Dr Rachel Moss
In-person and online event at UON
The Extreme Right Research Network at the University of Northampton presents three days of workshops on the theme Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present. The event is sponsored by the British Academy.
The in-person days are mostly intended for colleagues giving papers, but if you have a particular interest in the research and would like to attend, please contact Dr Rachel Moss. The online day is open to all interested researchers. In both instances, email Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk.
In-person event
Monday 15 June
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10 – 10.30am Registration
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10.30 – 10.45am Welcome
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10.45am – 12.15pm Session 1: North American Nostalgias
- Paula Read: The Stale Nostalgia of the New ‘Heritage Americans’
- David Anderson: Memory of an Enslaved Christmas: Radical Black Nostalgia after Emancipation
- Karina-Beatrice Cretu: “The Age Before Liberalism”: Postliberalism and the Radical Catholic Right in America
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12.15– 1.15pm: Lunch
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1.15 – 2.45pm Session 2: European Nostalgias
- Pedro Martins: “Nostalgia for the Middle Ages”? Medievalism and Anti-Modern Views during the Portuguese Military Dictatorship and the Early Years of the Estado Novo (1926–1940)
- Aileen Lichtenstein: Nostalgia in radical German exile politics of the nineteenth century
- Mark Hampton: The Uses of the Past in the Post-War British Fascist Press: History and Political Mission in The European and Combat
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2.45 – 3pm: Break
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3 – 4pm Session 3: North American Nostalgias II
- Moses A Hunsaker: Necessary Self-Deception: Historical Comparison in the Rhetoric of January 6th
- Dan Jones: Nostalgia for pre-Modern White America: The Fiction of Tito Perdue
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4– 4.15pm: Break
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4.15 – 5.15pm Session 4: UON PhD showcase (lightning talks)
- Luke Adams:“Our Green and pleasant land bulldozed” (BNP Leaflet) – The British Extreme Right and nostalgia for landscape, nature and countryside
- William Hatfield: “Keep Troth!”: Viking Youth and the utilisation of radical nostalgia within fascist youth groups
- Clive Henry: The Turner Diaries and Serpent’s Walk: nostalgia, time, and radicalisation in neo-Nazi future histories
- Jack Cox: Imperial Nostalgia and the Criminal Justice System: An Exploration of how Radical Politics Echoes Past Penal Policy
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5.30pm: Wine reception
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6.30pm: Informal conference dinner
Tuesday 16 June
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10 – 11.30am Session 5: Eurasian and Theoretical Nostalgias
- Sari Alfi-Nissan: Nostalgia, Nationalism and Entrepreneurialism in Israeli State Education
- Roza Sarakatsanou: Nostalgic Orientations: Reconfiguring the present through emotional responses to the past
- Adam Bence Balazs: Nostalgia between Joy and Sorrow: A Power Resource?
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11.30 – 11.45am: Break
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11.45am – 1pm: Discussion of the planned volume
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1– 2pm: Lunch
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Conference ends
Online event
Friday 26 June
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9 – 10am Session 1
- Luka Pavikjevikj: The Radical Power of Yugo-Nostalgia: Political Imaginaries at the End of History
- Martin Makara: “From underneath the town hall’s new facade a red star shines through.” (Anti)nostalgia for the Communist Party Era in Slovak Historical Fiction
- Rik Bhattacharya: Radical Memory: Cultural Nostalgia and Communist politics in India
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10.15 – 11.15am Session 2
- Deepanshu Mahajan: Left Theatre and the Past: Inquiring a “Tradition of the Oppressed”
- Hicham Diouane: The Architecture of Restoration and Revenge: Radical Nostalgia along with the Contested Sacred Spaces of Syria
- Leroy Maisiri: Layered Emancipatory Nostalgia: Remembering People’s Power and the RDP in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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11.30am – 12.30pm Session 3
- João Branco: The Middle Ages in Lusitanian Integralism: Rewriting Portugal’s National Past (1910s–1920s)
- Gilad Padva: Radically Nostalgic Queerness Between Dystopian Present-Day-Centrism and Utopian Quest for a Better Future
- Lukasz Bat: Ecological nostalgia as a political act: From Élisée Reclus to The Land is Ours movement
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1.30 – 2.15pm Session 4
- Gabriel Leiva Rubio: Nostalgia as Ontological Repair: Radical Politics and the Problem of Continuity
- John Richardson and Scott Burnett: ‘Make Rhodesia Great Again!’: White African Retrotopia in Extremist Discourses
