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Studies of modern antisemitism have focussed primarily on Germany, as both the country where the ... more Studies of modern antisemitism have focussed primarily on Germany, as both the country where the phenomenon is seen to have originated and from which it reached its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust. This has obscured to a certain extent the multiplicity of forms antisemitism took in spaces considered ‘peripheral’ to the European ‘centre’. This volume, the outcome of the Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2015, seeks to nuance such narratives by bringing to the discussion views from the peripheries.
The chapters cover a broad methodological, geographical and temporal scope, showing how a plurality of modern antisemitisms became prominent in Europe’s ‘peripheries’ – East and South, as well as in Europe’s colonies – reflecting both transfers and imports of concepts developed in the European ‘centre’ and specificities related to distinct developmental paths. They engage the entanglements of modern antisemitism, racism, and colonialism, to explore the ideological bonds and the transmission of these political ideas and practices. The volume thus zooms in on the multi-vector conceptual transfers that operated between the centre and the peripheries, as well as on the impact of transnational contacts and social networks on antisemitic tropes and discourses.
The unifying context is that of globalisation and of a modernisation the global feature of which was its unevenness. It was this unevenness, and the resulting co-existence, incomplete overlap, and constant tension between different developmental horizons that in turn accounted for the variety of forms antisemitism took across space and time.

Journal Articles by Raul Carstocea

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2022

This article positions the social violence against Roma in Eastern Europe during the Covid-19 pan... more This article positions the social violence against Roma in Eastern Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic in historical perspective. It is based on primary data derived from the project Marginality on the Margins of Europe – The Impact of Covid-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe, collected in 2020 by researchers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine. This data is contextualised with the help of secondary literature on historical epidemics and pandemics, as well as societal responses to them, with a particular focus on the ensuing scapegoating of minorities in certain cases. The article first makes the case for the importance of historicising such responses to pandemics in different contexts as a safeguard against ‘exceptionalising’ either the ongoing pandemic or the Roma minority. Further, it argues against a reductionist perspective that treats the Roma primarily or even exclusively along the lines of their representing a ‘national minority’, a concept that is heavily tilted toward a cultural-linguistic definition of the group. In contrast, it posits that hate speech and racist incidents against the Roma in the context of the pandemic (and more generally) are better understood by factoring in the intersection of race and class, where the long-standing racialization of the Roma in Eastern Europe is inflected by the latter as much as the former. Finally, zooming out from the case study under consideration to consider other instances of ‘Othering’ encountered during the Covid-19 pandemic, it draws attention to the different scales at which exclusion operates, and to the advantages provided by an awareness of the multiple spatial and temporal layers constitutive of such a scalar approach.

National Identities, 2021

This article argues that historicising the evolution of nineteenth century nationalisms in South-... more This article argues that historicising the evolution of nineteenth century nationalisms in South-Eastern Europe allows us to undermine not only binary understandings of nationalism, but also the essentialist reification of a single ideal type as a dominant or exclusive manifestation of nationalism. It draws attention to the competing nationalisms that can be encountered in the area during this period, varying across the spatial and temporal axes, as well as in their espousal by certain groups within the same ‘nation’. The article challenges notions of a temporal lag, constitutive of binary interpretations that identify a fundamental difference between ‘East’ and ‘West’.

Fascism , 2021

Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump's politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many e... more Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump's politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate 'Donald Trump and Fascism Studies' we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within fascism studies, to offer thoughts on how to consider the complex relationship between fascism, the politics of Donald Trump, and the wider maga movement. Contributors to this debate are: Mattias Gardell, Ruth Wodak, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, David Renton, Nigel Copsey, Raul Cârstocea, Maria Bucur, Brian Hughes, and Roger Griffin.

