efraim Zuroff, Director of Nazi War Crimes Research, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Israel
See also: "Discord, accusations taint human rights museum debate", by James Adams.
The following historic letter, signed by over 100 scholars from around the world, many of them leaders in their fields, is being circulated across Europe and through international scholarly associations and listservs. It will no doubt include many more scholars and their names will be added as they are submitted.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress have been campaigning against the plans of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to mount a permanent Holocaust gallery. The UCCLA has mailed out a postcard across Canada that reproduces the cover of an edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and implies that supporters of a Holocaust gallery are pigs. For its part, the UCC, which, in contrast to the UCCLA, is an elected body that represents major Ukrainian Canadian organizations, has complained that the planned Holocaust exhibit is “unacceptable” and has asked the Museum to provide the Holodomor, or Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, “no less coverage… than the Holocaust.”
We, the signatories to this letter, have all studied various aspects of genocide, fascism, antisemitism, Stalinism, war criminality, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust. We unequivocally recognize that the violence and oppression that Ukraine has experienced during its multi-totalitarian past ought to be remembered and commemorated in a Canadian museum devoted to the history and abuse of human rights. What we object to is the dishonest manner in which the UCCLA and UCC have distorted historical accounts of the Holodomor while at the same time refusing to acknowledge the Ukrainian nationalist movement’s role in the Holocaust.
The Ukrainian famine, which constitutes one of Stalin’s great crimes and one of Europe’s most devastating tragedies, deserves a place in any venue dedicated to commemorating and understanding the violation of human rights. Yet the way the UCC treats the Holodomor is problematic. All demographic studies place the number of famine deaths in Soviet Ukraine in the range of 2.6 to 3.9 million. This is, in itself, a grievous toll. Nonetheless, the UCC has, at times, inflated the number of victims to seven or even ten million. The implication is obvious: seven or ten million is more than six million; the Holodomor deserves more attention than the Holocaust. Such a manipulative attempt to exploit human suffering is reprehensible and should not be acceptable to the Canadian public.
We are also troubled by the attitude of the UCCLA and UCC toward the OUN, the UPA, and the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ (1st Ukrainian). OUN stands for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. UPA is the Ukrainian abbreviation for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the armed branch of the OUN. The Galicia Division, a military unit that was primarily involved in counterinsurgency activities, was established by the Germans in 1943. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians who belonged to these formations perished while resisting the ruthless imposition of Soviet power at the end of the war. Today many Ukrainians revere the members of these organizations as the champions of an oppressed people. In February 2010, the UCC called on the Canadian government “to make changes to Canada’s War Veterans Allowance Act by expanding eligibility to include designated resistance groups such as OUN-UPA.” Last Remembrance Day, the UCC asked Ukrainian Canadians to honour veterans who belonged to OUN, UPA, and the Galicia Division.
In their calls to honour the members of these organizations as veterans, what the UCCLA and the UCC do not fully acknowledge is that all three groups have been implicated in violence against civilians on a massive scale. Significant historical research indicates the political responsibility of the OUN in anti-Jewish violence in the summer of 1941. Emerging research also demonstrates that many former policemen who aided the Nazis in genocidal operations subsequently joined the UPA, created in early 1943. Moreover, the UPA murdered tens of thousands of civilian Poles in the western province of Volhynia to undercut the ability of postwar Poland to make claims on the area. The Galicia Division was also involved in anti-civilian military actions, although mainly outside of Ukraine.
By pointing out the historical record of the OUN, UPA, and the Galicia Division, we do not mean to suggest some sort of collective responsibility for genocide on the part of all the men and women who served in them, and certainly not on the part of all Ukrainians. Nevertheless, in an age when the mass murder of civilians is regarded as a crime against humanity, the mixed record of these organizations has to be openly debated, particularly when the significance of the Holocaust is being questioned in a public campaign pertaining to a fair representation of the history of human rights.
