Panels

10:00h

Panel 1 – Change in Philosophy and Theory 1

Bojan Perović – Emory University School of Law
Institutions and Resilience: Embracing Vulnerability Theory in Social Change

Gaby Nair – Princeton University
On the Necessity and Insufficiency of Prefigurative Politics

Panel 2 - Emotions, discourse and change

Alena Brabencova – Central European University
Loss at the Heart of Change in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

Gergana Nikolaeva Nenova – Sofia university “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Love, intimacy and social change: reconsidering Niklas Luhmann’s work

Jelena Timotijević – School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK
The role of discourse in affecting social change

Panel 3 - Regulations and change

Attila Nagy – Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany
The Role of Science and Soft Law in the Changing of Legal Systems

Devrim Şahin and İlke Gürdal – The Cyprus Science University
The Catalysts and Impacts of Social Change in Turkey: The Role of Power and Politics

Miloš Kovačević – Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Breaking the Silence: Privacy as a Setback to Social Change

12:00h

Panel 4 – Resistance and change 1

İlayda Üstel – The Ohio State University
Collective Political Action as Interruption: The Temporality of Inciting ‘Change’

Milan Urošević – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
Reorientation of desire – social change and resistance to neoliberal “psychopolitics”

Peter Langford – School of Law, Criminology and Policing, Edge Hill University, UK
Progressive Social Change and the Notion of the Common

Panel 5 - Change in the Balkans 1

Anastasija Mladenovska – Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
Doomed if I leave; Doomed if I stay: Analyzing brain drain in the Western Balkans through the lenses of change

Maja Petrović-Šteger – Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Enlarging the space of social possibility – envisioning societal revision in Serbia

Ana Dević and Peter Vermeersch – KU Leuven
The theatrics of national commemoration versus grassroots inclusive commemorative practices: the case of Vukovar and a politics of active memory

Panel 6 -Historical processes and change

David Menčik – Phd student of Philosophy at University of Novi Sad
Social change versus Cultural inertia – the case of Reunification of Germany and the phenomenon of Ostalgie

Nikolay Sarkisyan – University of Oxford
Changing Faces of (counter)Revolution: Analyzing Stalinism’s Dual Nature through the Evolution of the Petrograd-Leningrad State Museum (1920-30s)

Gordan Maslov and Atila Lukić – Independent researchers
Things made possible: History of the present and the problematic of post-socialism

14:30h

Panel 7 - History of ideas of change

Pengfei Hou – School of Political Science and Public Administration, Xinjiang University, China
Whither World Order? China and “Major Change Unseen for 100 Years”

Tamara Plećaš & Predrag Krstić – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
The (Un)willingness to Change

Đorđe Hristov – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
Change between Heraclitus and Deleuze: Archaism and the Changing Past

Panel 8 - Militarism and change

Julien Paret – Director, Alliance Centre for Eurasian Studies, Alliance University, School of Liberal Arts, Bangalore, India
The Metanoia of Russia’s Break with the ‘Collective West’: Aleksandr Dugin’s Conservative Revolution as an Agent of Change

Arina Pshenichnaya – Bard College
Uniforms of Repression: Changes in Russian Police Uniforms as the Consolidation of Putin’s Regime

Panel 9 - Change through the optics of critical theory

Luiz Gustavo da Cunha de Souza – Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
What changes work? Division of labour, Citizenship, and Politics from Honneth to Durkheim and back

Rafael Augusto Palazi – Unicamp-Brazil/FU-Berlin
System and Change within the Communicative Paradigm

Nemanja Tubonjić – University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy
Marx-Engels view of the role of technics in shaping and changing human consciousness towards the world

09:00h

Panel 10 -Social change and ideological contestations

Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco and Natália Zanatta Sena – Pontifical University of Sao Paulo
Obliges to change: the Brazilian precarious workers on the tyranny of global south neoliberalism

Hugo Fanton – IRGAC, USP, ABI
Contested changes: political and ideological disputes in the Brazilian crisis

Kennedy Manduna – IRGAC, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Contested lands and the power of eminent domain: Space-time lived experiences, agency and subjectivities of communal land dwellers in mining communities in Zimbabwe

