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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
20.-22. MAY 2011
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN
Andreas Arndt (Berlin)
Andreas Arndt is professor of philosophy in the Theology Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is also active at the Berlin-Brandenburger Academy of Science. Since 1992 he has been president of the International Hegel Society. He has numerous publications on Hegel and Schleiermacher, and his books include Karl Marx. Versuch über den Zusammenhang seiner Theorie (1985), Dialektik und Reflexion. Zur Rekonstruktion des Vernunftbegriffs (1994), Die Arbeit der Philosophie (2003) und Unmittelbarkeit (2004).
Étienne Balibar (Paris/Irvine)
Étienne Balibar is professor of philosophy and political theory at the University of Paris X Nanterre and the University of California at Irvine. He has written numerous articles and books on Marx and Marxism, human rights, and racism. His books include Lire le Capital (1972, with Louis Althusser), Race, nation, classe : les identités ambigues, (1988, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Les frontières de la démocratie (1992), La crainte des masses (1997) und Nous, citoyens d'Europe?: Les Frontières, l'Etat, le peuple (2001).
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4809
Banu Bargu is Assistant Professor in Political Science at New School for Social Research, New York. Her research focuses on questions in political theory, particularly modern, late modern, and critical theory, and leftist politics, broadly conceived. Her interests include themes such as the state, resistance, revolutionary breaks, human rights, and democracy. Currently, she is working on how contemporary forms of political self-sacrifice, such as hunger striking, suicide attack, and self-immolation, shed light on perennial concerns of modern political theory, particularly theories of sovereignty, order/disorder, agency, and violence. Her “Spectacles of Death: Dignity, Dissent, and Sacrifice in Turkey’s Prisons” ist to be published in Formations of Coercion: Policing and Prisons in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler (forthcoming, Columbia University Press)
http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=11126
Harald Bluhm (Halle/Wittenberg)
Harald Bluhm has been professor of political theory and history of ideas at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg since 2007. Since 2008 he has been project director for the publication of the complete works of Marx and Engels. He is a member of the International Postgraduate Association Formenwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich. Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Interdisciplinary Center of European Enlightenment at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He is the author of Die Ordnung der Ordnung. Das politische Philosophieren von Leo Strauss (2001) and editor of Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels: Die deutsche Ideologie (2010) and Alexis de Tocqueville: Kleine politische Schriften (2006).
http://bluhm.politik.uni-halle.de/mitarbeiter/prof._dr._harald_bluhm/
Manuela Boatcă (Berlin)
Manuela Boatcă studied English and German philology at the Universities of Bucharest, Bonn, and Cologne, and sociology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Boston College, and Massachussetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Eichstätt in 2002, was Visiting Professor of Sociology at IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007-2008 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Latin America Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include world-systems analysis, sociology of development, gender and violence research, and postcolonial studies in historical-comparative perspective, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe and Latin America. She is author of “From Neoevolutionism to World-Systems Analysis. The Romanian Theory of ‘Forms without Substance’ in Light of Modern Debates on Social Change”, 2003, and co-editor of “Decolonizing European Sociology. Transdisciplinary Approaches“ (with Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and Sérgio Costa), Aldershot: Ashgate 2010, as well as of “Global, multiple and postcolonial modernities” (with Willfried Spohn), Munich 2010.
http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/akademische_mitarbeiter_innen/boatca.html
Matthias Bohlender (Osnabrück)
Matthias Bohlender studied philosophy and political science in Frankfurt am Main and received his Dr. phil in social science in 1995 from the J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt. He was Assistant Professor at the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften at the Humboldt-Universität as well as at the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of Science in Berlin. In 2005 he completed his Habilitation in Political Science from the Philosophische Fakultät III der HU Berlin, and since 2009 he has been professor of political theory at the Universität Osnabrück. Important publications include Die Rhetorik des Politischen: zur Kritik der politischen Theorie (1995), Metamorphosen des liberalen Regierungsdenkens: Politische Ökonomie, Polizei und Pauperismus (2007,) and Sicherheit und Risiko: über den Umgang mit Gefahr im 21.Jahrhundert (2010, with H. Münkler and S. Meurer). His areas of work and research are the genealogy of the social, history and critique of political rationality, mentality of governing and governmental thought, the language of politics, and the rhetoric of power.
