Die nächste ZAER-Jahrestagung findet am 18.-20. November 2026 an der Université Rennes 2 in Frankreich statt. Das Programm ist nun veröffentlicht und die Anmeldung offen. Registrierung: temporalities@zzf-potsdam.de
Das nächste hybride ZAER-Treffen findet im Anschluss an die Tagung am 20. November um 14-15 Uhr statt. Der Einladungslink für das hybride ZAER-Treffen wird zeitnah über die ZAER-Verteilerliste verschickt.
Temporalities of the Far Right (TEMPOREX): Turning Points and Perceptions of the Past in Germany, France and Western Europe since 1945
Wednesday 18 November 2026
16.30–17.00
Opening of the conference, welcome address and introduction
17.00–18.30
Round table: Temporalities of the Far Right in Europe
Speakers: Damir Skenderovic (Fribourg), Baptiste Roger-Lacan (Paris), Nicola Kristin Karcher (Østfold)
Chair: Estelle Delaine (Rennes)
19.30 Dinner at Crêperie Saint Georges
11, rue du Chapitre, 35000 Rennes
Thursday 19 November 2026
Panel 1 (09.00–11.10): Narratives of the Past in the Contemporary Far Right I
Chair: Valérie Dubslaff (Rennes)
- Laila Riedmiller (Erlangen-Nuremberg): The German Freikorps as Accelerationist Role Models? On the Need for an Intellectual History of Accelerationism and the Katechon
- François Duhesme (Paris): 1979 and the Shift from Left-Wing to Right-Wing Environmentalism: From the “Deutscher Wald” to the New German Schuldkult?
Coffee break
- Jonathan Preda (Reims-Champagne-Ardenne): La Waffen-SS, entre trauma indépassable et ressource politique : construction, diffusion et usage d’une contre-mémoire d’extrême droite
- Nathalie Le Bouëdec (Dijon): “20 July Is a Day of Pride for the German Nation”: Appropriations and Reinterpretations of the “Conservative Resistance” to Nazism in the Contemporary German Far Right
11.10–11.30 — Coffee break
Panel 2 (11.30–13.00): Narratives of the Past in the Contemporary Far Right II
Chair: Nathalie Le Bouëdec (Dijon)
- Martin Lefranc (Orléans): The Front National as the Historian of Its Own Past: Rewriting or Disavowing Its Origins
- Marie Guermeur (Paris/Rome): Staging Danger: Temporalities of Threat in the Digital Communication of Giorgia Meloni and Jordan Bardella on Instagram
- Amit Kumar Sharma (New Delhi/Lausanne): “Glorious Past, Decadent Present”: Temporal Imagination in the Discourse of Alternative für Deutschland and National Rally
13.00–14.10 — Lunch
Panel 3 (14.10–16.20): Temporalities of the Long Post-War Period in Western Europe
Chair: Marie Müller-Zetzsche (Potsdam)
- Nicoletta Arena (Florence): The Temporality of Survival: Far-Right Reorganisation in Italy, Austria and West Germany (1945–1955)
- Antoine Limare (Paris): A “Desert Crossing”? Reflections on a Period of Weakness for the French Far Right (1945–1958)
Coffee break
- Giulia Chielli (Toulouse/Granada): Rethinking the Temporality of Neo-Fascism through the Lens of Francoist Spain: Towards a Transnational Approach to the Periodisation of Post-War Fascism (1948–1957)
- Elias Catelan Carphio (Naples): The “Synchronisation” of Global Neo-Fascism: Italian Fascists and the Fall of Peronist Argentina (1955)
16.20–16.40 — Coffee break
Panel 4 (16.40–18.10): New Perspectives on the Long Post-War Period: Far-Right Reorganisation and Transnational Interaction in the Nordic Countries
Chair: Christian Jacobs (Berlin)
- Nicola Kristin Karcher (Østfold) and Oula Silvennoinen (Helsinki): “An Old Flame Never Dies”: How Nordic-German Far-Right Cooperation Continued after 1945
- Anika Seemann (Bergen): Norwegian Wartime Collaborators after 1945: Organisations, Networks and Generational Change
- Tommi Kotonen (Jyväskylä): “After Ragnarök”: Nordiska Rikspartiet as a Pan-Nordic Organisation
20.00 Dinner at Picadilly
1 place de la Mairie, 35000 Rennes
Friday 20 November 2026
Panel 5 (09.30–11.00): Temporalities of Decolonisation in (Trans)national Perspectives
Chair: Damir Skenderovic (Fribourg)
- Giuseppe Camorino (Bologna): Imagining a Second Republic: Italian Neo-Fascists Look to Gaullism (1958–1969)
- Sofia Miola (Padua): The Indo-European Past as a Transnational Identity Device of the Radical Right after 1968
- Christian Jacobs (Berlin): A Far-Right Intellectual History of Decolonisation? GRECE’s Redefinition of Decolonisation and Fascist Temporalities
11.00–11.20 — Coffee break
Panel 6 (11.20–12.50): Reperiodising Political Violence
Chair: Marie Müller-Zetzsche (Potsdam)
- Catarina Prever (Naples): 1974: A Turning Point? Continuities and Ruptures in Far-Right Violence in Italy
- Lea Tewes (Potsdam): How a Murder Put an End to the Prospect of the Far Right Accepting Gay Men: Turning Points from a Gender Perspective
- Johann Henningsen (Potsdam): The Missing Years: Right-Wing Violence between Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the “Uprising of the Decent”, 1993–2000
12.50–14.00 — Lunch
14.00–15.00
ZAER Network Meeting
Hybrid format
18.00
Book presentation: Erneuerung der alten Rechten: Nationalistische und rassistische Diskurse in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1951–1971 by Marie Müller-Zetzsche
Centre franco-allemand de Rennes, 35 rue Saint-Mélaine, 35000 Rennes
In French