We would like to bring to your attention an exciting double guest lecture which seeks to analyse the workings of the far-right ecology and its interplay with conspiracy.

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FAR-RIGHT ECOLOGY + CONSPIRACY AS ACTIVIST MODE
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 18:30-20:30
Venue: HSZ/E03/U (Hörsaalzentrum, Bergstraße 64)

Double Guest Lecture and Q&A

Jonathan Olsen
“Nature and Nationalism? Far-right politics and the ecology”

Jonathan Olsen is professor of political science and the chair of the Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Women’s University. Dr. Olsen is the author of numerous scholarly articles featured in journals such as German Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and Problems of Post-Communism. He is the author of four books, including Nature and Nationalism. Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany (1999), one of the earliest treatments of the phenomenon of “eco-fascism”.

AK Thompson
“Conspiracy in the Age of Respiratory Distress: Unearthing the Promise of a Contested Political Mode”

AK thompson is a critical theorist, a movement-based scholar, and an award-winning educator. Currently based at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester MA, his publications include Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010), Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016), Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (2017), and Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt (2018).

This event is hosted in collaboration with Manés Weisskircher, leader of the BMBF research Group REXKLIMA affiliated with the Institute of Political Science and the Hannah-Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies