MEDIA APPEARANCES & PUBLIC EVENTS
I do a considerable amount of media and public events, and while not everything is streamed or archived online, below you will find a sample of the television, panel discussions, film, radio, and podcast appearances I’ve done over the course of the past few years. I address a variety of subjects, ranging from Tom Metzger and the transnational white supremacist movement to ISIS strategic communications, Orientalism, and digital literacy in a post-truth era.
Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping track of my media appearances and public events. However, I’ve received a flood of messages recently from viewers and listeners who hunted down my Instagram or email because they don’t use Twitter (as you know, Twitter is my preferred social media platform, and until now - the “dump” I use to post most of my work for public consumption). In response to those requests, I decided to streamline media and public appearances, as well as other multi-media work, on this website for ease of access. For invited lectures and academic talks, visit Invited Lectures. In addition to the writing that appears on my Blog, my commentaries, interviews, and other non-academic print publications can be accessed under Publications and Print Media Interviews.
Want me to visit your podcast, or do an interview for your media outlet? I'm always happy to appear any and everywhere I'm needed, schedule allowing - so reach out via email, or contact me through this website.
Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping track of my media appearances and public events. However, I’ve received a flood of messages recently from viewers and listeners who hunted down my Instagram or email because they don’t use Twitter (as you know, Twitter is my preferred social media platform, and until now - the “dump” I use to post most of my work for public consumption). In response to those requests, I decided to streamline media and public appearances, as well as other multi-media work, on this website for ease of access. For invited lectures and academic talks, visit Invited Lectures. In addition to the writing that appears on my Blog, my commentaries, interviews, and other non-academic print publications can be accessed under Publications and Print Media Interviews.
Want me to visit your podcast, or do an interview for your media outlet? I'm always happy to appear any and everywhere I'm needed, schedule allowing - so reach out via email, or contact me through this website.
I Don't Speak German (Episode 115) | Amanda Rogers Talks About Terrible Tommy
Podcast - September 29, 2022
With apologies for our long absence (we've both had non-Covid health problems) and assurances of our continued commitment to the show, here is a new episode in which Daniel chats with brilliant special guest Amanda Rogers (@MsEntropy on Twitter) about terrible Tom Metzger, his importance to the far-right movement, his continued relevance, and the dangerous way his legacy is often misunderstood and underestimated. Jack will be back soon with another chat with Rob from @TheRightPodcast about Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers.
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The Loopcast | Conceptualizing Counter Terrorism Law (Episode 319)
Podcast - September 13, 2022
Amanda Rogers discusses how counter terrorism law is conceptualized.
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Order From Ashes with Naira Antoun - Century International | Gender, Religion, Militias
Podcast - May 3, 2022
Discussions of self-styled Islamist armed groups, such as the Islamic State, tend to heavily focus on gender and religion. Yet these elements are almost always never considered in analyses of white supremacist groups. What accounts for this difference and why does it matter? In this episode of “Transnational Trends in Citizenship”—the new season of Order from Ashes--we speak with scholar Amanda Rogers about overlooked aspects of militias and non state armed groups in transnational perspective.
Common frameworks that emphasize violence do not have the tools to fully understand how these ideological movements function. Important elements that tend to be overlooked in such approaches include gender and religion. Rogers identifies other gaps in discussions of armed groups: Even though analyses of Islamist groups include gender, they usually treat women as peripheral. And wildly different groups—Hezbollah, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Hamas—are treated as the same analytical unit simply because of their supposed connection to Islam. When it comes to white supremacist groups, however, religion is barely considered at all, even thought many to have an explicit religious ideology.
Common frameworks that emphasize violence do not have the tools to fully understand how these ideological movements function. Important elements that tend to be overlooked in such approaches include gender and religion. Rogers identifies other gaps in discussions of armed groups: Even though analyses of Islamist groups include gender, they usually treat women as peripheral. And wildly different groups—Hezbollah, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Hamas—are treated as the same analytical unit simply because of their supposed connection to Islam. When it comes to white supremacist groups, however, religion is barely considered at all, even thought many to have an explicit religious ideology.
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Century International & The Century Foundation | The Transnational Crisis in Citizenship
Panel Discussion - April 26, 2022
A global crisis of authoritarianism and impunity has eroded life for people living in the United States and the Middle East. Common trends have exacerbated police impunity, militia violence, and moral panics that weaponize gender—while states have proven less and less capable of protecting vulnerable citizens. Century International brings together experts on the crisis of citizenship across regional boundaries, whose teamwork exposes the connections between the crises in the Middle East and the United States, and some of the ways we can restore accountability and rights.
