Program

Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik

Don Frana Bulića 4
HR-20000 Dubrovnik
Croatia


Tel: +385 20 413 626, 413 627

Organizers:  Banu Bargu,  Robin Celikates, Jodi Dean, Andreas Kalyvas, Regina Kreide, Artemy Magun, David Strecker, Massimiliano Tomba.

„THE HORIZON OF COMMUNISM“ -  A DEBATE

Wed, June  3

4-6pm
Jodi Dean/ Regina Kreide


INSURGENT UNIVERSALISMS

Thu, June 4

10am-12:30pm
Max Tomba: 1793: Insurgent Universality
James Ingram: Universalism in Postcolonial Times: Legislation, Translation, Insurrection

12:30-3:30pm
lunch/break

3:30-6pm
Ayca Cubukcu: Politics of universal solidarity
Robin Celikates: Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History

NEW APPROACHES IN CRITICAL THEORY

Fri, June 5

10am-2pm
Daniel Loick: The Politics of Forms of Life
Banu Bargu: Deology and Aleatory Materialism
Artemy Magun: Crisis of Revolutions in Today’s World: Between Spontaneity and Conspiracy
Commentary by Daniel de Zeeuw

Free afternoon

Sat, June 6

10am-2pm
Ina Kerner: Postcolonial Theory as Global Critical Theory
Humeira Iqtidar: Liberalism and Neoliberalism in the Post-Colony
Andreas  Kalyvas: Is There a Human Right to Resistance against Oppression?

2-4pm
lunch/break

4-6:30pm
Natasha Basu: Illegal Migration as Epistemic Disobedience? Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives
Sara Gebh: Democracy and Conflict
David Stecker: Human Animals: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Reproduction of Slavery Then and Now

Sun, June 7

10am-1pm
Brian Milstein: Commercium and the Contradictions of the Modern State System
Erdinc Erdem: Althusser's Relation to Hegel
Darin Barney: Exclusion, Exploitation. Extraction: Theorizing Anti-capitalist Struggle in Resource Economies

End of workshop

1pm
Wrap up and Outlook (Organizational meeting)