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Recommended readings:
Rambaran-Olm, Mary, M. Breann Leake, and Micah James Goodrich, ‘Mediaeval Studies: the Stakes of the Field,’ Postmedieval 11 (2020): 356-370.
Fuentes, Juan Francisco, ‘Totalitarian Language “Creating Symbols to Destroy Words”,’ Contributions to the History of Concepts 8.2 (2013): 45-66.

Recommended readings:
Webber, Shannon, ‘White Supremacy’s Old Gods,’ Political Research Associates, February 1, 2018.
Lincoln, Bruce, ‘Rewriting the German War God: Georges Dumézil, Politics and Scholarship in theLate 1930s,’ History of Religions, vol. 37.3 (1998): 187-208.

Meeting minutes.

Recommended readings:
Tansman, Alan. “Reading Fascism’s Form.” Representations 104, no. 1 (2008): 144–53.
Stewart, Ian. “Celticism, An Intellectual History” paper given on 21/10/21 at the CAWCS in Aberystwyth.

Recommended readings:
Mosse, George L., and Roger Griffin. “The Occult Origins of National Socialism.” In TheFascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism, 95–109. University of WisconsinPress, 2021.
Gardell, Mattias. “The Pagan Revival.” In Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, 137–64. Duke University Press, 2003.

Meeting minutes.

Recommended reading:
Adorno, Theodor, “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda”, ed., in The Culture Industry, J. M. Bernstein, (London: Routledge, 1991), 137.

George Bataille, “The Psychological Structure of Fascism,” trans. Carl R. Lovitt, New Critique 16 (1979)

Meeting minutes.

Recommended readings:
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin, 1974.
Andor, Tony Gilroy, 2022.
The Blood of Others, Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

Recommended readings:
Dr Ted McCormic, ‘Irish Slaves, from Myth to
“Debate”,’ and ‘How to Change History: William Petty, Irish Slavery, and a Fake Debate’
Liam Hogan, “Irish slaves: the convenient myth.”

Meeting minutes.

Recommended readings:
MAGLIOCCO, SABINA. “‘The Heart Is the Only Nation’: Neo-Paganism, Ethnic Identity, and the Construction of Authenticity.” In Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America, 205–38. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Furth, Brett H. “Ethnic Neo-Pagan Altars and Ancestors in Texas: An Ethnoreligious Strategy to Reconfigure European Ancestry and Whiteness.” Western Folklore 76, no. 3 (2017): 313–45.

Meeting Minutes.

Recommended readings:
Thorn, Abigail. “I Read The Most Misunderstood Philosopher In The World.” Youtube. May 17th, Educational video, 1:15:08.
Schnurbein, Stefanie von. “Gender and Sexuality.” In Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism, 216–50. Brill, 2016.

Meeting minutes.

Recommended readings:
Kathleen Belew, ‘The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline’, from The Atlantic on December 14th 2022.
Cynthia Eller, ‘Matriarchy and the Volk’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81.1 (2012): 188-221.

Meeting minutes.

Recommended reading:
Rodway, Simon. “The Mabinogi and the Shadow of Celtic Mythology” in Studia Celtica no. 52, 2018.

Recommended reading:
Benjamin, Walter (1935). “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,”trans. Harry Zohn, in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books,1969.)

Meeting minutes.

Recommended readings: Williams, Maggie M., David Perry, and Geraldine Heng. “‘Celtic’ Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness.” In Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past, edited by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O’Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, and Nina Rowe, 1st ed., 220–32. Fordham University Press, 2019.

Hague, Euan, Benito Giordano, and Edward H. Sebesta. “Whiteness, Multiculturalism and Nationalist Appropriation of Celtic Culture: The Case of the League of the South and the Lega Nord.” Cultural Geographies 12, no. 2 (2005): 151–73.

Recommended reading: Eco, Umberto. “Ur-Fascism”. New York Review of Books, 1995.

Recommended reading: Rachel Moss, “Teaching Medieval Chivalry in an Age of White Supremacy.” New Chaucer Studies 3, 2, 2022.