Programme Critical Emancipations (12-13 May)
Friday 12/05
08:00 – Registration and Coffee (Salons)
08:45
08:45 – Welcome by the Organizers (Mercier Room)
09:00
09.00 – Keynote William Clare Roberts (Mercier Room)
10.30 Title: “Towards a Radical Politics of Freedom”
10.30 – Coffee Break (Salons)
11.00
11.00 – Session 1: Critical Theory and
13.00 Emancipation (Raadzaal)
Pier Paolo Motta: “Max Horkheimer,
a Schopenhauerian paradigm for
emancipation?”
Anke Devyver: “The radicality of
critique and its consequences for
emancipation in Adorno”
Chris O’Kane + Kirstin Munro:
“Critical theory and higher education
under attack in the United States”
13.00 – Lunch (Salons)
14.00
14.00 – Session 3: The Politics of Work
16.00 (Raadzaal)
Tatiana Llaguno Nieves: “A Free
Association of Reproducers:
Emancipation and the Realm of
Necessity”
Christiaan Boonen: “All Play, No
Work? Marcuse on the Abolition of
Labor.”
Lucas Gronouwe: “Work: Past,
Present, Future | Some Specters of
Marx”
Session 2: Political Emancipations
(Room S)
William Paris: “What Was Black
Power? James Boggs and the
Materialist Theory of Right and
Self-Emancipation”
Igor Shoikhedbrod: “Once More: On
the Relationship Between Political
and Human Emancipation”
Matthias Lievens: “Emancipation as
empowerment: Sartre on group
formation”
Session 4: Feminist Critical Theory
(Room S)
Jana Cattien: “Getting Things Off
your Chest”: On the Relationship
Between Catharsis and
Emancipation”
Elyssa Khoury: “All Men’s Rea: The
Burden of Awareness on
Women’s Fear of Rape”
Livia Samson: “Family Abolition as
Radical Emancipation”
16.00 – Coffee Break (Salons)
16.30
16.30 – Keynote Eva Von Redecker (Mercier Room)
18.00 Title: “The Dialectics of Emancipation and Dispossession”

Saturday 13/05

08:45 – Coffee (Salons)

09.00
09.00 – Session 5: Political Repertoires
11.00 (Raadzaal)
Mathijs van de Sande: “Between
the Paris Commune and May ‘68:
Henri Lefebvre, the Situationists,
and the Emancipation of/from
Everyday Life”
Camila Vergara: “Alterity and the
Emancipation from Oligarchy
Through Praxis”
Babak Amini: “Traversing
Emancipation between Heaven
and Earth: The Applicability of
Marx’s Conception of
Emancipatory Alternatives”
11.00 – Coffee Break (Salons)
11.15
11.15 – Session 7: New Directions in Critical Session 8: Climate Politics
13u15 Theory (Raadzaal)
Session 6: (Re)reading Marx
(Room S)
Diego Martínez Zarazúa: “An
Aesthetic Emancipation from the
Abstractions of Capitalism:
Suggestions from Heideggerian
Marxism”
Svenja Bromberg: “Reading Marx
against his own limits: ‘Human
emancipation’ between
Enlightenment and Materialism”
Tom Ladendorf: “Freedom and
Unfreedom in Marx’s Capital”
(Room S)
 Tivadar Vervoort: “On the Necessity Mark Devenney: “Towards a New
of Partisanship for Emancipatory Politics of Emancipation”
Social Theories” Jonathon Catlin: “Herbert Marcuse’s
Rik Ouwerkerk: “Is “Catastrophe of Liberation” for the
‘self-emancipation’ possible? A Anthropocene”
critical look at an axiomatic Lukas Slothuus: “Ecological
concept” emancipation and class relations in
Aleksander Masternak: “Structural the Capitalocene”
not Cultural Theory of
Revolution”
13.15 – Lunch (Salons)
14.00
14.00 – Session 9: Socialization Session 10: Postcolonial Thought on
16.00 (Raadzaal) Emancipation (Room S)
Bernardo Paci: “‘Expropriating the Facundo Martín: “Immanent Critique
expropriators’,” yes, but how? and the Past of Modernity. A Latin
Immediate and mediate American perspective”
reappropriation, emancipation, Emily Dyson: “Recovery as
and translation between the disalienation: Fanon’s conception of
Operaist tradition and emancipation as permanent
anti-colonial thought” revolution between the psychic and
Hannah Voegele + Jenny Stupka: the social”
“Dialectics of Emancipation in Sarah Bufkin: “Frantz Fanon and the
and beyond Property Regimes: antiracist politics of disalienation”
The Idea of Socialisation”
Jacob Blumenfeld: “What was
Socialization?”
16.00 – Coffee Break (Salons)
16.30
16.30 – Keynote Eva Von Redecker (Mercier Room)
18.00 Title: “The Dialectics of Emancipation and Dispossession”
18.00 – Reception (Salons)
19.00