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'A ordem da liberdade: Direito e Política no pensamento de Hannah Arendt' erscheint im EdUERJ Verlag
Die portugiesische Übersetzung von Christian Volks 'Die Ordnung der Freiheit. Recht und Politik im Denken Hannah Arendts' erscheint im EdUERJ Verlag:
A ordem da liberdade:
Direito e Política no pensamento
de Hannah Arendt
June 14th: Lecture by Willow Verkerk on Gendered Mimesis and the Episteme of Sex
Lecture on June 14th, 2022, 12-2pm in Room 201 in Universitätsstr. 3b by Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia/KU Leuven)
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.
Symposium 2022: Frantz Fanons "Schwarze Haut, Weiße Masken"
Am 29. April 2022 von 11 - 20 Uhr findet ein Symposium zu Frantz Fanons „Schwarze Haut, weiße Masken“ im Senatssaal der Humboldt Universität statt.
Der Forschungs- und Lehrbereich ‚Theorie der Politik‘ (Prof. Christian Volk) richtet am Freitag, den 29. April 2022 von 11-20 Uhr ein Symposium zu Frantz Fanons „Schwarze Haut, weiße Masken“ (1952) aus.
Die Veranstaltung wird unter Einhaltung der 3G-Regel und der FFP2-Maskenpflicht in Präsenz stattfinden.
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen. Um Anmeldung unter folgender Mailadresse wird gebeten: shk.theorie.politik@hu-berlin.de.
Die Veranstaltung findet im Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin statt.
Mehr Informationen und das Programm erhalten sie auf der Website des Symposiums.
Vortrag von Christian Volk beim Workshop 'The Meaning of Sovereignty in a Transnational World'
Christian Volk hat im Rahmen des Workshops 'The Meaning of Sovereignty in a Transnational World' am European University Institute in Florenz einen Vortrag mit dem Titel 'The Problem of Sovereignty in Globalized Times' gehalten. Er ist hier oder über Youtube abrufbar.
Blogbeitrag von Tim Wihl: "Unglückliches demokratisches Bewusstsein"
Tim Wihl schreibt auf dem Verfassungsblog einige kritische Anmerkungen zum Künast-Beschluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts.
"Die wilde Seite der Demokratie"
Tim Wihl in einem Beitrag zur Legalität von Autobahnblockaden.
In einem Gastbeitrag schreibt Tim Wihl über die Legalität von Sitzblockaden auf Autobahnen: Protestierende, die sich auf Autobahnen festkleben, können zwar politisch und moralisch durchaus kritisiert werden – aber verfassungsrechtlich?
Public book talk: "Platform Socialism"
Feb 25, 2022, 5pm (CET) Moderation: Rahel Süß
The Data Politics Lab is excited to host the public book talk on "Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech". The author James Muldoon will be joined in discussion by Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Simon Schaupp.
Moderation: Rahel Süß
Feb 25, 2022, 5pm (CET)
Register here.
Interview: Wie können Bürger*innen und Zivilgesellschaft mit Civic Tech Veränderungen anstoßen?
Was ist Civic Tech und wie kann daraus politischer Protest werden? Darauf gibt Daniel Staemmler von der HU Berlin in diesem Interview Antworten.
Für Daniel Staemmler sind bestimmte Civic-Tech-Projekte ganz klar auch eine politische Protestform. In diesem Interview spricht er über solche Protestformen und darüber, wie mit offenen Daten und deren Visualisierung politischer Druck aufgebaut werden kann.
Das vollständige Interview ist hier nachzulesen.
