RGTGM : Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far-Right in the Americas
Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far Right in the Americas - Program
Panel 1: Politics and Media
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
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
“Anticommunist Eugenics and Holy War in the Hispanophone Americas, from the Spanish Civil War to the Pink Tide”
Discussant: Piotr Kosicki, University of Maryland
Chair: Jacob Blanc, McGill University
Keynote
Quinn Slobodian, Boston University
“A Global History of Elon Musk”