On January, 30 - February, 2 the 4th annual Winter School "Cold Reason" took place in Keralia. The topic of the school this year was "State. Freedom. Geopolitics".
Key speakers: Alexandre Franco da Sá (University of Coimbra, Porugal), Oleg Kharkhorin (EUSP), Artemy Magun (EUSP), Alexander Filippov (HSE), Alexander Marey (HSE). Together with th students from different regions of Russia the speakers hold several pannels on the following topics:
- Politics of dignity: what it is and how to institutionalize it (Moderator Oleg Kharkhordin)
- The State: Between the Cold Monster and the Moral Police (Modearator Artemy Magun)
- Political Nation and Spatial Order: Towards a New Recombination of the Old Concepts (Moderator Alexander Filippov)
- Where the Civil Power stops working: a Doctrine of the Common Space in the Theory of Francisco de Vitoria (Moderator Alexander Marey)
- Games without Frontiers: Politics and Space in the Western European Contemporary Politics (Alexandre Franco da Sа)
The Winter School ended with the final discussion "Global movements in the 21st century? Joint agendas, structural divides, windows for hegemony".
The detailed program is available here