CRWS Event Videos

Journal of Right-Wing Studies Virtual Launch & Round-Table Discussion on the State of the Field

September 30, 2022

Speakers:
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Angela Lucia Silva Figueiredo, Associate Professor II at the Center for Arts, Humanities and Letters, Universidade Federal Recôncavo da Bahia
Terri Givens, Professor of Political Science, McGill University, and Executive Director of the Edgemakers Institute, San Francisco, California
Daniel HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies, Yale University
Carole Joffe, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, UCSF, and Professor Emerita, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Moderators:
Eliah Bures, Senior Fellow, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and JRWS Managing Editor
Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and JRWS Editor-in-Chief

Tanjev Schultz: Germany’s 9/11? Neo-Nazis & Right-Wing Terrorism in Germany & Links to US Actors

Tanjev Schultz, Professor of Journalism, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and Visiting Scholar, ISSI's Center for Right Wing Studies

09/15/2021

Meet the Author: Neo-Nationalism and Universities

John A. Douglass, Center for Studies in Higher Education

09/14/2021

Anti-Trans Ideology in Male Supremacism

Anti-Trans Ideology in Male Supremacism

May 13, 2021

Emily Carian, California State University, San Bernardino

JE Sumerau, University of Tampa

Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley State University

Heron Greenesmith, Political Research Associates

Facilitator: Blu Buchanan, University of California, Davis

Attacks on Critical Race Theory and Decolonizing Education

May 11, 2021

Moderator: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Daniel HoSang, Yale University

Adrienne Davis, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at Washington University in St. Louis

Rokhaya Diallo, Gender+ Justice Initiative at Georgetown University

Kwame Nimako, Black Europe Summer School

Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism Webinar

Megan Kelly, PhD Student, Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel
Alex DiBranco, Executive Director, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

Julia R. DeCook, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago
Sian Tomkinson, PhD, Gender and Games, University of Western Australia
Tauel Harper, Lecturer, Media and Communication, UWA

03/18/2021

Berkeley Conversation: Trumpism and its Discontents

Panelists:

Ann C. Keller, Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Zeus Leonardo, Professor, Graduate School of Education

john a. powell, Director, Othering and Belonging Institute

Moderated by: Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Bioethics in the School of Public Health 

03/12/2021

Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism

Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, and author of Empire of Resentment
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education & Sociology, American University
Corey D. Fields, Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University

11/19/2020

Abortion Rights in 2020 and Beyond: Threats and Resistance

Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Carole Joffe, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UC San Francisco
Jill E. Adams, Executive Director of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice

09/30/2020

The Far-Right in 2020: Supremacist and Authoritarian Mobilization in the United States and Europe

Dr. Terri Givens, CEO and Founder of the Center for Higher Education Leadership
Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
08/06/2020

Dr. Crystal Fleming, Revealing White Supremacy

Dr. Crystal Fleming, Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
08/04/2020

Webinar on Right-Wing and Male Supremacist Responses to Covid-19

Chelsea Ebin, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Co-founder

Julia DeCook, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Fellow

Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair of Center for Right-Wing Studies 

04/23/2020

Perspectives on the Far-Right Insurgency: Latin America, Europe and the U.S.

Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies Keynote Panel

Welcome and Introduction:
Dr. Christine Trost, Academic Coordinator, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies

Opening Remarks:
Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, Founder and Chair, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies

Keynote Panel Speakers:
-Joseph Lowndes, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
-Dr. Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project Director, Southern Poverty Law Center
-Ben Cowan, Associate Professor of History, UC San Diego
-Dr. Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution

04/25/2019

Cynthia Miller-Idriss : The Extreme Gone Mainstream

Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology; Director, International Training and Education Program, American University

04/18/2019

Martina Avanza: How To Do Ethnography When You Dislike Your Research Subjects?

Martina Avanza, Senior Lecturer, Political Sociology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

04/11/2019

Brian Porter-Szucs : Why Specificity Matters in Understanding the Global Radical Right

Brian Porter-Szucs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan

02/01/2019

George Hawley : Is the Alt-Right Collapsing?

