*A World Without Politics*
September 17-20th 2009
Higher Institute for Philosophy, Leuven, Belgium
All events are free. For any questions please contact Dr. Anya Topolski.
Registration (by September 11th) is required by e-mail: anyatopolski@hiw.kuleuven.be
As a result of globalization, international political structures are rapidly changing. The emerging world order is characterized by a growing and complex network of regional and transnational institutions which shape an increasingly interconnected global order in a way that undermines the sovereign independence of increasingly impotent and outdated nation-states. Because of the growing importance of international law and because of the technocratic nature of these new institutions, the emergence of the global governance structure has often been analyzed as a process of depoliticization. Whereas politics is supposed to be about a visible, organized and ongoing struggle for power, the very concept of governance, as a form of “government without opposition”, seems to refer to a bureaucratic and consensualistic way of organizing society. Although some have hailed the increasing reliance on law, expert knowledge and consensus as a reinforcement of democracy, others have argued that the process of depoliticization helps to conceal the true power relations underlying the global structure and contributes to the disempowerment of citizens world wide in their attempts to shape the global order in a democratically legitimized manner. It is the purpose of this conference to analyze the alleged depoliticization of the global order and to reflect on the ways in which this process affects the prospects of some form of global democracy.
Thursday September 17th
11u00 Opening and welcome by the Dean Prof. Antoon Vandevelde
11u40 1st Lecture – Joshua Cohen (Stanford) and Charles Sabel (Columbia)
“Global public reason: in defense of the banausic conception of politics”
13u00 Lunch
14u00 2nd Lecture – Etienne Balibar (Nanterre/Irvine)
“Strangers or Enemies? On the impolitical dimensions of Global Governance”
15u40 Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra)
20u00 Chantal Mouffe (Westminster)
“Which democracy for an agonistic multipolar world?”
Friday September 18th
10u00 Jean Cohen (Columbia)
“Legality and/or Legitimacy in global Governance: the Dilemmas of Political Justice”
11u40 Junior Session I
Matthias Lievens (Leuven) – “Carl Schmitt and the Specter of a Deterritorialized Politics”
16u20 Annelies Degryse (Leuven)
“Is a World without Politics already a Fact? Politics according to Arendt”
13u00 Lunch
14u00 Andreas Kalyvas (New School for Social Research, NY)
“World Empire and Global Anomie in Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of International Law. ”
16u20 Junior Session II (3 parallel sessions)
18u00 Conference Dinner
Saturday September 19th
10u00 Stefan Rummens (Leuven/Nijmegen)
“From governance to government? Representative institutions and democratic legitimacy in the global society”
11u40 Margaret Moore (Queen’s University)
“Global democracy and collective forms of self-determination”
13u00 Closing Lunch/Reception
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