We therefore assert that since the UCCLA and UCC have not understood that confronting the historical record openly and honestly is preferable to manipulative falsehood, have engaged in a competition of suffering, and have failed to acknowledge both the vices and the virtues of the nationalist movement, they ought to stay out of a debate about the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
Signatories:
Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Christine Achinger, Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Warwick
Alexander Babyonyshev, Davis Center, Harvard University
Alejandro Baer, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Bayreuth & Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad Complutense Madrid
Karyn Ball, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University
Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University
Delphine Bechtel, Associate Professor for Central European Studies, University Paris IV Sorbonne
Elissa Bemporad, Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York
Paul Bogdanor, Independent Scholar, London
Richard Breitman, Professor of History, American University
Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aleksandr Burakovskiy, Independent Scholar, Clifton, NJ
Marco Carynnyk, Writer and Independent Scholar, Toronto
David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Catherine Chatterley, Founding Director, Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Manitoba
Paul A. Chilton, Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University
Brian K. Daley, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Alberta
Johan Dietsch, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Lund
Karin Doerr, Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia U
Roman Dubasevych, Ph. D. Candidate, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Eirik Eiglad, Editor, New Compass Press, Norway
Gary Evans, Adjunct Professor, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa
Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Robert Fine, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
David Fraser, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Nottingham
Christian Ganzer, Deutsche Akademische Austauch Dienst Lecturer, National Pedagogical Drahomanov University, Kyiv
Norman J.W. Goda, Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida
Frank Golczewski, Professor, Historisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg
Nora Gold, Associate Scholar, Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education and University of Toronto
Chad Alan Goldberg, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Brian Goldfarb, Principal Lecturer in Sociology, De Montfort University
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Independent Scholar, Boston
Alain Goldschlager, Professor of French Literature, University of Western Ontario; Chairman, National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
Andrew Gow, Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Lisa Grekul, Associate Professor, Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia
Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union College, NY
Bella Gutterman, Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Bernard Harrison, E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
Steven Haberman, Director and Deputy Dean, Professor of Actuarial Science, Cass Business School, City University, London
Guido Hausmann, Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena
Jeffrey Herf, Professor of Modern European History, Department of History, University of Maryland
John-Paul Himka, Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Sara R. Horowitz, Professor, Humanities, York University
Pavel Ilyin, Geography Consultant, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, NYU
Dovid Katz, Editor, Defendinghistory.com, Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute, Professor emeritus, Vilnius University
Steven T. Katz, Professor & Director of the Elie Wiesel Centre for Judaic Studies, Boston University
Sir Ian Kershaw, Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield
C. Richard King, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University at Pullman
Myrna Kostash, Writer, Edmonton
Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosphy, University of Cambridge
Frederick Krantz, Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Director, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Montréal
Matthias Küntzel, Research Associate, Vidal Sassoon Centre for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University
Taras Kurylo, Independent Scholar, Edmonton
Marija Kropuves-Berg, Ph.D., Bloomington, IN
Alexandr Kruglov, Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy, Kharkiv University of Radio Electronics
Francis Landy, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Dartmouth College
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University
Meir Litvak, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Wendy Lower, Research Fellow, Department of History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Andrei S. Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
David Matas, Human rights lawyer, Order of Canada, Winnipeg
Jared McBride, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, UCLA
Maureen McNeil, Professor, Lancaster University
Oleksandr Melnyk, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
Erin Moure, Poet and essayist, Montréal
Eduard Nižňanský, Professor, Department of Universal History, Commenius University
Nina Paulovicova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Srdja Pavlovic, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta
Dina Porat, Head, Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University
Moishe Postone, Professor, Department of History, Center for Jewish Studies, Co-Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago
Alexander V. Prusin, Associate Professor of History, Humanities Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Doron Rabinovici, Historian, Vienna
Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sub-Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
John E. Richardson, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
William Risch, Associate Professor of History, Georgia College
Andrew Roberts, Historian, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna
Robert Rozett, Director of Libraries, Yad Vashem
Per A. Rudling, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Clemens Ruthner, Assistant Professor of European Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris
Anna Sommer Schneider, Ph. D. Candidate, Jagiellonian University, and Research Assistant, Emory University
Guy Sela, Ph. D. Candidate, University of Oxford
David M. Seymour, School of Law, Lancaster University
Anton Shekhovtsov, Kreisau Fellow of the George Bell Institute, Sevastopol
Ivan Sloboda, Translator, London
David Silberklang, Senior Historian and Editor of Yad Vashem Studies, Yad Vashem; Lecturer in Jewish History, Hebrew University
Charles Small, Director, Interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Yale University
Peter Stachel, Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Lionel Steiman, Senior Scholar & Professor of History, University of Manitoba
Daniel Stone, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Winnipeg
Terri Tomsky, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Albertahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Marin Turk, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Rafał Wnuk, Professor, Department of History, Catholic University of Lublin
Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor, Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
Efraim Zuroff, Director of Nazi War Crimes Research, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Israel
See also: "Discord, accusations taint human rights museum debate", by James Adams.
