New Special Issue on "Masculinity, masculinist politics, and political extremism" in Journal of Gender Studies, edited by C-REX theme leader @katrif.bsky.social and colleagues. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As far-right politics reshape Europe, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doubles down on opposing the wars in Gaza and Iran and on progressive, universalist policies. Will it cost him power? New blog post by C-REX guest researcher Alejandro Ayala-Wold. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

C-REX / CANSES methods and ethics webinar this week: "Researching far-right mothers as a mom" w/ @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social, University of Luxembourg Time and place: Apr. 16, 2026 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CET), ONLINE. Moderated by @audreygagnon.bsky.social. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Do not miss next week webinar organized by @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES on researching far-right mothers as a mom with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social on April 16 🤩

This article by C-REX theme leader @katrif.bsky.social and @manesweisskircher.bsky.social was the most cited article in Nations and Nationalism in 2024! Congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post on strategies to protect researchers from online harassment. This text is based on our chapter in the edited volume (Un)Silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts (2026): www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

🛡️ New on RightNow! How can individual, community, and institutional strategies better protect researchers from online harassment? By @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social & @audreygagnon.bsky.social - read more: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Europe’s security landscape is shifting fast. Join C-REX & ISGA in The Hague (late May) for the 3-day course “Extremism, Disinformation and Hostile States” for practitioners & policy-makers. 🔗 Learn more & apply: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education... #disinformation #extremism #security

This week C-REX launched The FORMERS Podcast - conversations with former extremists. Start with Jimmy’s story: once head of a regional branch of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement in Sweden. Listen & read the interview here 👇 www.uio.no/english/rese...

Timely and important seminar on conspiracy theories at C-REX last week, held in collaboration with the 22 July Center. Introductions by @mathildaakerlund.bsky.social from the University of Gothenburg and Terje Emberland from the Holocaust Center.

New on RightNow! Using new data on organizations and their members, Michael C. Zeller shows how bans can fragment far-right networks - yet also trigger adaptation and reorganization. #farright #France www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Join our next C-REX and CANSES webinar on March 18: How gaming spaces have become fertile ground for far-right recruitment and mobilization, featuring @adriennemassanari.bsky.social. Moderated by @audreygagnon.bsky.social. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Do not miss the next webinar organized by @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES on how gaming spaces have become fertile soil for far-right recruitment and mobilization, with @adriennemassanari.bsky.social on March 18 🤩

- Since the pandemic, anti‑trans mobilization has become one of the sharpest weapons of the far right - and, as the UK shows, its damage extends far beyond the far right. New blog post by former C-REX postdoc @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social #TransRights #UKPolitics www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

New on RightNow! 🏳️‍🌈 “The ‘Community Impact’ of Terrorism: Consequences of the 2022 Oslo Pride Terrorist Attack” by @bphaanshuus.bsky.social, based on a unique survey of Norway’s LGBTIQ+ community (with @oyvindbs.bsky.social). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

In this blogpost for the C-REX Right Now! blog, I summarize the findings from our recently published study on the consequences of the 2022 Oslo Pride terrorist attack for the LGBTIQ+ community in Norway www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis... @oyvindbs.bsky.social @crexuio.bsky.social

Don’t miss this webinar on AI and extremism today at 5PM (CET) / 11AM (EST)! Link is available on our website

⏳ Only one week left to apply! ☠️Deadline: 25.02.2026 Join us at the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts & Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ 📍 Hosted by @unibo.it 📅 6–10 July 2026 Apply here: ecpr.eu/Events/353 @andreapirro.it

Check out this new publication on preventing online harm to researchers by C-REX affiliates @audreygagnon.bsky.social and @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social👇

Don't miss our webinar this Thursday on the use of AI by extremist actors and on how to study it methodologically, historically, politically, and ethically👇

Check out this blog post on our hate speech research

🚨CALL FOR CHAPTERS!🚨 @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Join our C-REX/CANSES webinar next week: "Considerations on Artificial Intelligence and Extremism" with Stephane Baele (Catholic Uni. of Louvain) and Lewys Brace (Uni. of Exeter), moderated by Audrey Gagnon (Uni. of Ottawa). Feb 19, 2026 | 5-6PM (CET). #AI #Extremism www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Very excited about this next @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES webinar on the best way to apprehend the use of AI by extremist actors, with Stephane Baele and @lewysbrace.bsky.social on Feb 19 🤩

New on RightNow!: "Limits of the Criminal Speech Act: Hate Speech Convictions in Norway" — by Rune Ellefsen, Carola Lingaas & Anette Bringedal Houge. #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #CriminalLaw www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/

Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this excellent summer school, organized by former C-REX postdoc @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and colleague @andreapirro.it!

