Schedule
Democracy in Crisis … Democracy in Peril?
19th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
June 17-19, 2021
Note: All Times are Eastern Daylight Time
| 17-Jun | |||
| 17-Jun | 9:00-9:30 | Welcome | |
| Stephen Turner and Harry F. Dahms | |||
| 17-Jun | 9:30-11:15 | Session One | |
| Illiberalism | |||
| Rafał Wierzchosławski | Nomads, sovereigntists and the post-truth condition: Why liberal democracy suffers in Central Europe | ||
| Brian Singer | Trumpism and the Defense of Individual Liberties: Considerations on Marcel Gauchet's Discussion of Individual Liberties | ||
| Jerome Braun | The Legitimation of Government, with Ramifications for Democracy | ||
| Minoo Mirshahvalad | Crisis of Modern Reason in Italy and the New Path of the Italian Traditionalism | ||
| 17-Jun | 9:30-11:15 | Session Two | |
| Big Picture Classical issues | |||
| Christopher Schlembach | Reconsidering Anti-Modernity. The Theories of Schütz, Voegelin and Parsons | ||
| Charles Turner | Keeping it in the family, or why you should read Emmanuel Todd | ||
| Anthony L. Haynor | Social Theory, Moral Vision, and the Liberal Social Order | ||
| Robert Jackson | ‘Disfigurations’ of Democracy? Pareto, Mosca and the Challenge of Elite Theory | ||
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 17-Jun | 11:30-1:15 | Session Three | |
| Trump and Jan. 6 | |||
| Krzysztof Lepcyzynski | The Promise of the Middle Class as Part of Neoliberal Ideology | ||
| Oliver Simpson | January 6th, insurgency or riot? Populism Democracy and The Exception | ||
| Daniel Krier | Totalitarianism and the Critique of Ideology after 2020 | ||
| Douglas Kellner | Donald Trump, the Media, and the Crisis of Democracy | ||
| 17-Jun | 11:30-1:15 | Session Four | |
| Technology | |||
| Daphne Esquivel-Sada | When democracy and (bio)innovation interlace: on nuts and bolts of the neoliberal model of DIYbio democracy | ||
| Eugene Halton | The Other Others: Tracking, Writing, Clocking and the Contraction of Mind | ||
| Roslyn Fuller | Structure, not Control: Capturing the Democratic Potential of Populist Movements | ||
| Kresimir Žažar | Advanced Technology and Democracy – What Artificial Intelligence Has to Do with It? | ||
| 1:15-1:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 17-Jun | 1:30-2:30 | Keynote | |
| Elizabeth Goodstein | Returning to Simmel on the Future of the Public Sphere | ||
| 2:45-3:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 17-Jun | 3:00-4:30 | Session Five | |
| Digital and Mass comm | |||
| Charles Gattone | Challenges to Democracy in the Age of Electronic Communication | ||
| Stelios Panageotou | Democracy Without Humans: Democracy With Corporations and Cyborgs | ||
| Joel Crombez | Perils of Sociological Irrelevance in Times of Crisis: Toward a Theory and Practice of Critical Socioanalysis | ||
| Thomas Bechtold | The persistence of democracy: how a demos insists | ||
| 17-Jun | 3:00-4:30 | Session Six | |
| Critical Social Ontology and the Prospects of Critical Reason | |||
| Michael Thompson | Immanent Critique and Critical Social Ontology | ||
| Reha Kadakal | Recovering Durkheim's Ontology | ||
| Marcucci | The Mind within Society: Durkheim’s Sociological Critique of Enlightenment’s Rationalist Ontologies | ||
| 18-Jun | |||
| 18-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Seven | |
| Indian Society | |||
| Vivek Khanna and Prabhjot Dutta Khanna | Democracy and the Post-Truth World | ||
| Priyanka Devi Kshetrimayum | Political instability in the largest democracy: Relation among State, Civil Society and Non-state militant groups in Manipur, India. | ||
| Raja Swamy | Neoliberal Hindutva - democracy and resistance in contemporary India | ||
| T. Jeyaraj, A Ghosh, M. Rayen and U. Faruk | Is the Indian (University) Campus Democratic ? | ||
| 18-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Eight | |
| Global | |||
| William Outhwaite | Democracy, national and transnational | ||
| Yufan Sun | Towards A Sociological Theory of Historical Actors and Agencies | ||
| Kosuke Sakai | The Evolutionary Theory of Niklas Luhmann and Its Meaning for Historical Sociology | ||
| Anthony J. Knowles | Sociology as Social System: Luhmann, Enlightenment, and the Gap between “Facts” and “Norms” | ||
| 18-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Nine | |
| Michael Brown's The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and the Social Sciences | |||
| Jeffrey Halley, organizer and moderator | |||
| Allen Dunn | The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and the Social Sciences, by M. Brown | ||
| Ilaria Riccioni | The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and the Social Sciences, by M. Brown | ||
| Daglind Sonolet | The Concept of Sociality in the Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Theodor W. Adorno | ||