Wendy Brown (Berkeley)
Wendy Brown is Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Her fields of interest include the history of political theory, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, critical theory, and cultural theory (including feminist theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial theory). Brown's current work focuses on the relationship of political sovereignty to global capital and other transnational forces, including those associated with religion, law, culture and moral discourse. Brown's books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (1995), Politics Out of History (2001), Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (2002), Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics (2005), Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006), Is Critique Secular? co-authored with Talal Asad, Judith Butler and Saba Mahmood (2009) and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010).
http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=225
Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg)
Professor for Sociology at University of Flensburg (Germany). 2009-2010: Theodor-Heuss-Professor at New School for Social Research New York/ NY. Latest Books: La Revoluzione Giuridica Di hans Kelsen E Altri Saggi, Torino: Trauben 2010. Karl Marx: Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte – Kommentar, Frankfurt (Suhrkamp) 2007. Solidarity. From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community, Cambridge/MA (MIT Press) 2005. Demokratie in der Weltgesellschaft, Sonderband 18 der Zeitschrift „Soziale Welt“, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009. Habermas Handbuch, Stuttgart: Metzler 2009 (zus. mit Regina Kreide und Cristina Lafont). Rechts-Staat. Hans Kelsens Rechts- und Staatsverständnis, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2008. (Together with Rüdiger Voigt)
http://www.iim.uni-flensburg.de/eustudies/front_content.php?idart=4183
Terrell Carver (Bristol)
Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. Since 1995 Carver has been a member of the Editorial Commission of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe. Numerous articles in Political Theory, especially on Marx and Feminist Theory. His book publications include Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics (with Samuel A. Chambers) (2008), Men in Political Theory (2004), The Postmodern Marx (1998) and Gender is Not a Synonym for Women (1996).
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/people/person/497
Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Andrew Chitty is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. His research interests include Hegel, Marx, ethics and political philosophy. Numerous articles and books, including the editions Has History Ended? Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity (1994), 'The Direction of Contemporary Capitalism' (special issue of Review of International Political Economy, 1997), Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy (with Martin McIvor, 2009).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sefd0/
Alex Demirović (Berlin)
Alex Demirović is a Professor extraordinarius at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and currently teaches political science at the Technische Universität Berlin. He has numerous publications on critical theory, democratic theory, critique of capitalism, and the theory of the state. His many books include Das Subjekt - zwischen Krise und Emanzipation (2010, with Christina Kaindl und Alfred Krovoza), Das Staatsverständnis von Nicos Poulantzas. Der Staat als gesellschaftliches Verhältnis (2010, with Stephan Adolphs und Serhat Karakayal), Kritik und Materialität, (2008), Demokratie in der Wirtschaft. Positionen - Probleme – Perspektiven (2007) and Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle. Die Entwicklung der Kritischen Theorie zur Frankfurter Schule (1999).
http://www.gsw.tuberlin.de/menue/politikwissenschaft_und_sozialkunde/lehrende/demirovic/
Esra Erdem (Berlin)
Esra Erdem is currently research fellow at Humboldt University (Program on Gender and Globalisation); she also teaches at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism. Her research interests span the areas of gender, migration and the political economy of labour. Recent publications include: „Contested Constructions of the Migrant 'Home': Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community “ in G. Cassano (Ed.) Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Contemporary Household. Palgrave Macmillan. 2009.
Franck Fischbach (Nice)
Franck Fischbach is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis and is also an editor of the journal Actuel Marx as well as a member of the board of directors of the International Hegel Association. He mainly works on modern German philosophy, in particular Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and has translated works of Hegel, Schelling, Marx, and Honneth into French. Recent publications include La production des hommes. Marx avec Spinoza (2005), Sans objet. Capitalisme, subjectivité, aliénation (2009), Marx. Relire Le Capital (2009), Manifeste pour une philosophie sociale (2009)
http://portail.unice.fr/jahia/page12887.html
Rainer Forst (Frankfurt)
Rainer Forst is professor of political theory and philosophy at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and spokesperson of the cluster of excellence “Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen.” He is a member of various advisory and editorial boards, among them Ethics. An International Journal of Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Philosophy & Social Criticism. He is co-editor of the Campus-Verlag series “Theorie und Gesellschaft.” His numerous publications include Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit. Politische Philosophie jenseits von Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus (1994), Toleranz im Konflikt. Geschichte, Gehalt und Gegenwart eines umstrittenen Begriffs (2003), Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung. Elemente einer konstruktivistischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit (2007), Kritik der Rechtfertigungsverhältnisse. Perspektiven einer kritischen Theorie der Politik (2011).
http://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de/rforst
Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous books and articles, including Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rican Subjects in a Global Perspective (2003), Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development: The Cases of Korean, Japan, Taiwan, Germany and Puerto Rico (2009, co-editor), The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (2002, co-editor). He is a research associate of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.