Sagorika Singha – Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi
Content Creators as Custodians: The Role of the Local Influencers in Changing the Landscape of Political Campaigns in India

Panel 11 - (Anti-) Gender politics (in the Global South): the crisis of social reproduction, agencies, and resistance

Firoozeh Farvardin – IRGAC, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and MERGE (Middle East Research Group), Humboldt University of Berlin
Horizons of New Feminisms: Unveiling Feminist Subjectivity in the Recent Uprising in Iran

Sara Cufré – Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung (IRGAC) research fellow at CEIL Argentina
Struggles for Social Reproduction in the Trade Union Agenda: Insights from Argentina

Melehat Kutun – Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung (IRGAC) research fellow, Kassel University
Renaturalizing the gendered dimension of the state form: Response to the crisis of social reproduction in Turkey

Panel 12 – Beyond Authoritarianism – Rethinking “Change” and “Resistance” in Times of Crisis

Damir Arsenijević and Jasmina Husanović – IRGAC Fellow; University of Tuzla
The Wager of Continuity: Enacting Change Through Community Assemblies for Social Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Inés Durán Matute – CIESAS. Mexico
Knowledges for other worlds: Inspirations of the ‘struggle for life’ in Mexico

Börries Nehe – IRGAC, Germany
Resist, Subvert, Create: 7 Lessons about Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies

9:00h

Panel 13 – Change in philosophy and theory 2

Yorgos Karagiannopoulos – University of Amsterdam
Essentialism Strikes Back! Can Social Essentialism Grasp Genuine Change?

Aleksandra Knežević – Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Uncovering the ontology of social change

Zsolt Bagi – University of Pécs, Hungary
Event and transformation

Panel 14 – Revolution

Giustino De Michele – Aix-Marseille Université, CIELAM, Aix-en-Provence, France
All and Nothing: Deconstruction, Revolution

Csaba Jaksa – University of Pécs
Conatus as a political concept against revolution

Giovanni Maria Mascaretti – University of Bergamo
What is a “Will to Revolution”? A Reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s Writings on Iran

Zona Zarić – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
Crisis and Contemplation: Benjamin’s Concept of Revolution as Interruption

Panel 15 – Democracy and change 1

Vasiliki Akritidou – Tim Design for Change Srbija
Embracing Change: Design for Change as a Catalyst for Transformative Education

Sonja Dragović – DINÂMIA’CET – Center for Socioeconomic Change and Territorial Studies, University Institute of Lisbon
Building Up to Breakdown? Facing the Strange Change of Kolašin

Dimitris Loupetis – National and Technical University of Athens
Inhabiting the/through Image: Locality Perspectives of the center of Athens

12:30h

Panel 16 – Climate change and environmental activism

Katarzyna Bielińska, Katarzyna Bogusz, Karolina Kulpa, Sonia Uribe – Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Social Change in the Context of Climate Change: Latin America and Eastern Europe

Marija Branković – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
What do animals have to do with it? The link between climate change and speciesism

Panel 17 – Change in philosophy and theory 3

Alexandre Tawil – Université of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université of Grenoble
Evolutionist and Evolutionary Approaches to Social Sciences: elaborating on a helpful distinction

Florian Maiwald – Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn
The Will to Change – The Concept of Voluntarism between Historical Partiality and Social Change

Viktor Ivanković – Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb
Can Other-Regarding Nudges Be Morally Progressive?

Panel 18 – Intersubjectivity of affect and social change

Ana Đorđević, Olga Nikolić, Igor Cvejić, Srđan Prodanović and Marjan Ivković – Institute for Philosophy and Social theory, Belgrade
Intersubjectivity of Affects and Social Change

17:00h

Panel 19 – Progress, Regress, Conservation. Critical Views of Institutions in the Process of Change

Edward Djordjevic – Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Institutions and Change in More and Swift

Laura Soréna Tittel – Justus Liebig University, Giessen
The Dialectics of Progress and Regression in Political Theory

Anna-Sophie Schönfelder – Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Left behind in the Process of Change? On Roma Laborers in the Single EU Market

