21-22 March'24 - Climate, Capital, and Democracy
21-22 March'24 - Climate, Capital, and Democracy
Climate, Capital, and Democracy
- Date: 21 & 22 March 2024
- Place: CCCB – Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (C/ de Montalegre, 5)
Day 1, 22nd March
9.30-9.40. Introduction. Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University) and Camil Ungureanu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
9.40-12.45. Panel 1 Rethinking the Social Question
Chair: David Casassas (University of Barcelona)
Panelists:
- Sofia Näsström (University of Uppsala) Democracy and the Social Question: Sharing Uncertainty in Uncertain Times
- Craig Calhoun (University of Arizona) The Social Question and the Challenge of Scale
- Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University) The “Social Question” and the Politics of Temporality
14.30-17.30 .Panel 2 Climate, Capital, and Democracy in the Anthopocene
Chair: Just Serrano (University of Barcelona)
Panelists:
Mukulika Banerjee (London School of Economics) Cultivation, ‘civic growth’ and democracy
Lars Tønder (University of Copenhagen) Democracy and self-organizing tendencies in a time of ecological crises
Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA – Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Critique in the Age of Ecological Crisis
Day 2 - 22 March
9.30-13.30. Imagining and Transforming Nature: Ecology, Far-Right, and Capital
Chair: Anna-Clot Carrell (University of Barcelona) and Just Serrano (University of Barcelona)
Panelists:
- Steven Forti (Autonomous University of Barcelona) The ideological parasitism of the new extreme right. Between the fight for cultural hegemony and cultural wars
- Nausikaä El-Mecky (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) The stealthy aesthetics of ecofascism”
- Mihaela Mihai (Univ of Edinburgh) and Camil Ungureanu (UPF) Anticolonial ecology, capitalism, far right in Eastern Europe
- Alexandra Popartan (University of Girona/LEQUIA), Marc Sanjaume (UPF) and Sofia Tipaldou (Panteion Univ., Athens), Far right ecology, national populism, and policymaking
18.30-20.30. RoundTable: Capitalist Contradictions and Democratic Responses
Chair: Camil Ungureanu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Panelists:
- Sofia Näsström (University of Uppsala)
- Craig Calhoun (University of Arizona)
- Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
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List of speakers:
- Mukulika Banerjee (London School of Economics)
- Sofia Näsström (Uppsala University)
- Dilip Gaonkar (University of Northwestern)
- Craig Calhoun (University of Arizona)
- Anna-Clot Carrell (University of Barcelona)
- Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Marc Sanjaume (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Steven Forti (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- Mihaela Matei (University of Edinburgh)
- Lars Tønder (University of Copenhagen)
- Jordi Marine Jubany (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Alexandra Popartan (Lequia/University of Girona)
- Sofia Tipaldou (University of Pantheion)
- Camil Ungureanu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Nausikaä El-Mecky (Universitat Pompau Fabra)
- Just Serrano (University of Barcelona)
- Oscar Garcia Jaen (University of Barcelona)
Convened by:
- Camil Ungureanu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- In collaboration with
- Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
- Lars Tønder (University of Copenhagen)
Sponsors:
- Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB)
- Barcelona Network for Critical Thought and Social Research
- Center for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS, Independent Research Network, Evanston/Chicago)
- University of Copenhagen
- Mastercard Foundation