Citizenships of uncertainty

Communication, power and subjectivity

September 25 th to the 28 th of 2006

Main Schedule*

Inaugural conference
Date: Monday, September 25 th 2006
Time: 6:30pm
Title: Can democracy live without uncertainty? The thought in the presence of disenchantment and the crisis of social connection.

Martin Hopenhayn (yet to confirm)

Martín Hopenhayn was born in 1955 and studied philosophy in the universities of Chile , Buenos Aires and Paris . In this last one he did his thesis on Nietzche, under the direction of Gilles Deleuze. He has worked as a consultant-researcher in the Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Transnacionales (ILET), Programa de Economía del Trabajo (PET), Centro de Alternativas de Desarrollo (CEPAUR), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and the Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES). Some of his published articles are: ¿Por qué Kafka? Poder, mala conciencia y literatura,  Paidós, Buenos Aires, 1983 y Lom, Santiago, 2000; Ni apocalípticos ni integrados: aventuras de la modernidad en América Latina Fondo de Cultura Económica, Santiago y México,1994 y 1996, Premio Iberoamericano de LASA, Latin American Studies Association, 1997; Después del nihilismo: de Nietzche a Faoucault, Editorial Andrés Bello, Barcelona, 1997, finalista en el Concurso de Ensayo Anagrama 1995, en España; Así de frágil es la cosa, Aforismos,  Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 1999;  Repensar el trabajo: historia, profusión y perspectivas de un concepto, Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 2001:  Crítica de la razón irónica: de Sade a Jim Morrison, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 2001;  El mundo del dinero, Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 2002; y América Latina, desigual y descentrada, Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 2005.

Conference 2

Date: Tuesday September 26 2006
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Title: Alters and subjectivity in the contemporary citizenships

Chantal Mouffe

Studied Political theory at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Université de Paris and University of Essex . Currently teaches political theory at University of Westminster ( England ). She has been teacher in many universities around Europe, North America and Latin-America, and has led investigations at Harvard University , Cornell University , University of California , at the Advanced Studies Institute at Pinceton University and at the National Centre of the Recherche Scientifique in Paris . Between 1989 and 1995 she was the director of Collegue International de Philosophie in Paris . Currently, professor Mouffe is elaborating a non rationalist approximation to the political theory, formulating an "agony" model of democracy. She is also has an approach to the study of the rising of populism of right wings in Europe and the roll of that continent in a multilateral world. Her investigations also include the nature of politics, the destiny of sovereignty, the post-essentials tendencies in the contemporary philosophy, political liberalism, the critic of rationalism and of political passions; feminism, and the future of democracy and citizenship. Her current work tells about the nature of politics, the destiny of sovereignty, political liberalism and the critic to rationalism.

 

Panel 1

Date: Tuesday, September 26 th of 2006
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Title : How can we investigate uncertainty, how can we study subjectivity? Insecurities of the researcher, risks of theory.

-Alejandro Grimson ( Argentina )

-Muñiz Sodré (Brazil)

-Carlos Scolari (Spain)

 

Conference 3

Date: Wednesday, September 27 th of 2006
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Title: ¿What do we mean when we talk about resistance? "New" forms of power and resistance in the societies of information.

Nelly Richard

Nelly Richard was born in France . She is licensed in Modern Literature (U. Paris IV-La Sorbonne). She moved form France to Santiago , Chile , where she made her home. Her profound and inquisitive work covers all aspects of society. She is director and founder of the magazine "Revista de Critica Cultural" and "Diplomado en Critica Cultural". In recent years, Richard has become one of the most provocative and respected critics of Latin-America and Internationally. She regularly participates in conferences, seminaries besides holding conferences in universities in Europe , Latin-America and United Sates. Richard has constantly struggled to articulate the strategies that could bring down dominant paradigms associated to repression, control and insanity to the popular area. She also argues for a political difference that is confined to democracy and social change.

Panel 2

Date: Wednesday, September 27 of 2006
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Title: Reinvent politics, re-imagine citizenships? A politic able of taking charge of subjects, subjectivity and heterogeneities.

- Pilar Riaño (Colombia-Canada)

-Eliseo Colón (Puerto Rico)

- Rosa María Alfaro (Perú)

- Benjamín Arditi (Paraguay)

 

Conference 4

Date: Thursday September 28 2006
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Title: What if there are people that really die from fear? Risk societies, citizenships of lightness.

Rosana Reguillo

She is a numerary teacher at the department of social and cultural studies at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) since 2000 (previously, since 1981, she held different positions in the same department). She is a member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and currently she is full time at the cátedra UNESCO of communication at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Panel 3

Date: Thursday, September 28 th , 2006

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Title: How can we reconsider and weave the relations between citizenship, media and security politics?

- Javier del Corral (Mexico)

- Germán Rey (Colombia)

- María Cristina Mata (Argentina)

- Carmen Cafarel (Spain)

 

Conference 5:

(Concluding presentation with Jesus Martín Barbero and Martín Hopen Hayn)

Date: Thursday, September 28 th , 2006
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Title: Which communicators when communication makes part of contexts of uncertainty?

Jesús Martín Barbero

He is Spaniard and Colombian. He has a Doctorate in philosophy from the Universidad de Lovaina with a post doctorate in Anthropology and Semiotics in Paris . He founded the Communication department at Universidad Del Valle. He has been president of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación , ALAIC and a member of the cultural politics committee of CLASCO. He has been an associated researcher at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and guest professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, in the literature division, cultures and languages at Stanford University and the Escuela de Antropología e Historia de Mexico. Currently he is a teacher at the master degree in communication at the Universidad Javeriana.

* This schedule is subject to changes without previous notice.