The Empire Never Ended | Interview with Amanda Rogers (Episode 105)
Podcast - April 18, 2022
TENE meets Amanda Rogers -- AKA The Provost, AKA Ms. Entropy -- to chat with her about the structural relationship between white nationalism and ISIS, the history and under-appreciated influence of Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance, the often-overlooked role of women in Neo-Nazi organizations, and the issue of fascist infiltration and instrumentalization of the US military. Join Amanda's patreon at patreon.com/MsEntropy and her Twitter at twitter.com/MsEntropy.
Yeah Nah Pasaran! 3CR Community Radio - Australia | Amanda Rogers on Tom Metzger & Operation Appleseed
Podcast - February 3, 2022
This week we have a chat with Dr. Amanda Rogers about Tom Metzger, fascist infiltration, the CVE business and the upcoming Fascist Forge data leak. You can support Amanda's work on Patreon.
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The Loopcast | The Legacy and Influence of Tom Metzger (Episode 295)
Podcast - November 13, 2021
Amanda Rogers discusses the legacy and influence of Tom Metzger on the modern white supremacy movement.
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Broken Pencil Magazine | Skinhead hate zines, racist e-streamers and the real purpose of propaganda
Film - May 14, 2021
Broken Pencil Magazine editor Jonathan Valelly interviews Dr. Amanda Rogers about neo-Nazi zines of the past, how white supremacists capitalized on skinhead culture, how this maps onto today's culture of teenage internet hatemongers and how to look at propaganda strategically, rather than with rage alone. A special event for Virtual Canzine 2021 – check out Canzine.ca for thousands of zines, plus other events and features, in partnership with TCAF and Comics X Games throughout May 8-16th, 2021.
Latitude Adjustment | White Supremacist Infiltration of US Military & Law Enforcement (Episode 76)
Podcast - April 5, 2021
We speak with Dr. Amanda Rogers about infiltration of the U.S. military and law enforcement by white supremacist and white nationalist groups, and provide a brief history and contemporary overview of white supremacist movements in the U.S. Be sure to check out Dr. Rogers’ recent article, “Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement,” as well as our previous interview on the troubling history and application of “Terrorism”, in episode 70 of this podcast: “The Terrorism Discourse”. Dr. Amanda E. Rogers is a fellow at the Century Foundation visiting assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, with expertise in political violence and non-state armed groups, ranging from ISIS to Christian Identity neo-Nazis. She has a PhD in art history and Middle Eastern studies from Emory University. She has served as a subject matter expert for the U.S. Department of State, a consultant for the United Nations consultant on non-state armed groups and propaganda output, and commentator on international affairs for The Intercept, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN, among others.
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Horisont [Denmark] | USA: Højreekstremister i uniform [Extremists in Uniform] (Episode 6)
Television - February 10, 2021
Op mod hver femte af de anholdte efter angrebet på kongressen har vist sig at være politimand, soldat eller militærveteran. Ifølge en tidligere nynazist skyldes det en bevidst strategi: Ekstremister infiltrerer magtsystemet og håber at starte en ny borgerkrig.
Sveriges Radio [Sweden] | Hotet inifrån - högerextrem infiltration [The threat from within - right-wing extremist infiltration]
Radio - February 6, 2021
Medverkande: Sebastian Erb, grävreporter på tidningen Tageszeitung, Anetta Kahane stiftelsen Amadeo Antonio, Götz Kubitschek, högerradikal, Mikael Om soldater och poliser som stormade Kapitolium och högerextrema komplotter i Tyskland. Vad händer om antidemokratiska ideologier sprider sig bland de som med vapen ska skydda demokratin? Damberg, inrikesminister, John Hermiz, chefspsykolog Plikt- och prövningsverket, Anders Nordström, polisutbildningen Södertörns högskola, Jenny Madestam, statsvetare, Linda Escar, chef för sektionen för säkerhetsskydd vid Polismyndigheten, Jan Kinnander, chef för säkerhetskontoret på militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten Must, Peter Nilsson, Försvarsmaktens personalavdelning, Amanda Rogers, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
Latitude Adjustment | The Terrorism Discourse (Episode 70)
Podcast - October 22, 2020
For all of the movies, books, and policy debates on the topic, and given that the largest, most expensive, and longest hot war in US history is being waged in its name, why isn’t there a coherent and consistent definition for Terrorism? Get ready to rethink everything you think you know about this word and its application. Our guest is visual anthropologist Amanda Rogers Ph.D, a specialist in analyzing the propaganda of Islamic State.
