[ecrea] VUB Chair 2013-2014: Chantal Mouffe

Announcement

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VUB Chair 2013-2014: Chantal Mouffe
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - May 2014
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http://www.vub.ac.be/en/chair/chantal-mouffe


Next month, Prof. dr. Chantal Mouffe takes up the VUB Teaching Chair at
the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Mouffe is renowned for her groundbreaking work in political theory.
Together with Ernesto Laclau she contributed to the development of the
so-called Essex School of discourse analysis, a post-Marxist political
inquiry and methodology drawing on Gramsci, post-structuralism and
theories of identity, aiming to redefine Left politics in terms of
radical democracy.

Educated at the universities of Louvain, Paris, and Essex, Chantal
Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the University of
Westminster. She has taught at many universities in Europe, North
America and Latin America, and has held research positions at Harvard,
Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in
Paris. Prof. Mouffe is the editor of Gramsci and Marxist Theory (1979),
Dimensions of Radical Democracy (1992), Deconstruction and Pragmatism
(1996), and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (1999); co-author (with
Ernesto Laclau) of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical
Democratic Politics (1985); and author of The Return of the Political
(1993), The Democratic Paradox (2000), and On the Political (2005).

_Program VUB Chair:_

. May 5th: Inaugural lecture 'Politics and Passions: How to Mobilize
Affects in a Democratic Direction?'
. May 7th: Lecture 'Pluralist Democracy and Agonistic Politics: A
Hegemonic Approach'
. May 14th: Lecture 'Agonistic Public Spaces: The Role of Artistic and
Cultural Practices'
. May 20th: Lecture 'Which Future for Representative Democracy? The
Challenge of the Recent Protest Movements'
. May 22th: Colloquium, with Chantal Mouffe, Karen Celis (VUB), Matthias
Lievens (KUL), Benjamin De Cleen (VUB)


Location: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels

Entrance to all events is free, but _registration is required_ at
http://www.vub.ac.be/en/chair/chantal-mouffe

Organization:
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences and Centre for Ethics and
Humanism, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Organizing committee: E. Acosta, J. Bauwens, Y. Van Den Eede, K. Verstrynge


More information:
http://www.vub.ac.be/en/chair/chantal-mouffe

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Kind regards,

Yoni Van Den Eede
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
iMinds-SMIT - Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication
Centre for Ethics and Humanism
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Office: Pleinlaan 9, 1st floor
B - 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 486 52 58 30
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