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CRWS is dedicated to the study of right-wing movements in the 20th and 21st centuries. crws.berkeley.edu We publish the Journal of Right-Wing Studies, free and open access: jrws.berkeley.edu
Neil Bar, faculty affiliate, published a new article in Nationalities Papers. Neil Bar focuses on Greece's most prominent far-right political organization, Golden Dawn (GD), which strategically utilized antisemitism as its core ideological principle. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
CRWS Chair Lawrence Rosenthal recently gave a talk, "Naming the Enemy" on Carl Schmitt and worldwide illiberalism. vimeo.com/1137292797
The Politicization of Maternal Mortality Data
📍2111 Bancroft Way, #104, Berkeley
🗓Tue, Mar. 10 at noon
Lunch provided!
Sponsors: Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for Right-Wing Studies, Medical Anthropology Program, @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice
On Feb 26-27, join us for Women on the Right in U.S. History. This conference will feature talks by Kathleen Blee, Jennifer Burns, @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social @whitmcintosh.bsky.social @sammyraeroth.bsky.social, and more!
Check out the program and register: bit.ly/WomenOntheRight
Sponsored by CRWS
Join us on Feb 18 for a conversation with ISSI alums Jennifer Chun & Judy Han!
Learn more & register: bit.ly/AgainstAbandonment
Sponsors: ISSI, Center for Korean Studies
Cosponsors:@ucbgeography.bsky.social, Sociology, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Center for Ethnographic Research
UC Berkeley's Hope Scholars program is celebrating 20 years of providing support to students who have experienced foster care/childhood homelessness. A news article shines a light on this important campus program & features Alexis Wood, a graduate student affiliate. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/16/f...
Hybrid: The Women Who’ve Shaped Our Ideas of Capitalism, Markets, and the State with Jennifer Burns
Fri, Feb 27, 11 AM-12:30 PM (PT)
Register to join Burns virtually: bit.ly/Burns2026
Or register to attend in person: bit.ly/WomenOntheRight
In Person: How Gender Matters (and Doesn’t Matter) in Right-Wing Politics with Kathleen Blee
Thurs, Feb 26, 4-5:30 PM
Register to attend in person: bit.ly/WomenOntheRight
On Feb 26-27, join us for Women on the Right in U.S. History. This conference will feature talks by Kathleen Blee, Jennifer Burns, @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social @whitmcintosh.bsky.social @sammyraeroth.bsky.social, and more!
Check out the program and register: bit.ly/WomenOntheRight
Sponsored by CRWS
Check out the video of our fall 2025 event featuring Amy Skonieczny, Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University and Valentina Nava, PhD candidate in Political Sociology at Université Paris Cité who discuss their respective papers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbni...
Having briefly read, the Kyle Burke article on the history of the transnational far right in this issue is very good.
Read JRWS author Felix Pal's recent NYT Op-Ed, "Youth Hostels, Blood Banks, Yoga: How One Far-Right Network Spread across the World." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...
Part 1 of the JRWS special issue on the history of the far-right in the US is out! Read it for free, and spread it widely. escholarship.org/uc/jrws
No better time than now to learn what's precedented and what's not.
Read the full message here and get a glimpse into what our community has been up to this fall: mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu...
Happy Holidays from all of us at CRWS!
As we wrap up the year, we're grateful for the community that made our work possible. We're also reflecting on the urgency of the work we do in the field of right-wing studies and what it means for the year ahead.
Check out this new article by CRWS faculty affiliate @cihantugal.bsky.social, "The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future: The Interplay between Islamism and Capitalist Geopolitics."
Calling full-time Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students! In just a few days, grant applications for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies are due! These small grants support research projects on right-wing issues in the US or other regions. Submit your application by Mon, Dec 8, 2025.
Starting soon! Don't miss "Populism & the Far Right: Global Frameworks & Local Crises"
berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
CRWS affiliate Arlie Hochschild is featured in this PBS News Hour segment. Hochschild has spent more than 7 years getting to know the people in Pike County, Kentucky, highlighting how the residents are grappling with growing political divisions in their community. www.pbs.org/video/crossr...
Calling full-time undergraduate and graduate students! The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies invites UC Berkeley students to apply for grants that support research projects on right-wing issues in the US or other regions. Applications are due on Mon, Dec 8, 2025. Visit the link below for more.
Erwin Chemerinsky of @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social gave a powerful and moving talk yesterday on America's path to authoritarian rule. If you joined us in person or online, thank you! Stay tuned for the recording of this talk and Q&A portion and for upcoming events!
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Join us for "Populism and the Far Right: Global Frameworks and Local Crises" on Wednesday, November 19 at 4pm.
📍2111 Bancroft Way & Zoom
Register: bit.ly/Populism2025
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies of @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social & co-sponsored by @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social
ISSI's event with Erwin Chemerinsky is coming up! Join us next Monday either in person or online for Chemerinsky's talk, "The Path Toward Authoritarianism." Register now to save your spot.
berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k4ZH5oPbTrqUZ2r9qdFXHw#/registration
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Video of Kristina Boréus' talk: "Migrants and natives - 'them' and 'us'" is now up on YouTube. Boréus explores how a "threat perspective" on immigration has gained dominance in several West European countries and pushing aside more inclusive understandings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsR...
In this article Lee Crandall, a grad student affiliate, states that tech authoritarians tend to view liberal democracies as inefficient & instead favor privatized technocratic governance, where private sectors make major decisions rather than politicians. ls.berkeley.edu/news/geograp...
Carole Joffe, faculty affiliate, won the 2025 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. Joffe’s research & advocacy on behalf of reproductive health & rights serves as an exemplar for an impactful sociological career. www.asanet.org/about/awards...
We're proud to be part of @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social and glad to have this space to support social change scholars
Call for Papers: Conference on "Women on the Right in U.S. History: Intellectual, Economic, and Political Power." Deadline, September 29. Read the full call here: issi.berkeley.edu/women-right
Read Center for Studies in Higher Ed director Dr. John Aubrey Douglass's recent post about the latest developments regarding Trump's threats to higher education. Be on the lookout for the UCOP's response to the DOJ, coming soon. open.substack.com/pub/johnaubr... #highered
Arlie Hochschild, CRWS affiliate, wrote in the New York Times that many in Kentucky's 5th District are more devoted to Trump even after his 'Big Beautiful Bill'. She argues Democrats must both defend democratic institutions & rebuild trust with former supporters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...