Studies on National Movements , 2020

The article accounts for the specific form a certain legal and, indeed, normative understanding o... more The article accounts for the specific form a certain legal and, indeed, normative understanding of diversity informed the so-called Minority Treaties of 1919 by historicising the evolution of certain interlocking discourses over the remit of 'rights', as well as the identity of their holders. It seeks to account for why certain groups (national minorities) rather than others were singled out for protection and why the rights they were given took the form they did (cultural and linguistic) by positioning them in the context of broader debates within which they were embedded. I thus argue against reading the Minority Treaties from a 'presentist' perspective that not only retrojects a certain teleological narrative that tends to read them along the familiar lines of 'progress', but bears the danger of naturalising certain categories-such as 'the nation', 'the nation-state', or 'nationalism'-in light of their subsequent prominence, which consequently acquires a certain air of inevitability. To do so, the article first discusses normative conceptions of 'diversity' in a longue durée perspective, arguing for the emergence and contestation of hybrid and combined models of managing 'difference' during the long 19 th century, prompted by the opposing tractions of efforts at homogenisation and hierarchisation. Second, it places the Minority Treaties in their immediate 1919 context, arguing that the form they took was significantly influenced also by contingent and extraneous contemporary factors, such as the expansion of the franchise after World War I or the sustained attempts to contain socialist revolutionary activity. The paper illustrates these developments by making specific reference to the situation of the Jewish minorities in Central and Eastern Europe as a case study.

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2021

This article addresses the persistence of anti-Semitism in Romania, placed in the context of some... more This article addresses the persistence of anti-Semitism in Romania, placed in the context of some recent debates concerning the memory of the Holocaust in the country, as well as in the area of Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. It argues that, despite significant improvements in terms of legislation, the memory of the Holocaust remains a highly contested issue in contemporary Romania, torn between the attempts to join in the European memory of the Holocaust and local legacies that on the one hand focus primarily on the suffering of Romanians under the communist regime, and on the other perform a symbolic “denationalisation” of the Jewish minority in the country, whose own suffering is thus excised from national memory. It does so by focusing in particular on the debates surrounding the adoption of Law 217/2015, meant to clarify earlier legislation on Holocaust denial, and comparing them with those prompted by the Ukrainian “memory laws” passed in the same year. Taking into account both the national and international reactions to these very different pieces of legislation, the article shows the still-persisting discrepancy between a (mostly Western) “European” memory of the legacy of the twentieth century and local memory topoi characteristic of the countries that were part of the former socialist bloc.

Fascism, 2017

This paper addresses the importance of work camps as mobilisation strategies employed by the ‘Leg... more This paper addresses the importance of work camps as mobilisation strategies employed by the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement. It argues that the success of the legionary constructive work projects, practically taking the form of voluntary work camps and smaller ‘construction sites’ (şantiere) – the latter developed according to similar principles, yet more limited in size – contributed significantly to the increase in popularity of the movement, in spite of (and perhaps even aided by) sustained opposition from the state authorities. As such, the case study of the legionary work camps is employed in an attempt to show how grassroots mobilisation strategies, emphasising activism and voluntarism, as well as cross-class solidarity among members of the movement, added considerable credibility to a populist palingenetic project, circumventing a shortage of material resources that prevented the use of more elaborate propaganda methods. Such strategies rendered the legionary movement distinct from all the other political parties in interwar Romania, and their positive reception, especially among the rural population, gave credence to the legionary criticism of the democratic parties and, implicitly, to the movement’s challenge to parliamentary democracy.

Journal of Modern European History, 2015

This article analyses the alternative temporality visible in the rhetoric of the «Legion of the A... more This article analyses the alternative temporality visible in the rhetoric of the «Legion
of the Archangel Michael», Romania’s interwar fascist movement. It argues that, in
line with its palingenetic ideology, the legionary movement adopted a temporal
vision in which a timeless Romanian nation spanning both an immemorial past and
an infinite future was made salient in an urgent present, interpreted as a «threshold
» between the old and the new world. Thus oscillating between the seemingly
opposing poles of revolution and eternity, this alternative temporality was responsible
both for the attraction of a significant number of intellectuals to the movement
and for the Legion’s typically fascist radicalism that justified and valorised
violence as a form of «creative destruction» that would bring about the eschatological
abolition of history and the establishment of a new order. These aspects are
illustrated by focusing on the case of Mircea Eliade, one of the most prominent
interwar Romanian intellectuals who became a legionary sympathiser. Making use
of Eliade’s notions of «sacred time» and its opposition to the «terror of history» as a
conceptual framework, the article analyses the correspondences between the
legionary temporal vision and Eliade’s visible preference for a transcendental, religious
understanding of history, endowing it with meaning and allowing modern
man to escape the meaninglessness of clock time.

