IEAoLU’s Tuesdays : conference by Chantal Mouffe on 12th december 2017

On Tuesday 12th december 2017 at 6 pm at the Lieu Unique in Nantes (free)

IEAoLU’s Tuesdays come back in December with a new conference: Chantal Mouffe will give the last presentation of 2017 on the topic “The populist challenge”:

“ In “The populist challenge” I will examine the reasons why we are currently witnessing a ‘period of populism’ with the emergence of movements which are constructing a political boundary based on the opposition between ‘the people’ and ‘the establishment’. I will argue the case that it is actually a form of resistance to ‘post-democracy’ which is the consequence of neo-liberal hegemony. Such resistance can be expressed using very different vocabulary, and that is where the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism can be found.”

Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London. She has worked as professor and researcher in many universities in Europe, North America and South America. She is a corresponding member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the author of Le paradoxe démocratique, L’illusion du consensus (Albin Michel, 2016) and Construire un peuple, pour une radicalisation de la démocratie (éditions du Cerf, 2017).

IAS’conferences, whether they take place at the Institute or at the Lieu Unique, are free and open to the general public, but you already can book a seat by filling up the form below.

IEAoLU’s Tuesdays are a series of public conferences organized in partenership with the Lieu unique, every month (at 6 pm) open to all and free of charge. The guest speaker gives a lecture on a major issue in today’s society with a strong international dimension, then one of the fellows from the IAS takes the floor to give an additional point of view. Subsequently, the audience take part in the discussion.

The IAS-Nantes also organises a series of public conferences which are free of charge and open o all, available on replay.

Replays

The conference of Juliette Grange at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study on last 24th October: The Republican Idea nowadays.

The IEAoLU conference of Dominique Cardon on last 10th October: Algorithms and the predictable world.

 Next conference

Emmanuel Dockès at the IEAoLU : For another labour code.