See the full schedule at mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome/. Event times are Rome local.
Stream seminar proceedings here.
In 1963, historian George L. Mosse led a landmark seminar at Stanford University, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries to analyze the history of Nazism and Italian Fascism, just eighteen years after World War II. Their discussions defined the early parameters of European fascism amidst the post-war era’s intellectual landscape.
Sixty years later, the George L. Mosse Program in History is organizing a multi-day conference from January 9 to January 13, 2025, to reassess fascism in the context of contemporary European movements. More than thirty scholars from the US, Europe, the UK, and Israel will gather to critically examine and redefine “fascism” in light of present-day populist, anti-democratic, illiberal, and authoritarian ideologies.
The 2025 seminar aims to revisit earlier scholarly interpretations of far-right movements, initiated by figures like Mosse a generation earlier, while also seeking to reinterpret fascism through the lens of current geopolitical and cultural realities. This approach intends to expand upon and potentially revise existing understandings of the concept, fostering new insights and historiographical directions. Following the seminar, the committee plans to publish two companion volumes: Fascism Then, featuring annotated proceedings from the original 1963 seminar, and Fascism Now, a transcript of the 2025 discussions, to contribute to ongoing academic discourse on the subject.
