II International Conference

Conference Program

Monday, July 13, 2026

09:00 · Reception at the Bizkaia Aretoa building

09:15-11:15 · Session 1 · YOUTH, STUDENT ACTIVISM, AND NEW FAR-RIGHT SUBJECTIVITIES
Chair: Ignacia Perugorría (University of the Basque Country)

• Camila Ponce Lara (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) · The “Cultural Battle”of Chilean Radical Right Youth: Digital Strategies, Intellectual Production, and Affective Politics
• Marina Larrondo (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) · New Demands, Aesthetics of Adolescent Right-Wing Groups and Student Activism: The Scope of a “Transformation”?
• Maria Victoria Seca (Collegium Helveticum) · Which Citizens for Which Democracy?: Political Commitments and Narratives of Young Far-Right Activists in Argentina
• Giulio Pitrosio (Griffith University) · Understanding the Gaming Economies of the Far-Right

11:15-11:30 · Coffee Break

11:30-13:30 · Session 2 · AESTHETIC POLITICS: MUSIC, STYLE, AND EMBODIED PERFORMANCES
Chair: Camilo Tamayo (University of Huddersfield)

• Begonya Enguix Grau (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) · From the ‘Fachaleco’ to National Bodies: Masculinities, Purity and Danger
• Andrea Grippo & Emanuele Toscano (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi) · Fashioning Extremism, Radicalising the Mainstream: Aesthetic Strategies and the Cultural Turn in Far-Right Fashion
• Neven Vutev (Sofia University) · YouTube, the AfD, and the Quest for Right-Wing Cultural Hegemony
• Diego Zorli (Università di Pisa) · “Yo fiel al tito Santi”: Trap, Identity and Propaganda in the New Culture of the Spanish Far-Right. The Angie Corine case

13:30-14:30 · Lunch

14:30-16:30 · Session 3 · DIGITAL CULTURES, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ONLINE RADICALIZATION
Chair: Andrea Grippo (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi)

• Camilo Tamayo Gómez, Ignacia Perugorría & Joseba García Martín, (University of Huddersfield & University of the Basque Country) · The Politics of the Unreal: Generative AI, Visual Framing, and the Rise of ‘Emocracy’ in Far-Right Youth Activism
• Mónica Soares & Raquel Matos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) · From the Dark Web to Mainstream Social Media: Far-right Politics as Online Entertainment in Portugal
• Miguel Rivas Venegas (Universitat Oberta Catalunya) · Spectral Algorithms: AI and the Aesthetics of Digital Radicalism
• Nistor George Daniel (University of Bucharest) · Digital Metapolitics and the Sociological Dynamics of Far-Right Radicalization in Online Spaces

16:30-18:00 · Session 4 · INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES
Chair: Emanuele Toscano (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi)

• Ezequiel Saferstein (Universidad Nacional de San Martin) · Milei’s Intellectuals and the Cultural Battle: Intellectual Production, Publishing, and the Sociability of Argentina’s Radicalized Right
• Nerea Montejo-López (Scuola Normale Superiore) · The Strategic Temporality of the Spanish Far-Right’s Constellation: Emotions, Narratives and Tactics Across a Restorative Ecosystem
• Anania-Andreea Iordache (University of Bucharest) · Between Nationalism and Spirituality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Right-Wing Politician Călin Georgescu’s Discourse In A Time of Political Change

20:00 · Drinks & Dinner

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

09:00-11:00 · Session 5 · RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND NATIONALIST ORDERS
Chair: Joseba García Martín (UPV/EHU)

• Geoffrey Pleyers (UC Louvain) · Religion, Culture, Social movements and Politics. Insights from Brazil
• Elif Genc (Hacettepe University) · Secularism as a Vector, Not a Brake: Alt-Right Discursive Repertoires Among Secular Nationalist Youth in Turkey
• Himadri Sekhar Mistri (Jawaharlal Nehru University) · Devotion as Dominance: Hindutva Music, Hindi Nationalism, and the Politics of Othering in Ram Navami Processions in West Bengal
• Víctor Albert-Blanco (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) · “Not Our tradition”: Ramadan, Gastronativism and the Far Right in Catalonia

11:00-11:30 · Coffee Break

11:30-13:30 · Session 6 · AFFECTIVE POLITICS, EMOTIONS, AND FAR-RIGHT MOBILIZATION
Chair: Benjamín Tejerina (University of the Basque Country)

• Johanna Fröhlich (Universität Basel) · Feeling Under Siege: Victimhood, Affective Belonging, and Everyday Extremism in the German New Far Right
• Francisco Jiménez Aguilar & Antonio Álvarez-Benavides (Universidad de Málaga & Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) · The Other Indignados. Emotions and Social Mobilization in the Spanish Identitarians
• Isabella Gomez-O’Keefe & Francesca Gentile (The University of Cambridge & The Centre for Information Resilience) · Use of Coded-Language by Far-Right Extremist Online: Emojis, Numbers, and Symbols Reinforce In-Group Identity
• Rubén Díez García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) · The Emotional Foundations of Radical Right Voting in ‘Declassed Spain’

13:30-15:00 · Lunch

15:00-16:30 · Session 7 · FUTURE PROJECTS

16:30-17:00 · Farewell

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Monday, July 13, 9-18 CEST | Tuesday, July 14, 9-17 CEST

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will take place at the Bizkaia Aretoa building of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), a 5-minute walk from the Guggenheim Museum in downtown Bilbao. For a virtual tour of the Bizkaia Aretoa building, click here. For directions, click here.