Critical European Studies Workshop 2017
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Beschreibung
Critical European Studies Workshop 2017
University of Frankfurt
23./24. June 2017
This is the fourth edition of a successful series of workshops put together by European scholars, students and activists with the support of CPERN, the Arbeitskreis kritische Europaforschung (AkE/AkG), transform! and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
This year the CES workshop continues to challenge inconsistencies and blind spots that permeate European Studies and push the boundaries of the critical in the analyses of the area’s problematic. The themes discussed will include the political crisis of the EU and authoritarian modes of politics, the uprise of the new right, questions of climate, and problems of resistance and strategy in production and reproduction as well as in politics and on the streets.
The workshop provides a forum for scholars and activists to meet and discuss critical theoretical and empirical perspectives on the configuration of European capitalism, the EU and political resistance. Previous editions were held at the University of Greenwich in London 2016,at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2015), and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2014).
In order to foster a constructive debate the workshop will avoid the 'usual' conference structure with individual paper presentations and foregrounds collective discussions instead. We will proceed on the basis of thematic block sessions, with each tabling a core text that all participants will have read beforehand. Each of the sessions in the workshop starts with a brief introduction, and 6 participants (to be announced) discussing and enhancing the perspectives developed in that session’s core text from the angle of their own research/activism. This is followed by a mumble where all participants share their ideas in small groups, after which the floor is opened for a plenary discussion.
Programme
Friday 23th June
12h30-13h: Round of Introduction
13-15h Session 1: Crisis of the state: state of emergency and authoritarian modes of politics in the EU
Coretext: Oberndorfer, Lukas 2015: From new constitutionalism to authoritarian constitutionalism. Economic Governance and the state of European Democracy, in: Jäger, Johannes/Springler, Elisabeth (eds.): Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures. Critical political economy and postKeynesian perspectives, London New York, 186-207
Commentators: Sonja Buckel, Daniela Caterina, Ian Bruff, Yuliya Yurchenko
15-15h30 Break
15h30-17h30 Session 2: The uprise of the new right in Europe
Coretext: Kumral, Sefika 2015: Hegemonic transition, war and opportuinities for fascist militarism, in: Saull, Richard et.al. (eds.): The Longue Durée of the Far-Right, London New York, 64-84
Commentators: Daniel Mullis, Daniel Keil, Alice Blum, Tamas Gerocs, Priska Daphi
17h30-18h Break
18h-20h Shifts in (transnational) fractions of capital and ‘deep state’ (Roundtable-Discussion) with
Daniel Chavez, Manuela Boatca, Thomas Sablowski, Yuliya Yurchenko
20h: Dinner at own costs
Saturday June 24
10h-12h Session 3: Climate – the invisible obvious: from denying the problem to inadequate solutions based on agnotology
Coretext: Moore, Jason W. 2014. The End of Cheap Nature. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about “The” Environment and Love the Crisis of Capitalism
Commentators: Ulrich Brand, Stephanie Hürtgen, Manuela Boatca, Alexis Passadakis
12h-13h Break
13h-15h Session 4: Resistance and strategy 1: in production and reproduction
Coretext: Bruff, Ian/Wöhl, Stefanie 2016: Constitutionalizing Austerity, Disciplining the Household. Masculine Norms of Competitiveness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in the Eurozone, in: Aida Hozić and Jacqui True (eds) (2016) Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 92-108
Commentators: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, Laura Horn, Christoph Sorg, Laura Schnieder, Felix Hauf
15h-15h30 Break
15h30-17h30 Session 5: Resistance and strategy 2: in politics and on the streets
Coretext: Cristina Flesher Fominaya (2017) European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis, Social Movement Studies, 16:1,1-20
Commentators: Nikolai Huke, Andreas Bieler, Tibor Meszmann, Karel Yon, Anne Reiff, Agnes Gagyi
17h30-18h Closing
Location:
Goethe-Universität
Max-Horkheimer-Straße 4
Seminarhaus
60323 Frankfurt
The CES organizing team (Agnes Gagyi, Christakis Georgiou, Daniel Keil, Tino Petzold, and Yuliya Yurchenko) hopes to see many of you there!