APRIL 1st
Columbia University, Common Room of The Heyman Center for the Humanities
8:30 – 9:15 COFFEE & PASTRIES
9:15 – 9:30 OPENING REMARKS
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University, Department of Political Science
9:30 – 11:15 PANEL I, Past and Present of Fascism
Chair: Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research)
Enzo Traverso (Cornell University)
Post-fascism: the Politics of Xenophobia and the Legacy of the Twentieth Century
Seraphim Seferiades (Panteion University, Athens)
Fascism As a Mass Phenomenon: Should We Be Calling It a “Movement?”
Discussant: Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University)
11:15 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 1:15 PANEL II, Old and New Ideological Borders
Chair: Jean Cohen (Columbia University)
Kostis Karpozilos (Princeton University)
Contemporary Fascisms and the Limits of Historical Analogies
Michele Battini (University of Pisa)
Time Borders and Space Borders: The Italian Intellectuals and Fascist Anti-Semitism
Discussant: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University)
1:30 – 2:30 BREAK
2:30 – 4:15 PANEL III, Within the Fortress of Europe 1
Chair: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Dimitris Kousouris (University of Konstanz)
Fascism(s) in Europe’s Center and Periphery Through the Crises of the 1970s and the 2010s
Hubertus Buchstein (University of Greifswald)
The Neo-Nazi Restructuring After 1989
Discussant: Jose Moya (Columbia University)
4:15 – 4:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:30 – 6:15 PANEL IV, Within the Fortress of Europe 2
Chair: Andrew Arato (The New School for Social Research)
Kriss Ravetto (University of California Davis)
Fascist Branding: Constructing the Spectacle of Ethnos in the Balkans
Giulia Albanese (University of Padova)
The Crisis of Liberal Institutions in Mediterranean Europe
Discussant: Jeremy Varon (The New School for Social Research)
6:15 – 7:30 RECEPTION
APRIL 2nd
The New School for Social Research, Wolff Conference Room
8:30 – 9:00 COFFEE & PASTRIES
9:00 – 11:15 PANEL V, The Evolution of Populism in Latin America
Chair: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)
Carlos de LaTorre (University of Kentucky)
Populism and the Politics of the Extraordinary in Latin America
Juan F Gonzalez Bertomeu (ITAM School of Law, Mexico) and Maria Paula Saffon (Columbia University)
Populism and Redistribution in Latin America: Conceptualizing a Threshold of Acceptance
Carlos Forment (The New School for Social Research)
Is There Still Fascism in Latin America?
Discussant: Pablo A. Piccato (Columbia University)
11:15 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 1:15 PANEL VI, Challenges in the Age of New Media Technology
Chair: Neni Panourgiá (The New School for Social Research)
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan)
Violence, Breakdown, Consent: Fascism and the Technologies of Crisis
Eleni Varikas (University Paris 8 and Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (CRESPPA/ CNRS)
Repressed Genealogies of “Race” and Empire in the Critical Responses to the new European Fascisms
Discussant: Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University)
2:30 – 4:30 Round Table Fascism and Beyond
Chair: Andreas Kalyvas (The New School for Social Research)
Panelists: Andreas Kalyvas (The New School for Social Research); Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University); Federico Finchelstein (The New School); Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University); Neni Panourgiá (The New School for Social Research); Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University).
