Lowell Lecture
DISASTER NATIONALISM: is it the downfall of liberal civilization?
Date & Time
Feb. 18, 2025 at 5 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Location
Virtual
, MA
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Richard Seymour, a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, has been watching the disturbing political developments in Europe and elsewhere; his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, analyzes the roots, influencers and threats that this global shift poses. Sasha Abramsky, political journalist and writing lecturer at UC Davis, is a correspondent for The Nation magazine. Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond, specializing in the history of far-right extremism, racism, and migration.
Presenting Organization
Contact
Mary Stack (director@cambridgeforum.org, 6174952727)
Are we on the brink of a new and irreversible epoch; one that signals the end of democratic civilization as we have known it? Hard right political groups like Germany’s AfD party, which has roots in Nazi ideology, have celebrated Trump’s second term along with other extreme European politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban who announced that he had “downed vodka” in celebration of Trump’s win. Cambridge Forum has invited three experts to consider the current political situation, from a US and global perspective.