Disobedience Workshop

20 – 21 May 2011

Birk­beck Col­lege, Uni­ver­sity of London

Malet Street, Rooms G15 & 416

For reser­va­tion please con­tact V.​kelley@​bbk.​ac.​uk

Fri­day 20 May

Malet street, G15

11.00 – 11.15 Wel­come & Tea/​Coffee (Elena Loizidou)

11.15 – 1.00

Ses­sion 1:

Chair: Car­o­lina Olarte (School of Law Birkbeck)

Sara Ahmed (Depart­ment of Media and Com­mu­nic­a­tions, Gold­smiths College)

Wil­ful­ness and Disobedience

Lucy Finchett-​Maddock (School of Law, Birkbeck)

To Dis or not to Dis? Dis­obedi­ence and ‘Dis­respect­ing’: The Case of Naughty in Rela­tion to Law

Mar­gar­ita Pala­cios (School of Psychoso­cial Stud­ies, Birk­beck)

Her­men­eut­ics and the Art of Dis­obedi­ence: A crit­ical Read­ing of Rorty, Ric­oeur and Derrida

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch(not provided)

2.00 Tea/​Coffee

2.00 – 3.30

Ses­sion 2:

Chair: Les Moran (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Maria Aris­to­de­mou (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Dis­obedi­ence and Atheism

Jamie Heck­ert (Inde­pend­ent Researcher)

Desir­ing Authority

Basak Ertur (School of Law Birk­beck Col­lege) & Alisa Lebow (School of Arts Screen Media, Brunel University

A Coup de Genre

3.30 – 4.45

Ses­sion 3:

Chair: Eddie Bruce Jones (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Jimmy Casas Klausen (Depart­ment of Polit­ical Sci­ence, Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-​Madison)

Restric­ted and Gen­eral Eco­nom­ies of Dis­obedi­ence: Himsa and Con­sequen­tial­ism in the Anti­co­lo­nial Polit­ical The­or­ies of Gandhi & Ghose

Oscar Guardiola-​Rivera (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Unsay­able

4.45 – 6.00

Ses­sion 4: Book launches/​Drinks Sponsored

Room: 12 Gower Street, G02

By Lex­ing­ton Books and Routledge

How not to be Governed

Edited by Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Mar­tel (Lex­ing­ton Books)

&

Anarch­ism and Sexuality

Edited by Jamie Heck­ert and Richard Clemin­son (Routledge)

Note this will take place at 12 Gower street

Sat­urday 21 May

Malet street Room 416

9.30 – 9.45

Tea/​Coffee

9.45 – 11.15

Ses­sion 5:

Chair: Richard Bower (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Gill Addison (Depart­ment of Fine Arts, Chelsea School of Arts)

Errant Inter­ludes

James Mar­tel (Depart­ment of Polit­ical Schi­ence, San Fran­cisco State University)

Dis­obedi­ent Objects: Ben­jamin, Kafka, Poe and the Revolt of the Fetish

11.15 – 11.30 Mini Break

11.30 – 1.15

Ses­sion 6:

Chair: Vic­toria Ridler (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Patrick Hanafin (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Insub­or­din­ate Voices: Con­test­a­tion and the Right to Politics

Elisa­betta Ber­to­lino (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Dis­obey­ing with no Resentment

Soo Tian Lee (School of Law, Birkbeck)

The Uni­ver­sity Turned Upside Down: Status-​Quo-​Defying Ideas and Prac­tices in Higher Education

1.15 – 2.30 Lunch: (not provided)

2.30 Tea/​Coffee

2.30 — 4.15

Ses­sion 7:

Chair: Elena Loiz­idou (School of Law, Birkbeck)

Jodi Dean (Depart­ment of Polit­ical Sci­ence, Hobart and Wil­liam Smith Colleges)

Dis­obedi­ence?

Cos­tas Douz­i­nas (School of Law and Birk­beck Insti­tute of Human­it­ies, Birkbeck)

Dis­obedi­ence, Insur­rec­tion, Revolu­tion: the Medi­ter­ranean Rises

Ariana Bove (School of Busi­ness and Man­age­ment, Queen Mary)

Dis­obedi­ence and Exodus

4.15 – 5.00

Gen­eral Discussion

End of Workshop

Map of Birkbeck

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