*LUNCH at restaurants around the University*

14:00-15:00

Thursday: July 16, 2015. Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Room: Paparigopoulou A Conference Greetings by: Creston Davis (GCAS Director) Zoe Konstantopoulou (President of the Greek Parliament) Gabriel Sakelaridis (Greek Government Spokesperson) Aristides Baltas (Greek Minister of Education)

Anastasios Kourakis (Deputy Minster of Education)

Mihalis Spourdalakis (Professor of Political Sociology & Dean of the School of Economics & Political Science, University of Athens)

Thursday: July 16, 2015. Time: 12:00-14:00

Plenary 1

Room: Paparigopoulou A

Debating the socialist strategy

Chair: Srecko Horvat

Maria Nikolakaki “The Rising of Democracy in Greece: from insurrections to event”

Paul Mason “Postcapitalism is Possible”

Tariq Ali “Can the EU be Transformed?”

Thursday: July 16, 2015. Time: 15:00-16:45 Panel 1

Saripolou A

Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B

"Decoding the Syriza

case, 1"

Chair: Michael

Spourdalakis

Helena Sheehan,

"Ghosts of Alternatives

Past"

Dimitris

Papanikolopoulos and

Vasilis Rongas

"Social movement

campaigning and

electoral outcomes: the

case of SYRIZA,

Greece, 2010-2015"

Steven Panageotou

“Crisis Management

and Its Discontents: A

Comparison of

Democratic Processes in

the United States and

Greece”

“Crisis, debt and

political alternatives" Chair: Tariq Ali

Astra Taylor and Laura

Hanna

"Debt Resistance in the

US: From The Rolling

Jubilee to the Debt

Collective"

Athena Athanasiou,

"The political

performativity of the

democratic promise"

Adam Szymczyk,

"documenta 14:

Learning from Athens".

Leonidas Vatikiotis

“Democracy in a post-

democratic era:

Challenges,

Theorization &

Political Alternative’”

Chair: Oleg Zhuravlev

Joss Hands and Eugenia

Siapera

"Breaking Through: The

logics, the pitfalls, the

lessons".

Heike Schaumberg,

"Timing neoliberal

crisis and conditions for

defiance in global

perspective: the view

from Argentina"

Mathias

Hein Jessen

"The Corporate State"

Lukas Oberndorfer

"Crisis of Hegemony in

Europe: Between

Authoritarian

Competitive Statism

and a European Spring"

"Engaging Podemos,

1" Chair: Rodrigo

Guimaraes Nunes

Josep Maria Antentas

"Regime crisis,

Podemos and political

strategy in the Spanish

State"

Juan Domingo Sánchez

Estop

"Podemos : Lenin and

the Jellyfish"

Tina Caballero & Luke

Stobart

“’They don't represent

us!' Podemos and the

movements in the

Spanish state’”

Commons &

Representative

Democracy

Chair: Maria Nikolakaki

Graig Gent "A

Commons of the Digital

at Work"

Jonathan King "Stating

the Truth: The Truth of

the Common and the

Idea of Chance"

Goran Markovic "Possibilities of Social Activism Based on the Principles of Direct Democracy" Olga Balaoura and Giorgos Velegrakis “Spatial Insights of Land Dispossession in the Urban and Rural Greece”

"Current Challenges

to Feminism: Theory

and Practice"

Chair: Margarita

Tsomou

Michel Frann

"Fat Fiction and the

Breakdown of

Capitalism"

Hannah El Sisis

"Women Political

Prisoners in Egypt,

1948-1963"

Vicki Macris, "The

Paradox of a Critical

Feminism in Orthodox

Patriarchy".

Thursday: July 16, 2015. Time: 17:00-18:45

Panel 2

Saripolou A Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B Hatzidaki

ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ GREEK SESSION:

Contemporary Urbanism and Neoliberalism Chair: Heraklis Mavridis Costas Gousis & Dimitris Poulios “What about a Radical Paradigm Shift? Productive Restructuring, Urban Governance and Syriza-Anel Government: Critique and Beyond” Maria Sakellari “Mass environmental protesting in

"What is to be

done? Left Parties

with and on the

course to the

government"

Chair: Stathis

Kouvelakis

Stathis Gourgouris

"Radical Democracy

and Left

Governmentality"

Peter Bratsis, "The

Materiality of Power

and the Physics of

Change: Lessons

from Henri

Lefebvre, Nicos

Poulantzas, and the

Greek Crisis"

Azfar Hussain

"Beyond

'Demoncracy' and

'Democratorship'?

"The Event and

beyond 1:

Scrutinizing Alain

Badiou's

philosophy"

Chair: Bruno

Bosteels

Jan-Jasper Persijn,

"The Philosophical

Rigor of Political

Activism: A

Theoretical Inquiry

into the Concept of

the Event in Badiou

and Žižek"

Vangelis

Giannakakis

"The Loss of

Experience in the

Time of Events"

Raihan Sharif,

"Queering the

Reform/Revolution

"Logistical Worlds

in the Piraeus

port"

Chair: Steven

Panageotou

Nelli Kambouri and

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

"Software,

Machines, people,

things as tangled

species"

Dimitris

Parsanoglou

"Trojan Horses,

Black Holes and the

impossibility of

Labour struggles",

Nelli Kambouri,

"Dockworker

masculinieties"

Carolin Rakette,

Illias Marmaras, and

"Whose

democracy?

radical politics and

feminism in times

of crisis"

Chair: Athena

Athanasiou

Aliki Kosyfologou

''Feminism in Left

politics: a quest for

'real' Democracy''

Lina Theodorou

"Neoliberalism,

resistance and (the

vanishing of) the

feminist agenda",

Ankica Čakardić "Socialist feminism in Yugoslavia and after-war 'transition' to capitalism"

PANEL

"The Carceral

State in Ireland -

from Magdalene

Laundries to

Direct Provision" Chair: Ronan

Burtenshaw

Kitty Holland

“Direct Provision,

History and

Reform”

Sinéad Kennedy

“Ireland’s

Architecture of

Containment”

Anne Mulhall

“Asylum Seeker

Movements for

Migrant Rights”

Caoimhe Butterly

"Mapping the Ultra-Right extremism in Greece" Chair: Spyros Marketos Tryfon Bampilis "The Dawn of Nationalists: The performances of the 'Movement' in Athens" Marios Emmanouilidis "Financialization, crisis of neoliberal governmentality and fascistization" Dimosthenis Papadatos-Anagnostopoulos "The far right as external

Greece: An indicator of ineffective implementation of participatory environmental governance and of poor democratic performance of the Greek political system” Georgios Papakis “Post-Politics, Authoritarianism, and the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism in Contemporary Athens”

Dialectics of

Democratization and

Decolonization in

the 'Third World'”

Fotini Vaki,

"Democracy and

neoliberalism: an

impossible co-

existence”

Dyad: A

Spatiotemporal

Dialectic for the

'Event' "

Işık Barış Fidaner,

"Conditional

Counting of

Qualia".

Anna Lascari

"Cargonauts: the

game"

Repeal the 8th! The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Ireland

Chair: Anne Mulhall Bernadette Devlin-

McAliskey “The

History of Struggle for Choice in Ireland" Kitty Holland "Savita and Migrant Y: Ireland's Latest Abortion Scandals"

Sinéad Kennedy

"Neoliberalism and the Ideology of Choice"

component of the neoliberal strategy in Europe: policing and nationalizing the crisis" Vangelis Lagos & Alexandra Koronaiou "Are there fascists in Greece? The problem of popular support to fascism in the context of the crisis"

Thursday: July 16, 2015. Time: 19:00-20:45

Plenary 2

Room: Paparigopoulou A

Democracy? The State, The Real, the Party, and the Union

Chair: Azfar Hussain

Bruno Basteels

Jodi Dean

Stathis Kouvelakis

Friday: July, 17 2015. Time: 09:15-11:00 Panel 1

Saripolou A Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B Hatzidaki

PANEL on Ireland "The water charges struggle: why now and can it win?" Chair: Kitty Holland Rory Hearne, “Right2Water and Citizen Politics” Paul Murphy TD “Building the Boycott of Water Charges”

