Critical political Economy Research Network mid-term conference

27-28 May 2016, Institute of Labour Studies, University of Ljubljana

(Conflicting) Political Ontologies and Implications for Transformative Action

Friday 27th May 12-13:45h

Mitorganisation des Critical European Studies Workshop in London/Greenwich 18./19.06.2016

The workshop follows previous CES workshops held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2015) and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

(2014) with the support of scholars from the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN). The workshop provides a forum for scholars and activists to meet and discuss critical theoretical and empirical perspectives on the configuration of European capitalism, the EU and political resistance. This year's workshop will focus on Europe’s many crises (economic, social, political, ecological, geopolitical) and their consequences, as well as the potential and challenges for resistance, particularly through education and academia. The themes discussed will include forms of dispossession and punitive mechanisms under neoliberalism; challenges to class compromises and social reproduction; and the crises of Europe understood in relation to ‘the rest of the world’, for instance focusing on the migrants’ crisis.

In order to foster a constructive debate the workshop will avoid the 'usual' conference structure with individual paper presentations and foregrounds collective discussions instead. We will proceed on the basis of thematic block sessions, with each tabling a core text that all participants will have read beforehand. Each of the sessions in the workshop starts with a brief introduction, and 6 participants (to be

announced) discussing and enhancing the perspectives developed in that session’s core text from the angle of their own research/activism. This is followed by a mumble where all participants share their ideas in small groups, after which the floor is opened for a plenary discussion.

The CES coordinating team (Yuliya Yurchenko, Jon Las Heras, Daniel Keil, Caroline Metz, Christian Scholz, Christoph Sorg and Phoebe Moore)

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Programm will be scheduled soon.