Radical Democracy 2019 Schedule is now online!

Friday, April 26

7 - 8 30 PM, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor
Opening Roundtable with Miriam Ticktin, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, and Kirsten Swinth, What is Feminist Politics?

8 30 PM, Wine and Cheese, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

Saturday, April 27

8:30 - 9 AM, Breakfast and Registration, Room 1107

Panel 1: Discipline
9 - 10 30 AM, Room 1107
Discussant: Orsolya Lehotai, NSSR

- Nichole Smith, George Washington University, #MeToo Behind Bars: Sexual Violence Against Incarcerated Women and Anti-Rape Activism
- Leyla Savloff, University of Washington, Potentials of Women-Led Spaces and The Imprint of Interdependence
- Hannah Voegele, Humboldt University of Berlin, Dennis Ohm, New School for Social Research, Reproduction and Revolutionary Practice. How the women’s strike re-imagines social Relations

Panel 2: Care
11 - 12 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: Setareh Shohadaei, NSSR

- Ana Sofía Rodríguez Everaert, Colegio de México, Madwomen vs women that care
LaTerricka “Terri” Smith, University of Chicago, How We Get Free: Interrogating Black Queer Feminism in the 21st Century
- Friederike Beier, Free University of Berlin, The Appropriation of Feminist Knowledge through the Recognition of Social Reproduction

1 - 2 PM, Lunch, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

Panel 3:  Dissidence
2 - 3 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: TBA, NSSR

- Onursal Erol,  University of Chicago, A Traditional Claim to Public Space: Women's Publics and Transgressive Practice in Istanbul
- Ana Clara Abrantes Simões, Joyce Karine de Sá Souza, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Kurdish women: radicality, des-institution, and an-archy in the Middle East
-  Elif Genc, New School for Social Research, Necroviolence vs. Necroresistance: The “Weaponization of Life” [and Death]

Panel 4:  Conception
4 - 5 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: Anastasia Kalk, NSSR

- Helen Galvin Ross, University of Chicago, Women’s Sphere and the State of Exception in Liberal Thought
-  Anika Thym, University of Basel, New School For Social Research, Hegemony self-critique as a central aspect of feminist coalition politics
- Adrià Porta Caballé, New School For Social Research, Populist Feminism or Feminist Populism?

6 PM - 8 PM, Keynote Lecture, Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, After Feminism, After Politics, Wolff Conference Room

For so long we have proposed considering the politics of this or the politics of that – the politics of transgender, the politics of sex, the politics of performance, the politics of resistance – what if politics itself, as a concept and a framework is not the solution but the problem. In other words, what if this need to legitimate everything via the political as we currently understand politics (activities associated with governance) is part of the problem in that it leads only to certain kinds of projects — the propulsive projects that engage making, doing, being, building, becoming, knowing, declaring, proposing, dealing, moving and so on. At the same time, this definition of the political disallows other projects that involve unbuilding, unmaking and destitution and declares these to be violent and worthless. Using three examples of “exit routes” from this current formulation of politics and violence, I offer a new vision of unbuilding the world.”

8 PM, Closing Reception, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

*All the events take place at 6 East 16th Street, New York, 10003