Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far Right in the Americas (workshops)

Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far Right in the Americas

Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University

RSVP for workshop at www.tinyurl.com/INFworkshop

Panel 1: Politics and Media (9:30-11:30)

César Castillo-García, Wesleyan University
“It Happened Before: The American Experience as a Confluence of Peruvian Neo-Populism”

Nicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt University
“Beyond Responsible Conservatism: How Media Institutions Normalize the Far-Right”

Mack Penner, University of Calgary
“‘Infiltration Problem:’ The Reform Party, the Heritage Front, and the Crack-Up of Canadian Conservatism in the 1990s”

Discussant: Subho Basu, McGill University
Chair: Lorenz Lüthi, McGill University

Panel 2: Science and Faith (13:00-15:00)

Will Langford, Dalhousie University
“Naturopaths, Quebec Independence, and la Nouvelle droite”

Becca Lewis, Stanford University
“The New (Digital) Man: George Gilder and the Creation of Reactionary Futurism, 1973-1990”

Andre Pagliarini, Louisiana State University
“From Solidarity to Prosperity: The Shifting Politics of Religious Faith in Brazil”

Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
“The Anticommunist Reconquest: Bridging the Spanish Civil War and the Latin American Cold War.”

Discussant: Piotr Kosicki, University of Maryland
Chair: Jacob Blanc, McGill University

Followed by the keynote lecture from 4 pm, see event listing here.