11 April 2011
Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
Goal and target group
Fascism is an internationally oriented English-language Open Access e-journal that seeks to provide the burgeoning international field of research into fascism and extremism with a forum that is not restricted by national borders, nor by expertise. It is directed towards a wide audience of interested fellow specialists, geared towards informing policy-makers and social workers, and to engage students. Fascism is peer reviewed.
Frequency
Fascism will be published twice a year, in March and September. The first issue will be published in September 2011. Each issue will contain 4 to 5 articles and consists of approximately 125 pages.
Editorial Office
Chief editor: Dr Madelon de Keizer (NIOD)
Consultant editor: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Managing editor: Marjo Bakker (NIOD)
Editorial board
- Remieg Aerts
- Mark Antliff
- Emily Braun
- Stefan Breuer
- Francesco Cassata
- Nigel Copsey
- Bruno De Wever
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Constantin Iordachi
- Aristotle Kallis
- Wim van Meurs
- Sven Reichardt
- Peter Romijn
- Marjan Schwegman
- Anton Shekhovtsov
- James Shields
- Zeev Sternhell
- Andreas Umland
Information for authors
Article, abstract and keywords
Each article is written in English, consists of approximately 8000 words and should include an abstract and keywords. Abstracts should be no more than 150 words, written in English, which clearly defines the article’s thesis. Keywords are a list of three to eight words that classify the article. Keywords can include names of historical actors, places, sources used, concepts, or any other term that would be useful in electronic searches for the article.
Copyright
The copyright of the articles will stay with the author(s). Authors are recommend to use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. With this license the licensor (the author(s)) ‘permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it’, except for commercial use.
The rights to the title of the journal will equally be shared by the NIOD and Brill.
Automated submission
The publisher deploys the online article submission system Editorial Manager (Aries Systems Corporation, USA). This system allows candidate authors to submit their article to the journal, and manages all subsequent steps like selection, peer review, adjustments and formal acceptance. The system reports on progress of each step of the article flow to the authors, the managing editor and the production editor. More information on how to submit your contribution will follow.
Platform/Hosting
The Journal will be hosted at the publisher’s section on the platform of IngentaConnect and on the publisher’s branded version of that platform.
Goal and target group
Fascism is an internationally oriented English-language Open Access e-journal that seeks to provide the burgeoning international field of research into fascism and extremism with a forum that is not restricted by national borders, nor by expertise. It is directed towards a wide audience of interested fellow specialists, geared towards informing policy-makers and social workers, and to engage students. Fascism is peer reviewed.
Frequency
Fascism will be published twice a year, in March and September. The first issue will be published in September 2011. Each issue will contain 4 to 5 articles and consists of approximately 125 pages.
Editorial Office
Chief editor: Dr Madelon de Keizer (NIOD)
Consultant editor: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Managing editor: Marjo Bakker (NIOD)
Editorial board
- Remieg Aerts
- Mark Antliff
- Emily Braun
- Stefan Breuer
- Francesco Cassata
- Nigel Copsey
- Bruno De Wever
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Constantin Iordachi
- Aristotle Kallis
- Wim van Meurs
- Sven Reichardt
- Peter Romijn
- Marjan Schwegman
- Anton Shekhovtsov
- James Shields
- Zeev Sternhell
- Andreas Umland
Information for authors
Article, abstract and keywords
Each article is written in English, consists of approximately 8000 words and should include an abstract and keywords. Abstracts should be no more than 150 words, written in English, which clearly defines the article’s thesis. Keywords are a list of three to eight words that classify the article. Keywords can include names of historical actors, places, sources used, concepts, or any other term that would be useful in electronic searches for the article.
Copyright
The copyright of the articles will stay with the author(s). Authors are recommend to use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. With this license the licensor (the author(s)) ‘permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it’, except for commercial use.
The rights to the title of the journal will equally be shared by the NIOD and Brill.