Michael Heinrich (Berlin)
Michael Heinrich is a political scientist and mathematician living in Berlin. He is involved in the publication of Marx and Engel’s complete works as a collaborator in the development and processing of as yet unpublished Marx exerpts. In addition, he is executive editor of Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft. His numerous publications include Die Wissenschaft vom Wert : die Marxsche Kritik der politischen Ökonomie zwischen wissenschaftlicher Revolution und klassischer Tradition (1991), Kritik der politischen Ökonomie : eine Einführung (2004), Wie das Marxsche Kapital lesen? (2008)
http://www.oekonomiekritik.de/
Rosemary Hennessy (Houston)
Rosemary Hennessy is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, Houston. Her publications include NAFTA From Below: Maquiladora Workers, Campesinos, and Indigenous Communities Speak Back (2006), Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (2000), Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women’s Lives (1997), and Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (1993). Her research interests include feminist culture theory, sexuality studies, and U.S.-Mexican studies. She is currently working on a book on the cultures of transnational organizing, Fires on the Border.
http://www.english.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=208
Christoph Henning (St. Gallen)
Christoph Henning is currently working on his Habilitation in philosophy at the Universität St. Gallen with a project on “Perfectionism as political philosophy.” His main research areas include political philosophy, social philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory. Numerous publications include Philosophie nach Marx. 100 Jahre Marxrezeption und die normative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik (2005) and, as editor, Marxglossar (2006) und Deutsch-jüdische Wissenschaftsschicksale. Studien zur Identitätskonstruktion in der Sozialwissenschaft (2006, with Amalia Barboza).
Tim Henning (Jena)
Tim Henning studied philosophy in Munster, Cologne, and Princeton. He received his PhD from the Universität zu Köln in 2007. His interests include ethics, metaethics, analytical philosophy of language and philosophy of action, as well as critical theory and social theory. He is the author of Person sein und Geschichte erzählen. Eine Studie über personale Autonomie und narrative Gründe (DeGruyter. Berlin/New York, 2009). His essays include "Personale Lebensgeschichte und kritische Theorie", Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (3), 2010, S. 377-393, "Kant und die Logik des 'Ich denke'", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 64 (3), 2010, S. 331-356, and "Traditionelle und nicht-reduktive kritische Theorie”, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 31 (3), 2006, S. 261-280.
http://www.philosophie.uzh.ch/institut/gastwissenschaftlerinnen/henning.html
Axel Honneth (Frankfurt)
Axel Honneth is professor of philosophy at both the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Columbia University in New York as well as the director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt. He is co-editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, the European Journal of Philosophy and the journal Constellations. In addition, he is president of the International Hegel Association. This numerous publications include Kritik der Macht. Reflexionsstufen einer kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie (1985), Kampf um Anerkennung. Zur moralischen Grammatik sozialer Konflikte (1992), Umverteilung oder Anerkennung? Eine politisch-philosophische Kontroverse (with Nancy Fraser, 2003), Verdinglichung. Eine anerkennungstheoretische Studie (2005), Pathologien der Vernunft. Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kritischen Theorie (2007), Das Ich im Wir. Studien zur Anerkennungstheorie (2010), as well as the forthcoming book Das Recht der Freiheit. Grundriss einer demokratischen Sittlichkeit (2011).
http://www.philosophie.uni-frankfurt.de/lehrende_index/Homepage_Honneth/index.html
Gerald Hubmann (Berlin)
http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/mega/de/Mitglieder_Mitarbeiter
Marco Iorio (Potsdam)
Marco Iorio is currently guest professor at the Institut für Philosophie at the Universität Potsdam, and since 2011 a fellow in the DFG Kolleg research group “Normenbegründung in Medizinethik und Biopolitik” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He has published numerous articles in the area of practical philosophy. Among his books are Regel und Grund: Eine philosophische Abhandlung (2010), Marx interkulturell gelesen (2005), Karl Marx: Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik (2003), Echte Gründe, echte Vernunft: Über Handlungen, ihre Erklärung und Begründung (1998).
