Events

EA Congress in Berlin – September 15th 2018

European Alternatives is hosting a one-day Congress in collaboration with the international literature festival Berlin 2018. Save the date!
Political Critique

What Comes After the Nation State?

Thoughts for a future beyond the nation state on the 10-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers

10:30h-22:30h – Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Ten years have past since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in the great Western financial crisis. Since that day, history has returned with a vengeance. From ongoing economic stagnation in large parts of the West to rising extremism, from threats of an end of liberal democracy to challenges to neoliberal globalisation, the world appears in a state of flux. The moment of crisis, interregnum, continues to this day. But while events are racing forwards, can the same be said of ideas? Our conceptual toolkit appears tragically unable to describe our present and shape our future. Why is that? And what are some of the categories that we should radically re-interpret today?

We hold that today only the vision of a radically alternative organisation of our world will enable us to recuperate agency over our future.

In varying debates as well as artistic formats and with experts from all over Europe, such as Ulrike Guérot, Sivan Ben Yishai, Lorenzo Marsili, Niccolò Milanese, Maya Goodfellow, Tithi Bhattacharya and many more, the one-day Congress deals with these questions and challenges.

A poster printing workshop enables visitors to conceive their own visuals for campaigns, assisted by the initiative This town needs posters!

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The congress is taking place on the closing day of the International Literature Festival of Berlin (ILB). The event is also linked with the Open Assembly of European Alternatives on Sunday September 16th where we will gather to work on concrete ideas and actions in workshops and smaller groups.