08.10.2026, 18:30 Uhr, Welcome to the Field? 

Verbal Slaps and Apple Strudel in Ethnographic Research on the Far Right 

18.30 GW2, B3009 

Vortragende: Piotr Kocyba, IFiS PAN Warschau und KPI Kiew; und Sebastian Sommer, FU Berlin

Drawing on years of research on far-right protests, Piotr Kocyba and Sebastian Sommer reflect onencounters ranging from hostility and exclusion to unexpected trust andhospitality. In a dialogical keynote,they discuss how to negotiate
positionality, access, and ethical responsibility while studying a politically charged and constantly
changing field. The keynote is part of the workshop Protest*Ethnography, organised by
the DVPW Working Group “Political Ethnography” in cooperation with the Horizon Project “Protest as a
Democracy Test: Protest CultureUnder Transformation and as a Transformative Power”.

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