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/angewandte-ethik/mitarbeiter/iorio.html
Stevi Jackson (York)
Stevi Jackson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York. She was co-founder of the international journal Feminist Theory and is on the editorial boards of Sexualities and Irish Feminist Review. Her main research interests are theorizing sexuality, especially heterosexuality; theories of self and subjectivity; modernity, gender and intimacy in Asia and Europe. Many publications, such as Childhood and Sexuality (Blackwell 1982); Heterosexuality in Question (Sage 1999); Gender: A Sociological Reader co-editor with Sue Scott. (Routledge 2001), Gender and Sexuality (Polity 2010, co-authored with Momin Rahman), Theorizing Sexuality (Open University Press 2010, co-authored with Sue Scott), East Asian Sexualities: Modernity, Gender and New Sexual Cultures (London : Zed Books 2008, edited with Liu Jieyu and Woo Juhyun).
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cws/gsp/staff.htm#Jackson
Rahel Jaeggi (Berlin)
Rahel Jaeggi is professor of practical philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main areas of work are social philosophy, ethics, social ontology, and philosophical anthropology. Publications include Welt und Person. Anthropologische Grundlagen der Gesellschaftskritik Hannah Arendts (1997), Entfremdung. Zur Aktualität eines sozialphilosophischen Problems (2005), Was ist Kritik? Philosophische Positionen (2009, with T. Wesche). Kritik von Lebensformen will appear in summer 2011.
http://anthro.hu-berlin.de/politik/mitarbeiter/jaeggi_rahel
Serhat Karakayali (Halle)
Serhat Karakayali studied sociology, politics, and philosophy, worked at the Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung in Duisburg (DISS), was editor of the journal “diskus” in Frankfurt, and had doctoral funding from the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. In 2003, he was one of the founders of the research group “Transit Migration,” from which the “Forschungsnetzwerk kritische Migrationsforschung” emerged two years ago. He collaborated on the exhibition project “In der Wüste der Moderne” with Marion von Osten and Tom Avermaete, and currently works as an assistant professor at the chair of sociological theory at the Universität Halle. His books include „Biopolik in der Debatte“ (with Marianne Pieper and Vassilis Tsianos, 2010), „Poulantzas. Zur Aktualität der Staatstheorie“ (with Alex Demirovic and Stephan Adolphs, 2010), „Gespenster der Migration. Zur Genealogie illegaler Einwanderung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ (2007) und „Empire und die biopolitische Wende“ (with Marianne Pieper, Thomas Atzert and Vassilis Tsianos, 2007).
http://www.soziologie.uni-halle.de/karakayali/
Russell Keat (Edinburgh)
Russell Keat is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His current research is concerned with the ethical character of market institutions and of different kinds of capitalism: recent papers are available at www.russellkeat.net. This follows on from previous work on the boundaries between market and non-market spheres, with publications including Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market (2000) and, co-edited with Nick Abercrombie and Nigel Whiteley, The Authority of the Consumer (1994) and Enterprise Culture (1991). His earlier research included work on realist philosophy of social science (Social Theory as Science, with John Urry, 1975/1982); Habermas's critical theory (The Politics of Social Theory, 1981), and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology (Understanding Phenomenology, with Michael Hammond and Jane Howarth, 1991).
Thomas Lemke (Frankfurt)
Thomas Lemke is professor of sociology focusing on biotechnology, nature, and society in the Department of Social Science at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His areas of work and main research areas are theory of society, sociological theory, biopolitics, political sociology, and the sociology of science and technology. Recent publications are Biopolitik zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 2007); Der medizinische Blick in die Zukunft. Gesellschaftliche Implikationen prädiktiver Gentests (zusammen mit Regine Kollek, Campus, 2008), Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges (with Ulrich Bröckling and Susanne Krasmann, Routledge, 2010).
http://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de/tlemke/
Urs Lindner (Berlin)
Urs Lindner studied philosophy and gender studies and received his doctorate for “Marx und die Philosophie. Metaphysikkritik, wissenschaftlicher Realismus und moralischer Perfektionismus.” Since September 2010 he has been a postdoc at the ETH-Zurich working on “Imitation-Assimilation-Transformation,” a project supported by the Swiss National Fund.
