Program

 

Thursday, May 31

2:00 pm - 6:30 pm                 

  

    Today´s  reality

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Opening Lecture

Christofis Koroneos (Mayor of Nisyros), “Environment and the Left”

 

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm 

Session One:  This is what democracy looks like?

Regina Kreide (Justus Liebig University, Giessen), “Marxism and Democracy: A contradiction in itself?”

Albena Azmanova (University of Kent), “The perils of the democratic turn in critical social theory”

 

 

 

Friday, June 1

10:00 am – 7:15pm         

 Critique

 

10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Session Two: Castration doesn’t mean you’re not guilty

Aristotelis Agridopoulos (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), “Critique of capitalism and austerity. German and Greek intellectuals’ crisis and blame discourses”

Maria Aristodemou (Birkbek University in London), “Decaffeinated Left and The Castration of Europe”

 

12:30 pm - 3:30 pm lunch

 

3:30 pm – 7:15 pm    

Session Three: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Sara Gebh (The New School and Universität Wien), “Stasis and the Republicanization of Democracy” 

Seongcheol Kim (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Radical Democracy and Left Populism: Reflections on a Contested Relation”

Gal Kirn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Rethinking the Figure of the (Yugoslav) Partisan”

 

 

Sunday, June 3    

10:00 am – 6:00pm          

   Revolution

 

10 am -12:30pm

Session Four: It Sorta Sucks to be Poor

Andreas Kalyvas (The New School), “Democracy of the Poor: Beyond Liberalism and Communism”

Paul Apostolidis (Whitman College), “The Fight for Time: A Critical-Popular Agenda for an Anti-Precarity Politics”

 

12:30 noon – 3:30 pm (Directors meeting) 

 

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm 

Session Five:            The Bright Side of Negativity

Artemy Magun (European University at St. Petersburg), “Dialectics as a Method”

Mykolas Gudelis (The New School), “Capitalism Time Hack. Capitalizing of Time and Temporalization of Democratic Politics” 

 

 

 Monday, June 5          

10:00 am – 6:00pm      

  After the Revolution

 

10:00 am – 12:30 noon 

Section Six:  The Struggle is Real

Kai Heron (The University of Manchester), “Ours is Becoming the Age of Minorities: Deleuze, Guattari and Class Struggle”

Anton Syutkin (European University at St. Petersburg), “Absolute and the class struggle: the antinomies of materialist dialectic”

 

12:30 pm – 3:30 pm:            lunch

 

3:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Session Seven:  All’s Well That Ends Well

Gary Wilder (CUNY), “After the Revolution: Black Radical Humanism and the Good Life”

Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “You are Not My Comrade”