Copenhagen Centre for Political Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies (CoMMonS)

Watch the Video CoMMonS online book talk by Donatella della Porta, author of How Social Movements
Can Save Democracy: Democratic Innovations from Below. Polity, 2020.

Discussants

• Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor of Sociology, New York University
• Laura Gorriahn, Researcher, ERC Project Protest and Order. Contentious Politics, Democratic Theory and the Changing Shape of Western Democracy, Humboldt Universität of Berlin
• Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, CoMMonS

Moderator and Co-Host:

Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University, Department of Political and Social Sciences

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Watch the Video CoMMonS Online book panel by Eléonore Lépinard, author of Feminist Trouble. Intersectional Politics in Postsecural Times. Oxford, 2020.

Talk co-organized with the Council of European Studies Network on Immigration Research

Discussants

• Gökce Yurdakul, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Teresa Cappiali, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University Department of Gender Studies

Moderator: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen,

Head of CoMMonS

Host: Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University,

Department of Political and Social Sciences

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Watch the CoMMonS book talk by Paul Lichterman, author of How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles, Princeton University Press, 2021. With

• Kathleen Blee, Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
• Benedikte Brincker, Associate Professor of Sociology, Head of Department, University of Copenhagen
• Liv Egholm, Associate Professsor, Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy,

Head of Center for Civil Society Studies, Copenhagen Business School

• Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Co-host/Moderation: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Head of CoMMonS

Co-host: Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University, Department of Political and Social Sciences

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Watch the Video CoMMonS Online book panel Jan 18th 2023

Anita Nissen: Europeanisation of the Contemporary Far Right. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy (2022).

Discussants:

Raphael Schlembach, University of Brighton

Manès Weiskircher, University of Oslo and TU Dresden

Host: Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen, Sociology, CoMMonS

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CoMMonS book talk by Julia Rone (author of Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the EU: Protest Diffusion in Complex Media and Political Arenas).

Discussants: Cristina Flesher (Loughborough University),

James M. Jasper (CUNY)

Moderator: Alice Mattoni, University of Bologna, Sociology

Host: Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen, Sociology, CoMMonS

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• Oscar Agustín, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University
• Tina Askanius, Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication, Malmö University
• Hanne Bess Bjoelsbjerg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University
• Bolette Blaagaard, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University
• Thomas P. Boje, Professor of Global Political Sociology, Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv, Roskilde University
• Maria Brock, Postdoctoral Researcher, Malmö University.
• Teresa Cappiali, Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University
• Bente Castro Campos, Postdoc, Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Research, University of Giessen.
• Joost de Moor, Postdoc, Political Science Department, Stockholm University,
• Marco Antonio dos Santos Teixeira, Researcher in Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin
• Ane Grubb, Postdoc, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University in Copenhagen
• Christina Hansen, PhD student, Malmö University
• Silas Harrebye, Associate Professor, Global Political Sociology, Roskilde University
• Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna.
• Susi Meret, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University
• Lara Monticelli, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CBS
• Renata Campos Motta, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin
• Gritt Nielsen, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Aarhus University
• Anita Nissen, PhD student, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University
• Pauline Stoltz, Associate Professor, Political Science, Aalborg University
• Christel Stormhøj, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
• Christian Franklin Svensson (PhD), Department of Sociology and Social Work, The Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University
• Cecelia Walsh-Russo, Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University
• Sophia Wathne, PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore
• Manes Weisskircher, Researcher, Political Theory, Dresden University
• Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Lund University
• Noa Milman, Researcher, DeZIM Institut, Berlin

CoMMonS online research discussion panel 
Liberal democracy faced with far right government: Europe and Trump II.

Speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Ruth Wodak (Vienna/Lancaster Universities, emerita)
• Anja Wehler-Schöck (Der Tagesspiegel, international editor)
• Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (Universität Darmstadt/ConTrust)
• Dr. Manès Weisskircher (TUD/REXKLIMA)
• Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak (DeZIM).

Host: Associate Prof Nicole Milman-Dörr, (PolarVis/CoMMonS UCPH),

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Watch the International Workshop Black Lives Matter and Antiracist Mobilizations in Europe – one Year after the Death of George Floyd

Co-hosts: CoMMonS Research Centre, University of Copenhagen; DeZIM-Institute Berlin; COSMOS Research Centre, Florence; Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

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Watch the video “Migration and Racism in Europe” Online seminar organized by CoMMonS/UCPH and Council of European Studies Migration Research Network.

