Announcement

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Friday, April 26

7 - 8 30 PM, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor
Opening Roundtable with Miriam Ticktin, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, and Kirsten Swinth, What is Feminist Politics?

8 30 PM, Wine and Cheese, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

Saturday, April 27

8:30 - 9 AM, Breakfast and Registration, Room 1107

Panel 1: Discipline
 9 - 10 30 AM, Room 1107
Discussant: Orsolya Lehotai, NSSR

- Nichole Smith, George Washington University, #MeToo Behind Bars: Sexual Violence Against Incarcerated Women and Anti-Rape Activism
- Leyla Savloff, University of Washington, Potentials of Women-Led Spaces and The Imprint of Interdependence
- Hannah Voegele, Humboldt University of Berlin, Dennis Ohm, New School for Social Research, Reproduction and Revolutionary Practice. How the women’s strike re-imagines social Relations

Panel 2: Care
11 - 12 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: Setareh Shohadaei, NSSR

- Ana Sofía Rodríguez Everaert, Colegio de México, Madwomen vs women that care
- LaTerricka “Terri” Smith, University of Chicago, How We Get Free: Interrogating Black Queer Feminism in the 21st Century
- Friederike Beier, Free University of Berlin, The Appropriation of Feminist Knowledge through the Recognition of Social Reproduction

1 - 2 PM, Lunch, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

Panel 3:  Dissidence
2 - 3 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: TBA, NSSR

- Onursal Erol,  University of Chicago, A Traditional Claim to Public Space: Women's Publics and Transgressive Practice in Istanbul
- Ana Clara Abrantes Simões, Joyce Karine de Sá Souza, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Kurdish women: radicality, des-institution, and an-archy in the Middle East
-  Elif Genc, New School for Social Research, Necroviolence vs. Necroresistance: The “Weaponization of Life” [and Death]

Panel 4:  Conception
4 - 5 30 PM, Room 1107
Discussant: Anastasia Kalk, NSSR

- Helen Galvin Ross, University of Chicago, Women’s Sphere and the State of Exception in Liberal Thought
-  Anika Thym, University of Basel, New School For Social Research, Hegemony self-critique as a central aspect of feminist coalition politics
- Adrià Porta Caballé, New School For Social Research, Populist Feminism or Feminist Populism?

6 PM - 8 PM, Keynote Lecture, Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, After Feminism, After Politics, Wolff Conference Room

“For so long we have proposed considering the politics of this or the politics of that – the politics of transgender, the politics of sex, the politics of performance, the politics of resistance – what if politics itself, as a concept and a framework is not the solution but the problem. In other words, what if this need to legitimate everything via the political as we currently understand politics (activities associated with governance) is part of the problem in that it leads only to certain kinds of projects — the propulsive projects that engage making, doing, being, building, becoming, knowing, declaring, proposing, dealing, moving and so on. At the same time, this definition of the political disallows other projects that involve unbuilding, unmaking and destitution and declares these to be violent and worthless. Using three examples of “exit routes” from this current formulation of politics and violence, I offer a new vision of unbuilding the world.”

8 PM, Closing Reception, Wolff Conference Room, 11th Floor

*All the events take place at 6 East 16th Street, New York, 10003


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Call for Papers Extended Deadline

Seventh Annual Radical Democracy Conference

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

The New School for Social Research

New York City

April 27-28, 2018

Keynote: Martin Breaugh (York University)

The Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research is sponsoring its 7th Annual graduate student conference on the concept, history, practices and implications of radical democracy.

If the preconditions for the rise of the far-right, xenophobia, white supremacy, ethno-nationalism, right-wing populism, religious fundamentalism and fascism can be found within liberal democracy and neo-liberalism, laying bare the violent foundations of the liberal democratic project, then what hope can theories of radical democracy offer toward re-founding society on democratic principles? How have the rise of social movements such as Occupy, the Arab Spring, Rojava, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, 15M, AntiFa, and the emergence of left alternatives such as Podemos, MAS and Syriza both exposed the contradictions of institutionalism, capitalism, rule of law, deliberation and other aspects of liberal democracy, and also illuminated the need for radical democratic alternatives? How can we draw inspiration from movements of resistance and networks of solidarity from those being organized inside prisons and detention centers to those occurring from Ferguson to Palestine? How can radical democratic theories help us to (re)imagine strategies of resistance and beyond, opening up new prospects of what is to be done? ...continue reading →

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The New School for Social Research's Seventh Annual Radical Democracy Conference: 

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?  

New York City, April 27-28, 2018.

Keynote speaker: Professor Martin Breaugh (York University)

Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2018

The Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research is sponsoring its 7th Annual graduate student conference on the concept, history, practices and implications of radical democracy.

If the preconditions for the rise of the far-right, xenophobia, white supremacy, ethno-nationalism, right-wing populism, religious fundamentalism and fascism can be found within liberal democracy and neo-liberalism, laying bare the violent foundations of the liberal democratic project, then what hope can theories of radical democracy offer toward re-founding society on democratic principles? How have the rise of social movements such as Occupy, the Arab Spring, Rojava, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, 15M, AntiFa, and the emergence of left alternatives such as Podemos, MAS and Syriza both exposed the contradictions of institutionalism, capitalism, rule of law, deliberation and other aspects of liberal democracy, and also illuminated the need for radical democratic alternatives? How can we draw inspiration from movements of resistance and networks of solidarity from those being organized inside prisons and detention centers to those occurring from Ferguson to Palestine? How can radical democratic theories help us to (re)imagine strategies of resistance and beyond, opening up new prospects of what is to be done? ...continue reading →

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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!

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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.

Maagdenhuis_Solidarity_2015We look forward to seeing all of you, and even more new folks, at the 6th Annual Radical Democracy Conference in 2016!

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The Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference will be taking place at The New School for Social Research in New York City from March 14 and 15, 2014. Stay tuned for a schedule of the conference schedule and more details.

The Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference – a graduate student conference interrogating the concept, history, practices and implications of radical democracy. We strive to assess its legacy from ancient to contemporary radical democratic theory, as well as explore the work of theorists such as Abensour, Arendt, Badiou, Castoriadis, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Rancière, and Wolin. We invite you to submit abstracts on any theme pertaining to the history, meaning, development, application, or critique of the concept of radical democracy; we also encourage discussions about methodology and the study of radical democratic movements.

 

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Welcome to the Radical Democracy website. We are a group of public intellectuals from around the world interested in exploring the concept of radical democracy in all its manifestations. Originally emerging out of a joint class held at Columbia University and The New School in New York City, our project has evolved into an annual conference and a radical democracy working group based here in New York.