🚀Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Happy to announce the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social E&D Summer School on Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics, co-organized with 💘 @andreapirro.it. 🍝 @unibo.it , 6–10 July 2026 🔗Application, info, instructors: ecpr.eu/Events/353

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2

🏆 Bravo à @caterinafr.bsky.social chercheuse au CEE et @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, chercheur au CEVIPOL et chercheur associé au CEE. L'Université libre de Bruxelles leur décerne un prix de la diffusion scientifique pour The Far-Right Protest Observatory, farpo.eu ⤵️ cc @scpo-research.bsky.social

Merci aux collègues de toutes disciplines @ulbruxelles.bsky.social pour l’appréciation portée à Farpo.eu et à l’agenda de recherche qui anime ce projet et son équipe. Ce prix pour la diffusion scientifique et votre soutien nous encouragent à aller encore plus loin. 🙏

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Far-Right Protest Observatory www.farpo.eu has been awarded the 2026 ULB Prize for Diffusion of Science in Society (category Multimedia)!🔬 Kudos @andreapirro.it @caterinafr.bsky.social @arjupskas.bsky.social👏 Et merci @ulbruxelles.bsky.social ❤️

When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.

New troubling chapter in the French government’s attack on academic freedom: good that the academic community stands united against turning universities into sites of state surveillance

Spoiler alert! 👇

Academic service day ☕

For the latest issue of Confronti (🇮🇹), I was asked to explain the reasons behind the recent success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in polls, its leaning towards Russia, and how conservatives are handling the issue. Saluti a @caterinafr.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it

I’m glad that the 2nd #REXKLIMA workshop in Dresden brought together so many insightful presentations and lively discussions - with a great mix of quantitative and qualitative manuscripts. Looking forward to seeing these papers published! 💫📑 hait.tu-dresden.de/ext/veransta... @rexklima.bsky.social

Quite surreal report of this weekend’s far-right protest in The Hague 🇳🇱 by teen reporter “Bender” 😳 Some quick thoughts 🧵

15. As colleagues like @caterinafr.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it and others have argued for years, the far right has become a social movement with various more or less connected units (parties, influencers, hooligans, media) and should be analyzed as such.

Thanks @sophiahunger.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social for such a timely contribution. Happy to see work wt @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it in this stellar line up of contributors!

📢 Call for applications! I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social Deadline: 9 11 2025 👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

Movement Parties of the Far Right will soon be released as an audiobook (23.09.2025). @andreapirro.it @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It will be available through major platforms including Audible, Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and others. Narration by Paul Woodson. 🔗 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

🍿Do not miss our book panel at @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference celebrating these two important OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and the dreamteam duo @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it. 🍰 Featuring commentary by @sldelange.bsky.social & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social.

On Wednesday, the day starts with a great book panel on mobalization approaches to the far right and populism, discussing the excellent mongraphs by @andreapirro.it and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and by Paris Aslanidis. The awesome @leoniedejonge.bsky.social will join me as a discussant

On Wednesday (at the crack of dawn), we continue with a book panel, celebrating two OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it, co-hosted with the great @sldelange.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/ecpr...

Elite institutions are the first to fold. But this is a particularly egregious case of cowardice and gaslighting. Incredible what Palestinian scholars and scholars of Palestine have to endure in this country.

📖 Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article now has a volume & issue number! In our work, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & I overview far-right contentious politics in Europe and argue for a ‘normalisation of protest’. 🔗 50 free copies available at this link: shorturl.at/iiDrt

@andreapirro.it, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @caterinafr.bsky.social focus on far-right mobilisation 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Danslesmédias - Tribune ✍️ Emeutes anti-migrants : à Torre-Pacheco comme ailleurs en Europe, des actions présentées comme locales et spontanées dissimulent une stratégie bien rodée de l'extrême droite, d'après @caterinafr.bsky.social, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social et les données du projet farpo.eu ⤵️

My op-ed in @lemonde.fr (with @caterinafr.bsky.social) on the #TorrePacheco riots: what looks like spontaneous local anger is nothing but the usual far-right mobilization. 👉 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Ma tribune dans @lemonde.fr (avec @caterinafr.bsky.social) sur les violences de #TorrePacheco : derrière l’apparente spontanéité, une mobilisation de l’extrême droite. 👉 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Timely keynote by Donatella della Porta @ipsa.org : moral panic as a mechanism of repression of academic freedom.

