ARENAS EVENTS

ARENAS will organise several events throughout the project to share key research findings. Learn about upcoming and past events here.

International Conference

Going Extreme. History, Narratives and the Threat to Democracies in Europe

Where

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

When

25-27 September 2024

25th of September

18:00 – Democracy, Extremism and Youth

Welcome from the director of the CCCB, Judit Carrera
Sira Rego
(Minister of Youth and Children, Government of Spain)
Joan Subirats
(Former Minister of Universities, Government of Spain)
Milagros Pérez Oliva
(Journalist, El País)

Image attributions:
© Ministry of the Presidency, Government of Spain
© Milagros Pérez Oliva

19:30 – Welcome Appetizer

26th of September

09:30 – Inauguration of the Conference

Margarita Freixas i Alás
(Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Pau Casanellas
(Director, Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies – UAB)
Julien Longhi
(Université Cergy-Paris)
Steven Forti
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

10:00 – “Nationalism and populism in Europe. Then and now”

Alejandro Quiroga
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

11:15 – Coffee Break

11:45 – Round Table “Extremist Narratives and Nation”

Moderator:
Steven Forti
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Parficipants:
Nathalie Le Bouëdec
(Université de Bourgogne)
Miguel Á. Del Rio Morillas
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Tjaša Konovšek
(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)
Martin Lefranc
(Université d’Orléans)

13:30 – Lunch Break

15:00 – “The normalisation of femonationalism in Europe”

Sara R. Farris
(Goldsmith University)

16:15 – Coffee Break

16:30 – Round Table “Extremist Narratives and Gender”

Moderator:
Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes
(Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

Participants:
Paolo Gusmeroli
(Università di Padova)
Claudia Jareño
(Université Cergy-Paris)
Isidora Grubački
(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)
Gwenaëlle Bauvois
(University of Helsinki)

27th of September

10:00 – “Only science can save us? Between denialism and critical scientific humanism in the Anthropocene”

Camil Ungureanu
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

11:15 – Coffee Break

11:45 – Round Table “Extremist Narratives and Science”

Moderator:
Kristina Pahor de Maiti
(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)

Participants:
Katalin Miklóssy
(University of Helsinki)
Sergi Soler López
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Matteo Albanese
(Università di Padova)

13:30 – Lunch Break

15:00 – Round Table “Medium & Circulation”

Moderator:
Gwenaëlle Bauvois
(University of Helsinki)

Participants:
Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes
(Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Sergi Soler López
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Miguel Á. Del Río Morillas
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Jure Gašparič
(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)

17:00 – Closing of the Conference