Christine Löw (Kassel)
Christine Löw is lecturer in the field of ‘Globalization & Politics’ and ‘International Relations’ at the Political Science Department/University of Kassel. She has studied Political Science, Philosophy, Law and Sociology at the J.W.Goethe-University in Frankfurt a.M. and graduated in Political Science in 2000. From 2002-2005 she was a doctoral fellow at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 'Public Spheres and Gender Relations. Dimensions of Experience' and received her PhD in 2007. In her dissertation “Women from the Third World and Epistemic Critique? The Postcolonial Approaches of Gayatri C. Spivak on Globalization and the Production of Theory” (Frauen aus der Dritten Welt und Erkenntniskritik? Die postkolonialen Untersuchungen von Gayatri C. Spivak zu Globalisierung und Theorieproduktion, Ulrike Helmer Verlag 2009) she analyzes how the insights of postcolonial feminism can be read together with recent globalization theories. In particular, she investigates the actual meaning of marxist thoughts, the role of intellectuals, the appropriation of the rural and female reproductivity and human rights discourse. Her main fields of interest are: feminist and (post-)marxist theories, postcolonial studies, global justice and political theory. She is currently working on a research project about global property rights and the re-configuration of the North-South-conflict.
Georg Lohmann (Magdeburg)
Georg Lohmann studied philosophy, sociology, and political science in Frankfurt am Main, München, Heidelberg, London (LSE), and FU Berlin. Since 1996 he has been professor of practical philosophy at the Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg. He is a member of the local “Arbeitsstelle Menschenrechte.” His current research is primarily in human rights, ethics and applied ethics, and political philosophy. His publications include Indifferenz und Gesellschaft (1991), Zur Philosophie der Gefühle (1993, with H.Fink-Eitel,); Philosophie der Menschenrechte (2002, with St. Gosepath), Menschenrechte zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (2000, with K. P. Fritzsche), Jugend, Rechtsextremismus und Gewalt (2000, with Ch. Butterwegge), Demokratische Zivilgesellschaft und Bürgertugenden in Ost und West (2003), Gelten Menschenrechte universal? Begründungen und Infragestellungen (2008, with Günter Nooke and Gerhard Wahlers). He has also published numerous articles on moral philosophy, applied ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of culture.
Daniel Loick (Berlin/Frankfurt)
Daniel Loick is Assistant Professor at the Institut für Philosophie at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as the Institut für Philosophie der Goethe Universität Frankfurt. He received his doctorate for a work on the critical theory of sovereignty. His publications are predominantly in the area of political philosophy, especially poststructuralism and critical theory. Some of his publications are: "Ironien des Politischen. Einige grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Kritik staatlicher Souveränität", in Liessmann, Konrad (Hrsg.), Der Staat. Wieviel Herrschaft braucht der Mensch?, Wien 2011 (i.E.); "But who protects us from you? Zur kritischen Theorie der Polizei", in jour-fixe-initiative Berlin (Hrsg): Souveränitäten. Von Staatsmenschen und Staatsmaschinen, Münster 2010; "Words like violence. Konstellationen des Unvernehmens", in Hermann, Steffen Kitty, Sybille Krämer und Hannes Kuch (Hrsg.): Verletzende Worte. Zur Grammatik sprachlicher Missachtung, Bielefeld 2007.
Andrea Maihofer (Basel)
Andrea Maihofer is professor of gender studies and director of the Center for Gender Studies at the Universität Basel. In addition, since 2002 she has been director of the Basler Gender-Graduiertenkollegs, and since 2004 the director of the SUK-Kooperationsprojektes Gender Studies Schweiz as well as president of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung. She is co-editor of the Campus-Verlag series Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse. Her numerous publications include Das Recht bei Marx. Zur dialektischen Struktur von Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechten und Recht, Baden-Baden 1992 and Geschlecht als Existenzweise. Macht, Moral, Recht und Geschlechterdifferenz, Frankfurt/M. 1995.
http://genderstudies.unibas.ch/zentrum/personen/profil/portrait/person/maihofer/
Oliver Marchart (Luzern)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Marchart, PhD, was born in 1968 and studied philosophy at the University of Vienna as well as political theory and discourse theory at the University of Essex. In 1999 he received his Dr.phil in philosophy at the University of Vienna for a dissertation on the theory and imaginary cartography of culture and media. In 2003 he received his doctorate in the Government Department of the University of Essex with Prof. Ernesto Laclau for a dissertation on the subject "Politics and the Political. An Inquiry into Post-Foundational Political Thought" (readers were Simon Critchley and Étienne Balibar). In 2001-2002 he was scholarly consultant and director of the Education Project of Documenta11. Since 1998 he has had teaching appointments at the institutes of philosophy and political science at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, at various art schools, as well as at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection. From 2001 to May 2006 he was an assistent at the Institut für Medienwissenschaften at the Universität Basel. Since July 2006 he has been SNF-Förderprofessor at the Soziologischen Seminar at the Universität Luzern.
