New Revolutionary Subjects: In memoriam Herbert Marcuse

Round Table
July 5, 2023 18:00 - 20:00
Vierte Welt Adalbertstraße 96, 10999 Berlin

with Gianfranco Casuso, Robin Celikates, Alex Demirović, Verónika Gago, Sally Haslanger, Rahel Jaeggi, and Eva von Redecker

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Speakers

Robin Celikates is Professor for Practical and Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and deputy director of the Centre for Social Critique. His current work mainly focuses on critical theory, civil disobedience, democracy, migration and citizenship.

Alex Demirović is a Senior Fellow at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and an associated member of the Centre for Social Critique. He was Professor for Industrial and Organizational Sociology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on marxist state theory, democracy and critical theory.

Verónica Gago is a professor of social sciences at the Instituto de Altos Estudios at the Universidad Nacional de San Martìn (UNSAM) and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Buenos Aires. Her research focuses on international social movements, feminism and the critique of neoliberal reason.

Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and teaches in MIT’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her main areas of research include metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory, ancient philosophy, and social and political philosophy.

Rahel Jaeggi is Professor for Practical and Social Philosophy and director of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main historical research is critical theory, her main systematic research social philosophy, social theory, social ontology and anthropology, political philosophy and ethics.

Eva von Redecker is a philosopher and author. Until 2019, she was deputy director of the Centre for Social Critique. Her research focuses on theories of social change, feminist theory, and the modern notion of property.