Civil Disobedience Beyond the State

Civil Disobedience Beyond the State

October 30-31, 2014

Location: University of Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy,
Faculteitskamer, Oude Turfmarkt 147 (entrance at 141), Amsterdam

Organization: Robin Celikates (Amsterdam), Annette Zimmermann (Oxford),
Theresa Züger (Berlin)

From the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy, civil disobedience is an essential part of the history and present of liberal democracies. At the same time, however, this form of protest has remained theoretically and politically contested. Currently, there are two central and interrelated phenomena that are triggering a significant transformation of civil disobedience: globalization and digitalization. Jointly, they raise new theoretical and political challenges that require a rethinking of civil disobedience beyond the state. With this workshop we aim at contributing to this rethinking from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Preliminary Program:

October 30

1.30pm: Welcome and opening

2-4pm: Session 1
Civil Disobedience Beyond the State: Changes and Challenges (chair: Robin Celikates)

speakers: Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick), Hourya Bentouhami (Toulouse)

4-4.30pm: coffee break

5-7pm: Public lecture

Jeffrey Juris (Boston): Revisiting Occupy: Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Forms of Civil Disobedience

The lecture will take place in Oudemanhuispoort (OMHP), F.001 and will be followed by drinks.


October 31

10-12am: Session 2
Shifting Boundaries: Citizenship and Transnational Disobedience (chair: Annette Zimmermann)

speakers: Jeffrey Juris (Boston), James Ingram (Hamilton)

12-1.30pm: lunch break

1.30-3.30pm:

Session 3: The Disobedient Network: Digital Forms of Civil Disobedience (chair: Theresa Züger)

speakers: Jacob Appelbaum (Berlin), Stefania Milan (Tilburg)

3.30-4pm: coffee break

4-5pm: Concluding panel

For more information, see
http://acgs.uva.nl/news-and-events/upcoming-events/item/civil-disobedience-beyond-the-state.html
and
http://acgs.uva.nl/news-and-events/upcoming-events/item/jeffrey-juris-public-lecture.html

Attendance is free, but seating at the workshop is limited, so please register with Robin Celikates @ [email protected].

With the financial support of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS), the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft.