DNL # 14: INFILTRATION. Panel  Mattias Gardell, Richard Gebhardt, Janez Janša, Christina Lee
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2018-09-25

Disruption Network Lab 
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin. 

Berlin, September 7-8, 2018
INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism 
14th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Kim Voss, Rahel Währer

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
Photo thumbnail: Maria Silvano

7 September, 2018
19:00 - 21:00
ACROSS & WITHIN RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM: Investigations and Interference

Mattias Gardell (Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, SE)
Richard Gebhardt (Political Scientist and Journalist, DE)
Janez Janša, Janez Janša & Janez Janša (Artists, Ljubljana, SI)
Moderated by Christina Lee (Head of Ambassador Program, Hostwriter, USA/DE)

This panel brings three different experiences of participatory observation and direct engagement across right-wing, extremist, and populist groups. Mattias Gardell, Swedish scholar of comparative religion, will share his studies of religious extremism and religious racism in the United States, addressing groups such as the Nation of Islam, Ku Klux Klan, and folkish movements in Neopaganism (Odinism). Richard Gebhardt will present a deep insight into Hooliganism based on his research during the last four years in Germany and England, where the Football Lad’s Alliance established itself as an important group, focusing on the question why this kind of subculture has become a political movement, in connection with the development and foundation of Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), and the increasing popularity of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), the third biggest party after the 2017 German federal election. Interconnecting methodologies of provoking critical reflection within right-wing political groups, the panel aims to reflect on possible strategies of cultural and political change that go beyond mere opposition.