OLLI 4 week Course on Right-Wing Movements
Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies Executive Director, Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, will be teaching a four-week course, "The History of Right-Wing Movements in the US," as part of UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
The course will provide an analytical overview of the American Right in the 20th century. How did it evolve? How has it evolved since the 1960s? What are the differences and similarities of the current American Right compared to other conservative movements in the West? Particular attention will be paid to the most recent right-wing movement, the Tea Party movement.
OLLI @ Berkeley is an inquiring and stimulating community of adults, age 50 and above, exploring new areas of knowledge and traditional disciplines, challenging and fascinating subject. Registrants must be at least 50 years old. Register for the course here.
Spring 2012 Events
"Berlusconi in Perspective: Personalization of Politics and Its Limits," featuring Sergio Fabbrini, Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the School of Government, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, with Lawrence Rosenthal, Executive Director of CRWS, as respondent.
Tuesday, February 7, 4:00-5:30pm, Wildavsky Conference Room, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley
Read a Berkeley News article reporting on this event here.
"How Liberalism Became the 'L-Word'," featuring Lawrence Rosenthal, Executive Director of CRWS, with Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History, UC Davis and CRWS Visiting Scholar, as respondent.
Tuesday, March 20, 4:00-5:30pm, Wildavsky Conference Room, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley
"Planning Against Planning: The Mont Pelerin Society and the Origins of Neoliberalism," featuring Angus Burgin, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, with David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, as respondent.
Thursday, April 5, 4:00-5:30pm, Wildavsky Conference Room, Institute for teh Study of Societal Issues, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley
"The Tea Party and the Future of the American Political Right," featuring Lawrence Rosenthal, Executive Director of CRWS.
Monday, April 16, 12:30-2:30pm, Conference Room, Luiss Guido Carli University, School of Government, Rome
Read more about our Spring 2012 events here.
CRWS People for the American Way Collection of Conservative Political Ephemera, 1980-2004, Now Available at the Bancroft Library
In June of 2010, People for the American Way donated its vast and unique collection of materials on the American Right to CRWS. This archive has been processed and is now permanently housed at UC Berkeley's prestigious Bancroft Library, one of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States, which is open to students and scholars from around the world.
Comprised of approximately 1,220 organizations, 300 individual files, and 80 rare right-wing magazines and newspapers, the Collection charts the flourishing movements of American conservatism from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century. The materials in the collection, which include organizations' and individuals' pamphlets, direct mailings, publications, speeches, conference programs, internal financial records, membership lists, fundraising strategies, voter guides, manuals, and biographies document the ideological orientations, policy positions, talking points, and organizational structures and strategies of hundreds of right-wing organizations, individuals, and publications. A large portion of the collection focuses specifically on documents associated with the "religious right." Of particular interest (due to scope) are materials pertaining to the American Family Association, Christian Coalition, Coalition for Better TV, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, the Moral Majority, and the Pat Robertson Papers. Additionally, there are comprehensive collections of the following publications: Charisma & Christian Life, Chalcedon Report, Chronicle, Focus on the Family and New American.
Issues covered in the Collection include political strategy and tactics, taxation, race, guns, the judiciary, marriage, homosexuality, foreign policy, the military, and the role of religion in American politics. It is our hope that political scientists, sociologists, historians, legal scholars, policy makers, and other scholars will use the collection to illuminate our historical and social understanding of the American Right.
To read more about the materials in the Collection and how to access them, click here.
CRWS (formerly named CCSRWM) Featured in The Berkeleyan
"Right-wing studies? At Berkeley? Neither left nor right, the 2-year-old Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements is leading the effort to fill a scholarship gap with roots in the Cold War." Read the full article here.
