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Conference on Decentralised Federalism in Anarchist Political Thought

 

University of Exeter, Knightly, 22nd and 23rd of June 2023

Funded by the James Maddison Charitable Trust and

Centre for Political Thought of the University of Exeter

 

Programme 

 

Thursday, 22nd of June

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:20 Panel 1:

  • Edward Castleton - How "Federalism" became compatible with "Anarchism": The Nineteenth-Century European Origins of a Misunderstanding (Université de Franche-Comté)
  • Anthony Zurbrugg - Federalism and Solidarity: in the 1870s and in the 1920s and 30s

 

14:20 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 15:50 Panel 2:

  • Melis Kirtilli - On the Concept of Federalism and the Great Divergence in Left-Wing Politics (University of Exeter)
  • Ruth Kinna - Is Decentralised Federation Feasible? Kropotkin and The Coming Anarchy (Loughborough University)

15:50 - 16:00 Break 

16:00 - 17:20 Panel 3 (online):

  • Sarah Slye - The Legacy of Anarcho-Federalism in the Caucasian Tradition of Political Thought 1873-2023 (University of Cambridge)
  • Guilherme Falleiros - Federalism, Anarchism, Republicanism and Amerindian Politics in Uruguay

 

17:30 -19:00 (organized by the Centre for Political Thought)

Lecture on Populism by Simon Tormey (University of Bristol) “No Going Back? Late Modernity and the Populisation of Politics”

 

Friday, 23rd of June

09:00 - 10:20 Panel 4:

  • Matti Eskelinen - Anarchist Federalism, Republicanism and Recognition Theory: Convergence of Theories for Self-Organised Society in Workplace, Community and Beyond (University of Turku) 
  • Jade Saab - The Federalisms of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (University of Glasgow)

10:20 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:50 Panel 5:

  • Jonas Rusche - Dreaming of the Good Life for All – An Anarchist Utopia for the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg)
  • Stephanie Wanga - The Limits of Statehood in the Postcolonial Polity (London School of Economics and Political Science)

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:20 Panel 6 (online):

  • Sixtine van Outryve - Deciding at the Federal Level in Communalist Direct Democracy (Université Catholique de Louvain)
  • Lucian Ashworth - A Global Governance for the Anthropocene. Messy Solutions for a World Defined by Waste (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

14:20 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 15:10 Panel 6:

  • John Loughlin - Proudhon's Influence Among French Federalists and Personalists in the Inter-War Period, and Among Radical Federalists in the Post-War Period (University of Oxford)

15:10 -15:30 Break 

15:30 – 16:00 Closing Remarks

 

 

Date: 20 June 2023