Resisting Fascism

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Event 04 / October 8

October 8

Resisting
Fascism

October

2026 / Thursday

Official event poster / Sociology + AnthropologyIdeas Lounge

Keynote + panelRegistration open

A public programme bringing Black studies, Indigenous scholarship, research on far-right movements, political journalism, and literary reportage into conversation.

DateThursday, October 8, 2026

TimeKeynote 11:30 a.m. · Panel 2:00 p.m.

PlaceIdeas Lounge (EL1270) · MRU Library

Fascism is not only a historical label. It takes shape through political practices, exclusions, myths of national restoration, racial and colonial hierarchies, and the normalization of violence. This event gathers scholars and writers whose work helps identify how such formations travel through institutions, media, culture, and everyday life.

The programme begins with a keynote by Professor Rinaldo Walcott and reconvenes in the afternoon for a panel featuring Jeremy Appel, Eva Jewell, Kayla Preston, and Marcello Di Cintio.

How do fascist ideas become ordinary—and how can scholarship, journalism, cultural work, and collective action interrupt that normalization?

Programme / Two-part public event

Keynote + panel

11:30 a.m. / Keynote

Rinaldo Walcott

Professor Rinaldo Walcott is the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. His interdisciplinary scholarship moves across Black diaspora cultural studies, postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality, nations, citizenship, and multiculturalism.

Walcott’s keynote anchors a day concerned with the political and cultural conditions through which fascist formations become legible—and with the practices of freedom capable of contesting them.

Speaker profile ↗

2:00 p.m. / Panel

Four voices

The afternoon panel brings research, journalism, Indigenous thought, and literary nonfiction into a shared public conversation.

Journalism

Jeremy Appel ↗Independent journalist and author of Kenneyism: Jason Kenney’s Pursuit of Power.

Sociology

Eva Jewell ↗Anishinaabekwe sociologist from Deshkan Ziibiing whose work centres governance, kinship, care, and reclamation.

Research

Kayla Preston ↗Sociologist researching far-right extremism, political violence, gender, algorithms, and AI.

Writing

Marcello Di Cintio ↗Calgary author of literary reportage on borders, Palestine, labour, movement, and belonging.

Organized by

Sociology + Anthropology

Resisting Fascism is organized by Mount Royal University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and funded by the Faculty of Arts.

Department of Sociology + AnthropologyFaculty of ArtsMount Royal University

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