Última chamada para a conferência
Thinking Beyond Capitalism, organizada pelo
Group for Social Engagement Studies da Universidade de Belgrado (Sérvia). Os trabalhos apresentados procurarão oferecer alternativas (ou questionar a ausência delas) para o capitalismo. A conferência ocorrerá entre os dias 24 e 26 de junho e o prazo para o envio de propostas
termina sexta, 10 de abril.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Thinking
Beyond Capitalism
Belgrade, June 24-26, 2015
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
The conference Thinking
Beyond Capitalism is
part of a week-long series of events, entitled Reflections
on Capitalism (June
22nd – 27th 2015). Reflections on Capitalism will include public discussions,
roundtables and plenary lectures. All events are open to the public.
Confirmed
speakers
Confirmed speakers for the Reflections on Capitalism include:Anselm Jappe (Collège international de philosophie,
Paris), Alex Demirovic (Universität
Frankfurt am Main), Catherine Samary(Université Paris Dauphine), Chiara
Bonfiglioli (Center
for Culturural and Historical Research of Socialism, Juraj Dobrila University
of Pula), Claus Offe (Hertie
School of Governance, Berlin),Danijela
Majstorovi? (University of Banja Luka),Dominique Lévy (CNRS,
Paris), Giuseppe Masturzo (International University College
Torino), G. M. Tamás (CEU,
Budapest), Gérard Duménil (Université
Paris 10, Paris), Hauke Brunkhorst(Universität Flensburg), Ivana
Panteli?(Institute for Contemporary History, University of
Belgrade), Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin
College, Brunswick), Laurence Fontaine (CNRS, Paris), LjubicaSpaskovska (University
of Exeter),Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin), Mislav
Žitko (University
of Zagreb), Mladen Lazi?(University of Belgrade), Rainer
Kuhlen (Department
of Computer and Information Science University of Konstanz), Simon
Susen(City University, London), Toni
Prug (Queen Mary
University of London), Ugo Mattei (University
of California, Hastings College of the Law / Università di Torino),Vedran Džihi? (Austrian
Institute for International Affairs, University of Vienna), Wolfgang
Merkel(WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre), Wolfgang
Streeck (Max
Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne), Yann
Moulier-Boutang(Université Technologique de Compiègne), Zoran
Jankovi? (Cégep
de Saint-Laurent, Montreal).
Description:
How is it at all possible to make sound statements about
contemporary capitalism? How does one adequately diagnose the current state of
the economy? Clearly there is no consensus whether the financial crisis which
culminated in 2007-2008 should be seen as a symptom of the structural crisis of
neoliberal capitalism only, or of capitalism in general. Moreover, one should
keep in mind that the term ’crisis’ is itself laden with different ideologems.
The talk of ’crisis’ implies the existence of a superior prior state of
capitalism, free of any crisis, and that we are now witnessing an extraordinary
phase which is alien to the ’normal functioning’ of the system. Should we
understand the crisis merely as the means for restructuring the existing
system, or as the beginning of an irreversible demise of the current mode of
production? Is it possible that the crisis has actually enabled the exact
preservation of the status quo, and has prevented any change? Or was the
crisis, on the contrary, the crucial catalyst for the politicization of the
otherwise depoliticized actors within late capitalism? We are thus
simultaneously exposed to various institutional-reformist suggestions, more or
less grounded apologias, and identifications of fundamental contradictions
within the capitalist reproduction process.
In The Communist Manifesto Marx argues that capitalism is a
social order which arises and subsists in the form of a critique of all
alternative orders and subjective dispositions. Capitalism has proven more
radical than its competitors: it has destroyed theancien régime, has rendered all societal bonds
flexible and has constantly revolutionized the means of production. It is a
system in which ’all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
profaned’. To what extent, then, is it even possible to formulate a critique of
such societal system, a system that has managed to incorporate critique itself?
Can one stage a revolution against the ’revolution’ itself? If capitalism thus
emerges as the actual constitutive framework of our thought, how do we begin to
think beyond capitalism?
Starting from the assumption that crises are in fact situations which open up
space for thought rather than obstruct it, we intend to thematize the following
spectrum of problems:
– Difficulties regarding the self-valorization of capital
– Inequalities within the global division of labour and the challenges of
(re)distribution
– Reproduction of social classes and forms of domination
– Structural unemployment and the growth of the precariat
– Tensions between market imperatives
– Ideologems of management, esprit d’enterprise…
– The transformed property relations characterizing ’non-material goods’
– Geographical aspects of capitalism (territories, borders, etc.)
– Tensions between the centres, semiperipheries and peripheries of capitalism
– Dangers of climate change
– Competing dimensions of normativity (universal, global, particular, local,
singular…)
– Democracies versus authoritarian
social orders
– The cultural dimensions of neoliberalism
– Critique of ideology, critical discourse analysis of neoliberalism
– Neoliberal patriarchy and the new feminisms
– The rise and evolution of anti-neoliberal / anti-capitalist movements
– Left, right, and Romanticist anti-capitalism
– Possibility of alternative modes of production of social life today
Organization of the conference
The official language of the conference is English.
Presentations should not exceed 20
minutes.
The Program
Committee of the conference will select the presenters based on the submitted
abstracts. The book of abstracts will be published by the time of the
conference.
Conference applications should
be sent only via e-mail to the following address:ifdt.capitalism@gmail.com We kindly ask you to put in your email
subject the following title: ’Application: title of the paper’. The complete
application in the .doc, .docx or .pdf format must contain: the title of the
presentation, an abstract of up to 200 words and a short biography, in English.
There will be no registration fees. Conference organisers will
provide lunch and light refreshments during the conference program.
Participants are kindly requested to make their own accommodation and travel
arrangements.
The conference is organized by the Group for Social Engagement
Studies, unit of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade,
with support of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Scientific and Technological
Development, Institut français de Serbie, Center for Advanced Studies (Rijeka,
Croatia), Balkan Trust for Democracy, Goethe Institute, Heinrich Böll
Foundation, Singidunum University, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for Eastern
Europe, The German Marshall Fund, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Center for
Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy (Belgrade).
Important dates
Application deadline: 10 April 2015
Notification of acceptance: 25 April 2015
Conference dates: 24–26 June 2015
Program Committee
Petar Bojani, Institute
for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
Laurence Fontaine, CNRS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs/ENS,
Paris
Mladen Lazi, Faculty of
Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Toni Prug, Queen Mary
University of London
Catherine Samary, Université
Dauphine, Paris
G. M. Tamás, CEU, Budapest
Mislav Žitko, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb