International Conference "The Global Rise of the Far Right: Media, Gender, and Affect"
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Uptown Campus
Levin-Bernick Center, Stibbs Conference Room, LBC 203

The conference will include three panels and a film screening:

PANELS (Stibbs Conference Room - LBC 203):

* Status Preservation, Intersectional Inequalities, and Far Right Politics in the US and Brazil (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM), with Dr. Rory McVeigh (University of Notre Dame) and Dr. Sérgio Costa (Freie Universität Berlin).

* Gender, Sexuality, and the Far Right in the US and Brazil (10:45 AM - 12:15 PM), with Dr. Janice Irvine (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Dr. Flávia Biroli (University of Brasília).

* Media, Digital Platforms, and Far-Right Ideology and Politics (1:15 PM - 2:45 PM), with Dr. Reece Peck (College of Staten Island) and Dr. Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia).

MOVIE AND Q&A (Lake Residence Hall Theatre, 3:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

* Screening of the documentary Propaganda: The New Manipulators, followed by debate with director Alexandra Jousset.

This conference is generously supported by the Maurice L. Silverstein Cinema Studies Lectureship Fund.