The International Congress “Neo-Fascisms and Radical Right: From the Post-War Era to the 21st Century” (Program in annex), organized by the Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space and Memory” (CITCEM) and the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), will take place on October 22 and 23, 2021.

Registration Fees*:

CITCEM and IHC members and participants with paper – mandatory and free registration at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfplvSKeV_g4gCWeQfp8tenOBMc9jkwE-eYVFSXkKHXjQAEeg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Other participants without communication: 60

Students: 20€.

Link for registration payment: https://www.letras.up.pt/gi/eventos/registo.asp?tt=fa

Free assistance (no access to documentation)

* Includes documentation

Certificates of participation will not be issued to those who are not present at the Congress

Online attendance and participation is possible.

LINK ZOOM: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/87893130483

By questioning democracy, giving voice to racist and xenophobic sentiments, denying freedoms, rights, and guarantees, questioning the impartiality and universality of educational, scientific, and legal systems, promoting a nationalist agenda, and relativizing, or even rehabilitating, the ideas, policies, and practices of the fascist regimes that spread in Europe and the world between the two wars, neo-fascism is a phenomenon of singular relevance at the international level and has been the subject of a broad and multidisciplinary debate.

The defeat of Nazi-fascism in World War II and the end of the last European fascist dictatorships (Portugal, Spain and Greece) in 1974-1977 shook the material expressions of power of the extreme right. In the Euro-American political context, the perception that political expressions with an anti-democratic, anti-liberal, and nationalist sense were definitively buried was also widespread. The implosion of the socialist bloc reinforced, in many, the certainty that liberal democracy would be the unchallenged model of social, political, and economic organization.

In this debate it is also of the utmost importance to understand what factors have contributed to the creation of this favorable environment for neo-fascism and which allows it to influence governance and have electoral representation in a very significant part of Europe and the Americas. Several studies seem to point to the confluence of the effects of neoliberalism and the tabloidization of the press, initially, and the impact of social networks, more recently, in the formation of a new political culture tending to the construction and social reinforcement of prejudice. If the former called into question the valences and functions of the Welfare State, assuming openly authoritarian practices in what has been called “surveillance capitalism,” the latter has fed a growing sense of alarm and social anxiety. Both have contributed to the creation of conditions conducive to the reappearance, normalization, and mediatization of neo-fascist discourse.

Organized by CITCEM – Center for Transdisciplinary Research Culture, Space & Memory, from the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, and by the IHC – Institute of Contemporary History, New University of Lisbon. Memory, of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, and by the IHC – Institute of Contemporary History, of the New University of Lisbon, this Congress aims to contribute to the deepening of reflection and to the open, transversal and multidisciplinary scientific debate about the various aspects that characterize the rise and the political and electoral consecration of neo-fascisms in the West, from the perspectives of History, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science, Communication Sciences, Law, and Cultural and Literary Studies.

In this sense, all interested parties are invited to submit paper proposals around the following thematic lines:

– “Neofascism,” “extreme right,” “national-populism,” and “radical right”: what they mean and what they are worth as concepts;

– Fascisms and neo-fascisms in postwar history: ideas, experiences, pathways, organizations, and power;

– Constructions of memory: historiography of the radical right, nostalgia for the past, historical rewriting and rehabilitation of fascist experiences and dictatorships;

– Media, tabloidization, social networks, fake news, surveillance capitalism;

– Neo-fascism and its relation to culture, teaching, art, literature and science;

– Religion and individual liberties: homophobia, anti-feminism, racism

– National-populism: historical continuity(s), identity discourses, racism, xenophobia, “criminalization” of migrants, and neocolonialism;

Organizing Committee:

Amélia Polónia (CITCEM/UP)

Bruno Madeira (CITCEM/UP)

Carla Ribeiro (CITCEM/UP)

Gaspar Martins Pereira (CITCEM/UP)

Manuel Loff (IHC/NOVA and FLUP)

Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira (CITCEM/UP)

Steven Forti (IHC/UNL)

Virgílio Borges Pereira (IS/FLUP)

Scientific Committee:

António Costa Pinto (ICS/ISCTE)

Fátima Ferreira (ICS/UM)

Fernando Rosas (IHC/UNL)

José Neves (IHC/UNL)

Maria Inácia Rezola (IHC/UNL)

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES/UC)

Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos (DHCII/UM)

Rui Bebiano (CES/UC)

Vital Moreira (CEDIPRE/UC)

Secretariat:

CITCEM

Languages:

Portuguese, Spanish, English and French

Contacts:

Tel: 226077177 | e-mail: neofascismosedireitasradicais@gmail.com

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