The Graduiertenkolleg 2638 will host its first international conference in 2023. "Moving Normativity" will be held on May 11 and 12 at the Uferstudios in Berlin. Bringing together researchers from Philosophy, Law, Political Theory, Religious Studies, and several disciplines from the Arts, the conference seeks to create a space for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to pressing questions on normativity, agency, and social change.?According to a general premise of our research, action is based on norms on the one hand, and only possible through a distance from norms on the other. In this understanding, critique is inherent to normativity. The conference sheds light on the various sites of tension inherent to agency, normative action and critique in four panels.

Thursday, May 11 23

9:30 Opening

Panel 1: Negotiating Normative Power. Identifying with, resisting against, and (re)shaping social standards

How is the normative power of action negotiated between multiple agents (norm authorities, role models, activists, artists, etc.) and in which way can marginalized groups participate in the negotiation process? Is participation in progress based on a subversive potential? How is this expressed and acted upon in religious, linguistic, and artistic practices?

Speakers: Ana Deumert (Linguistics), Giulia Sissa (Religious Studies and Classics), Sumi Madhok (Political Theory and Gender Studies) / Moderation by Deborah M¨¹hlebach

10:00-10:45 Talk 1 (45min incl. discussion)

10:45-11:30 Talk 2 (45min incl. discussion)

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break (15min)

11:45-12:30 Talk 3 (45min incl. discussion)

12:30-13:15 Panel discussion (45min)

13:15-15:00 Lunch Break (1h 45min)

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Panel 2: Social Movements, Blockade, and Contestation

In which sense can social change be shaped by social agents and movements which themselves have to rely on existing normative structures, for example in the form of rights? Can the grounding structures and bodily practices of contestation be understood as truly emancipatory, or do they rather tend to normalize subjects involved in practices of dissent, thus taming and neutralizing potentials of radical change?

Speakers:?Tim Wihl (Jurisprudence),?Daniel Loick (Philosophy),?Bojana Kunst (Dance and Performance Studies) /?Moderation by Tobias Wieland

15:00-15:45 Talk 1 (45min incl. discussion)

15:45-16:30 Talk 2 (45min incl. discussion)

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break (15min)

16:45-17:30 Talk 3 (45min incl. discussion)

17:30-18:15 Panel discussion (45min)

Further information may be found here.