Ninth Annual History Graduate Student Conference
Popular Politics: Violence, Repression, and Responses
The History Graduate Students Association (HGSA) at Stony Brook University, State
University of New York invites all graduate students in history and other affiliated
humanities and social sciences disciplines to attend our 9th annual interdisciplinary
graduate conference, “Popular Politics: Violence, Repression, and Responses.” Looking
at contemporary politics, Argentinian historian Federico Finchelstein, notes that
“crisis, xenophobia, and populism characterize our new century. But these traits are
not new nor were they simply reborn in our present". In his influential 2017 book,
From Fascism to Populism in History, Finchelstein invites us to explore the ways one can understand the apparent rebirth
of populism, fascism and other political shifts, through their ideologies, economic
policies, cultural, and societal impacts. With this, one can, as Finchelstein says,
"comprehend the history of its adoption and reformulation over time" and see if this
century has or not “left behind the history of violence, fascism, and genocide so
central to the twentieth century”. This year's conference explores popular politics
through the lens of violence, repression, and responses. In understanding political
shifts, crisis, ideologies, democratization, and the collapse of democracies, this
conference offers a space of dialogue, reflection and to ask how these were conceived,
interpreted, questioned, and how the current political trends pose threats to democracy,
equality, and academia.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 2, 2026 from 8:30AM - 5PM
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Date & Time: Thursday, April 2, 2026 from 8:30AM - 5PM
Email: