XXIII International InkriT Conference
Crisis of World Politics
General theme
The current crisis is more than the sum of national crises. Overlain by the global ecological crisis it exhibits traits of a world crisis of the political based on a revolution of the mode of production whose radicalness and scope, destabilising all familiar forms, is comparable to that of the industrial revolution. The world order shaped by the “West” is dissolving, a new one not yet in sight. The institutional arrangement decreasingly corresponds to the economic process. Growing parts of society don’t see themselves represented by their representatives. Due to a lack of progressive alternatives this frequently manifests itself in reactionary forms or forms that tend towards fascism.
Plenary lectures and discussions on the general theme
Projected are lectures by John Neelsen (Tübingen), Wolfgang Streeck (Cologne) and Zhang Shuangli (Shanghai) with contributions by Peter Brandt (Berlin), Frank Deppe (Marburg), Mechthild Leutner (Berlin) and many others.
Workshops — draft articles for the HCDM
- middle classes (Klaus Dörre, Jena)
- monetarism (Riccardo Bellofiore, Bergamo)
- morals, morality (Peter Jehle, Berlin)
- nation (theses on the topic) (Peter Brandt, Berlin)
- national liberation (Reinhart Kößler, Berlin)
- nature (Timothée Haug, Strasbourg)
- naturalisation (Thomas Barfuss, Chur, Anika Thym, Basel)
- nature alliance (Beat Dietschy, Bern)
- dialectics of nature (Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Esslingen & Los Quemados)
- social relations of nature (Ulrich Brand, Vienna, Christoph Görg, Vienna)
- natural-scientific excerpts (Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Berlin)
- New Right (Christoph Kopke, Berlin, Gideon Botsch, Potsdam, Volkmar Wölk, Berlin)
- new man (China) (Hauke Neddermann, Berlin)
- victim/culprit (Nora Räthzel, Umeå & Barcelona)
- optimism/pessimism (Ruedi Graf, Allschwil)
- planned economy (Karl-Ernst Lohmann, Berlin)
- politics (Frank Deppe, Marburg)
Accompanying artistic programme on Saturday evening
Manja Präkels reads from her novel “Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß” (When I was eating liquor-infused cherries with Hitler) which narrates the story of the disappearance of the GDR in a small town in Brandenburg, the emergence of ghosts believed to be lost, including the former childhood and school day friend who is meanwhile called Hitler, and friendship, love and rage.
The reading is accompanied by Thorsten Müller (voice, clarinets, xylophone) and Benjamin Hiesinger (contrabass). Präkels’s long-standing musical companions of “Der Singende Tresen” have composed pieces to accentuate the text. (John Neelsen, Tübingen; Wolfgang Streeck, Cologne; Zhang Shuangli, Shanghai; Peter Brandt, Berlin; Frank Deppe, Marburg; Mechthild Leutner, Berlin)
Conference languages: German, English
A detailed programme will be posted here shortly before the conference starts.
The plenary meeting of the InkriT fellows will take place on Sunday.
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Conference venue
The conference hotel is located close to the Wannsee lake.
ver.di Educational Centre Clara Sahlberg
Koblanckstraße 10
14109 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 806713 0
Website: http://www.bbz.verdi.de