Far-Right Ecology + Conspiracy as Activist Mode | Guest Lectures by Jonathan Olsen and AK Thompson | Collaboration with Hannah Arendt Institute of Totalitarianism Studies | TU Dresden, January 16, 2023

Political Science meets Cultural Studies

-- A Double Guest Lecture and Q&A in cooperation with Hannah Arendt Institute of Totalitarianism Studies, Jan 16, 18:30, HSZ 003, TU Dresden

Nature and Nationalism? Far-right politics and the ecology

Jonathan Olsen (Texas Women's University)

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”.

 

Conspiracy in the Age of Respiratory Distress: Unearthing the Promise of a Contested Political Mode

AK Thompson

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.