Session 1, Tuesday 18 June, Eilert Sundts hus, 11.00-12.30
Parallel sessions
Panel 1A: Anti-gender mainstreaming and its violent potentials: Perspectives from the Nordic region
Auditorium 1 (Ragnar Frischs auditorium)
Chair: Jan Christoffer Andersen
- Maria Brock, Södertörn University: ‘Think of the children!’ Child safety as a dog whistle of transnational anti-gender politics
- Julian Honkasalo, University of Helsinki: Free speech and dog-whistles: Anti-gender campaigning and mobilization in Finland
- Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, University of Stavanger: ‘Anti-gender’ disinformation campaigns and their violent potentials: The case of Norway’s LGBTQ+ conversion therapy ban (2023)
Panel 1B: Risk assessments and criminal responsibility
Auditorium 7 (Trygve Haavelmos auditorium)
Chair: Tore Bjørgo
- Sara Afonso, IPS - Innovative Prison Systems: A new and humane approach to assessing vulnerability to radical or extremist viewpoints and actions in post-release settings
- Stian Lid, Oslo Metropolitan University : Risk assessments of radicalised individuals in the Nordic countries
- Rita Augestad Knudsen, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI): Criminal responsibility in terrorism-related cases: Between law, medicine, politics and security
- Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, University of Oslo: Transitional justice and terrorism: Socio-legal reflections on the problem of trials, legal accountability, and shapeshifting perpetrators
Panel 1C: Emotions and extremism in social media
Auditorium 2
Chair: Birgitte P. Haanshuus
- Maja Brandt Andreasen, University of Stavanger: Race, gender, and sexuality in right-wing extremist memes
- Øyvind B. Solheim, Institute for Social Research & Anders Ravik Jupskås, C-REX, University of Oslo: Fear, anger, and the Scandinavian far right
- Henriette Frees Esholdt, University of Gothenburg: The secret weapon of terrorism: Emotive narratives in disinformation campaigns against Sweden to incite Islamist extremist milieus to mobilize
Panel 1D: Far-right mobilization and counter-mobilization
Auditorium 3
Chair: Charlotte Tandberg
- Tommi Kotonen, University of Jyväskylä: On the campaign trail with extremists: Ethnographic observations on the Blue-Black Movement and its involvement in the Finnish parliamentary elections in 2023
- Ryan Switzer, Stockholm University: An ethnographic account of emotions and far right stigma: How barriers become resources for a movement
- Christopher R. Fardan, C-REX, University of Oslo: 'No racists in our streets' – local responses to far-right anti-Islam mobilization in Norway and Denmark
Panel 1E: Responses to racism and extremism
Auditorium 4
Chair: Nina Høy-Petersen
- Uzair Ahmed, C-REX, University of Oslo: Race, space and Muslims
- Sveinung Sandberg, University of Oslo: Opposing violent extremism: Forms of narrative resistance among young Muslims in Norway
- Aslaug Kristiansen, University of Agder & Roger Säljö, University of Gothenburg: '… you get a lot of attention': Young people’s reactions to a Nazi provocation against a human rights centre
Panel 1F: Prevention of extremism in the Nordic countries
Auditorium 5
Chair: Alec Z. Rosłońska
- Lotta Rahlf, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt: Evaluating efforts to counter violent extremism: How and why evaluation systems differ across Europe
- Rohan Stevenson, University of Helsinki: Problematising extreme right-wing violence in counterterrorism policy: what’s the problem represented to be?
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Camilla Winde Gissel, C-REX, University of Oslo: P/CVE in the Nordic countries and the case of Finland
Session 2, Tuesday 18 June, Eilert Sundts hus, 13.30-15.00
Parallel sessions
Panel 2A: The far right and anti-gender politics
Auditorium 1 (Ragnar Frischs auditorium)
Chair: Katherine Kondor
- Celestine S. Kunkeler, C-REX, University of Oslo: Violence and extremism in anti-trans politics; or, what does trans panic do for the Right?
