Programm
Programm
Programm
Istanbul-Oldenburg Critical Theory Conference: History, Progress, Critique
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Building A 7, Foyer
9:30-10:00 Registration
Building A7, Hörsaal G (0-030)
10.00-10:30 Welcoming Address by Volkan Çıdam, Gaye Demiryol, Zeynep Gambetti, Philip Hogh and Julia König
10.30-12.30 Keynote Address: Estelle Ferrarese (Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens): Vulnerability, Concern for Others and the March of History
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
Buildings A6 and A7
13.30-15.30 Parallel Panels - I
Critical History and Capitalism A7 0-025 Chair: | Intellectual History of Critical Theory A 7 0-031 Chair: Volkan Çıdam | Which Progress is Progressive? A6 0-001 Chair: Claudia Perrone |
Yasmin Afshar (University of Sao Paolo): Governing Through Conflict: On Adorno's Critique of the Conception Progress in the Konflikttheorie Niklas Angebauer (Carl von Ossietzky University): Property and Critical Theory: Past, present, futures Ulrich Matthias Gerr (Carl von Ossietzky University): Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism in the framework of Benjamin's critique of Progress | Jessica Tupova Feely (Kingston University): History, Social Psychology, and the Immanet Critique of Bourgeois Society: A return to Horheimer's Early Critical Theory? Victor Kempf (Humboldt University): The Party of Progress. Lukács and the political Alexander Neupert-Doppler (IASS, Potsdam): Kairos - Paul Tillichs philosophy of history and its influence on Critical Theory | Elizabeth Portella (University of Oregon): On Continuity and Discontinuity: ‘Negative Universal History,’ Decolonization, and the Philosophy of History Andrea Messner (Humboldt University): PRO-GRESS / PRO-LEAP Walter Benjamin's notion of a present-centered non-processual “progress” Marcus Döller (Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt): Progress as Regress in Social Change |
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
Buildings A6 and A7
16.00-18.00 Parallel Panels - 2
History, Nature, Animality A 7 0-025 Chair: Sebastian Tränkle | Slavery and Counter-Memory A7 0-031 Chair: Karin Stögner |
Yasin Buğra (Bogazici University Istanbul): The Vile Coachman and the Horse: A Snapshot of Progress from Adorno's Bestiary Matthias Rudolph (Humboldt University) : Doubting the power of immanent forces. Adorno’s and Marcuse’s critique of determinate negation Ryan Crawford (Webster Vienna Private University): Natural History and Society in Benjamin and Adorno | Henrike Kohpeiss (Free University Berlin) Progressive Speculations - Slavery, Jetztzeit and History Beyond Event Silvia Pierosara (University of Macerata): Critical Theory, Emancipation, Hope: Memories as Counter-Narratives Niklas Plaetzer (University of Chicago): Creolizing Ideologiekritik: Marronage against Universalism in Édouard Glissant's Critical Theory |
Building A7, Foyer and Garden
18.00-22.00 Reception
Friday, September 13, 2019
Buildings A6 and A7
10.00-12.00 Parallel Panels -3
Hegel and Adorno A7 0-025 Chair: Volkan Çıdam | Critique and Revolution A7 0-031 Chair: Önder Özden | Art, History, Emancipation A6 0-001 Chair: |
Marie Louise Krogh (Kingston University): Traces of Worlds: The Universality of Hegel’s allgemeine Weltgeschichte and Adornian Negative Universalgeschichte Robert Ziegelmann (Humboldt University): Looking forward to looking backward. Progress as ideal and as ‘fact’ in Critical Theory Joel Bock (DePaul University): Liberation from the Constraints of Nature or Enslavement to the Machine? Technology as a Historical Moment in the Philosophies of Hegel and Adorno | Helena Esther Grass (Goethe University Frankfurt): Negativity and Critique. How to find “the Better” within “the Worst” Vangelis Giannakakis (University of Dublin): May ’68 and Adorno, theoretical refractions in the time of revolt
| Svenja Bromberg (Goldsmiths, University of London): Rethinking emancipation with and beyond its modern roots Sara-Maria Walker (Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien): Unconscious Writing of History in Adorno Louis Hartnoll (Kingston University): Art and Architectural History out of the Margins: Reading Walter Benjamin with Carl Linfert