“Philosophy and the Limits of Democratic Insurrections” Chair: Amir R. Mufti Taylor Weaver "Paul, Philosophy, Politics" Gary Zabel, "Engels and Spinoza on the View from Eternity"

"Global Institutions, Crisis and Democracy: From theory to practice" Chair: Asfair Hussein Christina Karayianni, "Democratizing Justice: Addressing the Structural Inequalities of the International

"Labour in Crisis: From case studies to theory" Chair: Maria Karamessimi Raquel Varela, "Union Crisis: what is to be done?" Win Windisch, "The dialogics of work-place activism Leadership and

"Poetics and philosophy: An ongoing dialogue" Chair: Igor Stiks Konstantina Georgant "A Simple Type of Philosophy: Writing a Meta-Hellenic Scene in Poetic Terms” Sigrid Hackenberg, "Beloved is the

"Solidarity? Analyzing realities of an ambivalent concept" Chair: Katerina Anastasiou Dimitrios Gkintidis "European solidarity and the continuum of moral politics” Nicholas Evangelos Levis

"Politics of Hope: The Balkan Left" Chair: Oleg Zhuravlev Mariya Ivancheva and Dimitris Christopoulos "Narratives of crisis in the European peripheries: comparing Bulgaria and Greece"

David Gibney “Right2Water’s and the Platform for Renewal” Richard Boyd Barrett TD “Towards a New Radical Movement” Shane Fitzgerald “Water Charge Resistance in Ireland: Social Movement, Instrument of Revolution?”

Howard Caygill, “Laertes’ Revolt—or—The Limits of Democratic Insurgency” David Allen “20 Theses on Communism in the 21st Century”

Criminal Justice System" Claudio Balestri "Political Organizations, Interest Groups and Citizen Engagement: An Integrated Model of Democracy" Jacob Miller "Methodological constraints: The case of the European Stability Mechanism" Cirila Toplak "Meat Autocracy: An issue of Global Social Injustice".

participation in a retail store" (PANEL) Francisco Mata Machado Tavares & Ellen Ribeiro Veloso "When Carnival Started: Rio de Janeiro Sweepers´s Strike as an Historical Inversion of Vilém Flusser´s Homo Ludens" Adriano Mérola Marotta "Labour at the Centre of Development: Social Movement Unions and Surplus Populations in Argentina"

revolution that bears the gift of dispossession" Cara Judea Alhadeff "Promiscuous Crossings: Improvising Democracy" Angeliki Spiropoulou, "Walter Benjamin: Crisis and democracy"

"Dictatorship and Diaspora: International 'Greece Solidarity' - Then and Now" Filip Balunovic, "Is Radical Politics Today (Again) "A Must"?

Masha Kantar "European Union & the Euro-Zone Peripheral waves: the Balkans" Gal Kirn "Reform or revolution - what can periphery tell us?"

Friday: July 17, 2015. Time: 11:15-13:00 Panel 2

Saripolou A

Paparigopoulo A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulo B Hatzidaki

ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ GREEK SESSION: Commons, Representation, Democracy and Resistance Chair: Angeliki Spiropoulou Alexandros Kioupkiolis “Common democracy: political representation beyond representative democracy” Giota Bampatzimopoulou “The commons put in plain words” Sotiris Tsoukarelis “From Representative towards Direct

"Dissecting the global political economy: Crisis, debt and political alternatives" Chair: Leo Panitch Jerome Roos "Shaking off the Burden: The Political Economy of Sovereign Default" John Milios, "Austerity policies in the Euro-Area" Christakis Georgiou "What is to be done about the EU? Situating the debate in the long-term tendencies behind European unification"

"Challenging the transnational political order: From Ukraine’s 'Revolutionary Movements', the Balkan Left, and Brazil” Chair: Petar Jandric Yuliya Yurchenko "Social forces in the Making of Ukraine’s 'Revolutionary Movements': ideologies, technologies, and reformation of consent" Estefanía Torres Martinez "Constructing Sovereignty : A look forward,

"Social Μedia and protest movements in the neoliberal era" Chair: Giovanni Tusa Athina Karatzogianni "Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014: The Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict" Petar Jandrić, "Hacker Ethic and Digital Learning: intersections and trajectories"

