Previous webinar series: Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics

2023

Digital Methods and Quantitative approaches

with Dr. Megan Squire, Southern Poverty Law Center

Date: Jan 12, 2023


Difficulties of Looking for the Far Right Where It Is Supposed to Be – Amongst Foreign Fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War

with Kacper Rekawek, postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX)

Date: Feb 9, 2023


Can less be more? Writing on the ‘extreme-right’ from an ethnographic position’

with Hilary Pilkington, University of Manchester

Date: March 2, 2023


The View From the Humanities: Literature and Philosophy in the Study of the Far-Right

with JM Berger and Sarah Pessin

Date: April 13, 2023


It's not all about ethnicity: Doing Ethnography of the Far-right as a Person of Colour

with Bhakti Deodhar, University of London

Date: May 11, 2023


The gendered challenges of doing close-up research on the far right

With Christopher Fardan and Audrey Gagnon

Date: Oct 19, 2023


Safeguarding researchers of the far right

with Pasha Dashtgard,  Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab, American University

Date: Nov 16, 2023


Challenges of researching the far right among women and gender minorities

with Celestine Kunkeler, Catherine Tebaldi, Meili Criezis and Chelsea Daymon

Date: Dec 14, 2023

 

2022

Normalization to the right: Analyzing the micro‐politics of the far right

With Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University/University Vienna)

Date: March 31, 2022


What can we learn from interviewing ‘formers’ 

With Tore Bjørgo (C-REX) and Ryan Scrivens (Michigan State University)

Date: May 12, 2022


Going Nativist: How to Interview the Radical Right?

With Koen Damhuis (University of Utrecht) and Léonie de Jonge (University of Groningen)

Date: June 9, 2022


Shaky Foundations? Problems of Existing Datasets on Far-Right Violence

with Jacob Ravndal, C-REX and the Norwegian Police University College

Date: Sep 15, 2022


Dangerous Incentives: Challenges Facing Emerging Scholars of the Far-Right

with Stevie Voogt (Moonshot) and Kesa White (American University)

Date: Oct 13, 2022


Formers: A Challenge to the Discipline

with Megan Kelly and Joan Braune

Date: Nov 10, 2022


The dark side of the field: Researching the far-right through ethnography

with Emanuele Toscano, Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi

Date: Dec 1, 2022

 

2021

 

Observing and interpreting far right demonstrations

Observing and interpreting far right demonstrations with Joel Busher (Coventry University) and Fabian Virchow (FORENA, HSD - Hochschule Düsseldorf)

Date: Jan 21, 2021


An observational study of the Norwegian far right: some reflections

With Katrine Fangen (C-REX, University of Oslo) and moderated by Cynthia Miller-Idriss (American University)

Date: March 24, 2021


The relationship between words and actions – and implications for our methods

With Kurt Braddock (PERIL, American University) and Bart Schuurman (ISGA, Leiden University)

Date: April 8, 2021


Studying local context to fathom far right mobilization

With John W. P. Veugelers (University of Toronto) and Cathrine M. Thorleifsson (C-REX, University of Oslo).

Date: May 12, 2021


Overcoming racialization in the field

With Vidhya Ramalingam (Moonshot) and Uzair Ahmed (C-REX, University of Oslo)

Date: June 8, 2021


Online Extremism and Terrorism Research Ethics

With Maura Conway (Dublin City University)

Date: Sep 30, 2021


Overcoming the pitfalls of ‘white logic’ and ‘white methods’ when researching the far right

With Stephen D. Ashe (Durham University), John P. Jackson (Michigan State University) and Rae Jereza (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Date: Oct 14, 2021


From demonization to normalization: Reflecting on far-right research

With Aurelien Mondon (University of Bath) and Aaron Winter (University of East London)

Date: Nov 11, 2021


Risk of researching right-wing extremism: How the far right threatens and intimidates scholars 

With Sarah de Lange (University of Amsterdam) and Adrienne Massanari (American University)

Date: Dec 9, 2021

 

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