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DAY ONE: FRIDAY, APRIL 27th
*All Events Take Place at 6 E 16th St., New York NY
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST | 8:45 - 9:30am @The Square, 9th Floor
OPENING REMARKS | 9:30am @The Square, 9th Floor
SESSION I | 9:45 – 11:30 am
PANEL 1 | @ Room 906
Debates in Radical Democratic Theory: Sovereignty, State and Arche
Discussant: Olga Bashkina (KU Leuven)
“Democracy against Arche” | Louis Jargow (NSSR)
“Radical and Pluralist Democracy: The Idea of the State in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy” | Deren Ertas (NSSR)
“The Incoherence of Non-sovereign Democracy” | Juho Turpeinen (University of Helsinki)
PANEL 2 | @ Room 1107
Radical Social Change in Times of Global Capitalism
Discussant: Matthew Binetti (NSSR)
“The Collective Revolutionary Subject: New forms of social transformation” | David Barkin and Alejandra Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
“A Reconstruction of Nancy Fraser's Approach to Global Justice” | Marzouq Alnusf (Northwestern University)
“Capitalist Metaphysics and the Production of Spatiotemporality” | Stephanie Cheng (Concordia University)
SESSION II | 11:45 – 1:30pm
PANEL 3 | @ Room 1107
Sites of Resistance: Confrontations at the Margins of the Neoliberal Order
Discussant: Scott B. Ritner (NSSR)
“Demolishing Portugal’s “Berlin Wall”: The Portuguese Left Against Austerity Policies” | Maria Ferreira and Pedro Fonseca (CAPP, Centre for Public Administration & Public Policies, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa)
“Radical Spaces and Neoliberalism in Greece. Between Emancipation and Unwitting Reproduction” | Dimitris Soudias (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
PANEL 4 | @ Room 906
Re-staging Radical Democracy: Worldlessness, Tragedy and the Repartitioning
Discussant: Anastasia Kalk (NSSR)
“Perceiving Politics: The Partitioning of the Real in the Distribution of the Sensible” | Amy Osika (NSSR)
“Belief in the World Or: What is to be done in worldless times?” | Marcus Quent (University of the Arts, Berlin/ Visiting New School)
“Democracy and Autonomy: A Theory of Tragedy in Castoriadis’s Thought” | María Cecilia Padilla (CONICET/ Instituto Gino Germani / Universidad de Buenos Aires)
LUNCH | 1:30-2:30pm @The Square, 9th Floor
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Roundtable | 2:30-4:15 @ Room 1009
"We Are Stardust" | Alexis Ebers (Stardust Family United, IWW), and Meg Doherty (Stardust Family United)
"When Women Strike: Feminist Strategy and Political Praxis" | Ximena Bustamonte (International Women's Strike)
"The Path Forward: Hyperlocal and Transnational" | Chaumtoli Huq (Law @ the Margins)
SESSION III | 4:30 – 6:15pm
PANEL 5 | @ Room 1107
Radical Horizons: The Time of Democracy
Discussant: Begoña Gerling (NSSR)
“Political activism under emergency rule in Turkey” | Birgan Gokmenoglu (London School of Economics)
“Rancière's Theory of the Event” | Tristan Mantelhoffmann (CUNY Graduate Center)
“The ‘Event Horizon’ in a Post-Democratic Age” | Nick Reynolds (CUNY Graduate Center)
PANEL 6 | @ Room 906
Scaling Down Democracy: The Radical Possibilities of Local Institutions
Discussant: Evan Bridgman-Fralin (NSSR)
“Beyond the nation and the state: how communalist self-government redefines the citizen and the immigrant” | Sixtine van Outryve d'Ydewalle, (Yale Law School / Université Catholique de Louvain)
“Radical Democracy or Council Democracy?” | James Muldoon (University of Exeter)
WINE & CHEESE | 6:30 - 7:00pm @The Square, 9th Floor
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
“A Living Critique Of Domination” Martin Breaugh | Associate Professor of Political Science, York University
7:00pm | @Wolff Conference Room, 1103
DAY TWO: SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH
BREAKFAST | 8:45 - 9:30am @The Square, 9th Floor
SESSION IV | 9:45 – 11:30am
PANEL 7 | @ Room 902
Resistance and Rebellion: Democracy from Below and Against the State
Discussant : Mariia Shynkarenko (NSSR)
“Insurgent Democracy and Post-Identitarian Social Movements” | Oliver Niedhoefer (Fernuniversität Hagen)
“Land Conflict in Crimean Sevastopol: The Break Between National and Local Citizenship” | Aleksandra Simonova (UC Berkeley)
“Resistance and Gender: The Kurdish Women’s Social Transformation Beyond State” | Elif Genc (NSSR)
PANEL 8 | @ Room 910
The Precarious Other: Re-thinking Difference
Discussant: Eli Nadeau (NSSR)
“Becoming Cyborg: Toward a Feminist Democratic Theory in the Digital Age” | Hans Asenbaum (University of Westminster)
“Understanding Judith Butler’s Ontology of Precariousness As An Effective Solution To The ‘Normative Lack’ Of Radical Democracy Theories” | Lucile Richard (Sciences Po Paris)
“The Thin Red Line between Recognizing Difference and Othering People” | Albert Denk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
SESSION V | 11:45 – 1:30pm
PANEL 9 | @ Room 901
Transnational Radicalism: What Can China Tell Us?
