Thursday, October 29th
09.00 - 11.00 (Casino, Foyer, 1st Floor)
Registration
11.00 - 11.30 (Cas. 1.801)
Opening Address
Mareike Kajewski, Thomas Telios
11.30 - 13.30 (Cas. 1.801)
Labour, Organisation, and Resistance
Chair: Thomas Telios
Andreas Folkers (Frankfurt/M.), Julian Stenmanns (Frankfurt/M.):
Logistical Resistance in Circulatory Capitalism – Protocols for Collective Struggles
Theocharis Malamidis (Florence):
Self–Management in the Workplaces: The Case of the Self–Managed Factory of Vio.Me, Greece
Romina Ranke (Hannover):
Challenging Established Structures in Global Activism – Neue Dynamiken in transnationalen Klimanetzwerken
11.30 - 13.30 (Cas. 1.802)
Paradigms of Collective Action
Chair: Mareike Kajewski
Tobias Albrecht(Frankfurt/M.):
Kritische Theorie und kollektive Praxis
Therese Herrmann (Frankfurt/M.):
Drei Figuren politischer Kollektive bei und im Anschluss an Hannah Arendt
Anastasiya Kasko (Leipzig):
Kollektives Handeln als Basis der Staatsbürgerschaft
15.00 - 17.45 (Cas. 1.801)
Trauma and Remembrance
Chair: Lena Dierker
Melanie Altanian (Bern):
Institutional Denial of Historical Genocide as an Epistemic Cruelty Against Descendants
Iryna Yakovenko (Chernihiv):
Representation of the Cultural Trauma of Slavery in Contemporary Afro–American Poetry
Kollektiv SaVa (between Europe and Asia):
Ausgerechnet 70 Jahre! Eine Lecture–Performance mit Vor– und Nachtrag
Lena Nieper (Frankfurt/M.):
Art as/and Testimony
15.00 - 17.45 (Cas. 1.802)
The Subject of Collective Formations
Chair: Sonja Kleinod
Tobias Schottdorf (Frankfurt/M.):
Kollektive Vernunft als Basis der Demokratie? Über Bedingungen gelungener Selbstregierung im Anschluss an Franz Neumann
Judith Mahnert (Frankfurt/M), Frank Beiler (Dresden), Hannes Glück (Oldenburg), Vincent Schmiedt (Leipzig), Frank Schubert (Leipzig):
Das prekäre Kollektiv. Jacques Rancière und die Subjektivierung der Demokratie
Alexander Lingk (Frankfurt/M.):
Subjektwerdung durch das Kollektiv? Das Beispiel „Occupy“
18.15 - 19.45 (Cas. 1.801)
Keynote Speech:
Markus Brunner (Vienna):
Collectivities and Anxieties. Some Critical Psychoanalytical Reflections
Moderation: Tom Uhlig
Friday, October 30th
09.00 - 11.00 (Cas. 1.801)
Pop
Chair: Franziska Haug
Michał Abel Pelczar (Katowice):
Kanye West: „The world can only be saved through design”. Class, exclusivity and the utopian longing for awesomeness
Krystyna Mazur (Warsaw):
U.S. Queer Collectivities: from Michele Tea’s Valencia to Valencia: the Film
Alexandra Colligs (Frankfurt/M.):
We are united by drifting alone. Separation and pop culture.
09.00 - 11.00 (Cas. 1.802)
New Collectives of the Euro Crisis
Chair: Sarah Mühlbacher
Elena Domingo San Juan (Dresden):
Autonomous movements without borders: Case study of the 15M Spanish activists in Germany
Kelly Mulvaney (Lüneburg):
Scaling political space in 'crisis Europe': A test drive with authorship and hospitality in transnational anti-austerity activism
Kostas Kanellopoulos (Crete), Angelos Loukakis (Crete):
Building Collectivities in Contemporary Social and Political Movements Against EU Austerity. The Case of Emerging Solidarity to Greece
11.30 - 13.30 (Cas. 1.801)
The Political Imaginary
Chair: Jonathan Klein
Niccolo Milanese (Paris):
Metaphors of Collectivity After the Nation State: The Emergence of Contingency
William Callison (Berkeley):
The Political Imaginary: Alternative Formulations of Psyche, Collectivity, and the Social
William Ross (Montréal):
The Double Absence of Society. Adorno and Derrida on the Presence of the Absence
11.30 - 13.30 (Cas. 1.802)
Nation and Identity
Chair: Tom Uhlig
Lili Schwoerer (Cambridge):
Indigenous Sovereignity, Place–Based Identity and the „Global Common“
Hannah Hecker (Frankfurt/M.):
„An Autonomous Voice of their Own“ – Der Nationsbegriff in der Declaration of a Roma Nation
15.00 - 17.00 (Cas. 1.801)
The Material of Collectivities
Chair: Thomas Telios
George Hristov (Regensburg):
Organization of Collectivites Today: Assemblages or Totalities
Rafał Majka (Warsaw):
Rhizomatic Collectivities and the Need for the Other(s)
Erik Bertram (Bayreuth):
„Because something is happening here but you don’t know what it is”: how bulky waste [Sperrmüll] can form material collectivities
15.00 - 17.00 (Cas. 1.802)
Feminist Movements
Chair: Franziska Haug
Andrea Sempertegui (Frankfurt/M.):
Resisting Nationalist Discourses through Collective Action: Feminist Resistance Against Neo–Extractivism in Latin America
Halina Gąsiorowska (Warsaw):
Collective Style of Work as an Aspect of Group and Personal Identity of Radical Leftist and Anarcha–Feminists in Poland
