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Murray Bookchin #100 – Conference Program
all time are CEST Time / UTC+2
SATURDAY 30th OCTOBER
15.30 – 16.00 Welcoming words
16.00 – 17.00 Political Practice and Activism: Session 1
• Davide Grasso - The Concept of Authority in Bookchin’s
Works and Rojava’s Communalism
• Azize Cay - Informal hierarchy, organization and activism:
insights from the Democratic Autonomy of North East Syria
• Georgios Daremas - On Bookchin’s Dialectical Naturalism
17.00 – 18.00 Political Practice and Activism: Session 2
• Heval Tekoşîn - Exploring Certainty in Revolutionary
Politics
• Thomas Murray - Crack Capitalism or Communalism?
Revolutionary strategies after Adorno
• Metin Guven - Systemic Cycles of Capital Accumulation
and Future of Capitalism
18.00 – 18.30 Break
18.30 – 19.30 Libertarian Municipalism: Session 1
• Ben Price - Municipalism‘s Escape from the Colonizing
Imperatives of Empire in the U.S.
• Robert Case & Bill Barrett - Could local environmental
activism be a gateway to direct democracy at the municipal
level? Reflections from water activism in Wellington County,
Ontario
19.30 – 20.30 Libertarian Municipalism: Session 2
• Yavor Tarinski - Bookchin‘s political proposals and ideas
on direct democracy, popular assemblies and municipalism
• Zaid Nasution - Recallable: Delegates Accountability in
Democratic Confederalism
• Dimitri Roussopoulos - From Theory to Practice: the
movement building of radical municipalism
SUNDAY 31st OCTOBER
16.00 – 17.00 Nature & Ecology: Session 1
• Giannis Perperidis - Murray Bookchin and Andrew Feenberg:
Searching for Technological Alternatives for the sake of the
Environment
• Jordan Yanowitz - Los Angeles and the socio-ecological
contexts in which it sits: Understanding its continental
water system and its colonial origins
• Laura Schleifer - Hierarchy's Hidden Link: How Domination
within Human Society and of Nature Stems from the Human
Domination of (Other) Animals, and How Free Nature Requires
Freeing Animals
17.00 – 18.00 Nature & Ecology: Session 2
• Emet Değirmenci – Misanthropy and Ecofascism: Connection
• Johannes Shepard – Nature & Ecology: Covid-19 as an
instance of
a larger phenomenon of disease
• Anita Prakash – Restoring Ecology in Troubled Times:
Searching for
the Role of Direct Democracy in the Indian context
18.00 – 18.30 Break
18.30 – 19.30 Future Research
• Federico Venturini - Reflections towards a militant social
ecology research approach
• Eve Olney & Krini Kafiris - Radical Institute:
Developing Sustainable Social Ecological Praxis
• Marlene Payva – Rethinking the Notion of Nature in
International Law
19.30 – 20.30 Book Presentation
• Various authors will present the book: Hunt, S. (eds.),
2021, Ecological Solidarity & the Kurdish Freedom
Movement, Lexington books
• Various authors will present the book: Wright, D &
Hill, S (eds.), 2020, Social Ecology and Education:
Transforming Worldviews and Practices. Routledge
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