The WSU Humanities Center invites faculty, students, staff, and the community to a Brown Bag presentation given by Sylvia Taschka (Professor, History) on the topic of "A Different Shade of Green: Environmentalism and the Radical Right in Germany".

Abstract: People often associate environmentalism with the left side of the political spectrum. But in Germany, the extreme right can look back on a long tradition of a general concern for the protection of nature—albeit one that was tainted by Nazism. Nevertheless, the efforts of the German ‘New Right’ to reclaim the topic of environmentalism have recently become more successful, something my talk will demonstrate by looking at radical right wing intellectuals’ societal impact. Is environmentalism flexible enough to be adapted by the radical right? Put differently, is the specter of “eco-fascism” a real threat to our world’s open societies?

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