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When: Friday, February 24th, 2017<\/p>\n

Where: Condon 260<\/p>\n

Announcing the program for an interdisciplinary symposium on aspects of extreme right-wing tendencies in the present, their historical echoes, their potential consequences, and possible responses.<\/p>\n

Topics include: the assault on language, populist co-optation of the media, circulation of nationalist ideologemes, corruption, the devalorization of science and knowledge, aesthetics, misogyny, and xenophobia.<\/p>\n

(Open to the public, sponsored by the Editorial Board of Konturen<\/em>, the German Studies Committee, and the Dept of German and Scandinavian at UO — co-organized by Professors Sonja Boos and Jeffrey Librett)<\/p>\n

The Triumph of the Will? Theoretical-Critical Assessments of the New Era in American Politics  <\/strong><\/p>\n

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Panel 1: 1:00 – 2:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moderator: Martin Klebes (German and Scandinavian)<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Librett (German and Scandinavian) — “Sovereignty and the Cult of Immediacy<\/p>\n

Nathalie Hester (Romance Languages) — “Trumpusconi”<\/p>\n

Cory Browning (Romance Languages) — “Braggadocious! P\u00e8re Ubu Goes to Washington”<\/p>\n

Joe Lowndes (Political Science) — “From New Class Critique to White Nationalism: Telos, the Alt Right, and the Origins of Trumpism”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Panel 2: 2:00 – 2:45 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moderator: TBD<\/p>\n

Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) — “Immigration and Mexico in the Trump Era”<\/p>\n

Kenneth Calhoon (Comparative Literature and German and Scandinavian) — “No Accounting for Taste: From Mar-a-Lago to the White
\nHouse”<\/p>\n

Anita Chari (Political Science) — “Political Hysteria: Conversion Disorders of the Trump Era”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Panel 3: 2:45 – 3:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moderator: Gantt Gurley (German and Scandinavian)<\/p>\n

Dawn Marlan (Comparative Literature and German and Scandinavian) — ” ‘Broad-Shouldered’ Rhetoric: the Trump Era and the Peculiar Contempt for Words”<\/p>\n

Bonnie Mann (Philosophy) — “Pussy Politics”<\/p>\n

Sonja Boos (German and Scandinavian) — “No Joke: Trump and Humor”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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