Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium “NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND WORLD ORDER: BACK TO THE FUTURE, FORWARD TO THE PAST”
Annual Conference of INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL THEORY CONSORTIUM 2026
in cooperation with Department of Sociology and Centre for Theoretical Research in the Humanities of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Zagreb
“NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND WORLD ORDER: BACK TO THE FUTURE, FORWARD TO THE PAST”
November 12-14, 2026, Zagreb, Croatia
The conference hosts:
Krešimir Žažar, University of Zagreb (Croatia) kzazar@ffzg.hr
Daniel Krier, Iowa State University (USA) krier@iastate.edu
Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee – Knoxville (USA) hdahms@utk.edu
ON-SITE: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Address: Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
The Conference Hall of the Faculty’s Library (Second floor)
ON-LINE:The link for joining the conference remotely is available by the e-mail request sent to the hosts.
PROGRAM
Day 1 – Thursday November 12, 2026
Venue: The Conference Hall of the Faculty’s Library (Second floor)
11.30-12.00 Opening of the Conference
12.00-13.30 – Session 1
Chairing: Krešimir Žažar
- Daniel Krier –Economic Theology, Post-Neoliberal Capitalism, and the New Power Elite?
- Thomas Bechtold – Reversion/Obversion: Simulations of Empire and Nation
13.30-15.00 – Break
15.00-16.30 – Session 2
Chairing: Stelios Panageotou
- Tony Feldmann – Conspiracy Theories and the Dialectic of Symbolic Boundaries
- Ilaria Riccioni (on-line) – Re-signifying the Border in the Era of Neo-Imperialism: Genealogies of Power between Re-territorialization and Global Governance
16.30-17.00 – Break
17.00-18.30 – Session 3
Chairing: Daniel Krier
- Lauren Langman – Human Nature: Biophilia or Necrophilia?
- Matko Krce-Ivančić – Forward to the Invention of Eastern Europe
Day 2 – Friday November 13, 2026
Venue: The Conference Hall of the Faculty’s Library (Second floor)
12.00-13.30 – Session 4
Chairing: Tony Feldmann
- Adele Bianco (on-line) –From Pins to Prompts: Generative AI and the Uneven Reorganization of Cognitive Labour
- Anthony J. Knowles – Queering the Work Ethic: Keynes, Basic Income, “Unearned” Leisure, and Postwork Futures
13.30-15.00 – Break
15.00-16.30 – Session 5
Chairing: David N. Smith
- Alban Knecht and Christopher Schlembach – From Resonance to Reciprocity: Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Resources
- David N. Smith – The Self-Emancipation of the Precariat
16.30-17.00 – Break
17.00-19.00 – Session 6
Chairing: Anthony J. Knowles
- Stelios Panageotou – Citizenship in the Age of Hyperpolitics: Other-Directed, Mimetic, Dividuated
- Krešimir Žažar – Paradox of the 21st Century – Trapped Between Neoliberal Individualism and Neo-imperial Hegemonism
- Oliver Kozlarek (on-line) –’Moral universalism’ or the necessary universality for a humane society? – A critique of Hans Joas’s Universalismus. Weltherrschaft und Menschheitsethos
Day 3 – Saturday November 14, 2026
Venue: Faculty’s Council Room (Groundfloor)
11.00-12.30 – Session 7
Chairing: Christopher Schlembach
- David Leupold – When the Past is a Future Haunting: The Broken Promises of the Twentieth Century between Retrotopia and Re:utopia
- David N. Smith – Late Authoritarianism: Legitimacy Crisis and the Globalization of Bonapartism
12.30-12.45 – Break
12.45-13.30
- Harry F. Dahms (on-line) – Modern Society: Artifice, Critical Theory, and the Logic of Capital
13:30-14:30 – General discussion about the conference’s topic – Social Theory and Understanding of the (New) World Order
Chairing: Harry F. Dahms, Daniel Krier, Krešimir Žažar
14.30-15.00 – Closing of the Conference
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