- Iris B. Segers, C-REX, University of Oslo & Katherine Kondor, Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies: Radical anti-gender politics: The cases of the far right in the Netherlands and Hungary
- Audrey Gagnon, CRIDAQ, University of Ottawa: Conspiracy theories and anti-gender movements
- My Rafstedt, University of Oslo, Sabine Volk, University of Passau & Iris B. Segers, C-REX, University of Oslo: OK to be gay? Far-right constructions of the nativist homosexual subject
Panel 2B: Preventing and countering violent extremism among children and youth
Auditorium 7 (Trygve Haavelmos auditorium)
Chair: Alida Skiple
- Mienna Niemi, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare: Complex interventions and multisectoral collaboration addressing street violence, gangs, and violent youth radicalization
- Lynn Schneider, ICCT & Beatrice Eriksson, Repatriate the Children, Sweden: The long-term development and needs of ISIS-affiliated child returnees in Sweden and Denmark
- Anders Lundesgaard, RVTS Region North & Elisabeth Harnes, RVTS Region West: From childhood adverse experience and collective trauma to violent extremism
- Marko Juntunen, University of Helsinki: Alternative narratives and countering violent extremism: Reflections on Post-Isis Iraq
Panel 2C: Exploring extremist online communities
Auditorium 2
Chair: Øyvind B. Solheim
- Olivier Peria, EHESS & C-REX, University of Oslo: Avoiding censorship while building a far-right subcultural identity. Insights from the French 4chan
- Katri-Maaria Kyllönen, University of Jyväskylä: Travelling concepts – tracing narrative travels from political discourse to right-wing online communities
- Ali Unlu, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare & Tommi Kotonen, University of Jyväskylä: Analyzing the interplay of hate speech and political dynamics in Finnish Twitter networks
Panel 2D: Far-right mobilization: Activism and transnational links
Auditorium 3
Chair: Jacob Aasland Ravndal
- Martin Hamre, Freie Universität Berlin: 'Nordic cooperation as a sacred duty?' Fascist regionalism in Scandinavia in the 1930s
- Birgitte P. Haanshuus & Anders Ravik Jupskås, C-REX, University of Oslo: Far-right protest mobilization: The case of Norway
- Morgan Finnsiö & Daniel Poohl, Expo Foundation: Active Clubs in Sweden: Origins, growth, members and movement dynamics
Panel 2E: Responses to violent extremism
Auditorium 4
Chair: Christopher R. Fardan
- Emilie Farø, Aarhus University: Same violence, but different responses? How the public perceives lone-actor terrorism committed by right-wing versus Islamist extremists
- Sofia Beskow, Södertörn University: Consequences of policiary measures against radical nationalist social movements
- Ingvild Folkvord, NTNU: Aesthetic experimentation vs building of social bonds. Poetic responses to the 22 July terrorist attacks in Norway
Panel 2F: Islamophobia and extreme Islamism in Northern Europe
Auditorium 5
Chair: Tommi Kotonen
- Heidi Maiberg, Royal Holloway, University of London & Oksana Belova-Dalton, University of Tartu: Spread of the narrative 'Every Muslim is a terrorist' in Estonia
- Christine Namdar, University of Helsinki & Heidi Maiberg, Royal Holloway, University of London: Message from God, Father, or Telegram? A comparative study on sources of beliefs and narratives within Swedish, Finnish, and Estonian Islamist extremists
- Marco Nilsson, Jönköping University: Jihad and gangs in Sweden – Explaining connections, recruitment strategies, and risks
Session 3, Tuesday 18 June, Eilert Sundts hus, 15.15-16.45
Parallel sessions
Panel 3A: Gender and the far right: Discourse, ethics, and aesthetics
Auditorium 1 (Ragnar Frischs auditorium)
Chair: Iris B. Segers
- Greta Jasser, University of Göttingen & Katherine Kondor, Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies: Fascism of the future: The far right, gendered aesthetics, and AI
- Sadik Qaka, University of Oslo: Europa rises: Masculinity, territory and race in extreme right manifestos
- Sigrid G. Lund Moe, University of Oslo: Masculine identity building in the digital age
- Iris B. Segers, C-REX, University of Oslo & Ov Cristian Norocel, Lund University: Far-right researchers as intersectional subjects: Three arenas for emotional labour
Panel 3B: Perspectives on prevention: Educational, local and national approaches
Auditorium 7 (Trygve Haavelmos auditorium)
Chair: Javid Ibad
- Ola Flennegård, University of Gothenburg: Educational prevention of antisemitism? Swedish teachers’ didactic strategies and students’ understanding of the Holocaust during study trips to memorial sites
- Martin Sjøen, University of Bergen: Assessing the implementation of local Norwegian P/CVE – What has been done so far and what have we learned?
- Liv Kristine Moe, European University Institute: Gender, global governance, and counterterrorism: Local responses to the prevention of violent extremism – The case of Norway
- Hanna Buer Haddeland & Ingunn Ikdahl, University of Oslo: Understanding changes in the civil state after violent extremism: Temporalities of Norwegian developments
Panel 3C: Technology and violence
Auditorium 2
Chair: Birgitte P. Haanshuus
- Truls H. Tønnessen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI): Terrorists’ use of technology in attacks in Western Europe
- Daniel Madsen, University of Copenhagen: Ecofascism, militant accelerationism, and manifestos in the Danish Feuerkrieg division case
- Hannah Pollack Sarnecki, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI): A complex extremist landscape: conspiracy theories, pro-Russian propaganda, racism, misogyny and violence
Panel 3D: Conceptualizing 'terrorism' and 'violent extremism'
Auditorium 3
Chair: Uzair Ahmed
- Leena Malkki, University of Helsinki: Coming to terms with the t-word: How to deal with 'terrorism' in academic research
- Mats Fridlund, University of Gothenburg: Vectors of violence: Conceptualizations of terror, terrorism, and violence-affirming extremism in Swedish parliamentary discourse, 1971–2018
- Kathlyn Elliott, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School: The conceptualization of violent extremism in the US and the Nordic region
Panel 3E: Interconnections between extremism, radicalisation and social exclusion in Nordic countries and North-Western Europe: Insights from the DRIVE project
Auditorium 4
Chair: Gabe Mythen
- Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus University: Minority alienation in Denmark
- Tahir Abbas, Leiden University: Nuances of exclusion and inclusion: Perspectives of Muslim and nationalist youth in the Netherlands
- Eolene Boyd-MacMillan, University of Cambridge & Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool: Currents, trends and challenges: Assessing the UK landscape
- Valerie DeMarinis, Umeå University: Approaching the complexity of identity, exclusion and inclusion: Emerging narratives from Muslim and nationalist youth in Norway
- Eolene Boyd-MacMillan, University of Cambridge & Valerie DeMarinis, Umeå University: Risks and protective factors elicited by experiences of social exclusion: Safety, belonging, identity
Panel 3F: Perspectives on radicalization
Auditorium 5
Chair: Camilla Winde Gissel
- Oksana Belova-Dalton, University of Tartu: Analysis of the radicalisation process of Karen Drambjan – the attacker of Estonian Ministry of Defense in August 2011
- Kledian Myftari, University of Copenhagen/Charles University: Divergent paths of identity and extremism: A cross-cultural analysis of Kosovo and Albania
- Christopher Kehlet Ebbrecht, Leiden University: A social theory of grievances
- Milan Obaidi, University of Copenhagen: How do people end up in extreme situations? Personality predicts self-selection to extreme settings
Session 4, Wednesday 19 June, Eilert Sundts hus, 9.30-11.00
Parallel sessions
Panel 4A: Measuring violence
Auditorium 1 (Ragnar Frischs auditorium)
Chair: Anders Ravik Jupskås
- Shandon Harris-Hogan, C-REX, University of Oslo: Are there significant regional differences in far-right violence? Exploring incidents of severe violence across Australia, New Zealand and Canada
- Måns Lundstedt, University of Gothenburg: The diversification of contentious performances in anti-migrant violence
- Jacob Ravndal, Norwegian Police University College: Comparing the effects of plot inclusion on assessments of right-wing versus Islamist terrorist threats in Europe and the United States
- Stijn Willem van 't Land, Leiden University: Revisiting vicarious retribution: How do different terrorist attacks drive levels of hate crime?
