#DNL14: INFILTRATION: Mapping The International Far Right · Julia Ebner & Patrik Hermansson
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2018-09-27

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
Twitter: @disruptberlin 
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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

8 September, 2018
18:30 - 20:30
INFILTRATION: Mapping The International Far Right

Julia Ebner (Terrorism and Extremism Researcher and Author, AT/UK)
Patrik Hermansson (Anti-racist Activist, “Hope Not Hate" Researcher, SE/UK)
Christopher Schiano (Journalist at Unicorn Riot, Decentralized, Non-profit Media Organization of Artists and Journalists, USA) & Heartsucker (SecureDrop Maintainer, DiscordLeaks Developer, USA/DE)
Moderated by Rebecca Pates (Political Anthropologist, University of Leipzig, DE)

This panel reflects on the practice of political, journalistic and activist infiltration as a way of better understanding cultures, lifestyles and methods of extremist groups. This approach has a double effect: from one side it maps extremist groups from the inside, from the other, it analyses how extremist groups are building their networks, becoming widespread in online and offline. The aim is to explore such groups from within, analysing the reason for people to join them, as well as understanding their inner dynamics. Julia Ebner and Patrik Hermansson will describe their experience as infiltrators in the Alt-Right and far-right movements between the UK and US: Julia Ebner will introduce her undercover research of the UK branch of Generation Identity (described in part on her book The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, and in a forthcoming 2019 publication); Patrik Hermansson will reflect on the meaning of radical right-wing practices today bringing his direct story as undercover activist for Hope Not Hate inside the international Alt-Right, culminating in the clashes in Charlottesville and published in The International Alternative Right Report. Finally, investigative journalist Christopher Schiano, active in Unicorn Riot, will present his work of analysing and publishing of leaked messages from white supremacist, neo-nazi and various Alt-Right fascist groups in the US - followed by an introduction of the DiscordLeaks platform by Heartsucker. Political anthropologist Rebecca Pates, expert of right wing extremism in Germany, will introduce the panel.