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.