Workshop

SIXTH ANNUAL CRITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP

May 11-12, 2026 Universität Potsdam
Haus 8, Foyer

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

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After four iterations of the Critical Theory Graduate Workshop organized by the Department of philosophy at the Université de Montréal and the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften at the University of Leipzig, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam has joined the collaboration. The current iteration is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Max Horkheimer.

Program

May 11, 2026

Haus 8, Foyer

10:15–10:30 – Thomas Khurana (Potsdam), Introduction
10:30–11:30 – Hannah von Franz (Leipzig), “As If the Best Had Been Forgotten”: Immortality and the Abolishment of Death in Adorno
11:30–12:30 – Edgar Lopez-Asselin (Montréal), Substance and Organon: Adorno on the Unity of Reason
12:30–14:00 – Lunch Break
14:00–15:00 – Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre (Montréal), Adorno on the Mechanical Logic of Social Totality
15:00–16:00 – Lilith Poßner (Leipzig), Adorno’s Criteria for Diagnosing Social Pathologies
16:00–16:20 – Coffee Break
16:20–17:20 – Iain Macdonald (Montréal), Nothings: Adorno, Hegel, Happiness

May 12, 2026

Haus 8, Foyer

10:15–11:15 – Laurien Wüst (Weimar/Potsdam), The Critique of Automation: On Benjamins Distinction between First and Second Technology
11:15–12:15 – David Jacobs (Potsdam), New Law, New Order! On postcapitalist Legal Theory
12:15–13:45 – Lunch Break
13:45–14:45 – Leonie Stibor (Potsdam), What (If Anything) is Wrong With Appropriation?
14:45–15:45 – Andrea Bianchi (Rom/Potsdam), Determinate Negation and Second Nature: A Critical Theoretical Perspective
15:45 – Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig), Concluding Remarks