http://www.unilu.ch/deu/prof._dr._oliver_marchartprofil_38218.html
Hanna Meißner (Berlin)
Hanna Meißner is Assistant Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Woman and Gender Studies at the TU Berlin. Her primary areas of research include theory of society, feminist theory, scientific research, as well as the sociology of work and organizations. Among her numerous publications is Jenseits des autonomen Subjekts. Zur gesellschaftlichen Konstitution von Handlungsfähigkeit im Anschluss an Butler, Foucault und Marx (Bielefeld 2010).
Christoph Menke (Frankfurt)
Christoph Menke is professor of philosophy at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt as well as at the local cluster of excellence „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“. He is a member of the editorial boards of diverse journals, including Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Revue d'Esthétique. His numerous publications include Die Souveränität der Kunst: Ästhetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida, Frankfurt/Main 1988, Tragödie im Sittlichen. Gerechtigkeit und Freiheit nach Hegel, Frankfurt/Main 1996, Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Berlin 2000, Die Gegenwart der Tragödie. Versuch über Urteil und Spiel, Frankfurt am Main 2005, Philosophie der Menschenrechte. Zur Einführung (with Arnd Pollmann), Hamburg 2007, Kraft. Ein Grundbegriff ästhetischer Anthropologie, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
http://www.philosophie.uni-frankfurt.de/lehrende_index/Homepage_Menke/index.html
Frederick Neuhouser (New York)
Frederick Neuhouser is Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Neuhouser's focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. He has published three books: Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 1990); Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2000), which argues for the centrality of "social freedom" in Hegel's political thought; and Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition, Oxford University Press, 2008. His current work is centered on Rousseau, especially on notions of recognition, self-love (amour propre) and rationality.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philosophy/fac-bios/neuhouser/faculty.html
Ceren Özselçuk (Istanbul)
Ceren Özselçuk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Since 2000, she has been a member of the Editorial Collective of the magazine Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society. She earned her PhD in 2009 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a dissertation on Post-Marxism after Louis Althusser: A Critique of the Alternatives. Numerous publications on Economic Geography, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Economic Sociology and Feminist Research Methods. Forthcoming at Routledge is her book Economic Necessity, Political Contingency, and the Limits of Post-Marxism.
Moishe Postone (Chicago)
Moishe Postone is Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he is also part of the Committee on Jewish Studies. His research interests include modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; twentieth-century Germany; Anti-Semitism; and contemporary global transformations. He is editor of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives and author of Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. He is also co-editor with Eric Santner of Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. Among his German publications are Deutschland, die Linke und der Holocaust. Politische Interventionen (2005) and Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus. Ein theoretischer Versuch. In: Dan Diner (Hrsg.): Zivilisationsbruch. Denken nach Auschwitz (1988).
http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/postone.shtml
Nina Power (London)
Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou's On Beckett and Political Writings. Her book One-Dimensional Woman came out in 2009 (Zer0 Books). She is the author of the blog Infinite Thought.