Automated submission
The publisher deploys the online article submission system Editorial Manager (Aries Systems Corporation, USA). This system allows candidate authors to submit their article to the journal, and manages all subsequent steps like selection, peer review, adjustments and formal acceptance. The system reports on progress of each step of the article flow to the authors, the managing editor and the production editor. More information on how to submit your contribution will follow.
Platform/Hosting
The Journal will be hosted at the publisher’s section on the platform of IngentaConnect and on the publisher’s branded version of that platform.
29 November 2010
CfA: Kreisau-Fellows of the George Bell Institute
Call for Applications
Fellowship Program of the George Bell Institute (Chichester, UK), Kreisau Foundation for Mutual Understanding (Krzyżowa, PL), supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart, DE)
The Kreisau-Fellows of the George Bell Institute
The Kreisau Fellows of the George Bell Institute are a network of writers, scholars, researchers and artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The Fellowship promotes difference and diversity as essential to the creative ties between generations and minds in the pursuit of understanding and justice. The Kreisau Fellows are dedicated to providing a broader context for ideas and projects based on the perception of the individual as the driving force of social and cultural change.
Deadline: January 15th, 2011
Profile of the Kreisau Fellows:
Helmuth James von Moltke and his friends shared with their British ally George Bell a profound belief in the vision of the individual. They saw that the prospects of civilization itself could depend upon men and women whose creative convictions might present an alternative to accepted conventions and established institutions. Moreover, both Moltke and Bell affirmed the fundamental importance of circles of friendship which might reach across boundaries of any kind to sustain creative life and thought. Robert Bosch, too, saw that such ideals must be maintained in the conditions of everyday life and he sought to advance them in the broad context of his own work. Accordingly, the moral worlds of the lawyer, the bishop and the entrepreneur shared a striking courage, conviction and eloquence in response to the dangers of dictatorship and war.
Accordingly we are looking for candidates who possess a creative commitment which responds to the distinctive spirit which was shown by Bell, Bosch and Moltke:
1. The Kreisau Fellows are individuals with excellent intellectual achievements to their names within the humanities and the fields of natural and social sciences. More specifically they may be engaged in working in such diverse disciplines as translation, literature, physics, medicine, theatre, art, music and acting. What unites them is a vision that is both distinctive and creative, a shared commitment to their own societies and a belief in the forging of international relationships.
2. A Kreisau Fellowship enables a candidate to either realize or continue his/her professional goals in his/her own country while at the same time bringing them into an international community. The Fellowship ensures a relative independence from the existing socio-economic and political conditions and provides a (sympathetic) lasting international framework in which their commitments are recognised, encouraged and promoted. The scholarship is not paid in monthly rates, but is attached to specific projects or research costs.
3. The Fellows are expected to contribute to the international programme of the Kreisau Foundation and to spend their sabbatical in Kreisau within the first two years after receiving the financial support.
4. The candidates should come from CEE countries.
5. The communication language of the programme is English.
Selection criteria:
- A completed arts or academic degree and some work experience. The Fellowship Network aims at a mix of people of different ages.
- A willingness to participate in the international network in the period of financial support as well as beyond that specified period.
- An interest in and willingness to conduct part of the proposed project in Kreisau itself (for example in the form of a sabbatical) and a commitment to contribute to the programme locally.
Selection procedure:
- Candidates can apply or be proposed by the partners of the Kreisau Fellowships Programme (Robert Bosch Stiftung, George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation) and by current Fellows.
- Candidates will be selected by the Selection Committee 2 times a year (June 30, January 31).
- The Selection Committee consists of representatives of the Kreisau Foundation, the George Bell Institute and the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
- The selection of a candidate is conducted in three stages:
First stage: Documents are submitted (a CV, a project proposal, which is to be realized through participation in the network).
Second stage: A trustee of the George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation or Robert Bosch Stiftung is asked to give an expertise/recommendation/reference of selected candidate.
Third stage: The candidate will have an interview with a representative of the Selection Committee.
Financial support
Fellows will be granted up to 5.000 Euro a year for their arts and research projects (research trip, conferences), books and other materials; 800 Euro for travelling expenses to Krzyżowa and spend a sabbatical (1 month) in Krzyżowa.
Please submit your application (CV and Motivation Letter including a project description, which you would like to realize within the network) via mail until January 15th, 2011 to Elżbieta Opiłowska.
