Radical Critical Theory Circle 2024
Love and Oppression
7-12 June
Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece
https://criticaltheoryplus.com/
June 7 Welcome
17: 00-17:30 Introduction to the Radical Critical Theory Circle;
Participants’ introductions
17:30 – 19:30 Symposium: The war in Gaza. Speaking up – the ways, the realms, the risks, and the costs
Jodi Dean: reflections on the political biography of “Palestine Speaks for Everyone” (Verso blog, April 9, 2024)
Paul Passavant: The Anti-Genocide Protests in the United States and the Crisis of Democracy
Enzo Rossi and Albena Azmanova: Practicing Protest
June 8 Solidarities and Resentments
Morning: 10:00-12:30
Federica Gregoratto: Love Troubles. A Social Philosophy of Eros
Carolyn J. Eichner: Radical Life, Radical Love
Afternoon (16:30-19:00)
Clover Reshad: ‘The Unhappy Poor’: The Politics of Resentment in Early-Capitalist Europe
Jamie van der Klaauw: For the love of solidarity
June 9 Economic Logistics and Political Logics
Morning: 10:00-12:30
Kennan Ferguson: Linear Debt and Circular Debt: Love, Family, and Economic Moralities
Mai Taha: Homes in Revolt: Social reproduction as Struggle in Mandate Palestine
Afternoon (16:00-19:30)
Paul Apostolidis: Race, Zombie labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon
Jaime Erasun: Purchasing Love: Precarious Workers in the Spanish Care Sector
Albena Azmanova: Victimhood Olympics: Precarity Capitalism and the Competition for Patronage
June 10 Excursion: Nisyros Volcano
June 11 Decolonization between love and oppression
Morning: 10:00-12:30
Layal Ftouni: To affirm life in colonial deathwords: Reproductive warfare and 'the right to life' in Palestine.
Rose Owen: Violent Disclosures: Frantz Fanon on Algerian Women, the Veil, and Anti-Colonial Revolution.
Afternoon (16:30-19:00)
Andreas Kalyvas: Marxism Decolonized: Bolshevik Anti-Colonial thought
Sandipto Dasgupta: For the Love and Fear of the People: the dialectics of distance and proximity in the anticolonial and postcolonial popular politics
June 12: Emancipation or/as Oppression
Morning (10:00-13:30)
Enzo Rossi: We Make Our Own History, But in Circumstances of Other People’s Choosing: Intercultural Historical Materialism
Ira Allen: Salvage Communism and Love of Place: An Institutionalist View
Jodi Dean: Lenin and Desire: The Woman Question