Workshop Political Hope Vol. 2

Roundtable – Political Hope & Collective Action

Hope, as well as mechanisms of giving or telling hope increasingly emerge as subject of public and political-philosophical debates, especially in times of crisis. Intuitively, hope seems to be a much better action guiding principle than fear, for example. “Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear”, says journalist and activist Naomi Klein, but what exactly does hope mean and what role does it play in politics? 

Images of hope – but also of hopelessness – have emerged as central elements, for example, for climate activism, or dealing with new technologies – but also for phenomena of populism. What exactly is meant when social actors hope for something or are hopeless, how is hope told, and how can one distinguish hope that lasts from deceptive hopes? Questions, such as these, arise about the nature, origin, objectives, and justifying motives for political hope.

In a roundtable format as part of our workshop series, we want to address these questions in depth. The aim is to illuminate the fuzzy concept of “political hope” from different perspectives to reflect and determine its potential and limits.

Date and Info

Thursday, 12 October

9am-11:30am

The roundtable takes place on site in the conference room 3.138 of the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Rabinstraße 8, 53111 Bonn, Germany.

To participate in person, please register via https://eveeno.com/272050454.

Researchers from all disciplines and students are warmly invited.

Please note that the number of available places is limited, places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Program

09:00-09:10
Introduction – Political Hope and challenges for collective action 
Matthias Braun, University of Bonn

09:10-10:00 
Round Table Discussion – Part 1 
Opening Statements by: 

Caesar Atuire, University of Ghana
Collective Action & Ubuntu

Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna
Collective Action & Solidarity

Cornelia Richter, University of Bonn
Collective Action & Resilience

Coffee Break

10:15-11:15
Round Table Discussion – Part 2 
Opening Statements by: 

Peter Dabrock, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Collective Action & the (Un-)possibility of a ‘we’

Maximilian Kiener, TU Hamburg
Collective Action & Responsibility

Steffen Augsberg, University Giessen
Collective Action & Foundations of Law

Luna Rösinger, University of Bonn
Collective Action, Shame & Limits of Law

11:15-11:30
Wrap Up

Closing Lunch

Political Hope Vol. 2a
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Political Hope Vol. 2b
© (Social) Ethics Group / University of Bonn

Contact

Avatar Bleher

Hannah Bleher

3 .119

Rabinstraße 8

53111 Bonn

Registration

Please register via https://eveeno.com/272050454.

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