Presenters:

Cynthia-Miller Idriss, American University: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right.

Dorit Geva, Central European University: The EU as Racialized Trading Zone.

Eviane Leidig, University of Oslo: Love Jihad: Comparing Islam, sexuality, and femonationalism between far right women in India and the West.

Noa Milman, University of Copenhagen: Changing the Danish Welfare State:Immigration, Welfare and Criminal Justice Policies.

Özgür Özvatan, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Gender and Islam in the German Far Right.

Moderator:

Gökce Yurdakul, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research.

Host: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology, CoMMonS.

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Watch CoMMonS digital keynote talk **Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France**

Keynote speaker: Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant: Anna Korteweg, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Host: Nicole Doerr, CoMMonS, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology

Co-organized by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Sociology in collaboration with the CES Immigration Research Network

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Watch the CoMMonS online seminar

Far-right Digital and Visual Mobilization and Gender in Scandinavia

October 2, 2020

Panelists:

*Tina Askanius, Malmö University: "Memes and/as Visual Mobilization of the Neo-Nazi Movement in Sweden"

*Sarah Awad and Anita Nissen, Aalborg University: "Visual Analysis of the Danish People's Party's Facebook Images"

*Ov Cristian Norocel, Lund University: "The Extreme Right Metapolitical Project in the Digital Age: Intersectional Perspectives"

*Anton Törnberg, University of Gothenburg: "Social Media Mechanisms for Right-Wing Political Violence in the 21st Century"

Discussant: Birte Siim, Aalborg University

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Watch this short clip on climate change and protest in times of Covid based on the kick-off Webinar for the CoMMonS Research Centre “Social Movements and Political Mobilisation in Times of Global Pandemic on April 27-28.

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Watch the CoMMonS webinar Civil society responses to pandemic

Speakers:

• Priska Daphi, Bielefeld University: Watchdog, innovator, service provider? Civil society in states of emergency
• Jonas Toubøl, Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen; Snorre Ralund, University of Copenhagen, Sociology: Solidarity and Volunteering in the Coronavirus Crisis
• Thomas P. Boje, Roskilde University: The Populist Challenge – may civil society involvement be an answer?”
• Óscar Agustín, Aalborg University: ‘You are not alone’; how to build solidarity in spaces of distance

Chair: Malgorzata Kurjanska, University of Copenhagen, Sociology

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Watch the CoMMonS webinar Panel Climate Justice activism in times of Pandemic

• Stine Krøijer: University of Copenhagen, Anthropology: Civilization as the Undesired World: Radical Environmentalists, Indigenous Peoples and the Uses of Dystopia in Times of Climate Crisis
• Lasse Lindekilde and Thomas Olesen, Aarhus University: When does climate change concern lead to climate activism and pro-environmental consumption? The role of physical proximity, nature of imposed project and personal costs
• Mattias Wahlström, Göteborg University and Katrin Uba, Uppsala University: Conceptualizing and exploring the ‘Greta effect’ on micro-mobilization for climate protest
• Joost de Moor, Stockholm University: Postapocalyptic environmentalism and the missing movement on transformative climate adaptation.
• Maria Chiara Franceschelli, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow: Good Example and New Needs: How Russian Social Movements Shape Environmental Policy.

Discussant: Anders Blok, University of Copenhagen, Sociology

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Watch the CoMMonS Plenary Debate: what pathways should societies take now and following the pandemic?