International Workshop | Blurring Boundaries? Illiberal conservatism and the New Right
International Workshop organized by SCRIPTS Berlin (Research Units Borders and Orders) and OEI Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin / 30.09.-01.10.2021, online
Workshop Description
Using the example of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Donald Trump’s America, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, The Economist (2019) argued that the ‘new right is not an evolution of conservatism, but a repudiation of it’. Such views are popular, but they risk underestimating intellectual and organizational endeavours to put conservatism again in opposition to liberalism. The way this is done overlaps with the so-called ‘New Right’ regarding the disdain for liberal globalization, ‘genderism’ and ‘abstract’ individualism. However, to simply equate the reinvention of illiberal conservatism with a rise of the new or extreme right, in turn risks losing sight of central differences between the two as well as how these differences impact on their respective relationships to liberalism.
The workshop will explore the commonalities and differences of the illiberal conservative and the new rightist ideological projects in challenging liberalism and neoliberalism. We pose the question: How do the new illiberal conservatism and the New Right relate to liberalism and what does this tell us about their classification as political phenomena? To advance such a comparison, we seek contributions that explore paradigm cases with a focus on three dimensions: (1) self-description, (2) understanding of liberalism, and (3) relations to specific issues, such as globalism, “geopolitics” and broader geographical narratives, the nation(-state), human rights, individualism, (post-)modernity, Enlightenment, religion/Christianity, and revolution. Thus, the workshop aims to contribute to a timely survey of the new conservatism and the New Right, as political phenomena, clarifying the nature and affinity of their tense relationship to the liberal script.
Organized by
The workshop organizers are Katharina Bluhm, Friederike Kuntz, Mihai Varga, and Christian Volk. The workshop is co-funded by the Research Unit “Borders” and the Research Unit “Orders” in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS).
Registration
There are limited slots for an interested academic public to attend. Please get in touch with Friederike Kuntz and Mihai Varga: Friederike.Kuntz@fu-berlin.de & mihai.varga@fu-berlin.de.
Schedule
30 September, 2.30 to 8.30 pm (CEST) (Pittsburgh -6h; London -1h; Istanbul -1h; Tjumen +3h)
2.30-3 pm: Welcome by the organizers
3.15-4.45 pm: Panel 1: Illiberal Conservatism and the New Right – Cross-national Entanglements
Chair: Katharina Bluhm (FU Berlin)
Discussant: Jean-François Drolet (Queen Mary University London)
Clifford Bob (Duquesne University): The New Right, Liberalism, and Transnational Activism
Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster): Decoding the Global Project of the New Right
Katja Freistein, Frank Gadinger and Christine Unrau (KHK Duisburg): Staging Sympathy and Schadenfreude. The Emotional Range of Right-Wing Populist Narratives
5.30-7 pm: Panel 2: Conservatives and New Rightists
Chair: Christian Volk (HU Berlin)
Discussant: Mark Bassin (Södertörn University)
George Hawley (University of Alabama): Laundered Identity: The Ambiguous Place of Right-Wing Identity Politics in the U.S.
Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga (FU Berlin): Of Ideologists and Activists: Generational and Framing Dynamic in Eastern Europe’s Conservative Thought Collectives
Caroline Hill (University of Innsbruck & Uppsala University): Who is to Blame and What is to be Done? Russian Orthodox Framing of Abortion Rights
7.30-8.30 pm: Online reception
1 October, 2-7 pm (CEST)
2-3.30 pm: Panel 3: Illiberal (Neo-)Liberals?
Chair: Friederike Kuntz (FU Berlin)
Discussant: Mihai Varga (FU Berlin)
Maria Belen Díaz (FU Berlin): Make (Neo-)Liberalism Cool Again: Right-Wing Youth Political Culture in Brazil
Dieter Plehwe (WZB): Religious and neoliberal right in right-wing populist parties: Hayek’s bastards, mutants, or part of the original DNA?