Panel 4B: Right-wing and misogynist extremism: Examining the role of gender, masculinity politics, and grievances
Auditorium 7 (Trygve Haavelmos auditorium)
Chair: Katrine Fangen
- Maria Darwish, Örebro University: Positive affect and remasculinisation in ecofascist propaganda
- Ozan Félix Sousbois, University of Stavanger, Margunn Bjørnholt, VID Specialized University & Hande Eslen-Ziya, University of Stavanger: Fantasy, power, and male hysteria: Norwegian manospheric cultures and the reconstruction of national imageries through sex, masculinities, and anti-feminist nostalgia
- Hanna Fossberg & Katrine Fangen, University of Oslo: Analysing militarized masculinities in far-right online spaces: The role of humour in gendered political discourse
- Joanna Lindström, Uppsala University: Low trait modesty and group-based relative deprivation: Basic psychological underpinnings of right-wing and misogynist extremism
Panel 4C: Preventing violent extremism? Deconstructing risk and protective factors in preventive work against violent extremism in the Nordic countries
Auditorium 2
Chair: Lenita Törning
- Lenita Törning & Edvin Sandström, Swedish Centre for Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE): Balancing security and social care – Risk and protective factors in multi-agency collaboration in Sweden
- Anders Bo Christensen, Danish Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism: Assessing concerns for extremism in a multiagency setting – looking at both risk and threat, and welfare and resilience
- Kjetil Friisø Ramborg, RVTS Region East: National collaboration and digital resources for local and regional support
Panel 4D: The limits and potential of countering hate crime within and beyond the criminal justice process
Auditorium 3
Chair: Rune Ellefsen
- Henning Kaiser Klatran, Norwegian Police University College: Hate crime against LGBT people and the failure of criminal justice: Towards a policing beyond law enforcement
- Görel Granström, Umeå University, Mika Hagerlid, Malmö University & Louise Gustafsson Malmö University: Assessing the utility of the Swedish hate crime law - does the formulation of the legal framework match the intentions of the legislators?
- Rune Ellefsen & Kristina Os, C-REX, University of Oslo: Reporting anti-LGBTQI hate crime: First-hand experiences and reasons for not reporting
- Tore Bjørgo, C-REX, University of Oslo: Preventing hate crime: A holistic approach
Panel 4E: Antisemitism and its challenges in the contemporary world
Auditorium 4
Chair: Uzair Ahmed
- Anna Zawadzka, Polish Academy of Sciences: Antisemitic triggers. The causal power of anti-Zionist discourse
- Alec Z. Rosłońska, C-REX, University of Oslo: Responses to antisemitism in Jewish communities
- Geshe Gerdes, University of Passau: Antisemitism, misogyny and authoritarianism within the incel movement
- Vibeke Moe, Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies: Mainstream narratives or fringe expressions? An investigation of a growing pro-Palestinian mainstream and the public acceptance of antisemitic hate speech
Panel 4F: Climate and extremism
Auditorium 5
Chair: Iris B. Segers
- Nora Cornelia Glerud Benningstad, University of Oslo & Milan Obaidi, University of Copenhagen: The nexus of violent extremism and climate change
- Lise Benoist, Uppsala University: Localist far-right environmental activism: Practices, motivations and affective attachment to place
- Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup, Aarhus University: Climate activism and radicalism: The effects of government action and inaction
Session 5, Wednesday 19 June, Eilert Sundts hus, 13.30-15.00
Parallel sessions
Panel 5A: Preventing radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism
Auditorium 1 (Ragnar Frischs auditorium)
Chair: Tore Bjørgo