ECMI Working Paper 81, 2014

The present article offers a brief survey of the modes of manifestation of anti-Semitism in Roman... more The present article offers a brief survey of the modes of manifestation of anti-Semitism in Romania, from the time of the establishment of the state in the 19th century and until present day. While aware of the inherent limitations of attempting to carry out such an endeavour in the space of a short article, we believe that adopting such a broad historical perspective allows for observing patterns of continuity and change that could help explain some of the peculiarities of the Romanian varieties of anti-Semitism, as well as draw attention to the importance of a phenomenon that was central (albeit to varying degrees in different historical periods) to Romania’s modern history, and that is still visible in the country today. In doing so, the author aims both to provide a survey of the existing literature on the subject for the English-speaking audience, as well as to point out some of the gaps in the literature which call for further research on the subject. Finally, while the article will be limited to the case-study of Romania, some of the patterns of prejudice explored in its pages display clear parallels with the situation in other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, while others point to context-specific particularities that render the Romanian case distinct from other countries in the region.

S:I.M.O.N. (Shoah: Intervention, Methods, Documentation), 2014

This article outlines the principal directions of my research: It focuses on the interplay of ant... more This article outlines the principal directions of my research: It focuses on the interplay of antisemitism and fascism in the ideology of the legionary movement in interwar Romania as well as on the virtual consensus on antisemitism that was established in the 1930s as a result of the support for the movement received from most of the representatives of the ‘new generation’ of Romanian intellectuals. This consensus was pivotal in desensitising the general population towards the plight of Romanian Jews and making it possible for the discriminatory measures to gradually escalate into outright policies of extermination. Thus my
research demonstrates the responsibility held by the legionary movement even though they were not directly involved in the Romanian wartime Holocaust perpetrated by the Antonescu regime: The legionary movement nevertheless promoted an antisemitic discourse that was much more extreme than that of all its predecessors and contemporaries, advocating a radical exclusion with genocidal overtones. Moreover, while being as ideological and abstract as its Nazi counterpart, legionary antisemitism posited religion rather than race as the basis for the exclusion of the Jews in line with the ideology of a movement that presented itself as ‘spiritual’ and ‘Christian’. The legionary exclusion based on religion proved as violent and murderous as the one based on race, both before and during the movement‘s time in
power. As such, the evidence from the Romanian case study can serve to nuance and even challenge existing interpretations that identify only racist antisemitism as genocidal.

Slovo , 2009

The period between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century is one th... more The period between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century is one that witnessed the rise and spread of anti-Semitism throughout Europe. This paper attempts a historical analysis of the development of anti-Semitism in Romania and a comparison with the case of Hungary in the period between 1866 and 1913. Such a comparison is interesting as the process of Jewish emancipation in the two countries could not have been more different: while in the Romanian principalities Jews were almost completely excluded from political life, and faced important restrictions in all areas of activity, in Hungary they enjoyed full civil and political rights. As a result, anti-Semitism in these countries took different forms as well. In Hungary, anti-Semitism is usually viewed as a reaction to emancipation, while in Romania it accompanies the offi cial policy of discrimination and exclusion. As a result, this paper follows the development of legislation dealing with the
Jewish populations in the two countries, and tries to challenge the common perception of anti-Semitism as a phenomenon appearing as a reaction of the majority population to Jewish emancipation. This comparative discussion is carried out taking into account the different historical contexts of the two neighbouring lands and their impact on the situation of the Jews.

eSharp, Special Issue: Reaction and Reinvention: Changing Times in Central and Eastern Europe, 2008

Chapters in edited volumes by Raul Carstocea

in: Kruizinga, Samüel (ed.), The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe. Size, Identity and International Relations since 1800, London, Bloomsbury, pp. 55-71, 2022

This chapter investigates whether the concepts of smallness, (relative or metaphorical) size, and... more This chapter investigates whether the concepts of smallness, (relative or metaphorical) size, and the attendant images of superiority or inferiority are perhaps better suited to capture the different varieties of nationalism than the framework setting eastern, ethnic nations in opposition to their western, civic counterparts. A comparison of Belgium and Romania, focusing on the representations of governing elites and their nations’ respective positions within the international system, helps to subvert east-west dichotomies. By exploring perceptions of ‘smallness’, its relation to ‘peripherality’, and the entanglements that made Belgium a model for Romania, this essay draws attention to the ways that nationalist projects were consistently shaped with a view to the international order and the respective nations’ positions within it. Or, put differently and in the terms of this volume’s introduction, nationalists’ auto- and hetero-images were intimately linked to the status of individual nations within a larger community of states.

