2025 Annual Conference
Imperialism
6-11 June
Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece
https://criticaltheoryplus.com/
June 6 Welcome
16: 00 Introduction to the Radical Critical Theory Circle
Mayor’s Welcome
Participants’ introductions
16:30 – 19:00 Imperialism, Empire, and Nation
Jamie van der Klaauw “Imperialism ‘Strikes’ Back?”
Nishad Patnaik “The Impasses of Capitalist Modernity: Imperialism, Neo-imperialism, and the Contours of the Contemporary”
June 7
10:00 – 13:30 Labor, Race, and Radical Struggle
Jochen Schmon “A Long 19th Century of Abolition: The Slavery of Chattel, Coverture, Wages, and Property”
Emily Katzenstein “Historicizing the Racism/Capitalism Nexus”
Steven Klein “Freedom Beyond the Colour Line: Labour Unions, Strikes, and Decolonization”
16:30-19:00 Historical and Analytical Approaches to Imperialism and Colonialism
Andreas Kalyvas “From the Critique of Imperialism to Communist Anti-Colonialism: The Bolshevik Contribution”
Inés Valdez “Reconsidering the New International Economic Order: The Marxist Dependency Critique and the Politics of Structural Injustice”
Enzo Rossi “(Radical) Realism and Imperialism”
June 8
10:00 – 13:30 Theorizing Revolution under Imperialism: Party, Masses, and Media
Udeepta Chakravarty “Permanent Revolution: From ‘Human Emancipation’ to Communist Anticolonialism”
Clover Reshad “From Revolt to Revolution: Fanon, Resentment, and the Modern Prince”
Dmitry Lebedev “The Politics of World Communication: From Networked Order to New Imperialist Reorderings”
16:30-19:00 Democracy, Representation, and People/Places that Don’t Matter
Sara Gebh “Civilized Democracy and Its Other”
Mihaela Mihai, “Eco-Biography and Political Representation: The Ethics and Politics of (Not) Too Late”
June 9 Excursion: Villages and Vulcanology of Nisyros (a.k.a. Volcano Day !)
June 10
10:00 – 13:30 Palestine: Colonialism and Revolution
Raef Zriek, “Settler colonialism: History, Ethics and Politics”
Layal Ftouni “Palestine’s victim/terrorist dyad, or the Coloniality of Human Rights”
Mai Taha “Exiting Law, Entering Revolution”
16:30-19:00 Capitalist Imperialism and Ecology
Yu-Hung Wang “Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Taiwan as the US Imperial Laboratory of Semiconductor Production”
Mathias Thaler “An Anti-Imperial Mode of Living? Reflections on Loss and Recovery in the Long In-Between”
June 11
10:00 – 13:30 Democracy, Theo-Nationalism, and the Right
Michael Onyebuchi Eze “Imperial faith: American Christianity, Whiteness, and the Myth of Redemptive Nationalism”
Martín Plot “The Empire of Truth: Power, Ideology, and the Emergence of a New Political Paradigm”
Begoña Gerling “Democratic Pasts and Futures: Wolin and Abensour on Archaic and Utopian Democracy”
16:30-19:00 The Current Crisis: Directors’ Roundtable
Paul Apostolidis, Albena Azmanova, Jodi Dean, Andreas Kalyvas, Enzo Rossi