Wednesday, April 16th, 2024
5:00-6:30 pm

In person and via Zoom
Rifkind Center, 6/316 NAC building

In recent years the transnational dimensions of far-right, racially motivated extremism have become unmistakable. The texts and manifestos of far-right networks circulate widely on the Internet, radicalizing new groups and spawning racially motivated acts of terrorism by actors who, despite being separated by continents, nevertheless share a common set of beliefs, hatreds, tactics, and objectives. Join scholars and analysts Cynthia Idriss-Miller and Esther Adaire as they trace the underlying commonalities that unite the global far right.

Zoom Link:

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/9176842970?pwd=WnVDdWEvUjRnNmx4cmZlZnBrS3Iydz09&omn=81374522445

Dr. Esther Elizabeth Adaire is an intelligence analyst specializing in racially motivated violent extremism at a leading US law-enforcement agency, and the author of Neo-Nazi Postmodern: Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at Cooper Union and John Jay College, on topics such as terrorism, right-wing extremism, and the history of technology.

 Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Dr. Miller-Idriss regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress and briefs intelligence agencies in the U.S. and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. She is the author of several books, among which is her most recent, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2022). Dr. Miller-Idriss is an opinion columnist for MSNBC, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post.