Movement Parties of The Far Right travels to Seoul @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @oxfordacademic.bsky.social ,terrific discussion by the ones and only @dafnoukos.bsky.social & M. Minkenberg @ipsa.org

@giulianoformisano.bsky.social @caterinafr.bsky.social ❤️

I am really looking forward to discussing this fantastic book this coming Sunday, July 13th. Join us if you are attending @IPSA in Seoul!

Interested in the political consequences of regressive social movements and attending @ipsa.org in Seoul? I will present new ongoing work wt @xromerovidal.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Andrew Klassen. Info www.ipsa.org/events/congr...

📙 For those attending the @ipsa.org World Congress in Seoul, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & I are presenting our book, Movement Parties of the Far Right (@oxfordacademic.bsky.social), on 13 July. Discussion will feature @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Michael Minkenberg. 👉 wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/panel/aut...

(2) "When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe" by Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On the Supply of and Demand for Right-Wing Academics by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social "Thinking about this as a market, left-wing academics compete in a saturated field. Right-wing academics occupy a niche. Their value is amplified by their scarcity" alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/24-on-the-...

🚨 CEVIPOL is hiring! We're looking for a full-time Data Manager to join our team at @sciencepoulb.bsky.social (50% CEVIPOL, 50% ‪‪ @thesocialstudy.bsky.social) 🔍Data cleaning, ethics compliance, open science & more 📍Brussels 🗓20.06.2025 @ulbruxelles.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/345555

📣 Join us for the BrIAS/CEVIPOL seminar with Arun Chaudhary: "The Filibuster for Democracy" 🗓 Wednesday 7th of May 2025, 13:30 - 16:00 📍BrIAS: maps.app.goo.gl/umz65m1EkXhB... ⚠ Please register here: lnkd.in/eAyZ9jDW 🔗Full info: lnkd.in/eYPgT55H 📽️ Livestream: lnkd.in/dVVeJJ8D

🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest – BrIAS x ULB Solidarity Fellowships 🚨 Are you a researcher at risk working on democratic governance? The new BrIAS program invites expressions of interest from early-career researchers who wish to apply for a ULB postdoctoral Solidarity Fellowship.

Our paper with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social is now out in the latest issue of @govandopp.bsky.social! We interviewed 25 far-right activists in Italy during COVID-19 to explore how they reframed migration narratives while the issue faded from public attention. doi.org/10.1017/gov.... Thread👇

Shocker www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Dear Bluesky Community, in the Netherlands there are protest this week against government cuts to universities. I’m wondering if there are similar cuts implemented or planed in EU? Could you point me to information sources, newspapers articles about this? Thank you!

Join us Apr 3, 2:30PM GMT for the Social Movs & Pol Action Sem! "Movement Parties of the Far Right: Understanding Nativist Mobilization" @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it Info: cies.iscte-iul.pt/np4EN/4434.h... Link: bit.ly/3D9XRP3@CIES...

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

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Join us March 7 (4pm) @wzb.bsky.social for the book presentation "Movement Parties of the Far Right" with @andreapirro.it & @pietrocastellig.bsky.social +Info & registration www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal... It's part of our Lecture Series 'Civil Society and Political Conflict' www.wzb.eu/en/node/62311

The call for applications for the doctoral Summer School on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy" is still open!! The application deadline is February 17. More information here: www.chairedemocratie.com/files/sites/...

Excited to share that the Introduction to our upcoming Oxford Uni Press volume is now open access! We present the framework to understand far-right collective actors as movement parties. Read it here: academic.oup.com/book/58876/c...

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No. 12: We hosted the 4th ECPR Summer School on Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics organized by @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

SciencePo ULB is hiring! Full-time position: Department of political science, focus on international relations & international conflict Deadline: 01/02/2025 Job description: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... Join the nicest academic work environment in Europe, the world 🌐, the universe 🌠

Looking forward to presenting my research in Brussels today! Thanks @pietrocastellig.bsky.social for the invitation. Join us at 12:30 at ULB/online if you want to discuss the mainstreaming of the far right cevipol.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/mainstrea...