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Christian Volk im Interview beim Foschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen
Christian Volk spricht im Interview mit Dr. Jannis Grimm Über den demokratischen Gestus von Aktionen des zivilen Ungehorsams im Regime der Unruhe. Das Interview ist im Schwerpunktheft Neue Radikalität? Protest Gewalt ziviler Ungehorsam - Versuche einer Grenzziehung des Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen erschienen.
Das gesamte Interview können Sie hier lesen.
REGISTER NOW: Conference|Rewriting the History of Political Thought from the Margins
From now on you can register for the Conference Rewriting the History of Political Thought from the Margins taking place June 7-9 at Humboldt University of Berlin. Find further infromation and the link to the registration form here.
Lecture Series | "On the Critique and Future of the Liberal Script" Christian Volk – Protest and democracy
On 12 December 2022, Christian Volk held a lecture on Protest and democracy (in German).
The livestream and a recording of the lecture is available on the SCRIPTS YouTube channel.
This lecture is part of the public lecture series "Contestations about and in liberal orders: On the Critique and Future of the Liberal Script.", organised by SCRIPTS for the "Offener Hörsaal" series at FU Berlin.
Symposium 2023: Bonnie Honig's "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics"
On January 20th 2023, the Research and teaching area Political Theory organizes a symposium with Bonnie Honig on her book "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics". The event will take place from 2-6:45 pm in the Auditorium Grimm Zentrum (live stream will be provided via Zoom).
Please join us for an afternoon of talks and discussion to mark the 30th anniversary of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics. In this sea-change publication, Bonnie Honig argued in favor of political theories that allowed for contestation and contingency – that is, for politics as a haphazard human endeavor. Thirty years later, prof. Bonnie Honig joins us to look back upon its claims and its enduring relevance for contemporary issues, and to discuss her current research on feminist refusal.
To register and receive the Zoom-link, please send an email to shk.theorie.politik@hu-berlin.de before January 18th 2023. Find more information here.
Christian Volk im hr-INFO im Beitrag „Grenzenloser Klimaprotest - wie angemessen ist die Wut?“
Christian Volk spricht im Beitrag „Grenzenloser Klimaprotest - wie angemessen ist die Wut?“ zum aktuellen Geschehen rund um die Klimaproteste. Die Autorin des Beitrags ist Julia Hummelsiep.
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https://www.hr-inforadio.de/index.html
Der Lehrbereich Theorie der Politik begrüßt die Gastwissenschaftlerinnen Gabriela Teixeira Cunha und Letícia Maria Rêgo Teixeira Lima
Zum Wintersemester begrüßt der Lehrbereich Theorie der Politik die Gastwissenschaftlerinnen Gabriela Teixeira Cunha und Letícia Maria Rêgo Teixeira Lima von der Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Gabriela forscht auf dem Feld der politischen Philosophie und der kritischen Theorie zu Erinnerung und Ästhetik im Kontext von Unrecht und politischer Subjektivierung in den Städten Rio de Janeiro und Berlin.
Letícia forscht zu Klimagerechtigkeit, Gender, Intersektionalität und Klimabewegungen in den Städten Rio de Janeiro und Berlin.
Spheres of Citizenship | Bethania Assy zu "Political (re)existence and the subject of injustice"
Prof. Bethania Assy von der PUC Rio de Janeiro hält die Opening Keynote des von CAPES und DAAD geförderten Workshops des Projekts 'Spheres of Citizenship' zu 'Political (re)existence and the subject of injustice'. Der Vortrag findet am 7. November 2022 um 13 Uhr in der Dorotheenstr. 26, Raum 422 statt.
Political (re)existence and the subject of injustice proposes a new epistemological approach to a theory of justice based on the concrete experience of the subject of injustice. In her presentation, Bethania Assy explores the relationship between capture, understood as vulnerability in the access to rights, and resistance, understood as the development of potency to self and collective affirmation, from three aspects: the development of political capacity as a process of subjectivation, the production of rights through the development of a new grammar of rights and the ethic of responsibility of the subjects that are not exposed to that violence. Her concept of resistance as re-existence starts with the recognition of state violence as formative in the process of subjectivation, the different temporalities of emergence, injustice, and reparation, as well as the spatiality that determines the concrete experience of injustice.
