Emancipation Conference
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Technical University Berlin,
May 25-27, 2018
50 years after the events of 1968, the question of emancipation is still of central importance. The international conference “Emancipation” will investigate from a social-philosophical perspective what emancipation is, what actors need to know in order to emancipate themselves and what practical-political conditions the collective capacity to act requires and its dynamics. In addition, at the conference the problem of emancipation will be examined in its connection with other important social-philosophical questions such as “power and domination”, “politics of forms of life” and “hope and utopia”. What will become apparent is that the concept of emancipation is a key concept in social philosophy which allows us to connect various approaches from diverse traditions—from Critical Theory, poststructuralism and the recent analytical debates on social critique.
PROGRAM
25 MAY 2018 (HKW)
5-8pm
Opening: Greeting by Sabine Kunst, President of Humboldt University Berlin, and Christian Thomsen, President of TU Berlin
Welcome Address by the Organizers
Panel: “What is Emancipation?” (with Seyla Benhabib, Wendy Brown, Didier Eribon, Rahel Jaeggi, Christoph Menke, chaired by: Daniel Loick)
26 May 2018 (TU Berlin)
9:30-11:30 Colloquia
“Teaching Autonomy” (with Sabine Andresen, Micha Brumlik, Christiane Thompson, convened by: Micha Brumlik)
"Politics of Forms of Life" (with Ann Cvetkovich, Katja Diefenbach, Daniel Loick, convened by Daniel Loick)
"Liberation and Gender" (with Morvarid Dehnavi, Aline Oloff, Christina Thürmer-Rohr, convened by Sabine Hark)
Medico-Colloquium: "Emancipation from the Catastrophe" (with Abu Brima, Vera Malaguti, Hadi Marifat, convened by Thomas Seibert)
1-3pm Panel
"Emancipatory Knowledge" (with Sally Haslanger, Charles W. Mills, Martin Saar, Jason Stanley, chaired by Kristina Lepold)
3:30-5:30 Colloquia
"Alienation & Ideology" (with Lorna Finlayson, Karen Ng, Hartmut Rosa, convened by Robin Celikates and Paul Sörensen)
"Revolution" (with Wendy Brown, Hauke Brunkhorst, Christoph Menke, convened by Eva von Redecker)
"Creativity" (with Gertrud Koch, Ruth Sonderegger, N.N., convened by Bastion Ronge)
Medico-Colloquium: "Solidarity in the Catastrophe" (with Stephan Lessenich, Achille Mbembe, Gesine Schwan, convened by Ramona Lenz)
27 May 2018 (TU Berlin)
10-12am Colloquia
"Power & Domination" (with Didier Eribon, Nancy Fraser, Isabell Lorey, Shelley Tremain, convened by Kristina Lepold & Martin Saar)
"Solidarity" (with Dan Brudney, Fred Neuhouser, Thomas Seibert, convened by Steffen Herrmann)
"Hope & Utopia" (with Sylwia D. Christowska, James Ingram, Arno Münster, convened by James Ingram & Arnd Pollmann)
Medico-Colloquium: "Global res publica?" (with Eva Bertschy & Milo Rau, Harald Welzer, N.N., convened by Katja Maurer)
1:30-4pm Panel
"Emancipatory Movements and Social Struggles" (with Alex Demirovic, Nancy Fraser, Sabine Hark, Regina Kreide, Chantal Mouffe, chaired by: Robin Celikates)
The conference will be held in German and English. For accessibility info and other information about the conference, visit the conference website here.
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