BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:"Illiberal\nMemory and Transatlantic Hate Networks in the Twent ieth- and Twenty-First\nCenturies"This talk applies\na data-driven analysi s of online hate networks to trace how false framings of\nthe historical p ast\, what we call historical misinformation\, circulates across\nplatform s\, shaping the politics of the center alongside the fringes. Through the\ nculling of large datasets from social media platforms\, it analyzes how h armful\nspeech and civilizational rhetoric is circulated by far-right grou ps across\nborders\, noting specifically when and how they are taken up in the mainstream\nas legitimate discourse. We began with a basic question: to what extent is this\nactually new? As much as the atomized publics of o ur current day create ideal\nconditions for radical ideas to fester and ci rculate\, it shows that it is\nessential to look for linkages across time\ , drawing on interdisciplinary\nmethods from the fields of history\, media and communication\, and data science\nto identify the tactics\, strategie s\, and repertoires among such groups and\nindividuals. In thinking about transatlantic hate networks and the migration of\npeople and ideas cross b orders\, this talk pieces together some of these\nconnections\, with a foc us on far-right hate —homegrown and imported.\nUltimately\, it argues that illiberalism is not just a marker of authoritarian\nregimes. It is real a nd underappreciated aspect of liberal democracy itself.Jennifer Evans is p rofessor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada\, located on the unceded and unsurrended territories of the Anishnaabek/Omàmiwininìwag . She has written books and articles on the history of sexuality\, photogr aphy\, social media and memory. Her most recent books include "The Queer A rt of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke University Press)\, an e dited volume with Shelley Rose for Berghahn in celebration of the life and writing of Jean Quataert\, and a co-written monograph "Holocaust Memory a nd the Digital Mediascape" (Bloomsbury\, December 2023). Evans is currentl y overseeing Populist Publics\, a multi-year\, multi-platform big data pro ject on the weaponization of history and hate in social media networks. Al ongside her academic writing\, she undertakes collaborative digital projec ts. She is co-curator of the New Fascism Syllabus \;and the German Stu dies Collaboratory. \; DTEND:20240329T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T155731Z DTSTART:20240329T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Jennifer V. Evans UID:RFCALITEM639142702515132216 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Illiberal\nMemory and Transatlantic Hate N etworks in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First\nCenturies"

This talk app lies\na data-driven analysis of online hate networks to trace how false fr amings of\nthe historical past\, what we call historical misinformation\, circulates across\nplatforms\, shaping the politics of the center alongsid e the fringes. Through the\nculling of large datasets from social media pl atforms\, it analyzes how harmful\nspeech and civilizational rhetoric is c irculated by far-right groups across\nborders\, noting specifically when a nd how they are taken up in the mainstream\nas legitimate discourse.

< p>We began with a basic question: to what extent is this\nactually new? As much as the atomized publics of our current day create ideal\nconditions for radical ideas to fester and circulate\, it shows that it is\nessential to look for linkages across time\, drawing on interdisciplinary\nmethods from the fields of history\, media and communication\, and data science\nt o identify the tactics\, strategies\, and repertoires among such groups an d\nindividuals.

In thinking about transatlantic hate networks and t he migration of\npeople and ideas cross borders\, this talk pieces togethe r some of these\nconnections\, with a focus on far-right hate —homegrown a nd imported.\nUltimately\, it argues that illiberalism is not just a marke r of authoritarian\nregimes. It is real and underappreciated aspect of lib eral democracy itself.

Jennifer Evans is professor of history at Car leton University in Ottawa\, Canada\, located on the unceded and unsurrend ed territories of the Anishnaabek/Omàmiwininìwag. She has written books an d articles on the history of sexuality\, photography\, social media and me mory. Her most recent books include "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinsh ip After Fascism" (Duke University Press)\, an edited volume with Shelley Rose for Berghahn in celebration of the life and writing of Jean Quataert\ , and a co-written monograph "Holocaust Memory and the Digital Mediascape" (Bloomsbury\, December 2023).

Evans is currently overseeing Populi st Publics\, a multi-year\, multi-platform big data project on th e weaponization of history and hate in social media networks. Alongside he r academic writing\, she undertakes collaborative digital projects. She is co-curator of the New Fascism Syllabus \;and the German Studies Colla boratory. \;

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