Lecture: Gender, Economic Insecurity, and Nationalist Violence: Insights from the Movies, Applied to the United States

This lecture is part of the Economic Insecurity: Causes, Consequences and Actions (EICCA) research project.

The lecture will take place with a networking reception. Registration is mandatory and open until 22 April 2026. To register, please contact karan.singhal@uni.lu

This is the first of two lectures. The second lecture will take place on 24 April 2026, from 11:00 to 14:00

About the lecture:

This presentation draws on the conclusions of the author’s book, Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen (Cambridge UP, 2012), to generate early warning indicators of gendered nationalist violence. They include: economic decline that threatens men’s sense of manhood (“proliferation of small men”); restrictions on women’s reproductive rights; increase in domestic violence; and exclusion of all forms of political identity  (e.g., class or gender) except a nationalist one. It then considers a case not discussed in the book–that of the United States since 2016–to evaluate the prospects for nationalist violence that disproportionately affects women.

About the speaker:

Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science Emeritus in the Department of Government at Cornell Univerity, USA.