Peter Hervik: The Annoying Difference after 9/11. Neo-racism and neo-nationalism on the rise

Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 invites you to the lecture entitled

The Annoying Difference after 9/11: Neo-racism and neo-nationalism on the rise 

Including reflections on the current issue of cartoon crisis

Guest lecturer: Peter Hervik

Professor of Media and Migration at Aalborg University

Peter Hervik had done work on Muhammad cartoon crisis showing how the news media shapes understandings and perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Denmark. 

He also analysed the role of anthropological inquiry in addressing media representations of migrant minorities in his book The Annoying Difference; The Emergence of Danish Neo-nationalism, Neo-racism, and Populism the post 1989 World.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 15 January 2015, 10.00 am

at the Institute for Minority Studies

1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30., 3rd floor