Constantin Iordachi and Aristotle Kallis (eds.), Beyond the Fascist Century. Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan., 2020

This chapter addresses the importance of, and my personal debt to Roger Griffin’s definition of ‘... more This chapter addresses the importance of, and my personal debt to Roger Griffin’s definition of ‘generic fascism’ for understanding the interwar Romanian context. Zooming in on the palingenetic element in legionary ideology as the primary focus of the chapter, I first provide a brief outline of its articulation by the legionary movement as spiritual and moral regeneration, as a ‘resurrection of Romania’. This is followed by sections that summarise three specific ways in which Roger’s concept of palingenesis has underpinned my work, and where – hopefully – I have taken it into new directions. The first of these deals with the impact of the Legion’s palingenetic project on the movement’s anti-Semitism and its contribution to its specific radicalism and violence. The second addresses the temporalities of palingenesis as articulated in legionary ideology, and the impact these had on legitimating violence and rendering it compatible with the movement’s self-professed spiritual character. The third and final section explores the importance of palingenesis for shedding light on the mutual recognitions of ideological affinities between European fascist movements and regimes, for the forging of international links between them, and ultimately for understanding transnational fascism and its visions of the global.

Andreas Stynen, Maarten Van Ginderachter and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (eds.), Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

Raul Cârstocea and Éva Kovács (eds.), Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries: Europe and its Colonies, 1880-1945, 2019

Arnd Bauerkämper and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (eds.), Fascism without Borders: Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017

Regina Fritz, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and Jana Starek (eds.), Alma Mater Antisemitica. Akademisches Milieu, Juden und Antisemitismus an den Universitäten Europas zwischen 1918 und 1939. Vienna: New Academic Press, 2016

Books / edited volumes / themed issues by Raul Carstocea

Routledge, 2020

This volume tackles one of the basic questions in nationalism studies as formulated by Katherine ... more This volume tackles one of the basic questions in nationalism studies as formulated by Katherine Verdery: How do people become national? To examine how the nation entered ordinary people’s ‘insides’, this book focuses on their affective lives. As such its objective is to bridge a double gap: the neglect of both emotions and the everyday realm in historical research on nationalism. On the one hand, Benedict Anderson’s question ‘why [do nations] command such profound emotional legitimacy’ , has long befuddled historians, who have been late-comers to the so-called 'affective turn'. On the other hand, historians have been taken to task for obsessing over the bells and whistles of nationalism and over-concentrating on the most articulate social groups. This collection of essays takes up the gauntlet. By analysing how nationalism harnesses, produces and feeds on emotions to pull ordinary people into its orbit, it refutes Anthony D. Smith’s critique that everyday nationalism research is necessarily imbued with an ‘ahistorical blocking presentism’. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain and the Netherlands during the age of Revolutions, nineteenth-century France and Belgium over interwar Italy, Germany and Romania, to war-torn Finland, and post-WWII Poland, this volume demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2022

National Identities, 2021

Fascism , 2021

Studies on National Movements , 2020

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2021

Fascism, 2017

Journal of Modern European History, 2015

ECMI Working Paper 81, 2014

S:I.M.O.N. (Shoah: Intervention, Methods, Documentation), 2014

Slovo , 2009

eSharp, Special Issue: Reaction and Reinvention: Changing Times in Central and Eastern Europe, 2008

in: Kruizinga, Samüel (ed.), The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe. Size, Identity and International Relations since 1800, London, Bloomsbury, pp. 55-71, 2022

Constantin Iordachi and Aristotle Kallis (eds.), Beyond the Fascist Century. Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan., 2020

