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From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Orientalist Concurrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Christiane Gruber
September 22 from 3:00pm \u2013 4pm EST
Voorhees Hall, room 001, followed by a reception
Zoom registration:\u00a0bit.ly\/CGruber<\/a><\/p>\n

When ISIS militants burst onto the scene more than six years ago, journalists and pundits were quick to label the Islamist group a medieval martial movement. Since then, however, scholars have shown how this particular extremist group – one among many ultraist socio-political formations active worldwide – should in fact be considered hyper-modern in its use of futuristic-nostalgic rhetoric, astutely crafted visual messaging, and vast portfolio of media and communication technologies.<\/p>\n

As of late, however, ISIS has been outstripped in sheer production and online presence by right-wing political groups in Europe and the United States, such as Identity Evropa, Alternativ f\u00fcr Deutschland, Act for America, and Stop Islamization of America. A close analysis of the rhetorical and visual production of these Euro-American extremist and hate groups reveals not a diametric clash with ISIS\u2019s own output but rather a concurrence in symbolic lexica, in which, above all, a new form of Orientalism – of anathemizing the perceived other – is asserted to craft and entrench a nativist stance. This \u201cborder security\u201d stance involves a range of identity-based taxonomic simplifications as well as a calculated visual instrumentalization of fears linked to migration, miscegenation, and misogyny.<\/p>\n

Dr. Christiane Gruber<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Islamic Art and Former Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan as well as Founding Director of\u00a0Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online<\/a>. Her scholarly work (available\u00a0here<\/a>) explores medieval to contemporary Islamic art, especially figural representation, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, manuscripts and book arts, architecture, and modern visual and material cultures. Her two most recent publications include\u00a0The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World<\/a>, and her public-facing essays have appeared in\u00a0Newsweek,\u00a0The Conversation,\u00a0New Lines,\u00a0Jadaliyya, and\u00a0Prospect Magazine, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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