Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews) "The Violence of Anxiety", 3.30pm E. Wright, F61
Dr Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews) opens the CGSG Seminar Series this semester with a talk on Hungary's extreme right. Dr Murer, who holds a joint appointment in the Schools of International Relations and Psychology, works on the relationship between anxiety, social action and violence. He has published on anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Central & Eastern Europe, the Former Yugoslavia, the Northern Caucasus, and now focuses on multiethnic neighbourhoods in the UK, Central and Northern Europe, latterly as the Principal Investigator of the European Survey of Youth Mobilisation (ESYM).
Dr Murer's talk for our Seminar Series is entitled "The Violence of Anxiety: The Collective Action of Hungary's Extreme Right in a Time of Austerity."
Discussant: Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Cristina Flesher Fominaya will act as discussant to the paper. Dr Fominaya's research interests also focuses on social movements, and among other things she is the editor of Interface, a new and highly successful journal which publishes cutting-edge research on social movements.