Doğancan Özsel (Munzur University): Illiberal Geographies of Populist Conservatism: Spatial Conceptualizations of the Political among Turkish Conservatives
4-5.30 pm: Panel 4: The European New Right
Chair: Jean-François Drolet (Queen Mary University London)
Discussant: Christine Unrau (KHK Duisburg)
Mark Bassin (Södertörn University): Geopolitics or Ethnopolitics? Space, Race, and the European Far Right’s “Russia Problem”
Manni Crone (DIIS): Towards Civilizations and Spiritual Empires? How the European New Right Braces for a Post-Liberal World Order
Friederike Kuntz (FU Berlin): Anti-Liberalism and Conservative Revolution in the European New Right
6-7 pm: Concluding remarks & next steps
Vortrag: Neil Roberts über Angela Y. Davis
Prof. Dr. Neil Roberts (Williams College) wird zu "Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom" sprechen. 22. Juni 2021, 16 Uhr
Vortrag Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom
22. Juni 2021, 16 Uhr
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zoom
Registrierung via E-Mail an shk.theorie.politik@hu-berlin.de
Am 22. Juni spricht Prof. Dr. Neil Roberts (Williams College) zu "Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom". Sein Vortrag beruht hierbei auf einem kürzlich erschienen Beitrag in Melvin L. Rogers und Jack Turner (Hrsg.), African American Political Thought, University of Chicago Press 2021.Buchvorstellung: Édouard Glissant and the Middle Passage
John Drabinski (University of Maryland) wird sein neuestes Werk 'Édouard Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss' vorstellen. 8. Juni 2021, 16 Uhr
Buchvorstellung Édouard Glissant and the Middle Passage
8. Juni 2021, 16 Uhr
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zoom
Registrierung via E-Mail an shk.theorie.politik@hu-berlin.de
John Drabinski (University of Maryland) wird sein neuestes Werk zu Édouard Glissant vorstellen. Zentral sind dabei die Fragen der Erinnerung und Glissants Beitrag zum politischen Denken. Zudem wird Glissants karibische kritische Theorie mit dem Motiv "break in tradition" in den Arbeiten Hannah Arendts und Walter Benjamins zusammengebracht.
Zu Édouard Glissant and the Middle Passage, University of Minnesota Press 2019: "While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention to the catastrophe known as the Middle Passage. It is a history that requires its own ideas that emerge organically from the societies that experienced the Middle Passage and its consequences firsthand. Glissant and the Middle Passage offers a new, important approach to this neglected calamity by examining the thought of Édouard Glissant, particularly his development of Caribbeanness as a critical concept rooted in the experience of the slave trade and its aftermath in colonialism.
Glissant and the Middle Passage establishes Édouard Glissant’s proper place as a key theorist of ruin, catastrophe, abyss, and memory. Identifying his insistence on memories and histories tied to place as the crucial geography at the heart of his work, this book imparts an innovative new response to the specific historical experiences of the Middle Passage."
Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Reihe Breaks in Tradition: Shifting Geographies of Political Thought, organisiert von Niklas Plaetzer (University of Chicago) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrbereich Theorie der Politik (Prof. Volk) und dem Centre Marc Bloch.
Daniel Staemmler und Sebastian Berg auf Netzpolitik.org
Unter dem Titel "Zivilgesellschaft im Wettbewerbsformat" nehmen Daniel Staemmler und Sebastian Berg auf Netzpolitik.org eine kritische Analyse vor, die fragt, wie viel zivilgesellschaftliche Teilhabe wirklich hinter dem "Hackathon-Hype der Bundesregierung" steckt.
Tagungsbericht zum Symposium anlässlich Walter Benjamins "Kritik der Gewalt"
Für H-Soz-Kult haben Simon Clemens, Simin Jawabreh und Jonathan Stahl einen Tagungsbericht zu unserem Kolloquium im Februar geschrieben, das sich anlässlich des 100. Jahrestages mit Walter Benjamins "Kritik der Gewalt" beschäftigte. Der Bericht ist hier verfügbar.
