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3-5 April 2015, Hamburg
 

CHALLENGING CAPITALIST MODERNITY II
DISSECTING CAPITALIST MODERNITY – BUILDING DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM

Draft program

3 April 2015 – Friday

12:00-13:00 Welcoming Speeches and Messages

Welcoming Speech | Prof. Norman Paech
Introduction | Prof. Elmar Altvater
Opening Speech | Reimar Heider
Messages of Greeting | Prof. Silvia Federici, Abdullah Öcalan and others
 

13:00-15:00 Session 1

Dissecting Capitalist Modernity
 

Moderation: N. N.

1. Scientism—Re-colonization of the Mind | Dr. Muriel Gonzales Athenas

2. Capitalism—Accumulation of Value or Power? | Kenan Ayaz

3. Nation State—God on Earth? | Prof. David Harvey

4. Industrialism—Law, Science and Imperialism | Dr. Radha D'Souza

5. Religionism and Secularism—Religion and the State | N. N.

6. Cultural Hegemony—Gramsci and Öcalan | Call for Papers*
    

15:00-16:30 Discussion

16:30-18:00 Dinner Break

18:00-20:00 Session 2 Democratic Modernity

Moderation: Eirik Eiglad

1. New Concepts—Democratic Confederalism & Democratic Autonomy | Havin Guneser

2. Liberating Life: Political and Moral Society | Emine Ayna

3. Democratic Nation—A Cure for Nationalism | Asya Abdullah

4. Power and Truth—Foucault and Öcalan | Call for Papers*

5. Democratic Confederalism—The Practice of Social Ecology? | Call for Papers*

20:00-21:30 Discussion

*) Speaker will be selected from the authors of the papers sent in response to the “Call for Papers”

4 April 2015 – Saturday

10:00-12:00 Session 3

Ecological Industry and Communal Economy
 

Moderation: Thomas Konicz

1. Communal Economy: The Case for the Commons | Silke Helfrich

2. Cooperatives in Catalonia and the Basque Country | N. N.

3. Human Economies | Prof. David Graeber

4. Braudel, Wallerstein and Öcalan on Economy and Capitalism | Call for Papers*

12:00-13:30 Discussion

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:30 Session 4

Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks of Revolutionary Theory

Moderation: N. N.

1. Reproducing Capitalism: Consumption and Habits | Ahmet Pelda

2. New Concepts of Self-defense | Fidan Yıldırım

3. The Centrality of Women’s Freedom | Sara Aktaş

4. Aesthetics, Culture, Arts and Beauty | N. N.

5. Power Relations: State and Family | Dr. Nazan Üstündağ

6. Feminism and the Kurds | Call for Papers*

    

16:30-18:00 Discussion 

18:00-19:00 Evening Break

19:00-21:00 Concert
Rotînda, Zelal Gökçe, Meral Tekçi, Mehmet Akbas

5 April 2015, Sunday

10:00-12:30 Session 5a

Lessons to be Learned from Alternative Practices
 

Moderation: Anja Flach

1. Internationalism—an Evolving Concept | N. N. (YXK)

2. Montreal: Assemblies and the State | Dimitrios Roussopoulos

3. South Africa: Progressive Politics in a Capitalist Country? | Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo

4. Brazil: The Landless Workers’ Movement | N. N.

   Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan—Work in Progress

5. Rojava: The Cantons—Resistance and Construction | Dr. Ahmad Yousef

6. Başûr: Stuck between Freedom and the State | Şîlan Şakir

    

12:30-14:00 Discussion

14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
 

15:00-17:00 Session 5b

Lessons to be Learned from Alternative Practices (continued)

Moderation: Prof. Sabine Rollberg

1. Rojhilat: The KODAR Model | Shirzad Kamangar

2. Bakur: From State to Democracy | Selma Irmak

3. The Fourth World War and How to Win it—A Tribute to Kurds and Zapatistas | Prof. John Holloway

4. Bolivia: The Plurinational State | Marcelo Elío Chávez

5. New England & Rojava: Assembly Democracies | Janet Biehl

6. Philippines: Building NGOs and Involving Communities | N. N.
    

17:00-18:00 Discussion
 

18:00-18:25 Closing speech

New Horizons: Reconstructing Liberation | Gönül Kaya 

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