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Agnès Grivaux, Alexandra Colligs, Anders Bartonek, Anke Devyver, Anne-Gaëlle Bled, Annette de Moura, Aurelia Peyrical, Bruno Carvalho, Cassandre Caballero, Delia Popa, Ed Graham, Emmanuel Nardon, Estelle Ferrarese, Frederico Lyra, Gordon Finlayson, Iaan Reynolds, Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, Jessica Feely, Karin Stögner, Katia Genel, Lea Gekle, Louis Hartnoll, Marie Loslier Simon, Paul Dablemont, Peter Dews, Peter E. Gordon, Pierre-François Noppen, Plamen Andreev, Raffaele Carbone, Salima Naït Ahmed, Surti Singh, Vincent Chanson, Vladimir Safatle, William Ross, Yasmin Afshar
As the readers of this blog know, the 10th meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies was held on May 30-31. The event took place on the beautiful “Pôle Citadelle” campus of the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, in Amiens, France. We owe the stunning design of the campus to the Italian architect Renzo Piano (see pictures below).
Our very heartfelt thanks go to Estelle Ferrarese and her team: Anne-Gaëlle Bled, Cassandre Caballero, Lea Gekle, Frederico Lyra, Annette de Moura and Salima Naït Ahmed, for the amazing work they did on planning and organizing this very successful meeting. This year the program was organized around a very timely theme in Adorno studies: “History and Social Theory”. It brought together a host of excellent scholars, several of whom are emerging scholars or new to the Association. Our thanks to all the presenters for their very thought-provoking and high-caliber papers on various aspects of Adorno’s views on the theme and to all the other participants who chaired sessions and partook in the lively discussions throughout the event. We counted participants from France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Canada and the US at this event.
As is our custom, the business meeting was held on the second day at lunch time. The main order of business was the election of a new executive. I am thrilled to announce that William Ross has accepted the role of President and Paul Dablemont that of Vice-President for a term of 3 years. Let us all thank them for their commitment to the AAS, congratulate them very warmly on their nomination and wish them the best for a very successful tenure!
Three other points of business are worth highlighting:
First, the Harvard meeting (to be hosted by Peter Gordon) has been pushed to the spring of 2026. William and Paul have been at work on a plan for 2025. They will be in touch with news about it over the summer.
Second, you can now forward information to be posted on the blog directly to William and Paul (follow the links above). They will be taking over the administration of this blog (at least until further notice).
Third, stay tuned for news about the relaunch of our journal, Adorno Studies, at Mimesis Press. It promises much!
I attach some pictures that document the event. They include pictures of the enchanting floating gardens (The Hortillonnages), a tour of which Estelle and her team had the marvellous idea to organize for us.
As I am not traveling anywhere, the availability of papers matters to me. There is one above all that is relevant to my current interests: Anders Bartonek (Associate Professor, University of Södertörn), “Identity-thinking only. On the coherence and inner tensions of Adorno’s concept of thinking”.
The papers weren’t circulated and, as a rule, we haven’t been collecting the papers from the meetings here. Please feel free to contact Anders directly for his paper.