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AJ+ | Why ISIS Is Like the Greek Monster Hydra
Television - December 6, 2019
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by the U.S. in October 2019. But does his death actually mean the death of ISIS?
The Intercept | American Horrors: Regime Change in Iraq to the Rise of ISIS
Podcast - October 30, 2019
For a deep dive on the rise of ISIS, scholar Amanda Rogers and reporter Mike Giglio are this week’s guests. President Donald Trump is gloating over the reported death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This week on Intercepted: Amid the grandstanding and partisan bickering, no one wants to talk about the decades of U.S. policy that helped give rise to ISIS and al-Qaeda. Jeremy Scahill discusses how U.S. policy opened a Pandora’s box in Iraq and Syria. Islamic studies scholar Amanda Rogers discusses the actual founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and how ISIS adopted tactics from the U.S. war on terror. War reporter Mike Giglio talks about his time on the ground covering ISIS. He documents the experience in his new book, “Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate.”
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CBC Ideas | Forty Years on, Edward Said's 'Orientalism' still groundbreaking
Radio - October 23, 2019
The 'East' was largely an imaginative projection from the West, argued Said. The Turkish Bath, one of the most famous examples of French Orientalist paintings, hangs in the Louvre. Some two dozen nude women recline in a steam-filled room. There're music, dancing and food. One woman braids another's hair. Attendants cater to the women's needs. The atmosphere is languid and sensual, even erotic. The artist, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painted the scene as a representation of life in the so-called East, and portrayed the women as though they were typical of the time and place. But the scene was of course nowhere close to the reality of public bathouses in Muslim and Arab societies, where bathing — like anywhere else — was a practical task and had no implied associations with group sex.
But Ingres and other painters and writers fed into — and fed off of — a narrative about what women in the "East" were like. The imagery was a projection onto the "Other," and imposition that came out of France's colonial incursions into the Arab and Muslim worlds. These imagined traits about distant societies would go on to be accepted as definitive knowledge. Amanda Rogers teaches Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University in New York state, with a special focus on visual culture and media representation. She says these depictions by painters like Ingres of life in the East, or the Orient as it was called, are rooted in the asymmetry of power between France and its colonial subjects.
"It is created essentially through conquest and imperial expansion. And this binary is very much one that is constructed through ontology and epistemology. What I mean by that is that the idea of the so-called Orient is a construct itself that served the interests of the so-called West," Rogers told IDEAS. Rogers points to Edward Said's work as foundational in trying to understand the place and importance of Orientalist paintings like Ingres'.
Edward Said, the Palestinian-American scholar and intellectual, was perhaps the most influential thinker to theorize about this relationship between the West and the Arab/Muslim world. His popular book, Orientalism offered a deep critical analysis of the role literature played historically in constructing an understanding of the East. In the four decades since it was published, Said's book has been key to understanding the long and complicated relationship between colonizer and colonized, between the East and the West.
But Ingres and other painters and writers fed into — and fed off of — a narrative about what women in the "East" were like. The imagery was a projection onto the "Other," and imposition that came out of France's colonial incursions into the Arab and Muslim worlds. These imagined traits about distant societies would go on to be accepted as definitive knowledge. Amanda Rogers teaches Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University in New York state, with a special focus on visual culture and media representation. She says these depictions by painters like Ingres of life in the East, or the Orient as it was called, are rooted in the asymmetry of power between France and its colonial subjects.
"It is created essentially through conquest and imperial expansion. And this binary is very much one that is constructed through ontology and epistemology. What I mean by that is that the idea of the so-called Orient is a construct itself that served the interests of the so-called West," Rogers told IDEAS. Rogers points to Edward Said's work as foundational in trying to understand the place and importance of Orientalist paintings like Ingres'.
Edward Said, the Palestinian-American scholar and intellectual, was perhaps the most influential thinker to theorize about this relationship between the West and the Arab/Muslim world. His popular book, Orientalism offered a deep critical analysis of the role literature played historically in constructing an understanding of the East. In the four decades since it was published, Said's book has been key to understanding the long and complicated relationship between colonizer and colonized, between the East and the West.
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Listen to the full, uncut interview below.
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CBC Ideas | Journalism's Knife Fight: Fact vs. Truth
Radio - February 6, 2019
What should truth-telling look like in the post-truth era? While the idea that we're living in a post-truth era is still highly contested, there is greater agreement that facts themselves have also become contestable. Belief and feeling have sideswiped facts, especially when it comes to news stories about politics. IDEAS producer Naheed Musrafa examines the increasingly elastic and unsettling relationship between facts and truth.
