BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14577-bd393a342da6be3148c9ed916f7f32f7@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260530T231904Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250331 SUMMARY:“‘Cosmopolitans’ and ‘Globalists’: The Shameless Normalization of the ‘J ewish World Conspiracy’ Narrative” DESCRIPTION:\nAntisemitic conspiracy narratives are experiencing a resur gence today\, not only on social media but also in public discourse/s\, even in some government circles. For example\, many far-right politician s have blamed George Soros\, the Jewish American philanthropist of Hunga rian origin\, for complex global and local phenomena such as migration\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, inflation\, etc. In this context\, anti-Sorosis m refers to the global antisemitic anti-Soros campaign by far-right acti vists (Wodak 2020\, Richardson &\; Wodak 2023). Particularly during t he COVID-19 pandemic\, anti-vax activists repeatedly expressed world con spiracy narratives in public\, using the code word “cosmopolitan” as an allusion for “The Jew”—comprehensible for all those who belonged to the same epistemic community. Not surprisingly\, in 2025\, we are confronted with a new world conspiracy narrative which fallaciously claims that th e media\, politics\, science\, etc. (i.e. the “elites”) are controlled b y so-called “globalists” (Wodak &\; Ötsch 2024). In a propaganda vide o by the Austrian far-right party FPÖ\, we can observe a dystopian scena rio of a world controlled by “globalists”\, which only a “Fortress Austr ia” could withstand. It seems as if the term “globalist” has substituted the term “cosmopolitan” in its negative and stereotypical meaning of th e “Jewish World Conspiracy”. Against this backdrop\, in this lecture\, I argue that we are witnessing a shameless normalization of a traditional antisemitic stereotype\, which I label as the “Judeus ex Machina Strate gy”. In order to mount such an argument\, I will first focus on the hist ory of the “Jewish World Conspiracy” and then trace and analyze the visu al symbols and discursive codes realizing this antisemitic prejudice in many genres and public spheres\, specifically in the European context.\n \nThis event is generously supported by the Chaiken Dean's Fund for Anti semitism Education\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ cosmopolitans-and-globalists/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Antisemitic con spiracy narratives are experiencing a resurgence today, not only on soci al media but also in public discourse/s, even in some government circles . For example, many far-right politicians have blamed George Soros, the Jewish American philanthropist of Hungarian origin, for complex global a nd local phenomena such as migration, the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, etc. In this context, anti-Sorosism refers to the global antisemitic ant i-Soros campaign by far-right activists (Wodak 2020, Richardson & Wo dak 2023). Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vax activists repeatedly expressed world conspiracy narratives in public, using the c ode word “cosmopolitan” as an allusion for “The Jew”—comprehensible for all those who belonged to the same epistemic community. Not surprisingly , in 2025, we are confronted with a new world conspiracy narrative which fallaciously claims that the media, politics, science, etc. (i.e. the “ elites”) are controlled by so-called “globalists” (Wodak & Ötsch 202 4). In a propaganda video by the Austrian far-right party FPÖ, we can ob serve a dystopian scenario of a world controlled by “globalists”, which only a “Fortress Austria” could withstand. It seems as if the term “glob alist” has substituted the term “cosmopolitan” in its negative and stere otypical meaning of the “Jewish World Conspiracy”. Against this backdrop , in this lecture, I argue that we are witnessing a shameless normalizat ion of a traditional antisemitic stereotype, which I label as the “Judeu s ex Machina Strategy”. In order to mount such an argument, I will first focus on the history of the “Jewish World Conspiracy” and then trace an d analyze the visual symbols and discursive codes realizing this antisem itic prejudice in many genres and public spheres, specifically in the Eu ropean context.

This event is generously supported by the Chaiken Dean's Fund for Antisemitism Education

For more details: https://e vents.la.psu.edu/event/cosmopolitans-and-globalists/

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