- Robin Andersson Malmros, University of Gothenburg: The localization of counter-terrorism policy: A look behind the curtains
- Susanna Bellander, Umeå University: The strengths and weaknesses of the Nordic countries´ counter-terrorism strategies
- Sondre Lindahl, Østfold University College & Martin Sjøen, University of Bergen : Defining first-line security competence: Emergence of the public sector counter-radicalisation specialist in Norway
- Charlotte Tandberg, Norwegian Police University College: Preventing radicalization and violent extremism in Norway: shared security, shared responsibility? Prerequisites for success and consequences for multiagency collaboration
Panel 5B: Preventive interventions against violent extremism
Auditorium 7 (Trygve Haavelmos auditorium)
Chair: Rita Augestad Knudsen
- Irina van der Vet, University of Helsinki, Stephan Klose, VUB, Leena Malkki, University of Helsinki: The INDEED model: Towards an evidence-based evaluation of P/CVE and De-radicalisation programmes
- Vânia Sampaio, IPS - Innovative Prison System, Sara Afonso, IPS - Innovative Prison Systems & David Hansen, Oslo Metropolitan University: Improving cross-sectoral criminal justice staff P/CVE competencies in the Balkans: Findings from a country-tailored training programme
- David Hansen, Oslo Metropolitan University: The HOPE mentoring scheme
- Tarik Gherbaoui & Zsofia Baumann, Asser Institute: Countering Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism (REMVE) using the Recommendations of the GCTF REMVE Toolkit
Panel 5C: Investigating incels
Auditorium 2
Chair: Audrey Gagnon
- Nina Høy-Petersen, C-REX, University of Oslo: Researching incels: What we know and new directions
- Emilie Lounela, University of Helsinki: Interviews with current and former incels: constructing and leaving the incel identity
- Jan Christoffer Andersen, University of Oslo: Drifting in and out of the incel subculture
- Kirsti Sippel, University of Turku & Emilia Lounela, University of Helsinki: On cucks, sluts and science – Evolutionary justifications for involuntary celibacy, misogyny and victimhood in the Incel Wiki
Panel 5D: The developments, responses to and impacts of hate crime in the Nordics
Auditorium 3
Chair: Birgitte P. Haanshuus
- Anne-Mai Flyvholm, University of Copenhagen: Prejudice-based trust violation: Reframing the wider social impacts of hate crime
- Anette Bringedal Houge, University of Oslo & Carola Lingaas, VID Specialized University: 'A relatively spacious margin for tasteless statements': A qualitative analysis of Norwegian courts’ demarcation of punishable hate speech
- Eyrún Eyþórsdóttir, University of Akureyri: Hate crime in Iceland: Exploring discrepancies between public perceptions and official responses
Panel 5E: Antisemitism and polarization in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Auditorium 4
Chair: Jacob Ravndal
- Johannes Due Enstad, Institute for Social Research: Does antizionism mask antisemitism? Evidence from Norwegian and European surveys
- Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg: 'Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud': Anti-Semitic slogans and Muslim use of history
- Mehmet Ümit Necef, University of Southern Denmark: Polarization of views among Nordic academics under the Hamas-Israel War
Panel 5F: Perspectives on far-right ideology
Auditorium 5
Chair: Celestine S. Kunkeler
- Oscar Palma, Universidad del Rosario: Cast in the same mold? A comparison between right-wing extremists in South America and Europe
- Luna Rovolon, Macerata University: A comparative feminist analysis of the neoliberal state in Italy and Norway: Exploring the Breivik and Traini cases and the pathologization of masculine criminal minds
Jason Rozumalski, University of Oslo: Conservative Hedonics: The politics of disposition, extremism, and the pleasures of today