Challenging the Turkish version of Neoliberalism: The Gezi Park protests and beyond Chair: Aimilia Voulvouli Pinar Cakiroglu, "The Islamic Character of Turkey's Neoliberal Transformation: An Analysis of the Rise of an 'Islamic Bourgeoisie'" Onur Kapdan, "Irregular Times: The Then and Now of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey" Ceylan Begüm Yildiz, "We Are

PANEL "Nationalism and Internationalism: Understanding the Irish Republican Movement" Chair: Helena Sheehan Dan Finn “Socialism and Republicanism: Complex and Contradictory” Eoin Ó Broin “Sinn Féin and the Revolutionary Republican Movement” Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey “The Conjuncture of Republicanism and Capitalism”

"Towards an anatomy of the Fascist phenomenon" Chair: Aris Chatzistefanou. Spyros Marchetos "Fascism and Liberalism in the Current Crisis: Points of Convergence, Points of Conflict" Janell Waston, "Microfascism in Baltimore: Organizing the Molecular Revolution" Babis Kouroundis, "Postwar Constitutions and the European Far Right"

Democracy: a new process for decision Making and Public Management for the Demos of Konitsa Municipality” Vangelis Lagos and Stelios Kymionis “Democracy and grassroots politics. The two ‘faces’ of the Greek Indignant movement and the challenging of representative democracy”

Igor Štiks "Spaces of Emancipation: From Prefiguration to Realization"

towards Europa's new project" Tijana Okic, "The 18th Brumairre of the European Empire- the case of Bosnia" Julie Rone, "Left in Translation" Patricia Ferreira-Lemos & Karla Ramplin "We have a beloved enemy: about the reds and green-yellows (or blues) in Brazilian presidential elections"

Here to Establish Justice": the possibility of a new relation of life and law" Aimilia Voulvouli, "The prolonged Turkish dissent: The Gezi protests in the conjuncture of movement history in modern Turkey" Ali Behran Ozcelik, "For Poulantzas against the "Informal Empire: A Turkey-specific Refusal"

Qalandar Memon "An Oppositional History to the State of Pakistan: Notes on the History of Progressive Nationalist Movements of Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"

*LUNCH at restaurants around University* 13:00-14:00

Friday: July 17, 2015. Time: 14:00- 15:45 Panel 3

Saripolou A Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B

"Decoding the Syriza case, 2" Chair: Steven Panageotou Mohammad Mamunur Rashid - “The Event of Syriza’s Victory” Fourikos Kostas “Τhe government of SYRIZA and the danger of a «leftwing TINA» (There is No Alternative)” John Kotsornithis, "Syriza: fighting surrender via the social movements"

"Democracy in a post-democratic era: Challenges, Theorizations, and political alternatives`` Chair: Athena Athenasiou Sandro Mezzadra “Wild: Cultural Tolerance and the Challenge to Leftist Secularism" Neni Panourgia Democracy: A Human's Ransom" Hilary Wainright, "Democracy driven public administration in an era of market led global politics", Kenneth Surin

"Dismantlement of the Welfare state and the Solidarity movement during the Greek crisis" Chair: Alex Politaki Vasilios Ioakimidis "'Paradise built in hell'; Solidarity movements and grassroots welfare" Bue Rubner Hansen "Survival Pending Revolution – or Growth?" Manos Cizek, "The Ghost of the Welfare State".

PANEL "The Collective Power of Debtors and The Money Puzzle" Chair: Leonidas Vatikiotis Francesca Coin "Collective Power of the debtors" Lee Shalter & Michael Chanan (film presentation)

"Religion and political modernity: An incompatible relationship?" Chair: Lenart Skof M. Shakhaowat Hossain "The Necessity of Separating State Religion to Ensure Democracy in Bangladesh", Jerrold L. Kachur, "Religion Gone Wild: Cultural Tolerance and the Challenge to Leftist Secularism”

PANEL "Diasporic Networks and Social Movements in the aftermath of Syriza’s Victory" Chair: Maria Nikolakaki Katerina Anastasiou Manos Avgerides Stelios Foteinopoulos George Giannakopoulos Christos Giovanopoulos Loukia Kotronaki Margarita Tsomou Nantina Vgontzas

