Benjamin Thomas (Nottingham)
Encounters with the Transnational Ideological Family: Articulating Particularism and Universalism in the European Center-Right
20.12.2023 17:15 Uhr – 18:45 Uhr
Historicum Room K001, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"
The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, December 20th, with a lecture by Junior Fellow Benjamin Thomas on "Encounters with the Transnational Ideological Family: Articulating Particularism and Universalism in the European Center-Right".
Benjamin Thomas is a scholar of political ideologies working at the intersections of political theory, political ideas, discourse theory, and ideational, political, and neoliberal histories. Prior to his fellowship at the KFG, he completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham, examining how political ideologies transform by looking domestically, comparatively, and transnationally at the “neoliberalization” of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) between 1945 and 1949 and the UK's Conservative Party in the 1970s. His work emphasizes the implications of the social construction of an ideology in an ideological community for its form, the positive justifications made for neoliberalisms with center-right ideologies, and the transnational flows of ideas in the center-right.
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