POLITICS FIRST

Σειρά Ανοιχτών Διαλέξεων στη διεθνή πολιτική θεωρία

Συντονιστές: Κυριάκος Κεντρωτής και Δημήτριος Ακριβούλης

Τα Politics First είναι μια σειρά ανοιχτών διαλέξεων στη διεθνή πολιτική θεωρία του Τμήματος Βαλκανικών, Σλαβικών και Ανατολικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονίας. Οι διαλέξεις PF είναι ανοιχτές και δωρεάν για όλους, και απευθύνονται σε ένα ευρύτερο ακροατήριο πέραν του ιδρύματος. Διοργανώνονται σε εβδομαδιαία βάση με διαλέξεις των συντονιστών και διακεκριμένων καλεσμένων ομιλητών.

Ο τίτλος της σειράς (Politics First) υπονοεί μια έμφαση στην αυτονομία της πολιτικής και άρνηση ανάγνωσής της με οικονομικούς όρους.

Οι Διαλέξεις PF δεν είναι μέρος του προγράμματος σπουδών και εκτείνονται πέραν των προγραμματισμένων διδακτικών / μαθησιακών υποχρεώσεων. Οι συμμετέχοντες φοιτητές ευνοούνται ιδιαίτερα, ωστόσο, καθώς εξοικειώνονται με τις πιο πρόσφατες θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις της διεθνούς πολιτικής, που διδάσκονται στο μάθημα της Θεωρίας των Διεθνών Σχέσεων.

Η θεματική κάθε διάλεξης είναι μοναδική και δεν επαναλαμβάνεται. Οι Διαλέξεις PF δεν μαγνητοσκοπούνται ούτε διατίθενται στο διαδίκτυο. Ο εκπαιδευτικός στόχος είναι να φέρουν φοιτητές και απλό κοινό πίσω στο πανεπιστήμιο, να βασίσουν τη μαθησιακή διαδικασία στη ζωντανή συζήτηση και κριτική διάδραση, και να την αποσυνδέσουν από κάθε μορφής συμβατική ανταπόδοση, ανταμοιβή ή υποχρέωση (π.χ. βεβαιώσεις παρακολούθησης, παρουσιολόγια κτλ.)

Τα Politics First έχουν τη δική τους σελίδα στο Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Politics.First.UOM/), αναρτώντας τακτικά στην αγγλική τις αφίσες των διαλέξεων, σημαντικές ανακοινώσεις, πολιτικούς σχολιασμούς, επιλεγμένα άρθρα από τον διεθνή τύπο κτλ. Η επισκεψιμότητα της σελίδας είναι υψηλή και διεθνής, προσελκύοντας περισσότερους από 1.700 ακολούθους και ‘likes’ από όλον τον κόσμο (εκτός των Βόρεια Κορέα, Τατζικιστάν και Περού, ως τώρα).

Οι Διαλέξεις Politics First ως τώρα:

2020

• 96^th PF lecture “The Modern Pharmakós” [The Refugee and the Political series], February 25, 2020
• 95^th PF guest lecture “Being Human at the Contemporary Predicament” [Reclaiming the concepts series] with A.-I.D. Metaxas, Member of the Académie européenne interdisciplinaire des sciences, Honorary Professor of Universities; Stelios Perrakis, Emeritus Professor (Panteion), Former Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Greece at the Council of Europe, Panteion University UNESCO Chair; Yiannis Panousis, Emeritus Professor (NKUA), former Minister; Marina Rigou, Assistant Professor (NKUA); and Dimitrios Akrivoulis, Assistant Professor (UOM), Coordinator of Politics First. Chair: Kyriakos Kentrotis, Professor (UOM), Coordinator of Politics First. Co-organized with the Panteion University UNESCO Chair “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace”, in collaboration with the “Citizens’ University” of the Municipality of Larissa and the Bar Association of Larissa. Larissa Barristers’ Hall of Ceremonies, February 7, 2020
• 94^th PF lecture “Polizeistaat” [Reclaiming the concepts series], January 7, 2020

