Objective: initial contact and dialogue between researchers from two different social theories that we define as “peripheric”: Latin America and Western Balkans.

Guiding questions:

power, crises actually bear in the peripheral reality?

Possible outcomes – common grounds:

peripheries, to provide a common ground (or guidelines) for a revision (critique) of the “central” social theory? Or: Can, how and should we speak of a common orientation of a peripheric critique?

contemporary “central” critical theory?

25th of November

09h (Brazil) / 13h (Serbia)

I panel: beyond canonical critical theory

Andrea Perunović: “The Universal and the Semi-peripheral: Notes Toward a Peninsular Thinking”

David F. L. Gomes: “Peripheral voices in critical theorizing: towards a universalism from the South”

Vanja Grujic: “Peripheral experiences (de)constructing universalisms: a postcolonial critique”

26th of November

09h (Brazil) / 13h (Serbia)

II panel: other critical traditions: praxis of theorizing (part 1)

Marjan Ivković – “Post-socialist semi-periphery: a fertile ground for counterhegemony?”

Gabriel Rezende: “Populism and institucionalidad: two peripheral concepts”

Milan Urošević: “Always Striving, Never Achieving: Doing Theory in the Balkans Between Nativism and Universality”

26th of November:

13h (Brazil)/ 17h (Serbia)

III panel: other critical traditions: praxis of theorizing (part 2)

Mariana Fischer: “Neoliberalism and extremism in Brazil today: beyond Foucault”

Sara Dragišić: “Peripheral Rationality: Forms of Subjectivation between Law and Governability”

Tijana Matijević: “Comparable Universalisms: Literary Criticism of the São Paulo and Praxis Schools”

Srđan Đurović – “Living Verum Factum on the Semiperiphery: Lessons from the Yugoslav Praxis Philosophy”