The Laboratory for the Study of Democracy (DemLab), the School of Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Transform! Europe, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation invite you to the international seminar “Representation, Left Strategy, and Democratic Futures: Progressive Politics under Authoritarian Pressure,” taking place on 6–7 November 2026 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of […]
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Τhe next speaker of the seminar will be the Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton, Dan-El Padilla Peralta. His talk will be titled: “Classicism and Other Phobias: Antiquity’s Emancipation” The lecture will be conducted in real time, via a video calling platform, and the audience will have the opportunity to watch live and ask questions. […]
Demetra Tzanaki “This is not a gender: from the eugenic (post) liberal modes of governmentality to a World’s Republic” Register here Understanding the relationship between gender and eugenism requires a critical exploration of the factors that have shaped our negotiation with and resistance to power along with historical and contemporary readings of those factors. […]
“Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the post-Soviet crisis of hegemony” How can Gramsci help us to understand the war in Ukraine? The talk will discuss the concepts of passive and Jacobin revolutions, hegemony crisis, Caesarism in relation to the post-Soviet condition. Post-Soviet Caesarist regimes and maidan revolutions presented only deficient solutions to the post-Soviet crisis […]
Athina Karatzogianni “Revolutionary consciousness follows does not direct the movement: Luxemburg’s relevance for digital movement organisation today” This seminar problematises human consciousness, temporality, as well as historical, class, and false consciousness, all of them as elements of an ideologisation process ongoing at the individual and collective levels, fundamentally influencing leadership emergence in sociopolitical formations. Although […]
Reporters United “#PredatorGate: Investigating the underreported surveillance scandal in Greece” Since December 2021, Reporters United has been investigating the wiretapping scandal, uncovering both the surveillance on part of the Greek national secret services (ΕΥP) and the spyware infections performed via the illegal spyware Predator. On January 4, 2022, we explained how the government changed the […]
Kanishka Goonewardena “Neoliberalism in Sri Lanka: Crisis, Protest and Left Strategy” This presentation attempts to make sense of the economic crisis and political protest in Sri Lanka. In popular media and by the protestors themselves, the on-going Sri Lankan crisis of 2022 was mostly if not exclusively understood in terms of the corruption, ineptitude and […]
Check details and register here. You can watch the event on our YouTube channel, here. Susan Robertson “Just Educational Futures” Thomas Piketty and colleagues (Piketty 2020; Gethin, Martinez-Toledano and Piketty 2021), amongst others, point to what appears a paradox; that in many Western societies, a significant rise in the level of social inequalities over the […]
Little over a hundred years ago the word ‘fascism’ was meaningless. Only a few ‘dense’ years later it had graduated into a formidable trope, first in Italy and very soon across an ever-expanding range of countries. Superlatives have accompanied historical accounts of fascism ever since its appearance in crisis-ridden post-WW1 Italy. Surely something as extreme, […]
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