Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre Structural Change of Property
Date: October 4/5, 2022
Venue: Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Social conflicts over property arise against the background of historically contested concepts of property. In social and political conflicts about who owns whom or what, there is always a social struggle about what counts as property and what does not. Concepts of property are contested in at least three ways. First, property rights take on historically specific forms of the private, the social, and the public. Second, these rights are shaped by different goods; property is held in infrastructures, energy, labor, knowledge, land, data, and nature. Third, property rights are embedded in a social context of appropriation, propriation, and expropriation. Goods are taken into possession, placed under a property regime, or transferred to new owners both with and without the consent of the old ones.
At the international and interdisciplinary conference of the SFB Structural Transformation of Property collaborative research centre, these contested concepts of property will be discussed using case studies that are socially and politically relevant for the present. These case studies include questions about the history of colonial appropriation as well as the restitution of colonial plundered art. In addition, the conventional practice of appropriating natural goods will be questioned in terms of climate policy. A history of expropriation shows that social developments have always been enabled by policies of dispossession. Inheritance societies, with their growing inequalities, raise questions about the temporal limits of property. Digital and financialized capitalism create new kinds of property structures that need to be understood and criticized, and the debate over housing and urban space makes the testing of alternative forms of property urgent. The conference will conclude with a public panel discussion on the goals, strategies, and actors of the campaign for the socialization of property.
Tuesday, October 4
12:00 Welcome by the SFB-Speaker Hartmut Rosa and
The Presidium of the Friedrich-Schiller-University
Introduction by Tilo Wesche
12:30 – 14:00
Keynote 1 Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Comment by Hartmut Rosa
Chair: Helen Gibson
14:00 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 16:00
Panel 1 History of Expropriation
Nicholas Mulder (Cornell University)
Eckart Conze (Marburg University)
Comment by Florian Peters
Chair: Anna Möllers
Panel 2 Expropriation and Civil Disobedience
Andreas Malm (Lund University) (online)
Robin Celikates (Free University of Berlin)
Comment by Petra Gümplová
Chair: Steffen Liebig
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00
Panel 3 Colonial Appropriation
Brenna Bhandar (University of British Columbia) (online)
Allan Greer (McGill University)
Comment by Sophie Jossi-Silverstein
Chair: Merle Heusmann
Panel 4 Appropriation and Restitution
Sophie Schönberger (University of Düsseldorf)
Flower Manase (National Museum of Tanzania)
Comment by Jürgen Martschukat
Chair: Dirk Schuck
18:00 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 20:00
Keynote 2 Jennifer Morgan (New York University) (online)
Comment by Helen Gibson
Chair: Moana Packo
Wednesday, October 5
09:30 – 11:00
Keynote 3 Stephan Lessenich (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Comment by Tilman Reitz
Chair: Verena Wolf
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00
Panel 5 Inheritance
Stefan Gosepath (Free University of Berlin)
Thomas Gutmann (University of Münster)
Comment by Lydia von der Weth
Chair: Karlotta Böthig
Panel 6 Digital and Financial Capitalism
Philipp Staab (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Aaron Sahr (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
Comment by Marlen van den Ecker and Tobias Stadler
Chair: Sebastian Sevignani
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Dialogue Critique of Property
Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Katharina Pistor (Columbia University) (online)
Chair: Niklas Angebauer
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30
Panel 7 Housing: Comparative Studies
Kerstin Brückweh (Berliner Hochschule für Technik)
Marie-Pierre Lefeuvre (University of Tours)
Comment by Daniel Kunze
Chair: Agnieszka Althaber
Panel 8 Who Owns the City?
Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Regina Kreide (Gießen University)
Comment by Markus Kip
Chair: Lukas Lachenicht
17:30 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 20:00 Making Things Public: Vergesellschaftung, Communalisierung, öffentliche Infrastrukturen
mit:
Reinhard Guthke (Verein Bürgerenergie Thüringen)
Joanna Kusiak (DW&Co Enteignen/King’s College, Cambridge)
Cara Röhner (Hochschule RheinMain)
Florian Schmidt (Bezirksstadtrat in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg/ Berlin)
Barbara Schönig (Staatssekretärin im Thüringer Ministerium für Infrastruktur und Landwirtschaft,
Professorin für Stadtplanung, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Raul Zelik (Sozialwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller, Berlin)
Moderation: Silke van Dyk, Ute Tellmann
Registration
If you want to register for the event, please send an email to the following address until September 19: