Extremism scholar Cynthia Miller-Idriss will return to Cornell University on Sept. 30 for a public lecture examining how misogyny and gender-based violence can contribute to mass, public and targeted violence.
The talk, “Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism,” is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in Room 132 of Goldwin Smith Hall. A reception at the A.D. White House will follow.
Miller-Idriss, a 1994 Cornell graduate, will draw from her recent book, “Man Up,” which argues that gender is often underemphasized in discussions about violent extremism and the pathways that lead to it.
Her book examines five ways misogyny is used to enforce modern patriarchal systems: containment, punishment, exploitation, erasure and enabling. Miller-Idriss argues that misogyny and gender-based bigotry connect multiple forms of hate and violence, including racist, anti-immigrant, antisemitic and Islamophobic ideas and attacks.
Cornell sociology professor Mabel Berezin, the faculty host for the lecture, said Miller-Idriss combines scholarship on global extremism with a practical public agenda focused on countering democratic backsliding.
Miller-Idriss is a professor in American University's School of Public Affairs and School of Education. She also founded the university's Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab, known as PERIL, which studies radicalization, polarization and strategies for preventing hate and violence.
At Cornell, Miller-Idriss studied sociology and German studies. She earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan in 2003 before building a research career focused on extremism and radicalization.
The University Lecture will give the Cornell community and other attendees an opportunity to hear how Miller-Idriss connects gender-based hostility with broader patterns of political and social violence. The event details released by Cornell did not list a registration requirement.
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