Politics Lecture Series | Alasia Nuti on "Emancipation and the Unjust Past"
The Department of Social Sciences hosts a Politics Lecture Series this semester. The lectures take place every Tuesday from 12 to 1 p.m. in room 002 at the ISW. On November 8th 2022 we welcome Alasia Nuti, who is a political theorist at the University of York and is going to talk about "Emancipation and the Unjust Past". Find more information here.
Danniel Gobbi erhält Förderung durch Circle U Initiative
Danniel Gobbi hat eine Förderung der Circle U Initiative erhalten. Er wird ab April 2023 als Gastwissenschaftler an der Paris Cité University arbeiten.
Special Issue 'Protest and the Democratic Order' in Democratic Theory erschienen
Mit dem Special Issue zu 'Protest and the Democratic Order' erscheinen in Democratic Theory die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Workshops, der 2021 im Rahmen des POWDER-Projekts am Forschungs- und Lehrbereich stattfand. Die Ausgabe vereint Beiträge von Christina Flesher-Fominaya (Universität Aarhus), Erin Pineda (Smith College), José Medina (Northwestern University), Oliver Marchart (Universität Wien) und Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London) und Christian Volk.
Die Beiträge befassen sich mit der Dynamik von politischem Protest im Kontext demokratischer Ordnungen und verbinden damit Diskurse zur Konzeptualisierung und Theoretisierung von Protest mit empirischen Befunden zum Thema. Ebenfalls Teil des Ausgabe ist ein Symposium zu Jason Franks 'The Democratic Sublime' mit Beiträgen von Karuna Mantena, Adom Getachew, Sofia Näsström und Jason Frank. Alle Beiträge sind open access abrufbar.
Themenschwerpunkt der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (ZPTh) zu Postkolonialität und die Krise der Demokratie erschienen
Postkolonialität und die Krise der Demokratie: Themenschwerpunkt der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (ZPTh) erschienen
Der von Jeanette Ehrmann herausgegebene Themenschwerpunkt versammelt Beiträge, die die demokratietheoretische Debatte über die Krise der Demokratie aus der Perspektive post- und dekolonialer Theorie sowie Schwarzer feministischer und indigener Kritik befragen. Das ausführliche Editorial von Jeanette Ehrmann hinterfragt das Metanarrativ einer Krise der Demokratie und erörtert Einsatzpunkte einer postkolonialen Demokratietheorie. Die Beiträge sind, zum Teil Open Access, hier verfügbar: https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/zpth/issue/view/3103
Dr. Jeanette Ehrmann erhält Career Development Award der BUA
Dr. Jeanette Ehrmann hat für ihr Forschungsprojekt „Repairing Democracy, Reimagining Postcoloniality“ einen Career Development Award der Berlin University Alliance für herausragende Wissenschaftler*innen erhalten. Sie wird im Wintersemester 2022/2023 im Rahmen eines Forschungsfreisemesters ihr Forschungsprojekt bearbeiten und ein universitätsübergreifendes Netzwerk zu Postkolonialität unter dem Dach der BUA aufbauen.
Dr. Ieva Motuzaite erhält das Postdoc-Stipendium der Herzog August Bibliothek
Dr. Ieva Motuzaite hat das Postdoc-Stipendium der Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel erhalten! Sie wird von August 2023 bis Januar 2024 am Projekt "Edward Herberts religionskritisches Potenzial" forschen.
Call for Papers: Rewriting the History of Political Thought From the Margins
On June 8-9 2023, the research area Theory of Politics at HU Berlin will hold a workshop titled Rewriting the History of Political Thought From the Margins. You can find the Call for Papers here. The submission deadline is October 17, 2022. We are looking forward to your proposals!