Fellowship Program of the George Bell Institute (Chichester, UK), Kreisau Foundation for Mutual Understanding (Krzyżowa, PL), supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart, DE)
The Kreisau-Fellows of the George Bell Institute
The Kreisau Fellows of the George Bell Institute are a network of writers, scholars, researchers and artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The Fellowship promotes difference and diversity as essential to the creative ties between generations and minds in the pursuit of understanding and justice. The Kreisau Fellows are dedicated to providing a broader context for ideas and projects based on the perception of the individual as the driving force of social and cultural change.
Deadline: January 15th, 2011
'For us post-war Europe is less a question of frontiers and soldiers, of top-heavy organisations and grandiose plans, than the question as to how the image of man can be re-established in the hearts of our fellow citizens.' Helmuth James von Moltke, 1942
'I insist, once again, on the significance of persons.' George Bell, 1943
'Never forget your humanity, and respect human dignity in your dealings with others.' Robert Bosch
Profile of the Kreisau Fellows:
Helmuth James von Moltke and his friends shared with their British ally George Bell a profound belief in the vision of the individual. They saw that the prospects of civilization itself could depend upon men and women whose creative convictions might present an alternative to accepted conventions and established institutions. Moreover, both Moltke and Bell affirmed the fundamental importance of circles of friendship which might reach across boundaries of any kind to sustain creative life and thought. Robert Bosch, too, saw that such ideals must be maintained in the conditions of everyday life and he sought to advance them in the broad context of his own work. Accordingly, the moral worlds of the lawyer, the bishop and the entrepreneur shared a striking courage, conviction and eloquence in response to the dangers of dictatorship and war.
Accordingly we are looking for candidates who possess a creative commitment which responds to the distinctive spirit which was shown by Bell, Bosch and Moltke:
1. The Kreisau Fellows are individuals with excellent intellectual achievements to their names within the humanities and the fields of natural and social sciences. More specifically they may be engaged in working in such diverse disciplines as translation, literature, physics, medicine, theatre, art, music and acting. What unites them is a vision that is both distinctive and creative, a shared commitment to their own societies and a belief in the forging of international relationships.
2. A Kreisau Fellowship enables a candidate to either realize or continue his/her professional goals in his/her own country while at the same time bringing them into an international community. The Fellowship ensures a relative independence from the existing socio-economic and political conditions and provides a (sympathetic) lasting international framework in which their commitments are recognised, encouraged and promoted. The scholarship is not paid in monthly rates, but is attached to specific projects or research costs.
3. The Fellows are expected to contribute to the international programme of the Kreisau Foundation and to spend their sabbatical in Kreisau within the first two years after receiving the financial support.
4. The candidates should come from CEE countries.
5. The communication language of the programme is English.
Selection criteria:
- A completed arts or academic degree and some work experience. The Fellowship Network aims at a mix of people of different ages.
- A willingness to participate in the international network in the period of financial support as well as beyond that specified period.
- An interest in and willingness to conduct part of the proposed project in Kreisau itself (for example in the form of a sabbatical) and a commitment to contribute to the programme locally.
Selection procedure:
- Candidates can apply or be proposed by the partners of the Kreisau Fellowships Programme (Robert Bosch Stiftung, George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation) and by current Fellows.
- Candidates will be selected by the Selection Committee 2 times a year (June 30, January 31).
- The Selection Committee consists of representatives of the Kreisau Foundation, the George Bell Institute and the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
- The selection of a candidate is conducted in three stages:
First stage: Documents are submitted (a CV, a project proposal, which is to be realized through participation in the network).
Second stage: A trustee of the George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation or Robert Bosch Stiftung is asked to give an expertise/recommendation/reference of selected candidate.
Third stage: The candidate will have an interview with a representative of the Selection Committee.
Financial support
Fellows will be granted up to 5.000 Euro a year for their arts and research projects (research trip, conferences), books and other materials; 800 Euro for travelling expenses to Krzyżowa and spend a sabbatical (1 month) in Krzyżowa.
Please submit your application (CV and Motivation Letter including a project description, which you would like to realize within the network) via mail until January 15th, 2011 to Elżbieta Opiłowska.
8 November 2010
The resurgence of radical conservatism in Russia
Professor Bill Bowring (Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Northampton) will deliver a lecture -
The Resurgence of Radical Conservatism in Russia and the Theory and Practice of Human Rights Protection
The lecture will take place at the University of Northampton (Brampton 18 Park Campus), on 1 December 2010, at 6pm.