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12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
Building A7, Hörsaal G (0-030)
13.30-15.30 Keynote Address: Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University Berlin): tba
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
Buildings A6 and A7
16.00-18.45 Paralell Panels - 4
Benjaminian Images A7 0-025 Chair: Niklas Plaetzer | Dialectical Models A7 0-031 Chair: Jan Müller |
Claudia Perrone University of Santa Maria) and Rose Gurski (University Federal of Rio Grande do Sul): Psychoanalysis and Walter Benjamin: the critical threshold of dreaming and awakening Karin Stögner (University of Vienna): Walter Benjamin, Subjecitivity, and Gender – The Eternal Recurrence as a Collective Dream of Modernity Isette Schuhmacher (Humboldt University): History is being made: Dialectics at a standstill and the quest for emancipation Charlotte Trottier (University of Leipzig): On the monadological structure of Walter Benjamin’s dialectcal image and its meaning for the access towards his category of progress | Plamen Andreev (Essex University): To give history its due and thereby to cheat it: Adorno and Horkheimer’s cunning in the Dialectic of Enlightenment Antoine Athanassiadis (University College, Dublin): On fear, self-preservation, and consciousness: or the possibility of a critical attitude in the Dialectic of Enlightenment Sebastian Tränkle (Free University, Berlin): Le prix du progrès. On the Nexus of Philosophy of History, Negative Anthropology and Critique of Language Julia König (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): The Primacy of the Object in Critical Historical Research |
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Buildings A6 and A7
10.00-12.00 Parallel Panels - 5
Technology and New Temporalities A7 0-025 Chair: | Evil, Fear, Exclusion A7 0-031 Chair: | Suffering in History A6 0-001 Chair: Isette Schuhmacher |
Celine Righi (London School of Economics): Advent of the ‘continuous improvement’ model of production in a design-oriented society: a peculiar Form of Life Eleonora Cugini (Padova University): Towards a Critique of Artifical Intelligence: Ethics, Normativity, Freedom | Muhannad Hariri (University College Dublin): Radical Evil and Progress as Dialogue Philipp Idel (Carl von Ossietzky University): History as social reproduction of fear. A key motif in Theodor W. Adorno's philosophy of history Johannes Siegmund (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna): Paradox of the untimely refugee | Nadja Meisterhans (JKU Linz): Desire and Critique in times of authoritarian backlashs. Perspectives of a Psychoanalytical Critical Theory. Volkan Çıdam (Boğaziçi University): Adorno’s critical appropriation of Benjamin’s Notion of progress: “Progress occurs where it ends.” Phillip Hogh (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg): Pain and Progress. Adorno’s natural history of suffering |
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
Buildings A6 and A7
13.00-15.00 Parallel Panels - 6
Forms of Life, Forms of Immanence A7 0-025 Chair: | Plural Temporalities A7 0-031 Chair: |
Karen Saavedra Escobar (Leipzig University): Between systemic determinations and subjective power. Social reproduction narratives in the search for ‘Immanent Transcendence’ Jan Müller (Universität Basel): For better or worse“: The idea of „progress“ in understanding forms of life Önder Özden (Institut für Sozialforschung): A Better Form of life? Progress Between Jaeggi and Agamben
| Annemarihe Hagen (KU Leuven): Political action as the Demonstration of Equality: Re-enacting an open future Ville Suuronen (University of Helsinki): Forget progress, forget causality! Reflections on method in the thought of Hannah Arendt
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15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
Building A7, Hörsaal G (0-030)
15.30-17.30 Keynote Address: Sonja Buckel (University of Kassel): tba
17.30-18.00 Closing Adress
