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Draft Program for Conference
3-5 April 2015, Hamburg University, Audimax
CHALLENGING CAPITALIST MODERNITY II
DISSECTING CAPITALIST MODERNITY – BUILDING DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM
3 April 2015 – Friday
12:00-13:00 Welcoming Speeches and Messages
Welcoming Speech | Prof. Norman Paech
Introduction | Prof. Elmar Altvater
Opening Speech | Reimar Heider
Messages of Greeting | Prof. Silvia Federici, Abdullah Öcalan and others
13:00-15:00 Session 1
Dissecting Capitalist Modernity
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Moderation: N. N.
Scientism—Re-colonization of the Mind | Dr. Muriel Gonzales Athenas
Capitalism—Accumulation of Value or Power? | Kenan Ayaz
Nation State—God on Earth? | Prof. David Harvey
Industrialism—Law, Science and Imperialism | Dr. Radha D'Souza
Religionism and Secularism—Religion and the State | N. N.
Cultural Hegemony—Gramsci and Öcalan | Call for Papers*
15:00-16:30 Discussion
16:30-18:00 Dinner Break
18:00-20:00 Session 2
Democratic Modernity
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Moderation: Eirik Eiglad
New Concepts—Democratic Confederalism  Democratic Autonomy | Havin Guneser
Liberating Life: Political and Moral Society | Emine Ayna
Democratic Nation—A Cure for Nationalism | Asya Abdullah
Power and Truth—Foucault and Öcalan | Call for Papers*
Democratic Confederalism—The Practice of Social Ecology? | Call for Papers*
20:00-21:30 Discussion
*) Speaker will be selected from the authors of the papers sent in response to the “Call for Papers”
Last updated: 02 March 2015
4 April 2015 – Saturday
10:00-12:00 Session 3
Ecological Industry and Communal Economy
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Moderation: Thomas Konicz
Communal Economy: The Case for the Commons | Silke Helfrich
Cooperatives in Catalonia and the Basque Country | N. N.
Human Economies | Prof. David Graeber
Braudel, Wallerstein and Öcalan on Economy and Capitalism | Call for Papers*
12:00-13:30 Discussion
13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00-16:30 Session 4
Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks of Revolutionary Theory
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Moderation: N. N.
Reproducing Capitalism: Consumption and Habits | Ahmet Pelda
New Concepts of Self-defense | Fidan Yıldırım
The Centrality of Women’s Freedom | Sara Aktaş
Aesthetics, Culture, Arts and Beauty | N. N.
Power Relations: State and Family | Dr. Nazan Üstündağ
Feminism and the Kurds | Call for Papers*
16:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00-19:00 Evening Break
19:00-21:00 Concert
Rotînda, Zelal Gökçe, Meral Tekçi, Mehmet Akbas
5 April 2015, Sunday
10:00-12:30 Session 5a
Lessons to be Learned from Alternative Practices
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Moderation: Anja Flach
Internationalism—an Evolving Concept | N. N. (YXK)
Montreal: Assemblies and the State | Dimitrios Roussopoulos
South Africa: Progressive Politics in a Capitalist Country? | Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo
Brazil: The Landless Workers’ Movement | N. N.
Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan—Work in Progress
Rojava: The Cantons—Resistance and Construction | Dr. Ahmad Yousef
Başûr: Stuck between Freedom and the State | Şîlan Şakir
12:30-14:00 Discussion
Last updated: 02 March 2015
14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 Session 5b
Lessons to be Learned from Alternative Practices (continued)
Moderation: Prof. Sabine Rollberg
7. Rojhilat: The KODAR Model | Shirzad Kamangar
8. Bakur: From State to Democracy | Selma Irmak
9. The Fourth World War and How to Win it—A Tribute to Kurds and Zapatistas | Prof. John
Holloway
10. Bolivia: The Plurinational State | Marcelo Elío Chávez
11. New England  Rojava: Assembly Democracies | Janet Biehl
12. Philippines: Building NGOs and Involving Communities | N. N.
17:00-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:25 Closing speech
New Horizons: Reconstructing Liberation | Gönül Kaya
Technical information:
Translation: Simultaneous in Kurdish, English, German, Turkish, Italian and Spanish
Food: Lunch is 3€ for registered participants
Live stream: The entire conference will be streamed to the internet in several languages
Registration fee: 10 Euros for students/unemployed, 20 Euros for others
Accommodation: Hostel – 15 Euro per person per night standard multi bedroom, Sleeping
place in homes for free
Registration is open.
Please register at [email protected] and specify your preferred accommodation
Network for an Alternative Quest: International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan–Peace in Kurdistan” • KURD-AKAD Network of Kurdish Academics • YXK – Association of Students from Kurdistan • Kurdistan Report • ISKU - Informationsstelle Kurdistan e.V. • Cenî – Kurdish Women's Office for Peace • Civaka
Azad – Kurdish Center for Public Relations
Last updated: 02 March 2015