For further information -
E-mail: Melanie.crofts@northampton.ac.uk
Tel.: (01604)-892124
All welcome!
The Resurgence of Radical Conservatism in Russia and the Theory and Practice of Human Rights Protection
The lecture will take place at the University of Northampton (Brampton 18 Park Campus), on 1 December 2010, at 6pm.
For further information -
E-mail: Melanie.crofts@northampton.ac.uk
Tel.: (01604)-892124
All welcome!
7 October 2010
Fascist Radicalism and the New Media - podcasts
Fascist Radicalism and the New Media Symposium
Podcasts and presentations, by Backdoor Broadcasting Company -
Welcome (MP3)
- Doug Rae, Associate Dean of School of Social Sciences
- Dr Matthew Feldman, Director of the Radicalism and New Media Group
Keynote Talk: Gerry Gable (MA Crim.), Searchlight Magazine
‘Confronting Right-Wing Extremism in a Western Democracy’
Panel 1: New Media and the Resurgent British Fascism (Chair: Matthew Feldman)
- Dr Paul Jackson, University of Northampton: ‘The English Defence League and Far-Right Politics’
- Trevor Preston, University of Northampton: ‘From Billboard to Broadband: Cyber-Terrorism and the Extreme Right Wing’
- Benedict Addis, HP Labs: ‘Covert communities: How the Internet Fosters Extremism’
Panel 2: New Media and European Fascisms (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- Dr Matthew Feldman, University of Northampton: ‘Universal Nazism in Britain: The Case of the Aryan Strike Force’
- Dr Anna Castriota, University of Cardiff: ‘Julius Evola on the Web: The Fascist Ideal of “Europe as Aryanland”’
- Dr Anton Shekhovtsov, University of Northampton: ‘Far-Right Music in Europe: Songs of Hate and Devotion’
Panel 3: Practitioners on the Far-Right (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- East Midlands Community Contact Unit: ‘Experiences of a Regional Intervention Unit in Addressing Violent Extremism’
- Durham Constabulary: ‘Operation CONSTELLATION – The Right Wing Threat’
Concluding Discussion and Closing Remarks (Chair: Matthew Feldman) (MP3)
Podcasts and presentations, by Backdoor Broadcasting Company -
Welcome (MP3)
- Doug Rae, Associate Dean of School of Social Sciences
- Dr Matthew Feldman, Director of the Radicalism and New Media Group
Keynote Talk: Gerry Gable (MA Crim.), Searchlight Magazine
‘Confronting Right-Wing Extremism in a Western Democracy’
Panel 1: New Media and the Resurgent British Fascism (Chair: Matthew Feldman)
- Dr Paul Jackson, University of Northampton: ‘The English Defence League and Far-Right Politics’
- Trevor Preston, University of Northampton: ‘From Billboard to Broadband: Cyber-Terrorism and the Extreme Right Wing’
- Benedict Addis, HP Labs: ‘Covert communities: How the Internet Fosters Extremism’
Panel 2: New Media and European Fascisms (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- Dr Matthew Feldman, University of Northampton: ‘Universal Nazism in Britain: The Case of the Aryan Strike Force’
- Dr Anna Castriota, University of Cardiff: ‘Julius Evola on the Web: The Fascist Ideal of “Europe as Aryanland”’
- Dr Anton Shekhovtsov, University of Northampton: ‘Far-Right Music in Europe: Songs of Hate and Devotion’
Panel 3: Practitioners on the Far-Right (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- East Midlands Community Contact Unit: ‘Experiences of a Regional Intervention Unit in Addressing Violent Extremism’
- Durham Constabulary: ‘Operation CONSTELLATION – The Right Wing Threat’
Concluding Discussion and Closing Remarks (Chair: Matthew Feldman) (MP3)
3 October 2010
Modernism and Eugenics
The first volume in the recently established book series "Modernism and..." (edited by Roger Griffin) is out -
Marius Turda, Modernism and Eugenics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interest in the history of science and fascism, Modernism and Eugenics treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity, one in which the state and the individual embarked on an unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community.
Marius Turda, Modernism and Eugenics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interest in the history of science and fascism, Modernism and Eugenics treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity, one in which the state and the individual embarked on an unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community.
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