Basque Visiting Fellow’s Conference Intellectuals and the Limits of the Neoliberal State in Globalisation (Migration, Terrorism, Populism)
Basque Visiting Fellow’s Conference Intellectuals and the Limits of the Neoliberal State in Globalisation (Migration, Terrorism, Populism)
Intellectuals and the Limits of the Neoliberal State in Globalisation (Migration, Terrorism, Populism)
St Antony’s College, Oxford. Tuesday 10 May 2016.
Venue: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford. Convenor: Joseba Gabilondo
9.25am Welcome and introduction from Joseba Gabilondo
First Session from 10 – 12:30am. Anticolonialism, Victimhood, and Gated Intellectual Communities.
9:30am How to be an Anticolonial Intellectual in Spain and not die in the process: The cases of Alfonso Sastre and Manuel de Pedrolo. Helena Miguelez (Bangor University)
10.15am A Genealogy of Political Victim Enshrinement, from Rafael Sanchez Mazas to Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio. Justin Crumbaugh (Mount Holyoke College)
11:00 Coffee break
11.15am Gated Communities: Spanish Intellectuals and the Flight from Dissent. Elena Delgado (University of Illinois)
12:00pm General Discussion
12.30pm Lunch break in the ESC garden or Common Room (dependent on weather)
Second Session from 2 – 5.00pm: Ethics, Country Formation, and Neonationalist Populism.
2pm Ethics without Responsibility & Basque Equidistant Intelligentsia. Imanol Galfarsoro (Leeds University)
2.45pm Intellectuals in Catalonia: Creating a New Country (from a Rhetorical Standpoint). Jaume Claret (Open University of Catalonia)
3:30pm Coffee break
3.45pm The Neoliberal Convert: The Intellectual Use of Terrorism and Immigration for the Articulation of Neonationalist Populism. Joseba Gabilondo (Michigan State University and Visiting Fellow to St Antony’s College, Oxford)
4.30-5:00pm General Discussion
A conference organised in conjunction with the Fellowship sponsored by The Basque Government/Eusko Jaurlaritza of the Autonomous Basque Community.