"The Society of Control in Western 'Democracies' and Managed Citizenship"

Friday: July 17, 2015. Time: 16:00-18:00 Plenary 2 Room: Paparigopoulou A The end of the world as we know it Chair: Sam Gindin Leo Panitch “Restraint, Reform and Revolution” Stathis Gourgourias “Radical Democracy & Left Governmentality” Costas Douzinas, "Do Miracles happen? A political theology of democracy"

Friday: July 17, 2015. Time: 18:10-21:10 Plenary 3 Room: Paparigopoulou A “The Greek Audit Committee of Public Debt”

Chair: Maria Nikolakaki Zoe Konstantopoulou Spyros Marchetos Leonidas Vatikiotis Christina Laskaridis Aris Chatzistefanou

Saturday: July 18, 2015. Time: 10:00-11:45 Panel 1

Saripdlou A Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B Hatzidaki

"Elaborations on Karl Marx's theories" Chair: Jodi Dean. Paul Gray - "The 'Slave of Justice'? Marx’s Theory of Restorative Justice" Sina Badiei, "Marx’s formal articulation of theory and action in founding the first scientific theory of history"

"Dismantlement of the Welfare state and the Solidarity movement during the Greek crisis" Chair: Stathis Gourgouris Stella Christou "Solidarity in the context of the Greek crisis: the Case of the Athenian social clinics" Maria-Christina Vogkli

"Engaging Podemos, 2" Chair: Lola Sanchez Kerman Calvo & Thomas Jeffrey Miley "Podemos and 'Minority' Groups" Ana Mendez de Andes "Situated confluences. Podemos and the social movements in the Spanish local elections 2015"

"Beyond representative democracy: Theories of alternatives forms of democracy" Chair: Sigrid Hackenberg Margarita Tsomou and Tsianos Vassilis '"Post-representational hegemony? On the sociology of the assembly, societies in movement and

"Conceptualizing the dialectics between the movements and the Party inside and outside Europe" Chair: Paulo Gerbaudo Xavier Lafrance "Strategic issues, social movements and new left political parties: the case of the 2012 Québec Student strike"

"Μedia and protest movements in the neoliberal era" Chair: George Pleios Anastasia Veneti, "Protest Phantasmagoria: Greek mainstream media’s selective practices regarding protest imagery" Theodore Koulouris, "Neoliberalism, Propaganda and

"Transformative New Forms of Socio-political Organizing in Ireland, Greece, Spain and Italy" Chair: George Souvlis (PANEL) Eugenia Siapera, Theodoros Karyotis, Avles Emma Giorgio Stamboulis and Giovanni Paglia

Mikkel Flohr, "From The Critique of the Heavens to the Critique of the Earth: Karl Marx Critique of Political Theology" Gabriella Paolucci, "Querying Marx with Bourdieu. Cognitive subversion, praxis and political struggles"

"Subjective meanings and lived experiences of the homeless in Athens during the financial crisis: The world of homelessness as an open-door prison" Christos Giovanopoulos, "The self-organized solidarity movement in Greece" Alex Politaki "The humanitarian crisis as a possible situation for a developed country: The paradigm of Greece"

Guillem Vidal "The PODEMOS Revolution: An insight into the evolution of its electorate and supporters".

the question of the post-austerity sovereignty" Aris Liountris "Alternatives for the future of democracy - Identification of powers and their separation" Dimitri Courant, "Sortition Rising. Athenian seeds for a real Democracy now" Michael Theodosiadis "The Great Prometheus; reflecting the post-humanist world".

Antonios Broumas "Commons' Movements & Leftist Governments as Dual Power : The Potential for Social Transformation in Greece and Europe" Mislav Zitko, "Rethinking Democracy in Financialized Times"

“Banal Media”: the Case of Greek Mainstream Media" Dimitri Lascaris, "The Crisis in Greece, the Diaspora and the Media: How Neoliberal Media Bias has Skewed the Attitude of the Greek Diaspora in North America Toward Austerity", Sharmini Peries, "The Real News Network Challenging Media Ownership, Concentration and Power of the Few".