George Hawley, Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of Alabama

03/15/2018

Katherine Cramer: Trump Voters' Perspectives and U.S. Democracy

Katherine Cramer, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Morgridge Center for Public Service, University of Madison-Wisconsin

with Arlie Hochschild, Professor Emerita of Sociology, UC Berkeley, as respondent

11/09/2017

Duncan McDonnell : Respectable Radicals and The Euro-Nationalist International

Duncan McDonnell, Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

10/19/2017

George Lakoff: "The Present Political Divide: What To Do Now "

George Lakoff, Director of the Center for the Neural Mind & Society and Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley

03/14/2017

Kelsy Burke: "Oh, God! The Religious Right to Sexual Pleasure on Christian Sexuality Websites"

Kelsy Burke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

03/01/2017

Brian Fishman : "The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory"

Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Research Fellow in the International Studies Program at New America

02/02/2017

Corey Fields: "Black Elephants in the Room: Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans"

Corey Fields, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Stanford University

10/27/2016

Firmin DeBrabander: "Political Passion and the Gun Debate"

Firmin DeBrabander, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Maryland Institute College of Art

10/20/2016

Yiannis Gabriel: "Nostalgia and conspiracy theories in right wing ideologies"

Yiannis Gabriel, Chair in Organizational Studies, University of Bath, School of Management

04/13/2016

Theda Skocpol: "The Koch Effect: "The Impact of a Cadre-Led Network on American Politics"

Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University 

04/06/2016

Alina Polyakova: "The Rise of Far-Right Nationalism and the Russia Angle"

Alina Polyakova, Deputy Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council 

02/18/2016

Cas Mudde: "2015: A Transformative Year in Far Right Politics?"

Cas Mudde, Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia

01/27/2016

Brian Fishman: "The Art of Recruitment: How the 'Islamic State' Trains its Community Organizers"

Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Research Fellow, New America Foundation and Research Fellow, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

09/29/2015

Amanda Hollis-Brusky: "Ideas with Consequences"

Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College 

Fred Smith, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, as respondent

02/19/2015

Jason Wittenberg: "Hungary's Conservative Revolution: Sui Generis or Future Pattern?"

Jason Wittenberg, Associate Professor, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

10/01/2014

Corey Fields "My People, My People"

Corey Fields, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, as respondent

10/17/2013

Populism and the Tea Party in American Politics

Bill Whalen, Resident Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Lawrence Rosenthal, Executive Director and Lead Researcher, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies

Henry E. Brady, Dean Goldman School of Public Policy

Moderated by: Christine Trost, Program Director, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies; Assistant Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

10/25/2011

Goddess Of The Market: Ayn Rand And The American Right

Jennifer Burns, Assistant Professor of History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

04/20/2011

Keynote Address: "The Tea Parties Now"

Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the "Tea Party Movement"

Speaker: Rick Perlstein, Journalist and Author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of American Consensus

 October 22, 2010

Panel 1: New Forms of Activism on the Right

Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the "Tea Party Movement"

October 22, 2010

Presenters:

Christopher Parker, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington

Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History, University of California, Davis; Visiting Professor of History, UC Berkeley

Clarence Lo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia

David Weigel, Political Reporter, Slate, and MSNBC contributor

Debra Saunders, Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle

Chair: Jack Citrin, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies & Heller Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Panel 2: The Tea Party and the Right

Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the "Tea Party Movement"

October 22, 2010

Presenters:

Martin Cohen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, James Madison University

Alan I. Abramowitz, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Emory University

Peter Montgomery, Senior Fellow, People for the American Way

Bill Whalen, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Chair: Eric Schickler, American Politics Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Panel 3: Tapping into Fear, Anger and Resentment

Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the "Tea Party Movement"

October 22, 2010

Presenters:

Lisa Disch, Professor of Political Science and Professor of Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Charles Postel, Associate Professor of History, San Francisco State University

Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates

Devin Burghart, Vice President, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights

Chair: Paola Bacchetta, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Does Gender Matter in Organized Racism?

Kathleen Blee, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History, and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

03/11/2010

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars:Battles over Women's Reproduction

Michelle Goldberg, journalist and author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World (Penguin, 2009)

Carole Joffe, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California Davis and author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us (Beacon Press, 2010)

01/28/2010

Blood and Politics: New Developments in the Rise of White Nationalism

Leonard Zeskind, President, Institute for Reseach & Education on Human Rights

Nick Lowles, Editor, Searchlight Magazine

10/08/2009