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VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023

Name: J.M. Berger

Title: The Conceptualisation of Extremism Online

Outline: The rise of the online environment has been a game changer in enabling extremist movements to destabilize civil societies around the globe. This presentation explores the interface between extremism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent extremism online.

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2022

Speaker: J.M. Berger

Title: The Conceptualisation of Extremism Online

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023

Name: Kristina Kirk, Principal Advisor, Christchurch Call Unit, New Zealand Government

Title: The Christchurch Call

Outline: This presentation will discuss the establishment and evolution of The Christchurch Call, an initiative arising as a consequence of the livestreaming of an horrific terrorist event in New Zealand in 2019. The Call outlines collective, voluntary commitments from Governments and online service providers designed to address the issue of terrorist and violent extremist content online and to prevent the abuse of the internet as occurred during and after the Christchurch attacks.

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Spring 2024: Studying Right-Wing Extremism

Speaker: Sam Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. His research focuses on right-wing extremism in the United States; extremism online; social media, activism, and conflict; and computational social science.

Presented by Seán Looney

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023

Name: Dr. Rohit Chopra

Title: Online Hindu extremism: Local, national, and global dimensions Outline: This presentation traces the history of online Hindu extremism, from its origins in the early years of the post-web internet to its significant amplification during the last decade with the political ascendancy of the Hindu Right in India. Delineating the key characteristics of online Hindu extremism, the presentation describes how online Hindu extremism feeds off local, national, and global developments and operates at each of these levels.

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2022

Speaker: Prof Maura Conway

Title: Online extremism and terrorism research: Where we’ve been, where we’re going

Outline: As part of the inaugural guest lecture for the 2022 series, Prof Maura Conway discusses “Online extremism and terrorism research: Where we’ve been, where we’re going”. The lecture is preceded by an introduction by VOX-Pol co-ordinator Prof Stuart Macdonald and is followed by a Q&A moderated by Seán Looney.