In the old days of broadcast news, information would arrive promptly at the supper hour. Each evening, families would tune into their channel of choice and take in the day's news as a list of trustworthy facts.Twenty-four hours later, those facts would be updated or corrected as need be. It was a simpler time to navigate the world and be confident in what you knew.Contrast that scenario with today's constant and unending digital churn of news and opinion that updates minute to minute.Reporting and editorializing bleed into each other, sometimes bolstering each other, sometimes cancelling each other out. Original sources of information are often hard to figure out. It makes for a loud, chaotic, and often stupefying landscape.
"The Truth" has always been contested territory. We know that one person's version of the same event will differ from another's. There's perspective, and bias, and slant. But what about the other kind of truth – the verifiable kind we call facts? Even the notion of verifiability has become slippery. In all of this, journalists are still trying to do what they've always done: report the facts. But how does one do that in a time when the relationship between fact and truth is stretched so thinly that even a gentle pull could rupture it all together?
In the old days of broadcast news, information would arrive promptly at the supper hour. Each evening, families would tune into their channel of choice and take in the day's news as a list of trustworthy facts.Twenty-four hours later, those facts would be updated or corrected as need be. It was a simpler time to navigate the world and be confident in what you knew.Contrast that scenario with today's constant and unending digital churn of news and opinion that updates minute to minute.Reporting and editorializing bleed into each other, sometimes bolstering each other, sometimes cancelling each other out. Original sources of information are often hard to figure out. It makes for a loud, chaotic, and often stupefying landscape.
"The Truth" has always been contested territory. We know that one person's version of the same event will differ from another's. There's perspective, and bias, and slant. But what about the other kind of truth – the verifiable kind we call facts? Even the notion of verifiability has become slippery. In all of this, journalists are still trying to do what they've always done: report the facts. But how does one do that in a time when the relationship between fact and truth is stretched so thinly that even a gentle pull could rupture it all together?
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- Listen to the full, uncut interview below.
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Colgate Maroon News | People of the Year: Amanda Rogers
Print - December 6, 2018
Al Jazeera English: Inside Story | Is Saudi Arabia's claim Jamal Khashoggi died in a fistfight credible?
Television - October 20, 2018
Saudi Arabia now admits the journalist is dead - after weeks of denying it. Saudi Arabia says Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. The announcement was made on Saudi State TV in the middle of the night…17 days after the Saudi journalist was last seen going into the compound. The Kingdom says there was a brawl and Khashoggi died. U.S. President Donald Trump says he finds that explanation "credible" but many politicians in the U.S. and around the world are skeptical. And Turkish Security sources have a different story. They say Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and his body dismembered.
CTV News Video Network | The “Brand” Of ISIS
Television - 2016
University of Wisconsin-Madison's Amanda Rogers discusses ISIS using marketing techniques to target specific demographics.
Old Mole Variety Hour - KBOO Community Radio | ISIS PR Strategy
Radio - March 16, 2015
What does ISIS hope to gain from their videos of their beheadings of innocent people? Bill Resnick talks with Amanda Rogers who writes on the middle east and studies media representations in the current struggles. Hey discuss the genius of ISIS media. One genre is meant for Muslims around the world, graphically showing the oppression and attacks they are experiencing, including heavy surveillance in the US and Europe and the incineration of families by US drone warfare, and promoting the ISIS Caliphate as their nation, just as Israel promotes itself to Jews around the world as their homeland where they will not be persecuted. The other genre uses atrocity, the beheading videos, to intensify Islamophobia in the West, for two reasons. First, to goad the US and its allies into a ground war. Second, to make the West increase their oppression of Muslims which ISIS hopes will recruit combatants and migrants.
INTERSECTION - Aslan Media | ISIS, Corporate PR Models, and The War Machine (Episode 47)
Podcast - October 28, 2014
On this week’s episode, we are pleased to have Dr. Amanda Rogers. She and Roshi dive deep into the world of ISIS propaganda and the psychology of the visual messaging we take in everyday across mainstream media. Is ISIS truly just a ragtag group of barbaric Islamists? Or an extraordinarily well-coordinated “brand” that utilizes strategic advertising campaigns and corporate publicity models? She offers up some powerful insights you may not have heard anywhere else, and urges you - the listener - to really think about the information you take in daily. This is our final INTERSECTION episode. Thanks to all our listeners and the Aslan Media community for your support of this podcast.
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BBC Newshour | Will Egypt Repeat Algeria’s Bloody History?
Radio - July 12, 2013
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