F-WORD NEXT EVENTS
Workshop “Theorizing Fascism through Ethnography: Anthropological Insights for Today’s Political Landscape”
Call For Papers and Contributions
Workshop organizzato da Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società – Università di Torino nell’ambito del progetto ERC “The world behind a word. An anthropological exploration of fascist practices and meanings among European youth” (F-WORD)
Torino, February 2nd – 3rd 2026
Deadline, August 30th 2025
The EASA Anthropology of Fascisms (AnthroFa) Networkopen_in_new and the ERC project F-WORDopen_in_new “The world behind a word. An anthropological exploration of fascist practices and meanings among European youth” are delighted to invite contributions for their joint workshop on “Theorizing Fascism through Ethnography: Anthropological Insights for Today’s Political Landscape”.
The workshop will focus on the intertwinement of ethnography and fascism as a theoretical category, without getting into an endless discussion about the “right” use of fascism as a concept, and keeping in mind the dynamic nature of its manifestations as a social phenomenon. We invite researchers and network members to share about their ethnographic experiences and how they have shaped and reflected their field of inquiry.
On the grounds of recent events and state-of-the-art research on fascism undertaken all over the world, we want to mobilize anthropological insights in order to offer a space of discussion on the multiple complexities of contemporary scenarios. We are surrounded by growing militarisation, wars, the political re-elaboration of history and of memory politics, criminalisation of migrations, the backlash against feminists and gender struggles, ecological crisis and exploitation of resources. Moreover, we are increasingly faced with urgent calls for analysis as we are witnessing a live-streamed genocide in Gaza and Palestine, which makes visible the Zionist colonial-imperial project, and – at the same time – the instrumentalization of, and simultaneous growth of, multiple expressions of antisemitism.
Fascism as a category can function as a heuristic device for the analysis of these themes and of the continuities between soil exploitation, colonialism, racism, and multiple forms of nationalism that have been taking place across times and spaces.
The workshop offers a space to discuss the intertwinement between theory, fieldwork, empirical acknowledgement and reckoning of fascist practices as anthropological conundrum, moving from contributors’ ethnographic experiences.
We invite contributions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following macro-themes:
1) Praxes of “othering”: mobilisations of “anti”-migration, “anti”-gender, “anti”-feminist, “anti”- Islam, “anti”-gypsyism, “anti”-institutional… discourses;
2) Capitalist accumulation: exploitation of natural resources and living beings through technology, labour, ecology and digitisation;
3) The diachronic and ethnographic theorisation of multiple forms and materialisations of racism, colonialism, nationalism, white supremacy;
4) The political use and circulation of memories, future imaginaries, identity, social reproduction and historical transition.
We encourage generative exchanges, providing a platform for collective dialogue and reflection.
There is no set format for presentations; instead, we encourage the sharing of work-in-progress, questions, reflections, as well as creative approaches to exploring the workshop’s themes. We thus welcome written/spoken work, as well as films, creative work, visual illustrations, research agendas, and other exploratory works. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, and participants are encouraged to explore formats that extend beyond these suggestions.
The workshop will take place on February 2nd and 3rd 2026, at the University of Turin (Italy).
Funding from both EASA and ERC F-WORD project will be dedicated to facilitating early-career or precarious scholars’ expenses related to travel and accommodation.
We ask interested authors to send us their submissions by the 30th of August, sharing with us a title, an abstract of 250 words and a short biography. Please, include a note to let us know if you need funding to attend the workshop.
Please send your proposals to:
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (maddalenagretel.cammelli@unito.it),
Elena Miltiadis (miltiadiselena@gmail.com),
and Nicolas Petel-Rochette (nicolaspetelrochette@protonmail.com).
The organising committee (Easa AnthroFa network convenors and F-WORD team):
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (University of Turin), Elena Miltiadis (Durham University), Nicolas Petel-Rochette (Université du Québec à Montréal), Marco Bernardi (University of Turin), Chiara Calzana (University of Turin), Chiara Magliacane (University of Turin), Marta Panighel (University of Turin), Gabriele Vitale (University of Turin).
Find Annex 1 here: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=am3b
F-WORD PAST EVENTS
Symposium on feminist ethnography and anthropology of reproduction
19th June 2024
Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Aula 3D233
Organizzato da Università di Torino – Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società nell’ambito del progetto ERC F-WORD
Program:
9.30 – 11.00
Talk and Roundtable on Racism and Reproduction
Dána-Ain Davis (City University of New York), BLACK ANTIBODIES: The Traumatic Repercussions of Obstetric Racism
Discussants: Chiara Quagliariello (McGill University, University of Naples Federico II) and Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz (Roma Tre University)
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00
Roundtable – Reproduction and Politics
Chair: Alessandra Gribaldo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Intervenants:
Valentina Fusari (University of Turin), Fear of African Wombs in Colonial Eritrea (1882-1952)
Laura Ferrero (University of Turin), Assisted Reproduction from behind the bars in Palestine
Elisa Muntoni (University of Turin), Pronatalist Policies at the Time of “Demographic Winter”. The Case of the “Vita Nascente” Fund in Piedmont
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30-16.30
Open Debate – Feminist Ethnography as a Tool for an Anthropological Investigation of Fascism
Organizing Committee:
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli, Marta Panighel, Chiara Quagliariello, Alessandra Gribaldo, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Chiara Calzana
Integralismi Europe
Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofasciamo
31st May 2024
Bologna University, Sala Riunioni, via Filippo Re 6
Program:
15:00 – 18:00
L’autore discute il libro con: Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (Università di Torino)
e i traduttori e curatori della collana: Berardino Palumbo (Università di Messina), Giovanni Pizza (Università di Perugia)
Coordina Bruno Riccio (Università di Bologna)
Kick-Off Conference ERC Project F-WORD
30th May 2024
Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Room Lauree Grande Blu
Program:
h. 9.00- 9.30
Institutional welcome
Vice-chancellor of University of Turin; Prof. Laura Scomparin
Head of the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society; Prof. Francesco Ramella
School of Anthropology, Prof. Adriano Favole
h. 9.30-10.00
ERC project: The world behind a word. An anthropological exploration offascist
practices and meanings among European youth (F-WORD)
Prof. Maddalena Gretel Cammelli, University of Turin
h.10.00- 11.00
Keynote: Integral Europe twenty years after. Actuality and questions for research
Prof. Douglas R. Holmes, State University of New York at Binghamton
h.11.00- 11.30
Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Round Table: Political ethnography in times of crisis
Prof. Martina Avanza, Lausanne University
Prof. Carlo Capello, University of Turin
Prof. Dana Ain Davis, City University of New York
Prof. Giovanni Semi, University of Turin
h.13.00- 14.30
Lunch break
h.14.30- 16.00
Round Table: Fascist legacy from colonialism to contemporary times
Dr. Massimiliano Livi, Trier University
Dr. Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto
Prof. Barbara Sorgoni, University of Turin
Prof. Bruno Riccio, University of Bologna
h.16.00- 16.30
Coffee break
h.16.30- 17.30
Keynote: Contemporary fascist inspirations and capitalist evolutions:
perspectives from social anthropology
Prof. DonKalb, Bergen University
h.17.30
Final discussion
h.18.00
Drinks reception
EXTREME/MALECANE
3rd April 2024
Torino,Cineteatro Baretti, Via G. Baretti 4
Spettacolo Teatrale
Regia e soggetto: Paola Pisciottano, bolognaprocess
Con: Marios Bellas, Debora Binci, Esther Gouarné, Aymeric Trionfo
Tecnico: Gaspard Samyn