"Social Left and Democracy From Greece to Italy" Ronan Burtenshaw "Up the Republic! Can we imagine a refoundation in Ireland"

Saturday: July 18, 2015. Time: 12:00-13:45 Panel 2

Saripolou A

Paparigopoulou A

Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulo B

Hatzidaki Kalliga

"Engaging Podemos, 2" Chair: Lola Sanchez Kerman Calvo & Thomas Jeffrey Miley "Podemos and 'Minority' Groups" Ana Mendez de Andes "Situated confluences. Podemos and the social movements in the Spanish local elections 2015"

"Strategic issues for contemporary left-wing politics: State, Ideology, Leadership & Solidarity" Chair: Costas Douzinas. Sandro Mezzadra "The politics of autonomy. With or without the state?" Paolo Gerbaudo "We are populists now: Ideological Transformations in the crisis of Neoliberalism”

"Defining the emancipatory praxes" Chair: Howard Caygill Andreas Karitzis "Taking our cause seriously" Evgenia Mylonaki "Ways of Life and the Form of Human life: The Crisis of Social Practices and the Case of Greece"

"From Homo Sacers to subjects of resistance: Debating the issue of immigration during the European Crisis" Chair: Gary Zabel Aamir R. Mufti "Migrants and Refugees in the European Crisis" Mark Bergfeld "Leaderless leaders? Understanding Southern

“The double face of Janus 2: Social Μedia and protest movements in the neoliberal era" Chair: Giovanni Tusa Anastasia Kavada "Occupying Power: Communication and Power Relations in the Occupy Movement" Simone Belli "Crossing attachment

PANEL "Irish independence, neutrality and European militarisation" Chair: Michael Youlton Roger Cole Eoin Ó Broin Karen Devine Patricia McKenna

"Ecology against capitalism? Environmental struggles in the neoliberal era" Chair: David Allen Bronwyn Lay "The Challenge of Ecocide to the Neoliberal Foundations of Law" Sean Sweeney "Another Energy is Possible: How the struggle against fossil fuels is opening

ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ GREEK SESSION Neoliberalism in crisis Chair: Stavros Stavridis. Giorgos Kesisoglou “Precarious and effortful: critical social psychological reflections on neoliberal subjecthood” Iraklis Mavridis “Meritocracy, Excellence, Competition: Notes on

*LUNCH at restaurants near the University* 13:45-14:45

Guillem Vidal "The PODEMOS Revolution: An insight into the evolution of its electorate and supporters"

Rodrigo Nunes “Democracy, Degree Zero: Distributed Leadership and Organisation" Srecko Horvat "Why the Left needs a new Non-Aligned Movement"

Carlos Frade "The Materiality of Power and the Effectuality of Politics: A Machiavellian cum Badiousian Perspective on the Greek Crisis"

European Migrant Activism Against Austerity in London" Lenart Skof "Ethics, Vulnerability and Hospitality" Paddy McDaid "Revisiting 'The War of the Flea' - Some thoughts from Europe's forgotten periphery"

and technology in social institutions: Distributed trust in horizontal democracy" Nikos Smyrnaios "A Critique of the Internet Oligopoly"

the door to democratic control and social ownership of electrical power"

Deconstructing the Neoliberal Foundational Myths” George Pleios "Crisis and the media: strategies of persuasion" Nasos Iliopoulos “Transforming the economic crisis into a crisis of hegemony”

Saturday: July 18, 2015. Time: 14:45-16:30 Panel 3

Saripolou A

Paparigo- Poulou A

Politou Mathematics A

Mathematics B

Paparigopoulou B

Hatzidaki

"Decoding the Syriza case, 3" Chair: Andreas Karitsis Christophoros Vernardakis "Government, governance, Power. A political and theoretical account of the recent political change in Greece" Loudovikos Kotsonopoulos "The politics of damage control: SYRIZA and the constrains of crisis management" Marina Prentoulis, "Doing Politics Differently: A new relationship

Analyzing trajectories of European left parties and movements that challenged neoliberalism in the last decade" Chair: Estefania Torres Martinez Catarina Príncipe "Comparative analysis of the composition of broad left parties in Europe" Daniela Chironi "The radical left parties in Italy: an analysis of their crisis and possible future" Ksenija Berk "How Design Helped Slovene Protesters to

PANEL "The Current Epoch of Contention: From Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street and Anti-Austerity Protests in Europe" Chair: Stratos Georgoulas Peter Funke, Emiliano Trere, Stefania Milan, Lorenzo Zamponi.

"Socialism in one City? Debating progressive local politics" Chair: George Staboulis Carlos Delclós "Emancipatory Praxis and National Borders in Barcelona’s Radical Democratic Municipalism" Griselda Qosja "The Discrete Charm of the Transition Towns: ascending socialism from a local perspective" Manès Weisskircher "Communists in Local

"Comparing the Ukrainian and Russian uprisings" Chair: Mariya Ivancheva Oleg Zhuravlev , "Political representation: the old problem in the new context" Natalia Savelyeva and Oleg Zhuravlev "The politics of authenticity against representation: comparing the Ukrainian and Russian uprisings" Denis Pilash, "What happened to grassroots

"The New Old Word? The Crisis of the European Union" Chair: ?? Stelios Foteinopoulos, "The impact of Austerity upon Democracy in the EU Modestos Siotos "Understanding the political crisis in Europe through the prism of “’de-democratization’" Andreja Živkovic, "Towards a Critique of Euro-Marxism".

PANEL "The Next Domino? Is a Left Government for Ireland Possible?" Chair: Caoimhe Butterly Helena Sheehan “A New Alliance for Socialist Change” Paul Murphy TD “A Left Government of Rupture” Eoin Ó Broin “Left Unity for a Progressive Government” Ronan Burtenshaw “A Popular, Participatory Government”

Saturday: July 17, 2015. Time: 16:45-19:15 Plenary 3 Room: Paparigopoulou A “Democracies Rising in Europe: Syriza, Podemos, Die Linke, Left Ecology and Freedom Party, Sinn Fein, Left Bloc” Chairs: Maria Nikalokaki

between parties and social movements"

Claim their Democratic Right to Rebel" Raluca Abaseaca "Contesting Neoliberalism. A Central Eastern Europe Perspective"

Government. The Case of the KPÖ in Graz, Austria".

social demands of Ukrainian Protests? Lack of organized left, false agendas and neoliberal backlash"

Lola Sanchez –Podemos Estefania Torres Martinez—Podemos Giovanni Paglia—Left Ecology & Freedom Catarina Principe—Left Bloc Katarina Koenig—Die Linke Tasos Koronakis—Syriza Eoin O Broin—Sinn Fein

Saturday: July 17, 2015. Time: 19:30-20:00 Room: Main Lobby Performance by Manos Karatzogiannis “Life’s Snares” in the main lobby of the conference venue.

Sunday: July 19, 2015. Time: 11:15 – 13:00 Panel 1

Saripolou

Paparigo- Poulou A

Politou Mathematics A

Mathematics B

Paparigopoulou B

GREEK SESSION Neoliberalism, crisis, fascism, and other alternatives Chair: Tasos Koronakis Eirini Gaitanou, “Class politics in times of crisis? Who cares? Katerina Anastasiou, “The sick body as a political stake. The case of the pillory of HIV positive women” [Το σώμα που νοσεί ως πολιτικό διακύβευμα. Η διαπόμπευση των φερόμενων ως εκδιδόμενων οροθετικών γυναικών Yorgos Michailidis, “Fascism and

"Contemporary epistemological issues in philosophy: From Marx to Negri" Chair: Michael Wassell Gary Zabel, "Vampire Property: Capital and the Living Dead" Giovanni Tusa, "Irregular political systemes: On Italian potential politics" Michael Gottsegen, "Arendt, Political Equality and the Social Wage" David Allen ``Images of the `true life` in recent philosophical discourse: Foucault and Badiou``

PANEL "Dear TINA: Neoliberalism, Performance and the 'Everyday' " Chair: Julie Reshe Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Aylwyn Walsh, Philip Hager, Marilena Zaroulia, Marissia Fragkou