Hannes Kaufmann – Justus Liebig University, Giessen
From Disintegration to Institutionalization and Back? Institutions as Triggers and Blockades of Change

Max Waibel – Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Authority and Social Change

Panel 20 – Technology and change

Wang Yinchun – Donghua University, Visiting Scholar at University College London (UCL)
Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Change of Knowledge Production Paradigm: From “Dao of Changes” of the Book of Changes

Mikhail Bukhtoyarov – Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk and External associate, EduLab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Anna Bukhtoyarova – Independent researcher and External associate, EduLab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Technostalgia in IT: human limits of adaptation to technological change

Anna Liadova and Inna Vershinina – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
Social Change and Artificial Intelligence: Potential Challenges and Obstacles

Ljubiša Mitrović and Dunja Veličković – University of Niš
A contribution to the demystification of the concept and process of transition and the role of the Internet generation as a social actor

Panel 21 – Change in philosophy and theory 4

Nikola Mlađenović – Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Diplomacy and Security, Union – Nikola Tesla University
Control and Serpent: Gilles Deleuze, Cybernetics and Change

Maroje Višić – Libertas International University Zagreb
Herbert Marcuse’s Relentless Search for Radical Social Change

Jasmin Hasanović – University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Political Sciences
Beyond the eschatology of change: Crafting emancipatory political theory through engagement

9:00h

Panel 22 – Geopolitics and change

Novak Gajić – Independent researcher
De-Ideologisation in Late 20th Century and Re-Ideologisation in Early 21st Century

Heqi Sun – Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Warsaw
Relaunching European Integration, Changes, Dilemmas and New Thinking

Panel 23 – Change in the Balkans 2

Andrijana Lazarević and Stefan Surlić – Institute for Political Studies and Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade
Embracing change? Assessing the impact of generation Z in Serbia on Kosovo issue

Bojana Selaković – Coordinator of the National Convention on European Union in Serbia
The role of the new age activism in deconstructing captive society: Case of Novi Pazar

Panel 24 – Resistance and change 2

Jovana Isevski – University of California, Riverside
Not so Fast: Visceral Economy, Acceleration, and the Incursions of Molecular Resistance

Tej Gonza, Gonzalo Hernandez Gutierrez, Hellen López Valladares – Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana; ITESO, Universidad Jezuita de Guadalajara, Mexico; Department of Management Sciences, PUCP, Lima, Peru
Real economic change in Europe and Latin America: Employee ownersihip as an instrument for reducing economic inequalities

Aleksandar Novakovic – Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
The collectivity of change: subjectivity and dissidence within social transformation

15:00h

Panel 25 – Change and radical transformation: for better or for worse?

Bojan Baća – Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Montenegro
The Conspiracist Zeitgeist: Contemporary Conspiracy Theories as Far-Right Social Critique?

Andrej Cvetić – Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin
Does presence of far right in parliament foster disidentification with host country and social exclusion among Muslim immigrants?

Branislav Filipović and Lazar Žolt – College of Vocational Studies, Subotica and Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad
The phantasmagorical novelty of the populist matrix of obsessive-oppressive power: Towards a deliric sameness of changes

Goran Petrović Lotina – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Sciences Po Parism, UC Louvain
Shifting Identifications:
Dynamics of Ethico-Political Change in Contemporary Europe

Panel 26 – Change in philosophy and theory 5

Stefan Janković – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy
The Anthropocene and Ecopolitical Transformation: On Perspectives of Planetary Change in Latour’s Earthbounds and Geosocial Classes

Sofia Porfiryeva – University of Ottawa
Accidental Change: From Destructive Plasticity to Political Possibility

Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal – East China Normal University
Limitations and Creativity: The Adjacent Possible, Strong Emergence, and Change

Panel 27 – Democracy and change 2

Ceri Davies – National Centre for Social Research (UK)
Building a deliberative imagination for 21st century challenges

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield – Czech Academy of Sciences Prague
Dissent and the plasticity of democracy

Dragana Kostica – Hafencity University Hamburg
The Roots of Social Change in the Planning Process

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