Andreas Stynen, Maarten Van Ginderachter and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (eds.), Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

Raul Cârstocea and Éva Kovács (eds.), Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries: Europe and its Colonies, 1880-1945, 2019

Routledge, 2020

Studies on National Movements , 2021

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2020

As the title suggests, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe's monograph is a vast and comprehensive biograp... more As the title suggests, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe's monograph is a vast and comprehensive biography of Stepan Bandera, spanning more than a century and providing a much-needed longue durée perspective that not only reconstructs Bandera's life and political activity in painstaking detail, but also illuminates the reasons for the resurgence of his cult in the late 1980s and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the achievement of Ukrainian independence. However, the book is also much more than that, covering some of the most sensitive aspects of modern Ukrainian history. It provides detailed accounts of the history of the two organisations with which Bandera was associated during his lifetime – the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – as well as of their legacies in contemporary Ukraine. These histories are placed in the wider context of the connections and entanglements of Ukrainian nationalists not only with neighbouring countries, but also with similar movements and the two fascist regimes in Europe. It is also a very timely book considering the contested nature of these aspects of modern Ukrainian history and their central role in the debates concerning historical memory in the country, brought to the fore in 2015 by the adoption of a package of four laws collectively known as 'decommunisation laws'. These laws have been widely contested by

Kleio in Pandemia - Covid-19 Blog of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, 2020

Fascism and Violence. 2nd Convention of the International Association of Fascist Studies, Uppsala... more Fascism and Violence. 2nd Convention of the International Association of Fascist Studies, Uppsala Sept. 2019. [Second ComFas Convention]

German History, Oct 16, 2022

Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London)., Dec 28, 2011

This thesis explores the role of anti-Semitism in the ideology of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Mi... more This thesis explores the role of anti-Semitism in the ideology of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, the only lasting mass movement in Romanian history and the third largest fascist organisation in Europe. The legionary movement’s revolutionary character and rejection of democratic institutions, its ideological emphasis on a project of ‘regeneration’ of the nation, its ultra-nationalism, and its populist propaganda style allow us to include it within the category of generic fascism, as defined by Roger Griffin. One of the commonplaces in theories of fascism argues that it was, as an ideology, better defined by what it stood against than what it stood for. By analysing the relationship between the legionary movement’s fascist character and its anti- Semitism, the present research seeks to link the two. Thus, this thesis argues for the centrality of the representation of ‘the Jew’ in legionary ideology, seen as a locus of displacement of the real problems facing the rapidly modernising Romanian society and at the same time a rationalisation of its desired state. The entire fascist project of complete transformation of the country found its equally synthetic negative in the movement’s representation of the Jewish community. The analysis of legionary anti-Semitism and its connection with the movement’s fascist character is carried out through the lens of the ‘new consensus’ in theories of fascism, as well as with the help of a methodology indebted mostly to psychoanalytic theory and its adaptations to the understanding of social phenomena by discourse theory. Backed up by research on previously unexplored archival sources, the present thesis combines in an interdisciplinary approach the study of the historical conditions and psychological factors affecting the rise of anti-Semitism in interwar Romania, and allows an exploration of the dynamics of fear and fantasy visible in the legionary representation of the ‘Jew’.

Studies on National Movements, Jul 1, 2021

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2020

As the title suggests, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe’s monograph is a vast and comprehensive biograp... more As the title suggests, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe’s monograph is a vast and comprehensive biography of Stepan Bandera, spanning more than a century and providing a much-needed longue durée perspective that not only reconstructs Bandera’s life and political activity in painstaking detail, but also illuminates the reasons for the resurgence of his cult in the late 1980s and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the achievement of Ukrainian independence. However, the book is also much more than that, covering some of the most sensitive aspects of modern Ukrainian history. It provides detailed accounts of the history of the two organisations with which Bandera was associated during his lifetime – the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – as well as of their legacies in contemporary Ukraine. These histories are placed in the wider context of the connections and entanglements of Ukrainian nationalists not only with neighbouri...

