TRISE 2021 Conference: The Program is Out!
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FULL PROGRAM (PDF)
SATURDAY 30th OCTOBER Time zone: CEST / UTC +2
16:00-17:00 Political Practice & Activism Session 1:
Davide Grasso – The Concept of Authority in Bookchin’s Works and Rojava’s Communalism
Azize Cay – Informal hierarchy, organization and activism: insights from the Democratic Autonomy of North East Syria
Georgios Daremas – On Bookchin’s Dialectical Naturalism
17:00-18:00 Political Practice & Activism Session 2:
Heval Tekoşîn – Exploring Certainty in Revolutionary Politics
Thomas Murray – Crack Capitalism or Communalism? Revolutionary strategies after Adorno
Metin Guven – Systemic Cycles of Capital Accumulation and Future of Capitalism
18:00-18:30 Break
18:30-19:30 Libertarian Municipalism Session 1:
Ben Price – Municipalism‘s Escape from the Colonizing Imperatives of Empire in the U.S.
Robert Case & Bill Barrett – Could local environmental activism be a gateway to direct democracy at the municipal level? Reflections from water activism in Wellington County, Ontario
19:30-20:30 Libertarian Municipalism Session 2:
Yavor Tarinski – Bookchin‘s political proposals and ideas on direct democracy, popular assemblies and municipalism
Zaid Nasution – Recallable: Delegates Accountability in Democratic Confederalism
Dimitri Roussopoulos – From Theory to Practice: the movement building of radical municipalism
SUNDAY 31st OCTOBER Time zone: CEST / UTC +2
16:00-17:00 Nature & Ecology Session 1:
Giannis Perperidis – Murray Bookchin and Andrew Feenberg: Searching for Technological Alternatives for the sake of the Environment
Jordan Yanowitz – Los Angeles and the socio-ecological contexts in which it sits: Understanding its continental water system and its colonial origins
Laura Schleifer – Hierarchy’s Hidden Link: How Domination within Human Society and of Nature Stems from the Human Domination of (Other) Animals, and How Free Nature Requires Freeing Animals
17:00-18:00 Nature & Ecology Session 2:
Emet Değirmenci – Misanthropy and Ecofascism: Connection
Johannes Shephard – Nature & Ecology: Covid-19 as an instance of a larger phenomenon of disease
Anita Prakash – Restoring Ecology in Troubled Times:Searching for the Role of Direct Democracy in the Indian context
18:00-18:30 Break
18:30-19:30 Future Research
Federico Venturini – Reflections towards a militant social ecology research approach
Eve Olney & Krini Kafiris – Radical Institute: Developing Sustainable Social Ecological Praxis
Marle Payva – Rethinking the Notion of Nature in International Law
19:30-20:30 Book Presentation
Various authors will present the book: Hunt, S. (eds.). 2021, Ecological Solidarity & the Kurdish Freedom Movement, Lexington Books
Various authors will present the book: Wright, D & Hill, S (eds.), 2020, Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices. Routledge
Let’s make this year an opportunity to spread even further Bookchin’s ideas and social ecology in our local communities worldwide!
For any information, please contact info@trise.org
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