Preliminary Program

24 May, Lecture Room 1 (--> Map)

Opening Lecture
18:30	Paula Diehl (Kiel): Metamorphosis of the Political Imaginary
20:00	Debriefing over Dinner

25 May, Seminar Room 6 Kolingasse (--> Map)

Workshop Day 1
9:30	Sara Gebh & Sergej Seitz (Vienna): Introductory Remarks
10:15	Mattias Lehtinen (Helsinki): The Plural Imagination of Democracy: A Castoriadean Conception of the Democratic Imaginary as Safeguarding Political Pluralism Anna Wieder (Vienna): Democratic Imagination: Between Excess and Self-Constraint
11:45	Begoña Gerling (New York): History, Time, and Democratic Praxis in Castoriadis Alessandro Laganà (Perugia): Self-Limitation as Political Creation. Antinomies and Virtualities of the Democratic Imagination in Castoriadis’s recherche social-historique
13:15	Lunch
14:45	Florian Pistrol (Innsbruck) & Anna Weithaler (Vienna): Democratic Imaginaries: Swiss Women’s Suffrage as Self-Limitation of the Demos Jandra Boettger (Berlin): Exercising Social Imaginaries: How a Cold War Civil Defense Exercise Shaped Today’s German Emergency Laws Lukas Stolz (Lüneburg): No Day after Tomorrow? The Radical Imagination in Catastrophic Times
17:00	Yannis Ktenas (Athens): Castoriadis and the Problem of Neoliberalism as Form of Life Hayley Rose Malouin (Ottawa): The Seeds of Penia: Radical Democracy’s Roots in the Athenian Social Imaginary of Poverty
19:00	Dinner

26 May, Seminar Room 6 Kolingasse (--> Map)

Workshop Day 2
9:30	Marcus Döller (Erfurt): Rethinking History as Creation: Karl Marx with Quentin Skinner – Methodological Reflections about Marx' Conception of "Uninspired Imaginations" Marvin Ester (Münster): From "Self-Alienation" Towards a "Democratic Imaginary"
11:00	Lívia de Souza Lima (Bielefeld): A New World is Possible: it has to be Invented. Revisiting Castoriadis with Augusto Boal and Chela Sandoval David Sánchez Piñeiro (Oviedo): Political Ontology and Radical Democracy in the Works of Castoriadis and Laclau-Mouffe Eric Fabri (Bruxelles): From Autonomy to Heteronomy ... and Back! Understanding Heteronomisation to Revive the Democratic Imaginary
13:30	Lunch

Workshop Day 2

9:30

Marcus Döller (Erfurt): Rethinking History as Creation: Karl Marx with Quentin Skinner – Methodological Reflections about Marx' Conception of "Uninspired Imaginations"

Marvin Ester (Münster): From "Self-Alienation" Towards a "Democratic Imaginary"

11:00

Lívia de Souza Lima (Bielefeld): A New World is Possible: it has to be Invented. Revisiting Castoriadis with Augusto Boal and Chela Sandoval

David Sánchez Piñeiro (Oviedo): Political Ontology and Radical Democracy in the Works of Castoriadis and Laclau-Mouffe

Eric Fabri (Bruxelles): From Autonomy to Heteronomy ... and Back! Understanding Heteronomisation to Revive the Democratic Imaginary

13:30

Lunch

Contact

PREDEF - erc research project
University of Vienna
Department of Political Science
Universitätsstraße 7, 2nd floor, Room B 211, 1010 Vienna

T: +43-1-4277-494-90
predef.erc@univie.ac.at

This research project is funded by the European Union (ERC, PREDEF, 101055015). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Council (erc). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.