Johannes von Moltke is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, as well as Film, Television, and Media, at the University of Michigan. In his series of talks at UW–Madison (February 25-27, 2025), Professor von Moltke examined how the New Right mobilizes arts and ideas in the contemporary culture wars. He explored their use of media strategies, identity politics, and conspiracy theories, as well as their deliberate efforts to shift public discourse to the right—a tactic the New Right refers to as “metapolitics.” Drawing his guiding questions and methods from Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Professor von Moltke analyzed the New Right’s metapolitical maneuvers on both sides of the Atlantic to better understand the antidemocratic appeals made in the name of an ethnonationalist, “identitarian” vision of the future.
Below are the lectures captured during Professor Johannes von Moltke’s visit to UW-Madison:
More information about the lectures can be found on Mosse Lectures.