Authoritarian Atlanticism?

Join the CGES for the first talk in a new series: Present and Past of the Far Right in Europe

This virtual talk by Austrian political scientist Bernhard Weidinger will focus on the intensifying interactions between the far right in America and Austria.

Weidinger will discuss similarities on a variety of levels, from party politics to online and offline activism, from physical encounters in Washington, Brussels, or Budapest, to the exchange of narratives, styles, and memes.

The talk will include a discussion of Austrian far-right reactions to the outcome of the US elections on November 5th.

Bernhard Weidinger is a political scientist (PhD, University of Vienna) who monitors the Austrian far right at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in Vienna. He was previously a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2013) and a Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (2022).

This series is offered in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin CGES.