May 5-6, 20179:00: Breakfast + Welcome (Wolff Conference Room, 1103)
10:00: Opening Remarks – faculty + student organizers (1103) ...continue reading
Hello everyone. We have decided to extend the final due date for submissions for the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference. Here are the new deadlines below.
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINES
Panel or paper abstracts: March 26, 2017
Full conference papers: April 21, 2017
Please send submissions to: radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu
Hello RD friends!
Due to the various complications of conference planning, we were not able to pull off the Sixth Annual RD Conference in 2016 as originally planned, so we decided to push it back a bit to the spring of 2017. The CFP is now out, so please consider submitting something for this year's conference. We look forward to seeing all of you in New York City in May of 2017!
The Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research embraces the occasion of the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference to ask what’s the matter? As a springboard into the material, practical, historical, lived, aesthetic, discursive and theoretical manifestations of Radical Democracy, and the constellation of claims with which it is associated. As preceding conferences have done, RD#6th will consider the theory and practice of radical democracy in its historical and contemporary settings.
This year’s theme is galvanized by an attention to the mattering happening all around us, and the ways these matters make radical claims upon the demos — popular sovereignty, demagoguery and tyranny, fascism and anti-fascist uprisings, racial justice, freedom struggles, declarations of defiance, resistance to oppression and colonial violence, and ongoing grassroots organizing; from Palestine to Ferguson, Aleppo to Charlotte, London to New York, Oaxaca to Athens, Dhaka to Rio de Janeiro; people rise up in defense of water, land and democratic sovereignty; create migrant spaces of refuge, and enact critical multi-species with-standings around the world. As always we urge submissions of panel and paper abstracts that take up the theme of Radical Democracy in all its global resonance.
You can read the (updated) full CFP here.
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINES
Please submit your panel or paper abstracts by March 5, 2017 - March 17th to radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu. Full conference papers are due by April 9, 2017 - April 21, 2017.
We have received some questions about the livestream videos from the 2015 conference. Sadly we only had a free Livestream account, so they do not provide dedicated storage, so they videos were only up for about a month. We have low-res copies of the stream sessions, as well as some better quality of the keynote with Michael Hardt and others, which we are working on uploading and will post here once done. Sorry to everyone looking for those videos at the moment...please bare with us!
We want to thank everyone that came out for the 5th Annual Radical Democracy conference at The New School for Social Research. Once again, we had a great series of panels and discussions, as well as a great roundtable and keynote talk. If you missed something, the event videos can be watched either on our youtube channel, or the livestream archives. We are slowly adding higher quality versions of some of the main events to our YouTube channel, but all the events can be seen in the two livestream archived, all of which is posted under our Videos link the main menu (also here). As a special thank you, here's a solidarity photo which we took during the afternoon of one of the event to support the Maagdenhuis student occupations.
We look forward to seeing all of you, and even more new folks, at the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference in 2016!
We will be livestreaming the Radical Democracy conference on Fri and Sat from 10:30 am to 6pm. You can watch it below, or at this link:
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We're excited to announce the final schedule is now ready for our 5th Annual Radical Democracy Conference at The New School for Social Research (NSSR). Below is the schedule for Friday and Saturday. You can also download a pdf copy here [Schedule PDF].
(* Schedule was updated on 4/7)
10am: Registration (Wolff Room)
10:30am: Opening Remarks - Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR (Wolff Room)
11am: Panel I (A & B)
Session A: Councils, Commune(-ism) and Radical Democracy (Wolff Room)
“Radical Democracy in the French Revolution” - Nicolai Von Eggers Mariegaard, Aarhus University
“Inaugural Investigations: Revolutionary Councils and Radical Democracy” - Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, University of Copenhagen
“The concept of politics in Badiou and Castoriadis” - Gerasimos Karavitis, NSSR
Discussant. Andreas Kalyvas, NSSR
Session B: Embodying Discarnate Narratives (Room: 1108) ...continue reading
The CFP is now closed for submissions. The RD review committee is evaluating all proposals, and will be in touch in the coming month with responses to all submissions. Once we have a final schedule of the panels, and a draft conference agenda, we will post both here. Thanks to everyone who submitted a paper or panel proposal.
We are also considering the possibility of live-streaming the keynote talk by Michael Hardt, and possibly other sessions, depending. Stay tuned for more updates.
Fifth Annual Radical Democracy Conference
The New School for Social Research, New York City
April 10 and 11, 2015
Keynote: Michael Hardt
Professor of Literature and Italian Studies at Duke University
Paper and Paper Abstracts Deadline: January 25, 2015
Full Papers Deadline: March 1, 2015
Download CFP (pdf)