Political Theory of the Digital Constellation: ZPol Sonderband erschienen
Der aktuelle Sonderband der Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol) versammelt Beiträge, die sich mit dem Verhältnis von Politischer Theorie und Digitalisierung auf rekonstruktive, systematisierende und normative Art und Weise auseinandersetzen. Alle Beiträge des Bandes sind open access verfügbar.
Daniel Staemmler agiert zusammen mit Sebastian Berg und Thorsten Thiel als Herausgeber. Die ausführliche Einleitung zum Band beschäftigt sich mit den Fallstricken polititheoretische Ansätze der Digitalisierunsforschung, um anhand einer Konzeptualisierung der digitalen Konstellation eine gangbare Alternative zu skizzieren.
June 30th: Book Launch - Denise Ferreira da Silva „Unpayable Debt“
30 June, 2022
14:15 – 15:45
Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Book Launch:
Denise Ferreira da Silva, „Unpayable Debt“ (Sternberg Press 2022)
Organised by
Theory of Politics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
FG DeKolonial – association for antiracist, postcolonial, and decolonial thought and practice
Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of British Columbia) in conversation with
Sergio Costa (Freie Universität Berlin)
Jeanette Ehrmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Liesbeth Schoonheim (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Abibi Stewart (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Vanessa Eileen Thompson (Queen’s University, Kingston)
No registration required. We kindly ask you to wear an FFP2 mask to protect others and yourself.
Contact: shk.theorie.politik@hu-berlin.de
June 25th: Future Perfect. Encounterings in Three Acts with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Guests at SAVVY Contemporary
June 25, 2022
18:30 – 22:00
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas
Future Perfect. Encounterings in Three Acts
with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Guests
For more information on the program and the schedule see:
https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2022/future-perfect/
June 14th: Lecture by Willow Verkerk on Gendered Mimesis and the Episteme of Sex
Organized by:The research and teaching area Theory of Politics
More information: Liesbeth Schoonheim liesbeth.schoonheim@hu-berlin.de
The lecture will be streamed via Zoom. Access: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/64442309929?pwd=K2JTNnc2YWx1RGl1Q1VaKzFQVS9vQT09
This lecture is concerned with how ‘sex’ as a biological category is mimetically formed by historically and culturally constructed notions of gender, including what Sara Ahmed calls “gender fatalism.” In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler criticizes the expressive model of sex, gender, and desire which assumes a linear relationship in which gender and desire express sex. They propose that the binary category of sex can be better understood as constructed and not innate. The concept of ‘sex’ too has a genealogy and like ‘gender’ it has been formed through discursive and cultural networks of power that bind it to heteronormativity and repronormativity. In Living a Feminist Life, Ahmed outlines how not only gender but also sex becomes “a homework”: when it is “assigned” at birth it points to an expectant future. As Ahmed indicates the statements, “boys will be boys” and “girls will be girls,” are exemplary of the kinds of gender discourses that reify binary concepts of sex difference in which being a coherent sex is dependent upon representing a ‘correct’ gender.
The notion that sex is primary and gender follows as a representation of sex is questioned by Butler and Ahmed. Instead, it is suggested by them that this imitative relationship also moves in the opposite direction, so that sex imitates gender too. I agree with Butler and Ahmed that it is important to reject the one-sided expressive view. However, I also claim that to sufficiently understand the relation between sex and gender, we require a notion of gendered mimesis as an immanent and affective force which can act to dispossess the episteme of sex of truth claims that resist the gender binary. Thus, the philosophical concepts of sex and gender are not only structured by a relationship of imitation, they are also regulated and modified by a mimetic pathos which has historically acted to divest ‘sex’ from attributes that do not cohere with repro- and hetero- normative values.
Bio
Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven. She was previously a Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University. Willow is the author of Nietzsche and Friendship (Bloomsbury, 2019) and other academic texts in feminist and continental philosophy. Current research interests include the philosophy of sex and gender, alternative feminist genealogies of the subject, and Nietzsche’s concept of sovereignty.