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Conference on Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century [1]
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Date: 2022-10-12
White nationalists carrying torches at the University of Virginia in August 2017.
On November 2 and 3, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York is sponsoring a conference on Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century. All sessions will be held at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater in the first floor of the Axinn Library. Attendance is open to everyone without charge. Prior registration is encouraged. For more information contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or email
[email protected].
On October 28, 1922, armed fascists converged on Rome and paved the way for the establishment of a dictatorship led by Benito Mussolini, which would dominate Italy for the next 20 years. The March on Rome marked the birth of an Italian fascist regime and laid the foundation for the spread of fascist ideology around the world. From the beginning, Italian fascism generated resistance. As fascist ideology developed into a global phenomenon, so too did anti-fascism. The initial phase of the conflict between fascist and anti-fascist forces climaxed in World War II with the defeat of Italian fascism, German Nazism, and Japanese militarism. Although defeated militarily in 1945, global fascism continued to find expression during the decades that followed.
As recent events have shown, fascist ideology and its attendant components — opposition to working-class movements, hyper-nationalism, anti-democracy, white supremacy, and xenophobia — remain a threat to democratic institutions and practices worldwide. As in the past, the rise of fascism has been met with anti-fascist opposition.
To coincide with the centennial of the March on Rome, Hofstra University will hold a two-day interdisciplinary conference, Anti-fascism in the 21st Century. The purpose of this conference is not to retell stories of past anti-fascist movements, but to consider anti-fascism as a contemporary global movement with myriad forms and to explore the challenges of organizing against fascism for a new generation.
Keynote speakers will be Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Eric Gobetti, Independent Scholar, Turin, Italy. Dr. Reed will deliver a virtual address on How Serious is the Authoritarian Threat in the US, and What Can We Do about It? On Wednesday November 2 at 1:30 PM. Eric Gobetti will speak on Thursday at 1:30 PM on “Fascism, antifascism and politics of memory in Italy in a global perspective."
Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor and author of several books on the relationship between class and racism; his writing and opinion pieces have appeared on academic and popular journals and magazines including The Progressive, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, and nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member. He served on the board of Public Citizen, Inc. was a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, and is currently on the boards of Food and Water Action and the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI) serving as a regular on its Class Matters podcast.
Eric Gobetti is an independent historian based in Turin, Italy. He studies the relationship between nationalism, identity and politics of memory with a focus on Fascist Italy and Yugoslavia. He received PhDs from the University of Turin in 2004 and the University of San Marino in 2008. He is the author of several monographs. His recently published work, E allora le Foibe? addresses the connection between history, politics and antifascism in the 21st century.
Wednesday afternoon at 4:20 PM there will be a panel presentation and discussion on Teaching Antifascism. Panelists include Nancy Wallach and Dennis Meaney of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, Jeremy Sarachan, St. John Fisher University, Rochester, New York, Michael Vavrus, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, and Alan Singer, Hofstra University.
The full conference program is available online.
Follow Alan Singer on twitter at
https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1
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