Feministisches Arbeitskollektiv (Karlsruhe):
Ein feministisches Arbeitskollektiv im Kontext von Kunst, Design und Theorie – Entwurf eines kollektiven Body of Work zwischen Aufstand und Emanzipation (ein Praxisbeispiel)
17.15 - 18.30 (Cas. 1.801)
Collective Knowledge Production
Chair: Jonathan Klein
Julia Tirler (Vienna):
Militant research: collective knowledge production in film and video practice
Patricio Cabello Cádiz (Valparaíso):
Media and Expressive Initiatives of Collectives, Groups, and Community Based Youth Organisations in Valparaíso
17.15 - 18.30 (Cas. 1.802)
Living (through) after the Shoah
Chair: Tom Uhlig
Lena Dierker (Frankfurt/M.):
"... denn es ist zu traurig, [...] dass wir jedesmal weniger sind". - Zur Verschränkung von Kollektivität und Extremtraumatisierung während und nach der Shoah
Adrian Oeser (Frankfurt/M.):
Mit individuellen Vergangenheiten in eine kollektive Zukunft – Menschen mit Flucht– und Verfolgungserfahrungen im Kibbuz
19.00 - 20.30 (Cas. 1.801)
Keynote Speech:
Sabine Hark (Berlin):
Who We Are and How We Act. Identity Politics and the Possibilities of Collective Action
Moderation: Sonja Kleinod
Saturday, October 31st
10.00 - 12.00 (Cas. 1.801)
Narratives and Group Identity
Chair: Lena Dierker
Cecilia Colloseus (Mainz):
The Sisterhood of Motherhood – Mütter als narratives Kollektiv
Helene Gerhards (Göttingen):
Politik und Krankheit – Die theoretischen Debatten um die Medizinisierung von Gruppenidentitäten
Alice Neusiedler (Vienna):
Freundschaft, Franchise, Kleinbetrieb – Autor_innenschaft als Diskussionsfeld von Subjektgrenzen
10.00 - 12.00 (Cas. 1.802)
Hospitality
Chair: Nassima Sahraoui
Tonio Schwind (Frankfurt/M.):
A Critique of Derrida’s Concept of Hospitality
Maciej Łagodziński (Warsaw):
Edward Abromowski and the Community of Friends
Elias Steinhiper (Florence):
Transnational Spaces of Contention around Refugee Rights in Europe
10.00 - 12.00 (Cas. 1.812)
Cultures of Protest
Chair: Sarah Mühlbacher
Lisa Vollmer (Berlin):
Political Collectivity Beyond Identity – New Forms of Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York
Lauren Hudson (New York):
Collectivities in the Solidarity Economy: Struggles over the Narrative of a Movement
13.30 - 15.30 (Cas. 1.801)
Questioning the Limits of Community
Chair: Thomas Telios
Javier Burdman (Chicago):
Democratic Politics Between the Beautiful and the Sublime. On Arendt’s and Lyotard’s Readings of Kant’s Aesthetics
Ferdinand Stenglein (Bonn):
Post-Identitarian Collectivity? Transgression and the Everyday for a Political Praxis of the Collective
Matthew Ellison (London):
Derrida and Nancy on the „Immense Conceptual Ghosts“ of Political Collectivity
13.30 - 15.30 (Cas. 1.802)
(De-)Composing Political Bodies
Chair: Jonas Heller
Anna Grudzińska (Aberdeen):
Poles: Between the „Authentic“ and the „Degenerate“. Vitalizing the Body (Politic)–Purifying (de–colonizing) the Mind?
Claudia Marqués-Martin (Aberdeen):
The Search for Female Individuality within Collectivity: Fascist Women’s Writing during the Spanish Civil War
Peter Baker (Texas):
In the Cave of the Last Indian: Reflections on Demetaphorizing Bodies in Contemporary Bolivia
16.00 - 18.00 (Cas. 1.801)
Connective Collectivities?
Chair: Anja Breljak
Rainer Mühlhoff (Berlin):
Kollektive Unmündigkeit - Big Data, IT-Hegemonien und die Wiederaneignung der Technik
Armin Hoyer (Berlin):
Digitale Mündigkeit - Ein normativer Maßstab zur Aufklärung der digitalen Gesellschaft?
Jan Beuerbach (Berlin):
Kollektive ohne Masse - Das Verhältnis von User*innendatenbanken und Individuum
16.00 - 18.00 (Cas. 1.802)
Law, Rights, and Democracy
Chair: Mareike Kajewski
Kerstin Reibold (Mannheim):
Which Rights can only be Group Rights?
Pritika Nehra (Delhi):
Law and Forms of Political Collectivities
Moritz Hagemann (Frankfurt/M.):
Über die kollektivtheoretische Begründung des Eigentumsbegriffs
Tobias Heinze (Frankfurt/M.):
Revolting Republicanism: Collective Integration through Law According to Claude Lefort and Albert Camus
16.00 - 18.00 (Cas. 1.812)
Collective Affectivity
Chair: Marija Grujic
Gerhard Thonhauser (Vienna):
Sartre, Group Constitution, and Collective Emotions
Esther Mader (Cologne):
Relational Agency within Post–Identitarian Strategies
Corina Färber (Leipzig):
Subjektivierung und kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit, Materialität und Identität (Althusser und Lacan)
Tom Uhlig (Frankfurt/M.):
"Totalitäre Herumwirklichkeit" – the Affective Power of the IG–Farben Architecture