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Sixth Annual Radical Democracy Conference
May 5-6, 2017 | NYC

CALL FOR PAPERS (2017)

The Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research embraces the occasion of the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference to ask what’s the matter? As a springboard into the material, practical, historical, lived, aesthetic, discursive and theoretical manifestations of Radical Democracy, and the constellation of claims with which it is associated. As preceding conferences have done, RD#6th will consider the theory and practice of radical democracy in its historical and contemporary settings.

This year’s theme is galvanized by an attention to the mattering happening all around us, and the ways these matters make radical claims upon the demos — popular sovereignty, demagoguery and tyranny, fascism and anti-fascist uprisings, racial justice, freedom struggles, declarations of defiance, resistance to oppression and colonial violence, and ongoing grassroots organizing; from Palestine to Ferguson, Aleppo to Charlotte, London to New York, Oaxaca to Athens, Dhaka to Rio de Janeiro; people rise up in defense of water, land and democratic sovereignty; create migrant spaces of refuge, and enact critical multi-species with-standings around the world. As always we urge submissions of panel and paper abstracts that take up the theme of Radical Democracy in all its global resonance.

You can read the (updated) full CFP here.

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINES

Please submit your panel or paper abstracts by March 5, 2017 - March 17th to radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu. Full conference papers are due by April 9, 2017 - April 21, 2017.

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We have received some questions about the livestream videos from the 2015 conference. Sadly we only had a free Livestream account, so they do not provide dedicated storage, so they videos were only up for about a month. We have low-res copies of the stream sessions, as well as some better quality of the keynote with Michael Hardt and others, which we are working on uploading and will post here once done. Sorry to everyone looking for those videos at the moment...please bare with us!

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We want to thank everyone that came out for the 5th Annual Radical Democracy conference at The New School for Social Research. Once again, we had a great series of panels and discussions, as well as a great roundtable and keynote talk. If you missed something, the event videos can be watched either on our youtube channel, or the livestream archives. We are slowly adding higher quality versions of some of the main events to our YouTube channel, but all the events can be seen in the two livestream archived, all of which is posted under our Videos link the main menu (also here). As a special thank you, here's a solidarity photo which we took during the afternoon of one of the event to support the Maagdenhuis student occupations.

Maagdenhuis_Solidarity_2015We look forward to seeing all of you, and even more new folks, at the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference in 2016!

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2015 posterWe're excited to announce the final schedule is now ready for our 5th Annual Radical Democracy Conference at The New School for Social Research (NSSR). Below is the schedule for Friday and Saturday. You can also download a pdf copy here [Schedule PDF].

(* Schedule was updated on 4/7)

Friday, April 10

10am: Registration (Wolff Room)

10:30am: Opening Remarks - Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR (Wolff Room)

11am: Panel I (A & B)

Session A: Councils, Commune(-ism) and Radical Democracy (Wolff Room)

  1. “Radical Democracy in the French Revolution” - Nicolai Von Eggers Mariegaard, Aarhus University

  2. “Inaugural Investigations: Revolutionary Councils and Radical Democracy” - Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, University of Copenhagen

  3. “The concept of politics in Badiou and Castoriadis” - Gerasimos Karavitis, NSSR

  • Discussant. Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR

Session B: Embodying Discarnate Narratives (Room: 1108) ...continue reading →

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The CFP is now closed for submissions. The RD review committee is evaluating all proposals, and will be in touch in the coming month with responses to all submissions. Once we have a final schedule of the panels, and a draft conference agenda, we will post both here. Thanks to everyone who submitted a paper or panel proposal.

We are also considering the possibility of live-streaming the keynote talk by Michael Hardt, and possibly other sessions, depending. Stay tuned for more updates.

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The Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference

The New School for Social Research
6 E 16th St, Wolff Conference Room, #1103

Friday, March 14
10 am Registration
10:30 am Opening Remarks by Andreas Kalyvas
11 am Panel I: Radical Democracy in Practice
1 pm Lunch
2 pm Panel II: Radical Epistemologies: Time, Space, and the Visual
4 pm Coffee
4:30 pm Keynote Address by Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University -- “The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Socialism: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe's Radical Democracy”
6:30 pm Reception

Saturday, March 15
11 am Panel III: Anarchism and Democracy
1 pm Lunch
2 pm Panel IV: Rupture and Law: Irreconcilable Elements of Radical Democracy?
4 pm Coffee

Download Agenda [PDF]

Download Poster [PDF]

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The Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference will be taking place at The New School for Social Research in New York City from March 14 and 15, 2014. Stay tuned for a schedule of the conference schedule and more details.

The Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference – a graduate student conference interrogating the concept, history, practices and implications of radical democracy. We strive to assess its legacy from ancient to contemporary radical democratic theory, as well as explore the work of theorists such as Abensour, Arendt, Badiou, Castoriadis, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Rancière, and Wolin. We invite you to submit abstracts on any theme pertaining to the history, meaning, development, application, or critique of the concept of radical democracy; we also encourage discussions about methodology and the study of radical democratic movements.

 

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Welcome to the Radical Democracy website. We are a group of public intellectuals from around the world interested in exploring the concept of radical democracy in all its manifestations. Originally emerging out of a joint class held at Columbia University and The New School in New York City, our project has evolved into an annual conference and a radical democracy working group based here in New York.