Across the globe, right-wing populist movements and extreme right-wing parties and actors attempt to challenge sociall yestablished and research-based understandings of history and reinterpret the past according to their own ideas. Titled “Re- Visions of History in Right-Wing Populism and the Far Right – European and Global Perspectives”, this year’s annual conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”, looks at the strategies of denial, obfuscation, counter-narratives, myths, and national patterns of justification, and narratives of past national greatness and necessary rebirth as central compoments of right-wing views of history. The conference will bring together expertise from different European countries, and it will also look at right-wing populist movements and far-right thinking in the US, India, and Japan.
The conference is co-organized by Achim Saupe (ZZF, LRAVoP), Clara Frysztacka (Heinrich Böll Foundation), Magdalena Saryus-Wolska (GHI Warsaw), together with Arnold Bartetzky (GWZO), Frank Bösch (ZZF), Barbara Christophe (GEI), Paula Diehl (Universität Kiel/International Populism Research Network), Heike Liebau (ZMO), Mascha Neumann (ZZF, LRAVoP), Sabine Mannitz (PRIF), Christian Rau (IfZ), Karin Reichenbach (GWZO), Hans-Ulrich Wagner (HBI). Sabine Mannitz additionally participates in the conference and moderates a panel discussing global perspectives.
When: 8th of September, 2025 at 16:30 pm
Where: Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin
The conference is co-organized by institutes of the Max Weber Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Registration is requested. More information can also be found on the Heinrich Böll Stiftung website.
The Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past” examines the importance of the past as compared with the present, it refers to the extent to which an era looks to the past for guidance as to its future course, and, as a value system it encompasses the historically rooted core beliefs of a society or of particular groups or milieus.