With a renewed focus on fascist discourse and iconography taking place across the world, a call for papers on the international dimensions of fascism has been issued for a workshop taking place in Mexico in June 2017.

The workshop, ‘Fascism and the International: The Global Order Yesterday and Tomorrow,’ will be hosted from 18 to 20 June at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. It is being organised by Kent Law School Lecturer Dr Rose Sydney Parfitt who is currently based at Melbourne Law School undertaking a three-year research project with funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Although the workshop leans towards the field of international law, Dr Parfitt says its character is strongly interdisciplinary and interventions (including textual, visual and aural interventions) from individuals and groups working in all disciplines are welcome.
Possible topics are detailed in the Call For Papers document.

Paper proposals are invited from scholars, artists and activists working in and across the fields of international law, history, history of art, international relations, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology, political theory, geography, feminist studies, queer theory and critical race theory. Abstracts must be submitted to rose.parfitt@unimelb.edu.au no later than Wednesday 1 March 2017. As spaces are very limited, anyone hoping for their application to be considered is encouraged to contact Dr Parfitt as soon as possible before this deadline.

The workshop, part of a wider project, entitled ‘International Law and the Legacies of Fascist Internationalism’, is funded by ARC, Melbourne Law School and the University of Melbourne. Amongst the activities, there will be an introduction to (and a tour of) the Museo de Arte Moderno, a landmark in modernist architecture and home to one of the most important collections of anti-fascist art in Latin America.