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe : JEMIE, Dec 14, 2022

The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe, 2022

S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation., 2014

This article outlines the principal directions of my research: It focuses on the interplay of ant... more This article outlines the principal directions of my research: It focuses on the interplay of antisemitism and fascism in the ideology of the legionary movement in interwar Romania as well as on the virtual consensus on antisemitism that was established in the 1930s as a result of the support for the movement received from most of the representatives of the ‘new generation’ of Romanian intellectuals. This consensus was pivotal in desensitising the general population towards the plight of Romanian Jews and making it possible for the discriminatory measures to gradually escalate into outright policies of extermination. Thus my research demonstrates the responsibility held by the legionary movement even though they were not directly involved in the Romanian wartime Holocaust perpetrated by the Antonescu regime: The legionary movement nevertheless promoted an antisemitic discourse that was much more extreme than that of all its predecessors and contemporaries, advocating a radical exclusion with genocidal overtones. Moreover, while being as ideological and abstract as its Nazi counterpart, legionary antisemitism posited religion rather than race as the basis for the exclusion of the Jews in line with the ideology of a movement that presented itself as ‘spiritual’ and ‘Christian’. The legionary exclusion based on religion proved as violent and murderous as the one based on race, both before and during the movement‘s time in power. As such, the evidence from the Romanian case study can serve to nuance and even challenge existing interpretations that identify only racist antisemitism as genocidal.

Fascism, 2021

The drive to decolonise is of central importance to the study of fascism, which after all was and... more The drive to decolonise is of central importance to the study of fascism, which after all was and remains a politics rooted in specific conceptions of colonialism and race. In this article, we have invited both leading academics and early career scholars to reflect on how we might ‘decolonise’ fascist studies. Their comments approach fascism in a range of contexts, and offer reflections on how to frame future research questions, approach methodological issues, and consider how fascism studies might develop a more overt and clear stance on the problems posed by decolonising the subject area more broadly. It is hoped that these commentaries will enrich the field of fascist studies and, in turn, do more to relate it to the work of scholars in other relevant areas of study, particularly those working on critical theories of race and racism. Contributors to this debate are: Leslie James, Raul Carstocea, Daniel Hedinger, Liam J. Liburd, Cathy Bergin, Benjamin Bland, Evan Smith, Jonathan H...

Studies on National Movements (SNM), Jun 17, 2020

Fascism without Borders, 2017

This two-day workshop organised by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies o... more This two-day workshop organised by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the University of Leicester aims to take stock of twenty years of research into Fascist Italy’s expansionism in the Mediterranean and beyond, whilst opening up new ways of thinking about the meanings of New Order and Empire in the history of Italian Fascism both in relation to the regime’s totalitarian thrust and to the larger European history of colonisation and subjugation of non-European populations. Alongside the established research on the ‘fascist era’ of the interwar years, the workshop aims, therefore, to reflect on Fascist Italy’s Empire as a European Empire.

by Dragan Bakić, Dušan Fundić, Aleksandar Stojanović, Andrei Dalalau, Dimitrios Soulakakis, Filip Lyapov, Gözde Emen-Gökatalay, Igor Vukadinović, Ivana Vesic, Maja Vasiljevic, Raul Carstocea, Vasilije Dragosavljevic, and Vladimir Cvetkovic

An international conference entitled "The Right-Wing Parties and Intellectuals in Interwar South ... more An international conference entitled "The Right-Wing Parties and Intellectuals in Interwar South Eastern Europe: Between Conservatism and Fascism" was held in the Great Conference Hall of the Hotel Majestic in Belgrade on 7-8 April 2022. The conference was part of the ongoing project "The Serbian Right-Wing Parties and Intellectuals in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1934-1941" supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, PROMIS, Grant No. 6062708, SerbRightWing.
Over the two days 24 papers were presented both on-site and online via Zoom (three presenters were, unfortunately, unable to join us) divided into seven thematic panels. There was a nice mixture of both established and emerging scholars from the field coming from a number of countries. Professor António Costa Pinto from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, delivered a keynote lecture “Building Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism. A Global View” on the second day of the conference.
The organizers, Dragan Bakić, Dušan Fundić and Rastko Lompar from the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, would like to extend their thanks to all the participants. It is their intention to publish an edited volume consisting of the conference proceedings which will, hopefully, be out in print next year.