Dr. Anders Ravik Jupskås
On 17 June, at Utøya, Anders Ravik Jupskås will present his keynote lecture Interpreting Terrorism: The Case of the 22 July Attacks in Norway.
Anders Ravik Jupskås is a senior researcher and deputy director at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on right-wing extremism, populism, and political mobilization. He holds a PhD in political science from 2015 from the University of Oslo.
Dr. Jupskås is currently part of a project on Far Right Politics Online and Societal Resilience (FREXO). He is the author of ‘Ekstreme Europa’ (2012/2017), and he has published several articles in national and international journals, as well as authored numerous book chapters in recently published edited volumes on far-right parties, in particular, and European party politics more generally.
Professor Tina Askanius
On 18 June, Tina Askanius will present the keynote lecture Gender, Misogyny and Far-Right Extremism.
Tina Askanius is professor in media and communication studies at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University and affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and Södertörn University. Her research broadly concerns the interplay between social movements and digital media and spans topics such as media practices of social justice movements, and the role of online media in the mobilisation of far-right extremism and white supremacist movements including the neo-Nazi movement in Sweden.
As part of a series of international research projects in the field, she is currently working on questions related to the circulation and normalization of extremist narratives in areas related to migration, gender, climate change and public health (OppAttune, Horizon Europe 2023-2025) and online discourse at the intersections of far-right extremism, gender and violent misogyny in digital environments (Networked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows, ÖSS 2024-2026).
Professor Lasse Lindekilde
On 19 June, Lasse Lindekilde will present the keynote lecture Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism.
Lasse Lindekilde is professor at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute. His research focuses on political mobilization, violent radicalization and the implementation and effects of counter-terrorism policies and communication.
His most recent research has focused on online political hostility and aggression, and how bystanders to such hostile behavior react. He has published more than 50 articles and book chapters in this domain. His work is interdisciplinary linking insights from political science, political sociology, criminology and social psychology. Methodologically he has published work building on both field work, survey research and experimental techniques. His research is funded by amongst others the European Commission, the MINERVA-programme and the Danish Research Council. In the fall of 2020, He received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the five-year project "Standing by: Pro-social Bystander Reactions to Online Political Hostility".