Journée d’étude: Anarchists as Intellectuals / Intellectuals as Anarchists

Programme:

9h30-9h45 – Welcome / introduction

9h45-11h15 – Panel 1: Material and Intellectual Cultures

  • Kathy E. Ferguson
    “Anarchism’s Art: Wood Engraving and Thing Power”
  • Constance Bantman
    “Jean Grave’s Moribund Society and Anarchy (1893): The Travels and Tribulations of a Landmark Philosophical Essays”

11h15-11h30 – Comfort break

11h30-13h00 – Panel 2: Circulations and Translations

  • Laura Galián
    “The Anarchist Translator as Public Intellectual: Knowledge, Resistance and the Intellectual Praxis of Samih Said Aboud”
  • John-Erik Hansson
    “A transnational network to reimagine anarchism’s history after World War II: William Godwin in the Cahiers Pensée & Action (1953)”

13h-14h30 – Lunch break

14h30-16h00 – Panel 3: Debating/Defining the Intellectual

  • Matthew S. Adams
    “McLuhanacy: Anarchism, Marshall McLuhan, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals”
  • Sophie Scott-Brown
    “Anarchist Thinking and/or Anarchist Thought?”

16h00-16h30 – Coffee break

16h30-18h00 – Panel 4: Intellectual(?) Milieux

  • Nadine Willems
    “Anarchist Dialogue between East and West: Japanese Intellectuals and the Reclus Family (1913-1940)
  • Raymond C. Craib [on Zoom from Ithaca, NY]
    “Lupen-América: The Twentieth-Century Anarchist World of Manuel Rojas”

18h00-18h30 – Conclusions / General discussion