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Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
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Two weeks ago, C-REX Director Anders Jupskås and Associate Professor Jacob Ravndal presented new findings on right-wing violence and terrorism at a United Nations briefing session in Vienna. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

The Right-wing Terrorism and Violence (RTV) Trend Report 2024 has been published! Key findings can be found in the thread below. The updated dataset is also available on our website. Be sure to check it out!

Check out our new blog on @crexuio.bsky.social 's 'RightNow!' looking at the strange combination of intellectualism and strength culture in Scandinavian far-right active clubs. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility? Register for the International Women's Day seminar on reproduction issues, exploring gender, sexuality, race, and class influences. Presentation by C-REX affiliate @evianeleidig.com, among others. www.uio.no/english/abou...

Meld deg på "Demokratikonferansen 2025: Demokrati og antidemokrati". Demokratiet mister oppslutning blant stormakter, verdens mektigste selskaper og befolkningen på alle kontinenter. På Demokratikonferansen 2025 skal vi møte denne trusselen. www.uio.no/forskning/sa...

- "The shocking murder of the anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic provocateur, Salwan Momika, shows how Quran burnings are part of a global theater of injustice." New blog post by C-REX affiliate Iselin Frydenlund. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

If you missed some of the previous webinars in our series "Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics," co-organized with CASEI and @reacpolrn.bsky.social, they are available here: reacpol.net/crex-rprn-ca...

Today at 3pm CET: Our webinar with CASEI and @reacpolrn.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers'. Is there a problem with the treatment of formers as “experts” and leaders in work against “extremism”? www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up at 2pm GMT tomorrow! Sign up below.

Don't miss this week's C-REX/CASEI/@reacpolrn.bsky.social webinar: "The complications of engaging with far-right participants and formers" w/with Katherine Williams, Vanessa Tautter, Carina Hoerst and Joan Braune. Time and place: Feb. 20, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM (CET). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Today, C-REX affiliate Edin Kozaric defended his PhD thesis, "Taking Muslim Experiences with Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seriously. From Islamophobia and Racialization towards Lived Misrecognition, Non-recognition, and Recognition." Check out his work here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Tomorrow at Central European University (@weareceu.bsky.social) in Vienna: Jacob Ravndal and Anders Jupskås present new findings on right-wing violence and terrorism in the Western world

One of our partner institutions is hiring a new Executive Director!

"How the far right is expanding its international network" - interview with C-REX scholar @katrif.bsky.social, among others. www.dw.com/en/how-the-f...

Join us next week for @crexuio.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social and CASEI webinar series on researching the far right! We will disscuss the complications of engaging far-right participants and formers! Follow the link below for more info 👇 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Call for applications: PhD summer School Studying Online Extremism. Confirmed lecturers include Dr. @galwaygrrl.bsky.social, Dr. @ashkingdon.bsky.social, and Dr. Cathrine Thorleifsson. Deadline to apply: 14 March 2025. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

If you missed our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI on care and safety when researching the far right, you can find the full recording on our website! reacpol.net/webinar-4/

📣 Call for applications for a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism 📣 Confirmed lecturers include @galwaygrrl.bsky.social @ashkingdon.bsky.social and Cathrine Thorleifsson! 🤩

Really Looking Forward to This Joint @crexuio.bsky.social and #VoxPol PhD Summer School for Studying Extremism Online: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety In Oslo. If You Are a PhD Student Studying Online Extremism Applications are Due on 14 March 👇👇👇#SpreadTheWord www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

📣 Call for applications 📣 @audreygagnon.bsky.social & Nicola Mathieson are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Big day at C-REX: Hanna Munden will defend her PhD-thesis titled “A psychological study of exits from far-right extremist groups” www.sv.uio.no/psi/forsknin...

Join us today for the latest session in the @crexuio.bsky.social, @reacpolrn.bsky.social & CASEI webinar series 'Researching the Far Right: Ethics & Method'. This one is on care & safety when researching the far right with @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social, Iris B Segers, Kayla Preston & Luc S Cousineau.

Do not miss tomorrow's webinar on care and safety when researching the far right! 🌟

Don't miss this week's C-REX/@reacpolrn.bsky.social/CASEI webinar: 'Care and safety when researching the far right' w/ @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social, Iris B. Segers, Kayla Preston & Luc S. Cousineau. Time and place: Jan. 16, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Glad to be back at @crexuio.bsky.social for a week. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues & to presenting the upcoming "The People against the Sun? Ideology & Strategy in Far-Right Parties' Climate Obstruction of Solar Energy" (with @sabinedvolk.bsky.social). ☀️ Sun only in my paper, btw ⬇️

New blog post! In light of the recent U.S. election, Tina Askanius highlights that gender and misogyny have taken centre stage in the world of politics and conservative thinking, and discusses what this might imply for scholars of extremism. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Don’t miss our first 2025 webinar on ethics and methods when researching the far-right👇

Join us on Thursday 16th January at 3pm (GMT) for our first Ethics of Researching the Far Right seminar of the new year on care and safety when researching the far right. Look below for all the details on signing up and to see our great line-up of speakers!

We’re looking forward to C-REX affiliate @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social defending her PhD thesis on Friday this week!

Congratulations to former C-REX postdoc, @audreygagnon.bsky.social, on the new position as Assistant Professor!

On this day, January 6, in 2021, far-right protesters stormed the US Capitol. Here's some analyses written immediately after by C-REX scholars & friends, incl. @casmudde.bsky.social, @milleridriss.bsky.social, @galwaygrrl.bsky.social, Thorleifsson, Hughes, and Blee. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 31: C-REX has had another impressive year. Thanks to all our friends and partners! Read the annual summary by the C-REX director @arjupskas.bsky.social. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 30: The project INTERSECT celebrated 6 successful years and published a Special Issue on "Global Flows of Islamophobia" in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 29: The HEX-NA project (Handling Extremism - Nordic Approaches) continued to publish articles that analyze Nordic multiagency approaches to addressing extremism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 28.: We hosted the 6th Nordic conference on violent extremism w/ keynotes by prof. Tina Askanius (Malmö University), prof. Lasse Lindekilde (Aarhus University) and C-REX director Anders Jupskås

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 27: We hosted a workshop on "Masculinist Anti-Gender Activism and Violent Extremism," organized by @katrif.bsky.social, with a keynote talk by prof. Birgit Sauer. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 26: C-REX affiliate and former research assistant, Jørgen Axelsen, successfully defended his PhD at the EUI on the mainstreaming of radical parties at the local level: cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 25: C-REX postdoc at uzaahm.bsky.social won not one but two awards for his PhD thesis, including the 2024 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award from IMISCOE. www.imiscoe.org/training-phd...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 24: Our impact was highlighted in the final report by the Commission on Extremism, led by former C-REX scholar Cathrine Thorleifsson. www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumente...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 22: We released "The Formers Dataset", which is a collection of primary data interviews with former extremists, available for academic researchers. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

We are delighted to present the latest edition of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social newsletter, the e-Extreme - courtesy of @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social and myself 🙂

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 22: C-REX theme leader Torkel Brekke and colleagues published a Special Issue in Temenos analyzing recent and ongoing Qur'an burnings in the Nordic context. journal.fi/temenos/arti...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No 21: We added the important entry "What Characterizes Anti-Gender Mobilization?" to the C-REX Compendium. It was written by @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social & Iris Segers. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...