Tagung 2026 "The Power and Norms of Critique"
International and interdisciplinary conference organized by the Graduiertenkolleg „Normativity, Critique, Change“ in Berlin on February 12th and 13th 2026 with an opening reception on February 11th 2026.
Critical impulses play a central role in the development of society while they are tied, in their turn, to the normative frameworks established within social contexts. In this respect, critique is always in tension with prevailing norms; however, it may also depend on normative foundations that can go beyond what is given in a society. Against the background of this tension, the conference aims to investigate the scope and the (normative) foundations of critique, focusing on four contexts: firstly, the narrative foundations of normative critique, secondly, the interpersonal forms of relationship relevant to the realization of critique, thirdly, physicality and materiality in the emergence of resistance and fourthly, the positionality of critique.