Speakers:

• Sabrina Zajak, DeZIM Institute: (The urgent need for) Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis in the Global North and South
• Cristina Flesher, Loughborough University: Hybrid Autonomy as Political Ethos and Strategy
• Peter Abrahamson, University of Copenhagen, Sociology: Welfare services as a precondition for a flourishing civil society? Denmark during the Corona crisis
• Malgorzata Kurjanska: University of Copenhagen, Sociology: A struggle for moral superiority: politics and protests in the time of the Corona in Poland
• Sophia Wathne: Scuola Normale Superiore: Food sovereignty and Covid-19
• Vasilis Galis, ITU: Comments on migration and application of digital media in Greece

Chair: Noa Milman, University of Copenhagen, Sociology

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Watch the CoMMonS Online webinar: Intersectionality, Migration, Struggles for Citizenship

Participants:

• Jean Beaman, UC Santa Barbara: “Living on the Margins, before and during COVID-19”?
• Eléonore Lépinard, Université de Lausanne: Feminist Trouble. Race, Whiteness and Intersectionality in Feminist Movements
• Pauline Stoltz, Aalborg University: Gendered and intersectional aspects of Corona-shaming and shaming as a social movement strategy
• Tunay Altay and Gökce Yurdakul, Humboldt University of Berlin: Embodying Bordering Practices: A Study of Trans* Migrants Occupied with Street Sex Work in Berlin.
• Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies in the Production of Non-Belonging

Chair: Birte Siim, Aalborg University

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Watch the CoMMonS Online Panel Visual mobilization, digital media, and conflicts about migration

With

• Tina Askanius, Malmö University: Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and ‘embedded feminism’
• Simon Teune, IPB/TU Berlin: Appropriation of Abhorred Symbols. The Case of the German Extreme Right
• Anne Ring Petersen, University of Copenhagen Arts and Cultural Studies: Postmigrant Mobilization and Art in Public Space: the Visual ‘Opening Act’ of the Maxim Gorki Theatre’s 4. Berliner Herbstsalon 2019
• Ekatherina Zhukova, Lund University: Using Historical Images of Atrocity for Right-Wing Political Mobilisation on Social Media
• Markus Lundström, Uppsala University: Digital Media and Collective Memories

Chair: Ekatherina Zhukova, Lund University

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Watch the Panel Theory and Social Movements in Times of Pandemic

With

• Geoffrey Pleyers FNRS-UCLouvain: CoVid outbreak as a battlefield for alternative futures: Progressive, capitalist and authoritarian movements’ narratives and alternative futures
• Mikael Carleheden, University of Copenhagen, Sociology: Theory and practice: Theorizing social movements from the perspective of Critical theory
• Margit Mayer, TU Berlin. What does it mean to be a (radical) urban scholar-activist, or activist scholar, in times of COVID?
• Håkan Thörn, Göteborg University: Critical social movement theory: Revisiting NSM theory and bringing Marx back in
• Stellan Vintagen, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Constructive Resistance among the Landless Workers in Brazil: How resistance can simultanously build up the future and more just society and resist the systems of oppressions of today

Chair: Jonas Toubøl, University of Copenhagen, Sociology

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Watch the CoMMonS Webinar Social Movements and Political Mobilisation in Times of Global Pandemic, Department of Sociology, UCPH

Panel Vulnerable voices, strikes, and protest--solidarity 'locked down'?

Presenters:

• Miguel Martinez, Uppsala University: Mutating Mobilisations during the Pandemic Crisis in Spain
• Kassim Alsraiha, Ben Gurion University: Citizenship and the Bedouin Minority in Israel in the shadow of COVID-19 crises
• Clement Petitjean, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin: Whatever Happened to the French Strike Movement? Keeping the struggle going in the time of Covid-19"
• Liora Sion, University of Copenhagen, Cross-cultural and regional studies: Citizenship, protest and Israel´s state of emergency
• Erika Skov, University of Copenhagen Anthropology: We want security, peace and tranquility–mobilization in two well-off Mexican communities at the US-Mexico border

Chair: Noa Milman, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology

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Watch the CoMMonS Panel Panel Social Movements Organizing and Endurance on April 27, 2020

Speakers:

• Donatella Della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore: Social movements in times of pandemic—and afterwards
• Lesley Wood, York University: Social Movements as Essential Service.
• Nina Eliasoph, USC: Bernie Sanders Activists and Mainstream Democratic Activists Imagining Multiple Unimaginable Futures in the United States a Few Months Before Total Collapse.
• Doug McAdam, Stanford University: COVID As Exogenous Shock: It Just Gets Curioser and Curioser
• Pascale Dufour, Université de Montréal, Contentious politics in time of pandemic: what does it change?

Chair: Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen, Sociology

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