Boğaziçi University hosts Istanbul Critical Theory Conference, an academic conference that will take place at Bogazici University in 2-4 June 2016 under Adorno and Politics title.

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Adorno's Negative Dialectics in 2016 provides an excellent opportunity to explore the role that Adorno's work can play for the future of critical theory. This conference will focus on the following topics in Critical Theory inspired by Adorno's oeuvre: 
- the relationship between politics and neoliberal economy 
- art and political action 
- language, concepts and their political / philosophical significance 
- the (im)possibilities of political practice 
- Adorno and modern / contemporary political theory
- exploring the paths opened up by Adorno's thought 
- with Adorno, beyond Adorno: expanding the horizons of Critical Theory relations and resonances between Adorno and other critical thinkers, past and present 

Keynote Speakers: 

Seyla Benhabib /Yale University
Jay M. Bernstein /The New School for Social Research,
Susan Buck-Morss / CUNY Graduate Center
Maeve Cooke / University College Dublin

Organizing Chairs:

Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Gambetti
, Department of Political Science and International Relations,
 Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Assist. Prof. Volkan Cidam, 
Department of Political Science and International Relations,
 Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Philip Hogh, Adorno Research Center at the Philosophy Department,
 Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

Conference website and program: 

http://adornoconference.boun.edu.tr/

For all queries, please write to: adornoconference@boun.edu.tr

The conference will be in English only.

02.06.2016, 09:30, Rectorate Conference Hall