| Harry F. Dahms | Divergent Forms of Sociality under Conditions of Neoliberalism | ||
| Michael Brown | Reply to Critics | ||
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18-Jun | 11:00-12:45 | Session Ten | |
| Emotions | |||
| Bryce Anderson | Pitilessly Blocked Futures and Violently Choked Passions: A Case for Fatalistic Suicide in Understanding Student Suicide in South Korea | ||
| Philip Walsh | Theorizing Emotions in Liberal and Illiberal Societies | ||
| Amanda Rebman | Legalizing Prostitution | ||
| Verena Knerich | Lessons from Early Feminist Advocators for Social Change: Contrasting Harriet Martineau and Jane Addams | ||
| 18-Jun | 11:00-12:45 | Session Eleven | |
| Critical Theory and film | |||
| Jeremiah Morelock | Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films | ||
| Daniel Sullivan | Awaking from the Film-as-Dream: Kracauer and Tarkovsky | ||
| Stefanie Baumann | How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer | ||
| Harry F. Dahms | Critical Theory and Science-Fiction Film: Darko Suvin in Perspective | ||
| 18-Jun | 11:00-12:45 | Session Twelve | |
| Individualism/Socialism | |||
| Bettina Mahlert | Norms, interests and desirable futures: A Parsonian view on democracy in the 21th century | ||
| Daniel Fanta | Micro, Macro and Meso in the Individualism-Holism Dispute. A analysis in Logical Quantification | ||
| Kerry Hunter | Democratic Socialism in the U.S.: Arrested Development or Entirely Different Course? | ||
| Niamh Mulcahy | The enclosure of social housing: Britain’s path to “property-owning democracy” | ||
| 12:45-1:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18-Jun | 1:00-2:00 | Keynote | |
| Craig Calhoun | Degenerations of Democracy | ||
| 2:00-2:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18-Jun | 2:15-4:00 | Session Fourteen | |
| Populism | |||
| Sarah MacMillen | American Democracy aboard the Pequod: Insights from Melville for 2021 | ||
| Kire Sharamanov | The reasons for the growth of populism and the establishment of illiberal democracy | ||
| Christian Schlaerth | Democratic Socialism in the U.S.: Arrested Development or Entirely Different Course? | ||
| Robert Garot | The Viability of Democracy in Light of the Current Global Ecological Crisis | ||
| 19-Jun | |||
| 19-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Fifteen | |
| Adorno | |||
| Alexander Stoner | Negative dialectics, Sociobiophysical Disintegration, and the Future | ||
| Zeinab Nobowati | Critical Theory and the (Im)Moral Psychology of Racism | ||
| Kevin Amidon | On the Micro-Dialectics of Democracy: Adorno, Right Radicalism, and the Fate of the Subject | ||
| 19-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Sixteen | |
| Authoritarianism | |||
| Claude Barbre | When Trauma is Us: Christofascism and Religious Authoritarianism as Collective Enreiss in the United States | ||
| Jonah Benjamini | The King's Revolution: A Prolegomenon on De-Democratization at the Dawn of the 21st Century | ||
| Aydin Atilgan | The anatomy of the dual states: The pathological formation of liberal democracies | ||
| Richard Coughlin | Conquest of the state by the nation or the crisis of American democracy | ||
| 19-Jun | 9:00-10:45 | Session Seventeen | |
| Marx, Simmel, and Saint-Simon | |||
| Naoki Iso | A Simmelian Theory of Differentiation and Integration | ||
| Roderick Condon | Capitalism, Democracy, and Social Evolution: Neoliberalism as Inverted Development | ||
| Harrison Patten | Henri Saint-Simon’s Unrealized Avant-Garde and Its Potentialities | ||
| Paul Zarembka | Engels’ Deficiencies in Editing Marx’s "Capital" | ||
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19-Jun | 11:00-12:45 | Session Eighteen | |
| Weber | |||
| Hans-Peter Müller | "Race" and Racism. Max Weber as a Political Thinker | ||
| Paul Joosse | The Less Agreeable Side of Charisma: Incredulous Onlooking and Anti-structural Power | ||
| Frank Welz | Two Versions of Legitimation: Democracy (in Crisis) and its Delegitimizing Critique | ||
| Elyesa Koytak | Impossible Vocation? Rethinking Weberian Scientific Ethics in the Context of Marketization | ||
| 12:30-12:45 | Lunch Break | ||
| 19-Jun | 12:45-1:45 | Keynote | |
| John Levi Martin | Critical Theory, The Imagination, and the Critique of Judgment | ||
| 1:45-2:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19-Jun | 2:00-4:00 | Session Twenty | |
| After Democracy | |||
| Stephen Turner, chair | |||
| Robert Antonio | The “Big Lie” and Failed Coup: Trumpism in the Interregnum | ||
| David Smith | Anti-Democratic Culture and the Usurpation Complex | ||
| Lauren Langman | The Dialectic of Movements: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | ||
| 19-Jun | 2:00-4:00 | Session Twenty-One | |
| Beyond the Liberal Self: Explorations in Transformation | |||
| Michael Thompson | |||
| Michael Miller | |||
| James Block |