2019

• 93^th PF lecture “The Contemporary Predicament II” [Reclaiming the concepts series], December 17, 2019.
• 92^nd PF lecture “Normalidad” [Reclaiming the concepts series], December 10, 2019.
• 91^st PF lecture “Revolución” [Reclaiming the concepts series], December 3, 2019.
• 90^th PF lecture “Liberty/Freedom” [Reclaiming the concepts series], November 26, 2019.
• 89^th PF lecture “Solidarity” [Reclaiming the concepts series], November 19, 2019.
• 88^th PF guest lecture “War and Peace” [Reclaiming the concepts series] by Emeritus Professor Costas Hadjiconstantinou (AUTh), November 12, 2019.
• 87^th PF lecture “The Political and the Tragic: The University as the modern theatre ”[Reclaiming the University series], November 5, 2019.
• 86^th PF guest lecture “Asylum (iv)” [Reclaiming the University series] by Maître de Conférences Despoina Sinou (Université Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité, France), October 29, 2019.
• 85^th PF guest lecture “Asylum (iii)” [Reclaiming the University series] by Emeritus Professor Stelios Perrakis, Former Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Greece at the Council of Europe, October 22, 2019.
• 84^th PF guest lecture “Asylum (ii)” [Reclaiming the University series] by Professor Benjamin Arditi (UNAM, Mexico), October 15, 2019.
• 83^rd PF joint guest lecture “Asylum (i)” [Reclaiming the University series] by Professor Aris Stylianou (AUTh) and Assistant Professor Dimitrios Akrivoulis (UOM), October 8, 2019.
• 82^nd PF lecture “Who Abducted Europa? (And How to Get Her Back)”, May 22, 2019.
• 81^st PF lecture “Quo Vadis Europa?” May 15, 2019.
• 80^th PF lecture “Europa Universalis”, May 8, 2019.
• 79^th PF guest lecture “The Politics of International Justice” by Professor Stelios Perrakis, Former Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Greece at the Council of Europe, April 17, 2019.
• 78^th PF lecture “Kosovo: 20 Years After”, April 10, 2019.
• 77^th PF guest lecture “To Be Or Not to Be: The Ethics of Brexit” by Senior Lecturer Marina Prentoulis (UEA, UK), April 3, 2019.
• 76^th PF lecture “The Great Replacement: Based on the Notes of a Far Right Terrorist”, March 27, 2019.
• 75^th PF guest lecture “Umman and the Pharaoh: Discourse and Counterdiscourse in the Middle East” by Dr Panos Kourgiotis (UOM), March 20, 2019.
• 74^th PF lecture “The Aesthetics of Terrorism”, March 13, 2019.
• 73^rd PF lecture “Gilets jaunes”, March 6, 2019.
• 72^nd PF guest lecture “From Tanks to Think-Tanks” by PhD candidate Ioanna Markou (UOM), February 27, 2019.
• 71^st PF lecture “Bolivar in Caracas”, February 20, 2019.
• 70^th PF lecture “A Tale of Two Lakes (Three, Actually)”, February 13, 2019.

2018

• 69^th PF guest lecture “Hoplites/Polites: Sovereign Subjects in Arms” by Chris Tzimpilis (UOM), December 19, 2018.
• 68^th PF lecture “Fake News in the Age of Post-Shame”, December 12, 2018.
• 67^th PF lecture “Post-humanitarianism and the Crisis of Pity”, December 5, 2018.
• 66^th PF lecture “The ‘Guernica Paradox’ and Other Fallacies of Humanitarian Intervention”, November 21, 2018.
• 65^th PF lecture “The Question of Solidarity”, November 14, 2018.
• 64^th PF lecture “Nazis Without Boots: Pray for Mercy”, November 7, 2018.
• 63^rd PF lecture “Wherefore Art Though Brethren? The Question of Brotherhood in Politics”, October 31, 2018.
• 62^nd PF lecture “Social Forces/World Orders. In Memorial: Robert W. Cox (1926-2018)”, October 24, 2018.
• 61^st PF lecture “War as Police Action”, October 17, 2018.
• 60^th PF lecture “CorPIRATions: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality at the Age of High Capitalism”, October 10, 2018.
• 59^th PF lecture “The Fanatic: Rereading Kant, Hegel, and Marcel”, June 13, 2018.
• 58^th PF lecture “Judith Butler: The Face of Evil”, May 23, 2018.
• 57^th PF lecture “Wendy Brown: Undoing the Demos”, May 16, 2018.
• 56^th PF guest lecture “William Connolly: Planetary Politics” by Lecturer Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath, UK), May 9, 2018.
• 55^th PF guest lecture “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Illusion of Progress” by Reader Rupert Read (UEA, UK), May 2, 2018.
• 54^th PF lecture “Giorgio Agamben: Bare Life”, April 25, 2018.
• 53^rd PF lecture “Jean-Luc Nancy: Co-existence in the Retreat of the Political”, April 18, 2018.
• 52^nd PF lecture “Jacques Rancière: Security and the Inhumane”, March 21, 2018.
• 51^st PF lecture “Alain Badiou: Evil and Liberal Interventionism”, March 14, 2018.
• 50^th PF lecture “Ernesto Laclau: Populism and Democracy”, March 7, 2018.
• 49^th PF lecture “Antonio Negri: The Multitude, the Common and Empire”, February 28, 2018.
• 48^th PF lecture “Jacques Derrida: The Beast and the Sovereign”, February 21, 2018.
• 47^th PF lecture “Gilles Deleuze: War Machines”, February 14, 2018.

