One-Day Conference on Disobedience at the University of Amsterdam
29 May 2017
Organization: Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia University), Daniele Lorenzini (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles/Columbia University)
Funding: NWO-VIDI-Project ‘Transformations of Civil Disobedience’ and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Location: Belle van Zuylenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek/University Library, Singel 425, Amsterdam
Please REGISTER by sending an email to r.celikates@uva.nl
Program:
9am – Welcome (coffee)
9:30am – Introduction
9:45-12:15am – First panel
Raffaele Laudani (Università di Bologna)
Beyond Destituent Power: Rethinking Disobedience and Activism Today
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Disobedience and the Politics of Voice
Albert Ogien (CNRS/EHESS)
From Individual to Institutional Disobedience
12:15am-1:30pm – Lunch
1:30-3:30pm – Second panel
Hourya Bentouhami (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)
Civil Disobedience at the European Borders
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy)
Why We Must Be Wary of the Concept of Disobedience
3:30-4pm – Coffee break
4-6pm – Third panel
Zeynep Gambetti (Bogazici University)
Reflections on Parrhesia as Civil Disobedience beyond Arendt and Foucault
Gabriella Coleman (McGill University)
Can Civil Disobedience be Accidental? Anonymous and the Rise of the Public Interest Hack
6-6:30pm – Concluding discussion led by Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia University), Daniele Lorenzini (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles/Columbia University)
***Past Events***
Transformations of Civil Disobedience Workshop – Columbia University
07.05.16 – 08.05.16
Amsterdam Privacy Conference
23.10.2015 – 26.10.2015
Civil Disobedience Beyond the State III: The Right of Resistance in a Globalised World – Oxford
25.11.2015 – 26.11.2015
Global Cultures of Contestation Conference – Amsterdam
15.10.2015 – 16.10.2015
Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II
08.05.2015 – 09.05.2015
The Disobedience Project 