Mar 30, 2011

Monday April 4th - Detailed Schedule

MONDAY, APRIL 4- The New School
Wolff Conference Room (11th floor)

08.30 Registration

09.00 PANEL I: AGONISTIC DEMOCRACY
Chair: Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR
Discussant: Chris Crews, NSSR

Panelists:

“Radical Democracy Goes Global: A Postcolonial Critique of Mouffe” – Jakeet Singh, Department of Political Science, The University of Toronto

“Us and ‘Them’: The production of the common in the work of Artur Zmijewski” – Harry Weeks, History of Art, the University of Edinburgh

“Fugitive Reconciliation: The Agonistics of Respect, Resentment, and Responsibility in Post-Conflict Society” – Alexander Hirsch, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

“'Agonistic Democratic Subjectivities' in South America: from disagreement to participation?” – Juan Pablo Ferrero, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath

11.00 Coffee / Refreshments

11.15 OPENING REMARKS by Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR

11.30 PANEL II: THE “ROOTS” OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY
Chair: Ross Poole, NSSR
Discussant: Peter Janos Galambos, NSSR
Discussant: Tomer Zeigerman, NSSR

Panelists:

“Investigating the Praxis of Radical Democracy beyond Classical Conceptions” – Felix Petersen, J.W. G. University Frankfurt am Main, Department for Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Institute for Political Theory, Germany

“The Imaginary Roots of Democracy: An Exposition of Castoriadis’s EHESS Lectures, 1982-1983” – Gerasimos Karavitis, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research

“The Ethical Constitutive Power of the Multitude in Spinoza's Political Treatise” – Sandra Field, Department of Politics, Princeton University

“The Radicality of Speech: Freedom of Expression in Spinoza’s Theory of Democracy” – Camila Vergara, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research

“Castoriadis on Democracy: Radical Questions” – Antoine Chollet, Institut d’Études Politiques et Internationales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

13.30 Lunch
14.00 PANEL III: CONSENSUS AND DISSENSUS
Chair: Chiara Bottici, NSSR
Discussant: Gerasimos Karavitis, NSSR
Discussant: Juan Pablo Ferrero, University of Bath

Panelists:

“Interrogation vs. Interpretation: Speech, language and the moment of autonomy” – Marina Kaneti, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research

“Political Relationship as Politics and Democracy in Ranciere’s 'Ten Theses on Politics'” – Mykolas Gudelis, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research

“Fragments of Democracy in a World in Fragments” – Victoria Briggs, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London

“Rethinking Carl Schmitt’s Radical Democratic Theory” – Sam BenMeir, Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research

16.00 Coffee / Refreshments

16.15 PANEL IV: MICRO/MACRO POLITICS
Chair: Jeremy Varon, NSSR
Discussant: Chelsea Ebin, NSSR
Discussant: Benjamin Nienass, NSSR

Panelists:

“Becoming Political: Everyday Life and Radical Democracy” – Salih Gercek, Department of Government, University of Essex

“Arendt and Domesticity” – Mitchell Verter, Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research

“Diaspora Politics as a Form of Radical Democracy?” – Márton Rövid, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University

“Law and Non-Law: A Study in Bookchin and Agamben” – Bea Bookchin, English Department, University of Vermont in Burlington

18.15 Reception

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