Public Lecture with professor Chantal Mouffe

CBS Public-Private Platform and the centreleft think thank Cevea is proud to invite you to a public lecture with professor Chantal Mouffe, taking place at CBS Ovnhallen the 24th of April 2013.

Chantal Mouffe is a political theorist and professor of political theory at the University of Westminster. Mouffe is the editor and author behind numerous publications, recently The Democratic Paradox (Radical Thinkers). She is currently elaborating a non-rationalist approach to political theory; formulating an ‘agonistic’ model of democracy. At the public lecture, she will elaborate on her approaches to the concept of the Political, in particular in relationship to her ongoing engagement with the work of Carl Schmitt, antagonism, agonism, pluralism, liberalism, and the democratic. Furthermore she will indicate her understanding and analyses of current political developments, the future of the political and the institutions, practices of representative democracy, and indeed of the state, particularly in Europe, post-financial crisis.

Program
17.30: Doors open
17.30: Sandwiches and water
18.00: Welcome by Professor Paul du Gay, CBS Public-Private Platform
18.10: Lecture by Professor Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster
19.00: Questions from the audience
19:30: Wine reception

Registration: Please email publicprivateplatform@cbs.dk (first come first served)

CBS address: Porcelænshaven 20, 24A/B, 26, 2000 Frederiksberg, Ovnhallen