The Academy of Democratic Modernity is organizing a Conference of Science for Society in Ljubljana and Koper (Slovenia) between April 8 and 12, to talk about the revolutionary political thought of Kurdistan.
The Academy of Democratic Modernity (ADM) is organizing a Conference of Science for Society in Ljubljana and Koper (Slovenia) between April 8 and 12, to talk about the revolutionary political thought of Kurdistan.
The ADM wrote in its presentation of the conference that the "Kurdish people live divided between four Middle Eastern countries whose borders were drawn by colonialism. Women's protests in Iran, the revolution in Rojava (Syria), the movement for local self-government in Turkey are just some of the materializations of their political thought, which is based on community democracy, ecology, and the radical liberation of women, which the movement understands as the vanguard of the 21st century."
The central political thinker of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, Abdullah Öcalan, has been imprisoned in solitary confinement on the prison island of Imrali in Turkey for 25 years, from where he publishes - in the form of court defenses - a new political paradigm that is not only aimed at the liberation of Kurdistan, the path to peace, and a democratic solution for the Middle East, but it also offers a method through which societies around the world can find answers to pressing social problems.
Thus, said the ADM, "part of these efforts is also a deep revaluation of science, which tries to answer the question of what kind of social science should be to contribute to radical social changes, instead of serving as a tool of oppression and exploitation.
The international conference will host both foreign and domestic lecturers. There will be a series of short lectures, as well as in-depth seminars, including on women's science - Jineolojî. There will be speakers from Kurdistan and round tables on the problems of the neoliberal academy, imprisoned political thinkers and the current international situation, with a focus on Palestine, Kurdistan and the Balkans."
The conference is organized in cooperation with: Journal for Critique of Science, List of Democratic Students, Academy of Democratic Modernity, ŠSD Sociopathy, ŠSD SocioKlub, Center for Political Theory, Independent Coastal Radio.
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Conference program:
Monday, April 8, Koper
18:00–20:30 – Lecture: What kind of science do we need to get out of multiple crises?: Abdullah Öcalan and the liberation thought of Kurdistan
Tuesday, April 9, Ljubljana
10:00–13:00 – Seminar: The necessity of science for society and intellectual revolutions: Öcalan's Sociology of Freedom
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
16:00-18:00 – Round table: Current political situation in Kurdistan
Wednesday, April 10, Ljubljana
10:00-13:00 – Seminar: What is Jineolojî?
16.00–18.00 – Round table: Between emancipatory science and neoliberal academia
Thursday, April 11, Ljubljana
9:00–12:00 – Series of short discussions: Dialogues with Öcalan
12.00–13.30 – Lunch
13:30 –14:15 – Lecture: Revolutionary time in survival spaces: Friendship and communal life among political refugees from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Greece – Beja Protner
14.15–16.00 – Round table: Closed political thought – Cirila Toplak, Andrej Kurnik, Žiga Vodovnik
17.00 – Talk/Workshop: Palestine, Kurdistan, Yugoslavia: Democratic Nation as a response to Balkanization / Lebanonization
Friday, April 12, Ljubljana
18:00-20:00 – Discussion: Internationalism and the world political situation
21.00 – Concert: Below the Roots (Balkan folk) & Grunt (Ethno rock)
