Talk at Dominion Chalmers on misogyny and far-right extremism.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss gave a talk about her new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Far Right Extremism (Princeton UP, 2025) at Dominion Chalmers Thursday October 30th to a robust crowd.  Miller-Idriss is an international expert in the study of extremism, radicalization, and polarization and founding director of the PERIL Lab at American University in Washington DC. Her work bridges academic research and practical interventions and she is frequently called upon to advise governments, schools, and NGOs on how to tackle the pressing problem of hate which she comes at from an intersectional perspective. She is a frequent contributor to national and international media.

Miller-Idriss was in Ottawa as part of a three-day workshop at Carleton that Jennifer Evans organized on “Hate, Conspiracy and the Theat to Democracy” together with Sandra Robinson in Communication. Funded by the Canada’s Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada, the workshop brought scholars, students, and journalists to Carleton from the UK, Germany, and the United States. It also included a stakeholder outreach event, with several youth-serving organizations in attendance eager to explore rubber-meets-the-road solutions to the rise in hate affecting at risk populations. Miller-Idriss’s talk was also supported by the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of London and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Canada/US.