Conference
Conception: Benjamin Zachariah

Tolerance towards other people’s fascisms has been a feature of political life. This is complicated by the ability of right-wing movements and states to work together. Internationalism is not often a concept associated with the right. It is undeniable, however, that both historically and in contemporary times, völkisch nationalists, fascist organisations or proto-fascist movements have been more flexible in their ability to mobilise in cooperation with one another than a self-proclaimed left, who share, theoretically, similar internationalist concerns with one another. Both pragmatic approaches to alliance-building and shared ideological propensities have enabled internationalist solidarities on the right, via a shared vocabulary, a style of politics, and cross-border organisation that transcends the apparent narrowness of each specific formation. How, then, do we make sense of this phenomenon?

With: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes), Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest), Martina Bitunjac (Potsdam), Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Berlin), Deniz Kılınçoğlu (Berlin), Antonio Costa Pinto (Lisbon), Jason Stanley (Toronto), Debojit Thakur (Trier), Luisa Passerini (Florence), Richard Wolin (New York), Ece Temelkuran (Berlin).