PANEL "Traversing Europe" Chair: George Souvlis Akis Gavriilidis, "Grexodus: Dignity and the ghosts of post-self-colonialism" Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop "Three shades of the colony" Michalis Bartsides “Traversing Europe: A common, shared lack" Christos Nasiopoulos, "The generators of contingency"

"Reclaiming the city: Radical Spaces and Urban Struggles in late capitalism" Chair: Paolo Gerbaudo Georgios Papakis "Post-Politics, Authoritarianism, and the Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism in Contemporary Athens" Stavros Stavrides, "Common space in against and beyond public space: rethinking democracy as praxis" Federico Tomasello, "Rioting and the borders of politics" Gigi Argyropoulou & Hypatia Vourloumis, "Civic Zones:

"A dystopian education?: Analysing and Resisting Capitalist Education" Chair: Petar Jandric Eleni Natsiopoulou, "Education in the Service of the Economy: The Trap of our Era", Ruth Ratcliffe, "Literacy Campaigns for Liberation" Christiana Moschou, "Citizenship Shaping in Schooling within Democratic Transition: Promoting Value Scales or the Development of the Moral Reasoning?" Matt Myers "From Grosvenor Square to

*LUNCH at restaurants around University* 13:00-14:00

neoliberalism in Ukraine” Maria Kakogianni and Camille Louis “Yes, there are alternatives to Neoliberalism” George Sotiropoulos “The irresistible charm of democracy: On the current struggles of democratization”.

Formations, Divisions, (Pre)Occupations".

#OccupyLSE – British student occupations and the fight against the neoliberal University in historical and comparative perspective"

Sunday: July 19, 2015. Time: 14:00 – 15:45 Panel 2

Saripdlou A Paparigopoulou A Politou Mathematics A Mathematics B Paparigopoulou B

PANEL "Do we still hear that noise? 2015 and the fog of (class) war in Greece and Europe" Chair: Christoforos Vernadakis Giorgos Spiropoulos Ilias Sioutas Katerina Skarioti Sissy Petrakou

"What Are Universities Becoming?" Chair: Creston Davis (Panel) John Erik-Hansson, Tiago Matos, Hannah Ashmawi, Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh, Ola Innset Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros & Constantinos Zafeiris, "A cause without rebels: The Greek student movement in the era of crisis" Maia Barkaia "Deciphering Dissent and Resistance in India: The case of student activism at Jawaharlal"

"Elaborations on the repressive state apparatus: From theory to practice" Chair: Gary Zabel Janjira Sombatpoonsiri "Securitisation of civic resistance: Thailand’s junta and its crackdown on dissidents" Walid Houri, "Erring police? Failure, resistance, and the persistence of politics". Rosa Vasilaki - "The Conundrum of Repressive State Apparatuses for Left Governance: What to Do with Police?" Christos Boukalas, "Friends of the Police

"A dystopian education?: Analysing and Resisting Capitalist Education, 2" Chair: Kenneth Surin Elizabeth Ocampo & Robert Anaya "Citizenship in Schooling within Democratic Transition: Promoting Value Scales or the Development of the moral reasoning?" Edgar Holroyd-Doveton, "Direct Democracy in Education, in Response to Neo-Liberalism", Julie Reshe, "Education as Emancipatory Practice".

PANEL "Reclaiming the city: The housing and water problem in Europe" Chair: Brais Alvarez Pereira, "Heterogeneous Expectations in the Spanish Housing Bubble" Lisa Mckenzie, "The Rich, the rich, we’ve got to get rid of the rich",

PANEL From moral to solidarity economies: contesting austerity through and beyond the Greek Crisis? Chair: Steven Panageotou Theodoros Rakopoulos "The Future of Solidarity: Food Cooperativism as Labour in Greece" Heath Cabot "(Re)distributing Care and Pharmaceuticals in Athens’ Solidarity Clinics" Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, "Charity or class solidarity: diverging views about philanthropy in crisis afflicted Greece"

Sunday: July 19, 2015. Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Closing Discussion

- Enemies of Society: Syriza’s Public Order Strategy", Georgoulas Stratos - "Towards a left criminal policy".

Andromachi Papaioannou, "Solidarity as a form of active citizenship among younger generation in Greece"