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”