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