Public book talk mit Donatella della Porta
Am Montag, den 31. Mai 2021 präsentiert und diskutiert Donatella della Porta ihr neustes Buch ‚How Social Movements Can Save Democracy‘ am Forschungs- und Lehrbereich
Author meets critics book talk mit Donatella della Porta (SNS Florence)
31. Mai 2021, 19:30 Uhr
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zoom
Registrierung via E-Mail an sowitpsh@hu-berlin.de
Donatella della Porta (SNS Florenz) stellt ihr neustes Buch 'How Social Movements Can Save Democracy' vor und tritt mit Dieter Rucht (WZB), Daniel Staemmler (HU Berlin) und Anton Haffner (HU Berlin) in Diskussion. Alle weiteren Informationen sind auf der Veranstaltungsseite zu finden.
Die Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung statt und ist Teil des internationalen Workshops 'After the Event: Conceptualizing Political Protest', der am Lehr- und Forschungsbereich Theorie der Politik stattfindet. Della Portas Buch erscheint im letzten Jahr bei Polity Press und ist in deutscher Übersetzung beim Campus Verlag erhältlich.
Tim Wihl zum Mietendeckel
Prof. Tim Wihl schreibt auf dem Verfassungsblog zur "Nichtigkeit des Mietendeckels".
Prof. Tim Wihl kommentiert das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Berliner Mietendeckel. Der Beitrag mit dem Titel "Zur Nichtigkeit des Mietendeckels des Berliner Mietedeckel" ist zu finden unter: https://verfassungsblog.de/zur-nichtigkeit-des-berliner-mietendeckels/.
Tim Wihl zur 'Teaser-Affäre'
Prof. Tim Wihl schreibt auf dem Verfassungsblog zur „Teaser-Affäre“ der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Unter dem Titel "Der Extremismus stirbt zuletzt" widmet sich Tim Wihl auf dem Verfassungsblog der 'Teaser Affäre' der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. https://verfassungsblog.de/der-extremismus-stirbt-zuletzt/
CfA - Two 5-year Postdoctoral Researcher Positions
The research- and teaching area Political Theory is seeking to fill two positions as Postdoctoral Researchers (full time) for up to 5 years.
The research- and teaching area Political Theory is seeking to fill two positions as Postdoctoral Researchers (full time) for up to 5 years.
Starting date
As soon as possible
Tasks
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Conducting research and teaching, with an emphasis on systematic Political Theory or the History of Political Thought;
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supporting the development and internationalization of the research and teaching unit of Political Theory through publications, the organization of lecture series, workshops and conferences, third-party funding initiatives etc.;
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coordinating the international fellowship program of the research unit;
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taking part in the academic self-administration;
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The position entails the opportunity for further scientific qualification (habilitation)
Requirements
An excellent doctoral degree in Political Science or a related field, especially in the field of Political Theory and the History of Political Thought is mandatory. The desireable criteria include:
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Profound expertise in research and teaching
(1) either in the field of systematic political theory, for example on questions of democratic theory or critical social theory;
(2) or in the field of the history of political thought, for example research on the concept of freedom, the history of ideas of colonialism or revolution; -
Engaging with intersectional perspectives, especially with queer-feminist and/or postcolonial critique
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Creative research agenda which is linked to international scientific debates (demonstrated e.g. through high-level publications in peer-reviewed journals)
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Experience and commitment to academic teaching, didactic competences
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Very good command of English, both in writing and in speaking; knowledge of Germanis an asset
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Strong organizational skills and ability to work autonomously; intellectual enthusiasm and open-mindedness
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Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team and accommodating of diverse views
Salary is approximately 4000€ per month according to salary group E13 TVL. For more information, candidates are encouraged to consult the English version of our website.
Applications
Applications should include a motivation letter, your CV including two academic referees, a draft of your teaching and research ideas for one of the two fields mentioned above (2500 words), academic certificates and one research article in English. The application deadline is March 10, 2021. Please submit your application quoting the reference number AN/029/21 via email as one PDF file (max. 5MB) to Prof Dr. Christian Volk: sekretariat.theorie.politik@sowi.hu-berlin.de.
Please find the PDF version of this announcement here. The legally binding German version of the job announcement can be found here.
