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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 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 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
'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
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"
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"
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"
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?
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
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
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
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.