http://roehampton.ac.uk/staff/NinaPower/
http://infinitethought.cinestatic.com/
Michael Quante (Münster)
Michael Quante (1962) is full professor of practical philosophy in the department of philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University. He is Speaker of the Centrum für Bioethik and member of the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics in Münster; furthermore he is Associated Editor of the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Since 2006 he is managing director (Geschäftsführer) of the German Philosophical Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie). Books (in English): Hegel’s Concept of Action (Cambridge University Press 2004, pbk. 2007), Enabling Social Europe (Springer 2005; co-authored with Bernd v. Maydell et al.), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Cambridge University Press 2008, co-edited with Dean Moyar), Moral Realism (Helsinki 2004 (= Acta Filosofica Fennica Vol. 76), co-edited with Jussi Kotkavirta) and Pragmatic Idealism (Rodopi 1998, co-edited with Axel Wüstehube). Books (in German): Menschenwürde und Personale Autonomie (Meiner 2010), Karl Marx: Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte (Suhrkamp 2009), Person (De Gruyter 2007), Personales Leben und menschlicher Tod (Suhrkamp 2002), Einführung in die Allgemeine Ethik (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003, 3rd ed. 2008), Ethik der Organtransplantation (Harald Fischer Verlag 2000, co-authored with Johann S. Ach & Michael Anderheiden), Hegels Begriff der Handlung (frommann-holzboog 1993)
http://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/mitglieder/quante/quante.html
Tilman Reitz (Jena)
Tilman Reitz has been Junior professor for sociology of knowledge at the research center Laboratorium Aufklärung und at the Institut für Soziologie at FSU Jena since 2009. His main research areas are the sociology of the human sciences, political philosophy, critique of ideology, aesthetics, and sociology of culture. His numerous publications include the monographs Bürgerlichkeit als Haltung. Zur Politik des privaten Weltverhältnisses (2003), Grenzverschiebungen des Kapitalismus. Umkämpfte Räume und Orte des Widerstands (with Karina Becker, Lars Gertenbach, and Henning Laux, 2010), as well as Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) - ein "Partisan des Weltgeistes"? (with Klaus-Michael Kodalle, 2010).
Emmanuel Renault (Lyon)
Emmanuel Renault is Maître de conférences at the École Normale Supérieure, editor of the journal Actuel Marx, and coeditor of the journal Critical Horizons. He is author of many books, such as Marx et l'idée de critique (1995), Hegel. La naturalisation de la dialectique (2001), Philosophie chimique. Hegel et la science dynamique de son temps (2002), L'expérience de l'injustice : Reconnaissance et clinique de l'injustice (2004) and Souffrances sociales : Philosophie, psychologie et politique (2008).
Hartmut Rosa (Jena)
Hartmut Rosa is professor of sociology at the Universität Jena. His main areas of research and work include diagnosis of contemporary society and analysis of modernity, normative and empirical foundations of critique of society, theories of the subject and identity, the sociology of time, and the sociology of our relation to the world. His numerous publications include Identität und kulturelle Praxis. Politische Philosophie nach Charles Taylor (1998), Beschleunigung. Die Veränderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne (2005) and Soziologie, Kapitalismus, Kritik. Eine Debatte (with Klaus Dörre and Stephan Lessenich, 2009).
http://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/HartmutRosa.html
Saskia Sassen (New York)
Saskia Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths“. In addition to her appointments at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, Saskia Sassen serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities. She has received a variety of awards and prizes, most recently, a Doctor honoris causa from Delft University (Netherlands), the first Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award of the University of Notre Dame, and was one of the four winners of the first University of Chicago Future Mentor Award covering all doctoral programs. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, and the Financial Times, among others.
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/sassen/faculty.html
Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Münster)
Hans-Christoph Schmidt-am-Busch studied philosophy, sociology, political science, and economics in Frankfurt am Main, Montpellier, Münster, and Hagen. He received his doctorate from the Universität Münster for his study of Hegel’s concept of work, and completed his habilitation in philosophy at the Frankfurter Goethe-Universität. Between 2005 and 2009 he was awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Since 2006 Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch has been a visiting scholar at the Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung, and since April 2010 has been guest professor of the Lehrstuhl für Philosophische Anthropologie, Kultur- und Technikphilosophie at the Universität Magdeburg. Among his most important books are “Anerkennung” als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie (forthcoming 2011), Religiöse Hingabe oder soziale Freiheit. Die saint-simonistische Theorie und die Hegelsche Sozialphilosophie (2007), Hegels Begriff der Arbeit (2002), Anerkennung (with C. F. Zurn, 2009), Heinrich Scholz. Logiker, Philosoph, Theologe (with K. F. Wehmeier, 2005).
Titus Stahl (Frankfurt)
Titus Stahl is Assistant Professor at the Institut für Philosophie at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He was awarded his doctorate in 2010 for his work on the social ontological foundations of immanent critique. He has published primarily in the area of social philosophy, especially critical theory and social ontology. His articles include "Practices, Norms and Recognition", in: Human Affairs, Volume 17, Number 1, June 2007, S. 10-21 and "Social Power, Collective Acceptance and Recognition,” in Laitinen/Ikäheimo (Hrsg.): Social Ontology and Recognition, Leiden: Brill, 2011 (forthcoming).