Join us in 2 hours for @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES's first webinar of 2026 on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics! @draamattheis.bsky.social will discuss how to negotiate the ethics of extremism research online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Today 5 PM CET: Join the C-REX/CANSAS webinar — "The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online." Open to all; essential for junior & senior scholars. Free to attend. #research #ethics #digitalmethods

Don't miss this year's first "Methods & Ethics" webinar on Jan 15, 5:00–6:00 PM (CET) - The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online, with Ashley A. Mattheis (Univ. of Manchester). #MethodsAndEthics #DigitalEthics #ExtremismResearch www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

New blog post! Joshua Farrell-Molloy explains how Irish #far-right groups use #masculinity and republican symbols to frame themselves as defenders of #Ireland. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Our webinar series on ethics and methods when researching the far right is back next week, on Thursday January 15👇

C-REX affiliate @drkondor.bsky.social tells The Guardian how extremist messaging is woven through cultural aspects of everyday life, both online and offline. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

New journal article - “The community impact of terrorism: The case of the 2022 Pride terrorist attack in Norway” by C-REX scholar @bphaanshuus.bsky.social & affiliate @oyvindbs.bsky.social. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The @crexuio.bsky.social & CANSES webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics will be back after the holidays! Do not miss the first webinar on negotiating the ethics of extremism research online with @draamattheis.bsky.social 🤩

Hvor går grensen mellom ulovlige og smakløse ytringer? Les kronikken fra C-REX-forsker @runeell.bsky.social, Carola Lingaas og Anette Bringedal Houge. www.forskersonen.no/hatefulle-yt...

To read the article, click here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @bjsociology.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @uio.no #Sociology #NarrativeSociology #Racialisation #Muslims #Islamophobia

New publication by C-REX postdoc @uzaahm.bsky.social👇

📣Call for panels & papers for the 2026 ECPR GC! Join the E&D‑endorsed section “Extremism in Extreme Times: Moving Beyond the Mainstream,” co‑chaired by C-REX scholar @drkondor.bsky.social and former C-REX guest researchers @gretajasser.bsky.social & Ryan Switzer. Submit now! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Don't miss today's webinar on researcher safety and vicarious trauma!

New blog post by former guest researcher Jesse Grainger: "Weaponised Tolerance in Scandinavia: LGBT Rights and the Far Right." Read it now - and sign up to subscribe to the C‑REX blog on right‑extremism and far‑right politics: sympa.uio.no/c-rex.uio.no... www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Tomorrow at @uio.no: C-REX/CIR breakfast meeting - C-REX director Anders R. Jupskås presents findings from the HITS project on threats & harassment of scientists. Comments from Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland & Pro‑Rector at UiO Bjørn Jamtveit. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

Don't miss next week's C-REX/CANSES webinar: "Researcher Safety and Vicarious Trauma: Recommendations for Universities, Supervisors, and Researchers" with Clare McKendry, moderated by @audreygagnon.bsky.social. Nov. 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CET), Online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

On Nov. 19 at @uio.no: the 4th C-REX/CIR meeting on Democracy and Extremism. Presentations by @arjupskas.bsky.social, @jjungblut.bsky.social, and @sirianned.bsky.social, followed by comments from Pro-Rector Bjørn Jamtveit and Minister Sigrun Aasland (Labour Party). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

Join us tomorrow at @uio.no for the 3rd C-REX/CIR meeting on Democracy and Extremism. Presentations by @chknutsen.bsky.social & @jacravn.bsky.social, followed by comments from parliamentary leader T. Brenna (Labour Party) & H. Nordby Lunde (former Conservative MP). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

New article on violent escalation and inhibition of far protest by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and colleagues!

Ser frem til å innlede til dette frokostmøtet sammem med @chknutsen.bsky.social om demokratiets motstandskraft i møte med det ekstreme i regi av @crexuio.bsky.social og CIR forskergruppen ved @statsvitenskap.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

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🚨 New Blog Post Alert! Check out our latest piece by Daniel Nikolaj Madsen, "The Worrisome Hybridization of School Shooters and the Extreme Right." This thought-provoking article examines the alarming intersections of these critical issues. #SchoolShooters #ExtremeRight www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

New article by former C-REX postdoc @acmack.bsky.social and colleagues: what can universities do to better support those who study the far right. Check it out!