Discussant: Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
“Radicalizing Social Movements from a Trans-national Perspective: Chinese Diaspora Activists and Liberal-Democratic Models of Activism” | Mengyang Zhao (University of Pennsylvania)
“China’s Contemporary Maoism: How Anti-Democratic Centralism Informs Radical Democratic Aspirations” | Yueran Zhang (Harvard University)
“The Liberalism of Fear vs. The Authoritarian Nationalism of Fear: Political Emotions and Contemporary China” | Simon Sihang Luo (Indiana University)
PANEL 10 | @ Room 902
Step Into the Cypher: (Non) Identity, Equality and Radical Democracy
Discussant: Setareh Shohadaei (NSSR)
“Queering the political – Deleuze and Radical Democracy” | Nicky Mühlhäußer (Goethe University Frankfurt)
“Badiou, Rancière and Subjectivation: Opening (with) Equality and the Question of Identity” | Pierre Parrouffe (University of Westminster)
“The Hip Hop Cypher: A Post-Work Radical Democracy” | Ediz Ozelkan (Columbia University)
PANEL 11 | @ Room 910
Toward an Institutional Turn in Radical Democracy?
Discussant: Cecilia Padilla (Instituto Gino Germani/UAB)
“Radical Democracy in City Councils : Municipalism and the Transformation of Local Politics in the 21st Century” | Jonathan Durand Folco (Saint Paul University)
“Radically democratic economic institutions” | Simon Tremblay-Pepin (Saint Paul University)
“Arendt and Radical Democracy: Thinking the Relationship Between Action and Institutions” | Marianne Di Croce (University of Ottawa)
LUNCH | 1:30-2:30pm @The Square, 9th Floor
SESSION VI | 2:30-4:15pm
PANEL 12 | @ Room 902
Specters of Marx in the Radical Democratic Tradition
Discussant: Mayra Cotta (NSSR)
“Radical Democracy as a Critique of Marxism” | Martin Deleixhe (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
“Between antagonism and alienation —radical democracy under conditions of precarity” | Sofia Helander (Uppsala University)
“Does the Radical Democracy mean Revolution or not? ‘Revolutionary’ question in the works of Lefort, Laclau, and Mouffe” | Anastasia Kalk (NSSR)
PANEL 13 | @ Room 910
Reclaiming Populism? Tensions in Political Strategy on the Left
Discussant: Tatiana Llaguno (NSSR)
“Populism and Radical Democracy” | Antoine Chollet (University of Lausanne)
“ “Home” across Southern populist parties in Europe” | Simona Guerra (University of Leicester) and Evangelos Fanoulis (Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
“Limits and Necessity of Discursive Populist Strategy: the Case of Spain’s Podemos” | Francisco Fortuño Bernier (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Populism: Between Radical Democracy and Fantasy” | Thomas de Barros (Sciences Po Paris)
ROUNDTABLE WITH INVITED FACULTY | 4:30 – 6:30pm @Wolff Conference Room, 1103
CLOSING RECEPTION | 6:30 @The Square, 9th Floor
