DEMOCRATIC AGENDAS NETWORK
OVERVIEW
In 2017, the CTS launched a new network-building project titled Democratic Agendas Network as a framework for integrating projects and dialogues related to the career of democracy and its futures. Through the Democratic Agendas Network, the CTS is currently focused on developing a network that links graduate students and faculty at universities and research institutions, both in the U.S. and abroad, in long-term collaborative projects. This new network will enhance and complement the conferences, research, teaching, publications, and public outreach initiatives that the CTS has been fostering since its inception. The CTS plays a crucial coordinating role in this project, working in collaboration with international scholars and institutional partners. The Democratic Agendas Network is coordinated by the CTS in close collaboration with two steering partners:
The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), a Northwestern University-based center for research and collaboration (represented by its director, Dilip Gaonkar); and
Central European University (CEU), Vienna and Budapest (represented by its rector, Shalini Randeria)
Along with the CTS, these two partners will provide substantial funding for sustaining the Democratic Agendas Network.
In addition to the steering partners, the Democratic Agendas Network initiative involves collaborations with the following affiliate partners from around the world:
Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, India. (Represented by its senior scholar, Prathama Banerjee)
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria. (Represented by Ludger Hegedorn).
Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio México (COLMEX), Mexico City, Mexico (Represented by Humberto Beck)
Center for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory (CAPS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Represented by its co-director, Lars Tönder)
“Public DemoS” Group, EHESS, Paris, France. (Represented by its director, Nilufer Gole)
Barcelona Critique: Barcelona Network for Critical Thought and Social Research (BCNCT), Barcelona, Spain, (Represented by Camile Ungureanu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS), The American University of Paris. (Represented by its director, Stephen Sawyer)
The Center for Media, Communication and Global Change, The American University of Paris (Represented by its director, Jayson Harsin)
EVENTS
Climate, Capital, and Democracy
March 21–22, 2024
Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB)
Featuring lectures and panel discussions with:
Mukulika Banerjee (London School of Economics)
Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University)
Anna-Clot Carrell (University of Barcelona)
David Casassas (University of Barcelona)
Steven Forti (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
Robert Meister (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Mihaela Mihai (University of Edinburgh)
Sofia Näsström (University of Uppsala)
Alexandra Popartan (University of Girona/LEQUIA)
Marc Sanjaume (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Just Serrano (University of Barcelona)
Sofia Tipaldou (Panteion University)
Lars Tønder (University of Copenhagen)
Camil Ungureanu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The conference was held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation provided.
Towards Democratic Renewal:
Theory and Practice
June 21–23, 2023
IWM | Vienna, Austria
Featuring lectures and panel discussions with:
Madhulika Banerjee (Political Science, Delhi University)
Mukulika Banerjee (Anthropology, LSE)
Craig Calhoun (Social Sciences, Arizona State University)
Dilip Gaonkar (Director, Center for Transcultural Studies/Rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University)
Jayson Harsin (Communication, Media, and Culture, American University in Paris)
Ludger Hegedorn (Permanent Fellow, IWM)
Gesche Kedding (Sociology and Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
Shalini Randeria (President and Rector, CEU)
Stephen Sawyer (History, American University of Paris)
Kim Lane Scheppele (Sociology and Law, Princeton University)
Rebecca Tapscott (Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)
Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University)
Yogendra Yadav (Politics, Scholar/Activist, Delhi, India)
Conveners:
Dilip Gaonkar (CTS/Northwestern University)
Ludger Hegedorn (IWM)
Rebuilding Democracy
April 20–21, 2023
El Colégio de México, Mexico City
Featuring lectures and panel discussions with:
Benjamin Arditi (UNAM)
Humberto Beck (Colmex)
Roberto Breña (Colmex)
Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University)
Juan Cruz Olmeda (Colmex)
Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
Joy Langston (Colmex)
Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia University/El Colégio Nacional)
Mariana Mora (CIESAS)
Andrea Pozas Loyo (IIJ–UNAM)
Charles Taylor (McGill University)
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Camila Vergara (Cambridge University)
Opening remarks by:
Vicente Ugalde (Secretary General, Colmex)
Jean-François Prud'homme (CEI Chair, Colmex)
Dilip Gaonkar (Co-Organizer, Northwestern University)
Humberto Beck (Co-Organizer, Colmex)
The conference was held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation provided.
RECORDINGS:
Democracy under Duress
June 23–24, 2022
University of Copenhagen
Organizers: Dilip Gaonkar and Lars Tønder.
Featuring lectures and panel discussions with:
Mukulika Banerjee
Rajeev Bhargava
Craig Calhoun
Ulrike Flader
Dilip Gaonkar
Mihaela Mihai
Charles Taylor
Lars Tønder
Camil Ungureanu.
Sponsors:
Center for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory (CAPS), University of Copenhagen
Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS), Chicago
Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Northwestern University;
Mastercard Foundation
Resonance: A Workshop with Hartmut Rosa
November 11, 2019
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar.
Participants:
Amanda Anderson
Craig Calhoun
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dilip Gaonkar
Benjamin Lee
Hartmut Rosa
Michael Steinberg
Charles Taylor.
Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and Electoral Politics
May 30–31, 2019
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
Vienna, Austria
(Although this workshop was held in Europe, over one third of participants were from developing countries)
Special funding provided by the Mastercard Foundation
Democratic Agendas: Negotiating Climate Change, Capitalism, and the New Populisms
April 19-21, 2017
Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar.
Participants:
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Mukulika Banerjee
Craig Calhoun
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dilip Gaonkar
Jessica Greenberg
Benjamin Lee
Arzoo Osanloo
Shalini Randeria
Michael Sandel
Charles Taylor
Michael Warner
Lisa Wedeen
Jeffrey Winters
Special Plenary Session: Democratic Agendas, September 5-7, 2019
The 42nd Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Conference: Democracy at a Crossroads, October 30-31, 2018
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE)
Mexico City, Mexico
Conference: The Present and Future State of Democracy: Questions and Challenges, June 13-20, 2018
Institute for Social Justice (ISJ), Australian Catholic University
Karadamyli, Greece
Conference: Disenchantments with Democracy, December 7–9, 2017
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy (AHCD), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
Conference: Democracy at Risk: Exit and Voice, November 9-10, 2017
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
Vienna, Austria