FASCISM AND

ANTIFASCISM
IN OUR TIME
CRITICAL
INVESTIGATIONS

MAPPING MEMORIES CONFERENCE,

HAMBURG/LNEBURG,
13 NOVEMBER 2017

Hamburger
Institut fr
Sozialforschung
his-online.de
 The spread of nationalist and authoritarian
movements in Europe and around the world
has prompted debates about a return of global
fascism. At the same time, many countries are
witnessing civil society activities opposing
such movements. Politicians and activists from
both camps endorse like-minded actors across
borders. Do these developments suggest
that we are living in a time comparable to the
1930s, when the decisive marker in national
and international politics was the one between
fascism and antifascism?
The conference explores whether and how
the histories of fascism and antifascism offer
Wednesday, 1 November Thursday, 2 November Jochen Hellbeck
(Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Hamburg Institute for Social Research The Soviet Union and Antifascism
12.30
MAIN QUESTIONS PANELS 1 & 2 James Chappel
Registration
What are the ideological and aesthetic (Duke University, Durham)
Hamburg Institute for Social R
esearch (HIS),
elements, the emotional registers and the Is There Such a Thing as Conservative
Mittelweg 36, 20148 Hamburg
forms of political practice and mobilization that Antifascism?
16.30 allow us to speak about global or transnational Discussion
Departure from HIS to Lneburg (anti-)fascism as opposed to national or
comparative studies? How do weperiodize 13.1514.15
18.30  histories of (anti-)fascism? Lunch break
Opening Evening
Leuphana University Lneburg, 9.1511.00
Zentralgebude, Panel 1: MAIN QUESTIONS PANELS 3 & 4

insights into the rise of authoritarian regimes Libeskind-Auditorium Fascism in History
today. What makes a fascist regime? What
Welcome addresses
is the line separating authoritarianism from
fascism? How should a civil society react to Beate Sntgen
these challenges? Do antifascist movements (Vice President, Leuphana University
of the 20th century offer a role model? How Lneburg)
can insights into such historical connections
Ulf Wuggenig
benefit proponents of a democratic civil
society?
(Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Leuphana University Lneburg)
About the History of the Location
Caroline Hornstein-Tomic
(Head of the Operative Division, Federal
Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn)
Wolfgang Knbl
(Director, Hamburg Institute for Social
Research)
Keynote Lecture
Geoff Eley
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor):
Fascism and Antifascism, 19202020:
Slogan, Impulse, Theory, Strategy
Commentary
Robert Gerwarth
(University College Dublin)
Reception
21.00
Return to Hamburg
What is remembered about (anti-)fascism,
Chaired by Wolfgang Knbl and how are these elements represented and
transmitted? What is the relationship between
(Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
official and vernacular memory? How will the
Sven Reichardt memories of (anti-)fascism continue to evolve
(University of Konstanz) with the passing of the survivors from the
Global Fascism: New Approaches and 1930s and World War II?
Perspectives
Benjamin Zachariah 14.1516.00
(Trier University) Panel 3:
Fascism, Anticolonial Nationalism and Mapping Fascism
Indigenism Chaired by Oliver Decker
(Leipzig University)
Julie Gottlieb
Paul Hanebrink
(University of Sheffield)
Women and Fascism between the Wars: (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
National and International Encounters and Politics of Memory in Hungary
Confrontations Grzegorz Rossoliski-Liebe
Discussion (Freie Universitt Berlin)
Remembering and Forgetting Fascism in
11.0011.30 Ukraine
Coffee break Cornelia Siebeck (Berlin)
The Darkest Chapters Have Been Consigned
11.3013.15 to the Past Questioning the Contemporary
Panel 2: German Memory Regime
Antifascism in History
Discussion
Chaired by Paul Hanebrink
(Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
16.0016.30
Jennifer L. Barker Coffee break
(Bellarmine University, Louisville)
Antifascist Aesthetics
16.3018.15 Volker Wei
(Hamburg)
Panel 4:
The Heirs of Fascism? Neue Rechte,
Mapping Antifascism
Nouvelle Droite, Alt-Right
Chaired by Jochen Hellbeck
(Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Michael Wildt
(Humboldt University of Berlin)
Mischa Gabowitsch
Volk and Politics of Exclusion
(Einstein Forum, Potsdam)
After Soviet Antifascism: Russian Discussion
Nationalism and Its Adversaries Since 1987

Christopher Vials
11.0011.30
(University of Connecticut, Storrs) Coffee break
Antifascist Memory in the United States
11.3013.15
Susanne Rohr Panel 6:
(University of Hamburg) Resisting Authoritarianism
Memory in Popular Culture Chaired by Terence Renaud
Discussion (Yale University)

Nigel Copsey
18.30 (Teesside University, Middlesbrough)
Dinner in Hamburg The Only Good Fascist Is a Dead One
Thoughts on Militant Antifascism

Belinda Davis
Friday, 3 November (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Hamburg Institute for Social Research Nazis raus. Aus den Kpfen!
Intimate Antifascism in the West German
MAIN QUESTIONS PANELS 5 & 6 Extraparliamentary Opposition (1950s1980s)
Who are the carriers of present-day Pawe Machcewicz
rightwing populist and anti-authoritarian
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
movements, and which historical sources
How Can a Democratic Civil Society Resist
and traditions do they draw on? Are these
Authoritarianism?
movements best understood as national
or as transnational in character? What are Discussion
their recruitment patterns, communicative
strategies, and aesthetic registers? 13.1514.15
Lunch break
9.1511.00
Panel 5: 14.1515.45
The Contemporary Concluding Discussion
Far Right and Populism Chaired by Wolfgang Knbl and
Chaired by Patrick Bahners Jochen Hellbeck
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Rafa Pankowski
(Collegium Civitas, Warsaw)
The Populist Radical Right in Poland