The Power and Norms of Critique

The DFG Graduate Research Programme “Normativity, Critique, Change” (FU Berlin) invites you to our international interdisciplinary conference »The Power and Norms of Critique«, which will take place at Uferstudios on February 12-13, 2026. The conference will be preceded by an opening event on February 11.  

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Critical impulses play a central role in the development of society while they are tied, in their turn, to the normative frameworks established within social contexts. In this respect, critique is always in tension with prevailing norms; however, it may also depend on normative foundations that can go beyond what is given in a society. Against the background of this tension, the conference aims to investigate the scope and the (normative) foundations of critique, focusing on four contexts: firstly, the narrative foundations of normative critique, secondly, the interpersonal forms of relationship relevant to the realization of critique, thirdly, physicality and materiality in the emergence of resistance and fourthly, the positionality of critique.  

Speakers:
Andrea Geier
Martina Bengert  
Judith-Frederike Popp
Jordan Troeller
Liza Mattutat 
Anna Lena Göttsche 
Quill Kukla 
Priya S. Gupta 
Filipa César
Ruth Sonderegger
Thomas Richard Hilder                             
Chris Tedjasukmana