Thinking the Political: the Work of Ernesto Laclau

Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 April 2013 

 

Keynote Speakers:

Ernesto Laclau

Paula Biglieri, University of Buenos Aires

Oliver Marchant, Universität Luzern

Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Jelica Šumič Riha, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

For over 40 years Ernesto Laclau’s work has consistently, almost obstinately, sought to rethink the status of the political. This conference reflected on the theoretical debates inspired by these interventions, revisiting older debates, while looking towards new avenues for research opened up by Laclau’s work. The conference critically interrogated Laclau’s work and the various directions in which other scholars have taken his ideas.

 

Ernesto Laclau: Opening Keynote (with Welcoming by Bob Brecher & Mark Devenney)

 

Plenary Session with Ernesto Laclau, Paula Biglieri, Jelica Šumič Riha, Yannis Stavrakakis, and Oliver Marchart

Topics included:

· Antagonism and Democracy

· Rhetoric and Discourse Theory

· Discourse Theory and Political Economy

· Laclau’s critique of Marx and Marxism

· Rethinking Contingency

· Post-Marxism and the Revolutions of 2012

· Neo-liberalism and Post-Marxism

· Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Post-Marxism

· Althusser, Poulantzas and Laclau: Revisiting the 70s Debates

· Symbolic, Imaginary and Real: Lacan and Laclau

· Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in 2013