On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, "Institut für Sozialforschung" (IfS) is hosting an international conference "Futuring Critical Theory" at Goethe University Frankfurt on September 13–15, 2023.
* Section 1: Dissecting Critical Theory
* Section 2: Globalizing Critical Theory
* Section 3: Materializing Critical Theory
* Section 4: Recomposing Critical Theory
See the programme here.
Abstracts here.
Registration here.
Special issue of "Communication Theory" (vol. 33, nos. 2-3, 2023) on the role and future of public sphere theory in digital societies:
Reconceptualizing public sphere(s) in the digital age? (Open access)
Articles by Mark Eisenegger, Mike S Schäfer, Axel Bruns, Uwe Hasebrink, Thomas N. Friemel, Christoph Neuberger, Sarah J. Jackson, Daniel Kreiss, Hallvard Moe, Pascal Schneiders, Michael Brüggemann, Hendrik Meyer, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Lewis A Friedland, Risto Kunelius, Andreas Jungherr, and Ralph Schroeder.
Two reviews of Jürgen Habermas's "Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik" (Suhrkamp, 2022):
* Hubertus Buchstein in "Politische Vierteljahresschrift", forthcoming (Open access)
* Rainer Freudenthaler in "Publizistik", forthcoming (Open access)
See my list of reviews of Habermas's book here.
In ”Educational Theory” (vol. 73, no. 2): Discourse Ethical Perspectives on Education in Polarized Political Cultures
* Christopher Martin – “Symposium Introduction: Discourse EthicalPerspectives on Education in Polarized Political Cultures” (open access)
* Julian Culp – “Democratic Citizenship Education in Digitized Societies: A Habermasian Approach"
* Christopher Martin – “Educational Institutions and Indoctrination” (open access)
* Anniina Leiviskä – “Truth, Moral Rightness, and Justification: AHabermasian Perspective on Decolonizing the University” (open access)
* Krassimir Stojanov – “Inclusive Universalism as a Normative Principleof Education” (open access)
* Darron Kelly – “Conceptualizing a Practical Discourse Survey Instrument for Assessing Communicative Agency and Rational Trust in Educational Policymaking”
* Gertrud Nunner-Winkler – “Discourse Ethics: A Pedagogical Policy for Promoting Democratic Virtues”
