Venue & Programme

Venue

The 5th Ideas in Politics conference Rethinking Representation will be held at the Charles University Faculty of Arts Building located at náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1 (next to Staroměstská metro/tram station).


Conference Programme

Wednesday, November 20th  

9.00–10.00 AM Registration

10.00–10.30 AM Welcome Address (Room 300)


10.30 AM–12.00 PM Plenary Session I (Room 300)

Sofia Näsström: Democracy vs. Autocracy: Representation in a new key 

12.00–1.00 PM Lunch Break


1.00–2.30 PM Panel Session 1

Room 300 – Panel 1.1 – Representation and Democracy I
  • Panel chair: Lelde Luika
  • Arthur Ghins: The First Theorists of Liberal Democracy
  • Joshua Rayman: Neither Democratic, Nor Representative
  • Jason Guo: Performance and Dialogue: The dynamics of representation and legitimacy in modern democracies
Room 325 – Panel 1.2 – Representation of the Non-Human
  • Panel chair: Deborah Cohen
  • Michael Sochor: Representation of the non-human: How can the voiceless speak?
  • Julita Skotarska & Dan Swain: Can a Glacier Really be President (of Iceland)? From non-human representation to non-human representatives

2.30–3.00 PM Coffee Break


3.00–4.30 PM Panel Session 2

Room 300 – Panel 2.1 – Demagoguery and Representation from a Historical Perspective I
  • Panel chair: Kristina Broučkova
  • Giuseppe Ballacci: Representation, Democracy, and Populism: Ancient and modern “perspectives
  • Théo Millat-Carus: White Knights vs. Black Sheep: Fifty shades of demagogos
  • Deborah Cohen: Representation and Demagogy: Visions of the sovereignty of the people during the French Revolution
Room 325 – Panel 2.2 – Aesthetics, Representation, Democracy
  • Panel chair: Dan Swain
  • Jan Šíma: Audiences Between Deception and Empowerment: On the performative aspects of political representation
  • Keren Shahar: The Limits of Representation: The question of the relationship between aesthetics and politics

5.00–6.00 PM Panel Session 3

Room 300 – Panel 3.1 – Demagoguery and Representation from a Historical Perspective II
  • Panel chair: Kristina Broučkova
  • Samuel Hayat: From Plebs to Proletariat: The Evolution of demagogic representation from radical Enlightenment to early socialism
  • Emilie Frenkiel & Anna Shpakovskaya: Maoism, the Chinese Communist Party and Demagogic Representation
Room 325 – Panel 3.2 – Concept of Representation I 
  • Panel chair: Lelde Luika
  • Cristian Rivera Colón: Representation as Interpretation: Reconciling some false dichotomies
  • Chelsea Guo: A Constructivist Defence of Descriptive Representation

Thursday, November 21st  

9.30–10.30 AM Panel Session 4

Room 300 – Panel 4.1 – Representation and Democracy II
  • Panel chair: Martin Šimsa
  • Agata Czarnecka: We the Judges: Constitutional courts and representation
  • Alok Kumar: Representation and the Paradoxes of Epistemic Proceduralism and Epistemic Instrumentalism
Room 325 – Panel 4.2 – Representation beyond Elections  
  • Panel chair: Martin Brabec
  • Kristina Broučková: The Puzzling Purpose of Elections in Representative Democracy: Staging conflict in a society of uncertainty
  • Ünsal Doğan Başkır: Beyond Republican Statism and Politics of Rupture: Arendt’s council system as the future of democratic politics

10.30–11.00 AM Coffee Break


11.00 AM–12.30 PM Panel Session 5

Room 300 – Panel 5.1 – Concept of Representation II
  • Panel chair: Giuseppe Ballacci
  • Anna Weithaler & Florian Pistrol: Towards a Post-Foundationalist Theory of Political Representation
  • Adriano Giuliani & Sofia Kalashnikova: National Identity as a Subject of Representation
Room 325 – Panel 5.2 – Representation and Democracy III  
  • Panel chair: Joshua Rayman
  • Martin Brabec: Contradiction within Liberal Democracy
  • Martin Šimsa: Representative Democracy: Description, theory, or alibi?
  • Janusz Salamon: Global Agathocracy as a Precondition of Local Democracy: A transcultural philosophical perspective

12.30–2.00 PM Lunch Break


2.00–3.30 PM Plenary Session II (Room 300)

Paula Diehl: When the Populist Far Right Plays with Politainment: Reflecting on political performances today

3.30–4.00 PM Coffee Break


4.00–5.30 PM Plenary Session III (Room 300)

Mónica Brito Vieira: Representing Silence

Friday, November 22nd

9.00–10.30 AM Panel Session 6

Room 300 – Panel 6.1 – Concept of Representation II
  • Panel chair: Tomáš Halamka
  • Albano Pina: Mediation without Representation: Spinoza and the Natural Foundations of Political Society
  • Lucio Meola: Articulation, Unification, Representation: A journey between Hobbes and Laclau
  • Lelde Luika: Normativity in Constitutive Views of Representation: Reading Arendt and Lefort on authority and political institutions

 10.30–11.00 PM Coffee Break


11.00 AM–1.00 PM Panel Session 7

Room 300 – Panel 7.1 – Populism as a Form of Representation
  • Panel chair: Jakub Franěk
  • Théo Aiolfi & Thomás Zicman de Barros: The Transgressive Aesthetics of Populism
  • Kristian Těmín: Between Global Populism and Social Movement: Who is represented by Greta Thunberg?
  • Pedro Pinheiro: Left Populism and its Undemocratic Tendencies
  • Tomáš Dvořák & Michael Weiss: Centrist Populism? A critical evaluation of a concept

1.00–2.30 PM Lunch Break


2.30–4.00 PM Plenary Session IV (Room 300)

Lisa Disch: Political Representation: Cause or cure for democracy’s discontent

4.00–4.30 PM Concluding Remarks (Room 300)