2017

• 46^th PF lecture “Jean Baudrillard: Wars That Never Happen”, December 19, 2017.
• 45^th PF lecture “Jacques Lacan: Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, December 12, 2017.
• 44^th PF lecture “Pierre Bourdieu: The Cunning of Imperialist Reason”, December 5, 2017.
• 43^rd PF lecture “Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks”, November 28, 2017.
• 42^nd PF lecture “Cornelius Castoriadis: Agora and Agonistic Autonomy”, November 21, 2017.
• 41^st PF lecture “Michel Foucault: Programming Liberal Governmentality”, November 14, 2017.
• 40^th PF lecture “Paul Ricoeur: The Hermeneutics of Naïveté and Humanitarian Intervention”, November 7, 2017.
• 39^th PF lecture “Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Action, Totalitarianism”, October 31, 2017.
• 38^th PF lecture “Emmanuel Levinas: The Face of the Other”, October 25, 2017.
• 37^th PF lecture “Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony”, October 18, 2017.
• 36^th PF lecture “Martin Heidegger: The Technological Man”, October 11, 2017.
• 35^th PF lecture “Carl Schmitt: The Friend, the Enemy, the Partisan”, October 4, 2017.
• 34^th PF lecture “Human Dignity”, June 15, 2017.
• 33^rd PF lecture “More Than a Club: Football Politics”, May 31, 2017.
• 32^nd PF lecture “The Authoritarian Other”, May 24, 2017.
• 31^st PF lecture “Rogues: North Korea”, May 17, 2017.
• 30^th PF lecture “What's Left?” May 10, 2017.
• 29^th PF lecture “Democracy (as a Method)”, May 3, 2017.
• 28^th PF lecture “Alt-right”, April 26, 2017.
• 27^th PF lecture “ISIS Part II: Resurrection”, April 5, 2017.
• 26^th PF lecture “ISIS”, March 29, 2017.
• 25^th PF lecture “The Wall”, March 22, 2017.
• 24^th PF lecture “Neocon/Neolib”, March 15, 2017.
• 23^rd PF lecture “Trump”, March 8, 2017.
• 22^nd PF lecture “The Contemporary Predicament”, March 1, 2017.

 

2016-

• 21^st PF lecture “Anti-Kant”, December 20, 2016.
• 20^th PF lecture “Anti-Hobbes”, December 13, 2016.
• 19^th PF lecture “Anti-Machiavelli”, December 6, 2016.
• 18^th PF lecture “Anti-Thucydides”, November 29, 2016.
• 17^th PF lecture “The Right to Have Rights and the Subject of the Rights of Man”, November 22, 2016.
• 16^th PF lecture “Liberty/Security”, January 1, 2016.
• 15^th PF lecture “Hostis Humani Generis: Terrorism and Sovereignty after ISIS”, December 16, 2015.
• 14^th PF lecture “The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt”, June 25, 2014.
• 13^rd PF lecture “Knowledge/power: Michel Foucault”, June 18, 2014.
• 12^th PF lecture “Democracy: The City of Dreams. Cornelius Castoriadis (2)”, June 11, 2014.
• 11^th PF lecture “Autonomy/Heteronomy: Cornelius Castoriadis”, June 4, 2014.
• 10^th PF lecture “Justice/Power: The Foucault-Chomsky Debate”, May 28, 2014.
• 9^th PF lecture “Neoliberalism/Neoconservatism: The State and the Political”, May 22, 2014.
• 8^th PF guest lecture “Marx and Democracy” by Professor Terrell Carver's (University of Bristol, UK), May 21, 2014.
• 7^th PF lecture “Marx Timely”, May 14, 2014.
• 6^th PF lecture “The Responsibility of Political Thought”, May 5, 2014.
• 5^th PF guest lecture “May ’68. The French soixantuitards: A Biographical Approach to Activism” by Professor Erik Neveu (CRAPE Institut d’études politiques, Université de Rennes, France), April 29, 2014.
• 4^th PF lecture “The Meaning of Life Amidst the Crisis of Capitalism”, April 3, 2014.
• 3^rd PF lecture “Post-democracy”, March 27, 2014.
• 2^nd PF lecture “Politics at the ‘End’ of History”, March 20, 2014.
• 1^st PF lecture “Ideology”, March 13, 2014.