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