Feb. 6-7. 2025: Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion
Proud to share the programme of our upcoming conference, organized jointly by The Origins of Racializing Thought -project (University of Jyväskylä) and the Department of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Málaga:
Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion
6-7 February 2025
Sala de Juntas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. University of Málaga
Programme
THURSDAY 06.02.2025
9:00–9:15 Welcome: Rosario López (University of Málaga) and Malin Grahn-Wilder (University of Jyväskylä)
9:15–10:30 Keynote lecture. Marta Araújo (University of Coimbra): “Enslavement and Race in Post-2020 Europe: History, Power, Education and Citizenship”
10:30 –11:00 Coffee break
11:00–12:00 Session 1. Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Political Philosophy. Chair: Rosario López
Giovanni Battista Soda (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan): “The Problem of Racism in Hume’s Anthropology and Politics”
Martina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä): “Inclusion and Exclusion in the Finnish Debate on the Citizenship of Jews in 1872 and 1882”
12:00–12:15 Short break
12:15–13:15 Session 2. Knowledge and Language Chair: José María Rosales
Joel-Anthoney Bossous (Duke University): “In the Power of the Tongue: Necropower, Knowledge & Liberty”
Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University): “A Tripple-Paradox of Multilinguality: Political Inclusiveness and Exclusiveness of Communication in a Language”
13:15–15:00 Lunch break
15:00–16:00 Session 3. Marginalized Voices and Inclusive Democratic Practices. Chair: Malin Grahn-Wilder
Johannes Sartou (Aarhus University): “Our Common Mother: Socialists, Anarchists, and ‘the People of the Revolution’”
Susanna Jussila (University of Jyväskylä): “From Embodying Social Justice to Embodying Democracy – Lessons Learnt from Social Movements”
FRIDAY 07.02.2025
9:15–10:15 Session 4. Caesarism, Democracy, and Exclusion Chair: Martina Reuter
Alexander Jordan (Metropolitan University Prague): “Exclusion of Elites or Exclusion of the Masses? or, was Thomas Carlyle a Caesarist?”
Arthur Ghins (Université Libre de Bruxelles): “ ‘Liberal Democracy’ versus ‘Colonial Caesarism’ ”
10:15 –10:45 Coffee break
10:45–11:45 Session 5. Democracy and Feminism Chair: Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt
Marta Postigo (University of Málaga): “Reappraising Carole Pateman’s The Sexual Contract: Women’s Bodies, Markets and Consent”
Antonio Trujillo (University of Málaga): “What Makes us See each other as Equal Citizens? The Demands of the Catalonian Feminists in the Spanish Transition to Democracy
(1976-1984)”
11:45 –12:00 Short break
12:00–13:00 Session 6. Democracy in Utopias and Representations Chair: Marta Postigo
Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä): “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest”
Sybille Bauer-Zierfuß (University of Applied Arts Vienna): “Autism Media Representation in Netflix Series ‘Love on the Spectrum’ Australia Season #1”
15:00–16:30 Session 7. Populism and the Far-Right Chair: Elad Carmel
Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt (University of Málaga): “An Exclusionary Concept: Competing Definitions of ‘The People’ in Populist Democratic Theory and Republican Theory”
Malin Grahn-Wilder (University of Jyväskylä): “The Racial Making of a Finnish Citizen – Cultural Racism and the Case of Finland’s Financial Minister Riikka Purra’s Blog”
Sertaç Galip Genç (Galatasaray University): “The Rise of the Far-Right and the Apologism for Unionism in Turkey: Mechanisms of Exclusion and Appropriation in Political Discourse”
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