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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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