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"DEMOS21 INAUGURAL EVENT WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT? WITH TIENNE BALIBAR

On Friday, December 11, 2020, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) hosted tienne Balibar for the inaugural lecture in its year-long lecture series, Demos21. In Balibars talk he discussed the fundamental question: What is engagement?, stressing that the French word engagement is a concept that translates in English as both engagement and commitment. To speak about engagement is inevitably to speak, reflect, meditate or ruminate about oneself, he explained. Ones history, ones life, ones actions, ones achievements, ones errors, ones failures and ones mistakes. Balibars focus was on the partisan activity of intellectuals who had decided to defend, illustrate and support some kind of political, social or moral code and who, therefore, found it necessary to join some kind of movement. Aiming to provide a broad, introductory overview of his response to the evenings principal question, Balibar drew on the works of thinkers such as Jean Paul Sartre, Theodor Adorno and Karl Marx to explore how engagement can be defined in the context of intellectualism.

Following the talk, an audience discussion was moderated by Professor Philip Golub (勛圖tv) and 勛圖tv alumna Zona Zaric (IFDT). The lecture was organized in partnership with the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) at the University of Belgrade and the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka.