“He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future,”
- Hitler
- Moms for Liberty, Hamilton Co., Indiana Chapter

A call for original research from scholars in the social and behavioral sciences and humanities.
SubMISSION FORM 

While much scholarly attention has been on how far-right extremism has influenced U.S. national politics, less studied, and perhaps more ominous, is the equivocal degree to which far- right extremists have entered and reshaped state and local governments, as well as other public institutions. We see harmful legislation being passed in Statehouses, district lines are being redrawn to edge out competitors, school boards are imposing distorted curricula, and libraries are being forced to remove books that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. To effectively challenge the spread of far-right extremism, we need to first understand where and how the various movements within the far-right agenda work.

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University is organizing a second symposium on far-right extremism and will select up to sixteen papers that include original research on any aspect of the spread of the far-right extremism in U.S. state, local, and other public institutions. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited, to the activity and influence of the far-right on:

• Legislation
• Courts
• Education
• Public Health
• Religious Institutions
• Law Enforcement and the Military
• Social Networks and Media

In addition to the influence of the far-right on specific government, institutional, and social systems, we are also interested in research that considers:

• How the far-right should be defined as it moves from the fringe to the mainstream
• Historical precedents, and cases, of far-right activism and infiltration
• The role and reach of newer sub-ideologies, such as the INCEL movement or traditional gender movements, such as tradwives
• The role of misinformation and conspiracy theories