Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS)
@ccds-aup.bsky.social
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris fosters an interdisciplinary approach to questions of democracy.
Website: aup.edu/critical-democracy
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hufc6n
Website: aup.edu/critical-democracy
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hufc6n
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Join our seminar on "Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern", w/Stephen Sawyer.
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
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What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-border citizen participation?
This is one of the questions being studied by Anja Röcke at the Franco-German border.
She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de.
Read her interview ⤵
This is one of the questions being studied by Anja Röcke at the Franco-German border.
She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de.
Read her interview ⤵
Anja Röcke, studying border regions as laboratories of European integration and democratic innovation
Meet the 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair professor and learn more about her Franco-German project.
www.sciencespo.fr
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-border citizen participation?
This is one of the questions being studied by Anja Röcke at the Franco-German border.
She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de.
Read her interview ⤵
This is one of the questions being studied by Anja Röcke at the Franco-German border.
She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de.
Read her interview ⤵
Join our seminar on "Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern", w/Stephen Sawyer.
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Join our seminar on "Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern", w/Stephen Sawyer.
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
Reposted by Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS)
Reposting this new post from last night.
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The Affective Constitution and Reduction of the Political
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October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposting this new post from last night.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/the-...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/the-...
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire" with Iain Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk).
📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire" with Iain Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk).
📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
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This is exactly right from @joshtpm.bsky.social
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform
I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is exactly right from @joshtpm.bsky.social
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
Charles Walton’s (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution.
More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution.
More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
October 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Charles Walton’s (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution.
More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution.
More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Social Rights in the Longue Durée: Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance" with
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
📅 Oct. 7, 17:00
🏫 Room Q-609
✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
📅 Oct. 7, 17:00
🏫 Room Q-609
✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Social Rights in the Longue Durée: Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance" with
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
📅 Oct. 7, 17:00
🏫 Room Q-609
✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
📅 Oct. 7, 17:00
🏫 Room Q-609
✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
Join us for a seminar on "Constitutional Right to Truth?
How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U).
🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10
🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U).
🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10
🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Join us for a seminar on "Constitutional Right to Truth?
How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U).
🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10
🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U).
🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10
🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona Zarić (AUP)
🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15
🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15
🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona Zarić (AUP)
🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15
🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15
🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy at AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts (www.co3socialcontract.eu) + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 CCDS@aup.edu
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
July 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy at AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts (www.co3socialcontract.eu) + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 CCDS@aup.edu
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
Join Stephen W. Sawyer for a lecture on "Demos Unbound: The French Revolution, 1770-1830" in Seoul, South Korea.
Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025
Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit
gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...
Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025
Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit
gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...
15th Reflexion
Stephen SAWYER Demos Unbound: The French Revolution, 1770-1830 When 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025 Where 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
gihu.page
July 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Join Stephen W. Sawyer for a lecture on "Demos Unbound: The French Revolution, 1770-1830" in Seoul, South Korea.
Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025
Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit
gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...
Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025
Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit
gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...
The CCDS goes to Korea!
Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
July 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The CCDS goes to Korea!
Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Congratulations, @Jaeger-bombe and @espol-lab.bsky.social! We are absolutely delighted to celebrate this richly deserved milestone of our brilliant postdoc Research Fellow!
I have wonderful news to share (I can say it "officially" now): I will be Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics starting next September 1 at ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille. Very enthusiastic to start this new adventure.
July 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Congratulations, @Jaeger-bombe and @espol-lab.bsky.social! We are absolutely delighted to celebrate this richly deserved milestone of our brilliant postdoc Research Fellow!
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[Workshop on Cities]. If you are in Paris, or interested by the topic and want to join us via zoom, we are organizing a two-day international workshop in @ccds-aup.bsky.social on the 12-13 of June, on the Autonomy of Cities: sites.google.com/view/worksho....
May 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
[Workshop on Cities]. If you are in Paris, or interested by the topic and want to join us via zoom, we are organizing a two-day international workshop in @ccds-aup.bsky.social on the 12-13 of June, on the Autonomy of Cities: sites.google.com/view/worksho....
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Are racist jokes funny or dangerous? Can they be both? My new blog on ECtHR's inadequate analysis of satirical hate speech: satire is a vital political instrument, but courts must be mindful of humor's ability to propagate and legitimize prejudice and bigotry. Based on my article: tinyurl.com/humrz
Humor can be a powerful tool, but it can also normalize hate speech.
