Deadline: 29 May 2026

Open call for papers for three panels at the forthcoming Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), held at the University of Trento from 3-5 September 2026. The three sessions articulate three complementary strands of research on the European far right: postwar revolutionary neofascism, transnational far-right mobilisations, and the religious dimension of the radical right.

Panel 2.2 (Section 2, Political Theory and Political History)

“Revolutionary Neofascism in Europe: Transnational Networks, Metapolitics, and Political Violence from Jeune Europe to Third Positionism (1962-today)”

The panel addresses the post-1962 generation that broke with parliamentary nostalgia and articulated a third-position project at once anti-capitalist and anti-communist. Particular attention will be paid to the entanglement of metapolitical strategy and armed praxis.

Panel 5.4 (Section 5, Participation, Social Movements, Interests)

“Transnational Far-Right Mobilizations: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Dynamics, and Emerging Trajectories”

Cross-border far-right cooperation is mapped from the Black International of the 1960s through to the digital identitarian galaxy of today. Papers may draw upon social-movement studies, party politics, or the historiography of postwar neofascism.

Panel 13.6 (Section 13, Politics and Religion)

“Between the Cross and the Rune. Integral Catholicism, Pagan Esotericism, and Conversions to Islam in the European Far Right”

The session interrogates the ambivalent bond between the radical right and the sacred, ranging from integral Catholicism through Evolian esotericism to trajectories of conversion to Islam.

Submissions are open on the SISP portal

Submission deadline: 29 May 2026. Papers in English and Italian are equally welcome. Proposals from doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers are particularly encouraged.