Workshop: After Modernity into Complexity? (Duisburg)

Das Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg veranstaltet am 7. und 8. Mai einen Workshop zu After Modernity into Complextiy? Possibilities for Critique in an Age of Global Cooperation. Es gibt hierfür noch Plätze, eine Anmeldung muss an Fentje Jacobsen (jacobsen@gcr21.uni-due.de) erfolgen. Das Programm zum Workshop (u.a. mit David Chandler und Oliver Marchart) findet ihr unter dem Strich. 

International Workshop

7-8 May 2014
Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany

(Schifferstrasse 196, 47059 Duisburg)

Programme

Wednesday May 7, 2014

5:00PM-7.30PM
‘MADE IN CRITICALLAND’? PERSPECTIVES ON CRITIQUE BEYOND THE TRADEMARKS
Pol Bargués, Kai Koddenbrock, Jessica Schmidt, Mario Schmidt
BBQ/ WINE RECEPTION (for speakers)

Thursday May 8, 2014

9:15AM – 9:30AM
GOOD MORNING, DUISBURG

9:30AM – 11:00AM
COMPLEXITY AND HOPE
Chair    Pol Bargués, Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Disc.    Gideon Baker, Griffith University

‘RESILIENCE AND COMPLEXITY: THE NOT SO SPECIAL TOOL OF A SOMEWHAT SPECIAL ACTOR’
Jonathan Joseph, Sheffield University
‘CRITIQUE: FROM POWER TO RESISTANCE’
David Chandler, University of Westminster

11:00AM – 11:30AM COFFEE BREAK

11:30AM – 1:00PM
FINANCE AND THE CITY
Chair    Kai Koddenbrock, Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Disc.    Christian Scheper, University of Duisburg-Essen

‘WHAT IS CRITIQUE (IN URBAN STUDIES)? SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE’
Nikolai Roskamm, Technische Universität Berlin

‘UNRAVELING THE COMPLEXITY OF MODERN FINANCE: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF RISK MANAGEMENT AND ITS CRITIQUE’
Dimitris Sotiropoulos, The Open University Business School

1:00PM – 2:30PM LUNCH BREAK

2:30PM – 4:00PM
LOCALITY AND RESISTANCE
Chair    Mario Schmidt, Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Disc.    Frank Gadinger, Centre for Global Cooperation Research

‘THE CHALLENGES OF ANALYSING CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CONFLICT: REFLECTIONS ON URBAN RESISTANCES IN BARCELONA’                                                  
Nadia Ferrer, University of Bradford
‘COLLABORATIONS BEYOND A NEOLIBERAL LOGIC: THE FIGHT FOR JAMES PRICE POINT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA (2009-2013)’
Carsten Wergin, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

4:00PM – 4:30PM COFFEE BREAK

4:30PM – 6:00PM
FOUNDATIONS AND SYSTEMS
Chair    Jessica Schmidt, Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Disc.    Elena Puccini, Centre for Global Cooperation Research

‘CRITIQUE OF THE SYSTEM: NOTES ON THE NORMATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF WORLD SOCIETY’
Benjamin Herborth, University of Groningen
‘WRESTLING WITH THE CHEATING GENE: TOWARDS A POST-FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH TO IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE’
Oliver Marchart, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

7:00PM DINNER
Küppersmühle
(Philosophenweg 49 – 51, 47051 Duisburg)