ROMAN ZINIGRAD (@rzinigrad.bsky.social) explains why the European Court of Human Rights fails to see this dimension and why this poses a danger to vulnerable communities.
verfassungsblog.de/yevstifeyev-...
ROMAN ZINIGRAD (@rzinigrad.bsky.social) explains why the European Court of Human Rights fails to see this dimension and why this poses a danger to vulnerable communities.
verfassungsblog.de/yevstifeyev-...
May 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are racist jokes funny or dangerous? Can they be both? My new blog on ECtHR's inadequate analysis of satirical hate speech: satire is a vital political instrument, but courts must be mindful of humor's ability to propagate and legitimize prejudice and bigotry. Based on my article: tinyurl.com/humrz
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Yesterday at @ccds-aup.bsky.social, the workshop on "Autonomy and the Law", was a very insightful and stimulating event, with great colleagues.
@rzinigrad.bsky.social
Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)
@rzinigrad.bsky.social
Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Yesterday at @ccds-aup.bsky.social, the workshop on "Autonomy and the Law", was a very insightful and stimulating event, with great colleagues.
@rzinigrad.bsky.social
Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)
@rzinigrad.bsky.social
Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)
We thank all participants & guests of the "Autonomy and the Law" workshop featuring extraordinary works on CLTs, moral autonomy of the person, typology of the right to housing, meaning of home, condition of the interpreter, child's autonomy in education, and consumer protection.
May 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We thank all participants & guests of the "Autonomy and the Law" workshop featuring extraordinary works on CLTs, moral autonomy of the person, typology of the right to housing, meaning of home, condition of the interpreter, child's autonomy in education, and consumer protection.
Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on “Autonomy and the Law” on May 13, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, and digital markets.
Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw
Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social
Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw
Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on “Autonomy and the Law” on May 13, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, and digital markets.
Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw
Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social
Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw
Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social
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Une première, je viens d'enregistrer un podcast d'une heure et demie sur le thème de la vulnérabilité en philosophie politique (avec l'aide de collègues à AUP pour la technique). J'espère que ce sera disponible dans les prochaines semaines. Quels autres thèmes vous intéresserait?
April 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Une première, je viens d'enregistrer un podcast d'une heure et demie sur le thème de la vulnérabilité en philosophie politique (avec l'aide de collègues à AUP pour la technique). J'espère que ce sera disponible dans les prochaines semaines. Quels autres thèmes vous intéresserait?
A fantastic, eye-opening lecture by @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) on the role of mainstream media, security crises, and public opinion in the normalization of far-right politics in Germany.
(Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)
(Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)
April 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A fantastic, eye-opening lecture by @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) on the role of mainstream media, security crises, and public opinion in the normalization of far-right politics in Germany.
(Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)
(Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)
How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP).
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
April 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP).
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, will deliver the 2025 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture at @Stanford’s Dept. of French & Italian.
🗓 April 10, 2025
🕔 5:15 PM
🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
🗓 April 10, 2025
🕔 5:15 PM
🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
April 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, will deliver the 2025 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture at @Stanford’s Dept. of French & Italian.
🗓 April 10, 2025
🕔 5:15 PM
🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
🗓 April 10, 2025
🕔 5:15 PM
🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
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Starting Deleuze in Philosophy of Film today.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...
Becoming Spider-Man: Deleuze and the Superhero Film
www.unemployednegativity.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Starting Deleuze in Philosophy of Film today.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...
A fantastic presentation by Claudia Wiesner on her latest book analyzing the French & German national discourses that shape or undermine the formation of EU identity(ies). With incisive commentary by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social & Johannes Karremans @espol-lab.bsky.social on the looming EU crisis.
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A fantastic presentation by Claudia Wiesner on her latest book analyzing the French & German national discourses that shape or undermine the formation of EU identity(ies). With incisive commentary by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social & Johannes Karremans @espol-lab.bsky.social on the looming EU crisis.
Claudia Wiesner (Fulda U) will present her recent book on "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity" (Routledge, 2024), followed by commentary by Johannes Karremans (@espol-lab.bsky.social) and @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social (AUP). Join us on April 3!
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner
March 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Claudia Wiesner (Fulda U) will present her recent book on "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity" (Routledge, 2024), followed by commentary by Johannes Karremans (@espol-lab.bsky.social) and @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social (AUP). Join us on April 3!
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner