Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisciplinary, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.

From this forum for engaged scholarship, a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversation and constructive debate, including last year’s Political Concepts Graduate Conference. Organized by students of the Departments of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at the New School for Social Research, and held at NSSR over March 24-5, this year’s conference will have students across universities and fields in order to workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers,
structures, problems, and orientations that shape our collective life. The papers accepted for this year’s conference are the following:

Friday, March 24

--Breakfast/registration (10.30-11am)

--Panel 1 (11am-12.30pm)

Moderator: Clover Reshad (Politics/NSSR)

EMOTIONS

Jasper Friedrich (Politics/University of Oxford)

EXHAUSTION

Marie Simon (Philosophy/NSSR)

--Lunch break (12.30pm-1.30pm)

--Panel 2 (1.30-3pm)

Moderator: Jochen Schmon (Politics/NSSR)

GLEICHGÜLTIGKEIT

Zanan Akin (Philosophy/University of Hagen)

CUNNING

Cara Greene (Philosophy/University of New Mexico)

--Break (3-3.30pm)

--Panel 3 (3.30-5pm)

Moderator: Rosa Martins (Philosophy/NSSR)

MONEY

Chih-Yuan Lin (Sociology/NSSR)

STATE-CAPITALISM

Jonas Balzer (Philosophy/Leipzig University)

--Break (5-5.30pm)

--Panel 4 (5.30-6.30pm)

Moderator: Agnese di Riccio (Philosophy/NSSR)

VACANCY

Sean Muller (Anthropology/NSSR)

CATASTROPHE

Jonathon Catlin (History/Princeton)

--Faculty Roundtable (6.30pm-7.30pm)

Jay Bernstein (Philosophy/NSSR)

Ann Stoler (Anthropology/NSSR)

Andreas Kalyvas (Politics/NSSR)

Saturday, March 25

--Breakfast (10.30-11am)

--Panel 1 (11am-12.30pm)

Moderator: Allan Hillani (Philosophy/NSSR)

EL MONTE

Lorenzo Granada-Balcazar (Anthropology/University of Chicago)

SOVEREIGNTY

Doha Tazi-Hemida (Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies/Columbia)

--Lunch break (12.30pm-1.30pm)

--Panel 2 (1.30-3pm)

Moderator: Helia Faezipour (Politics/NSSR)

DARKNESS

Irina Shirobokova (Earth and Environmental Sciences/CUNY)

TRANS

Esther Franke (Politics/NSSR)

--Break (3-3.30pm)

--Panel 3 (3.30-5pm)

Moderator: Miranda Young (Philosophy/NSSR)

CHOREOGRAPHY

Miranda Tuckett (Anthropology/NSSR)

DANDYISM

Italo Alves (Philosophy/Loyola University Chicago)

--Break (5-5.30pm)

--Panel 4 (5.30-7.00pm)

Moderator: Chris Thompson (Anthropology/NSSR)

TECHNOFIX

Cengiz Salman (Digital Studies/University of Michigan)

FORESIGHT

Maggie Castor (Philosophy/Stony Brook University)