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Conference Identity politics, national culture, and moral resurgence

Participant's who is who

Hans Blom teaches social and political philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of Morality and causality in politics (1995). His main fields of interest are social and political philosophy, and the history of political theory. His edition of Algernon Sidney's Court Maxims (Cambridge university press 1996) constitutes a nice case of identity politics.

Jodi Dean is assistant professor of political science at Hobart-William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. She is the author of Solidarity of strangers. Feminism after identity politics (Un. of California press 1996), and the editor of Feminism and the new democracy. Resiting the political (Sage 1997). Her main fields of interest are political and social philosophy, feminism, cultural theory.

Jan Willem Duyvendak is professor in the philosophy of community development, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of The power of politics: new social movements in France (Westview press 1995) and Waar blijft de politiek? (Boom 1997), co-author of New social movements in Europe. A comparative analysis (Un. of Minnesota press 1995), and co-editor of Maakbaarheid. Liberale wortels en hedendaagse kritiek van de maakbare samenleving (with Ido de Haan, Amsterdam un. press 1997). His main fields of interest are sociology, political theory, gay and lesbian theory, community organizing, and cultural theory.

Marc Hooghe is an historian and economist, and also a radio journalist at the Belgian network BRTN. He is the author of Het wordt nooit meer zoals vroeger. 1945-1995, Belgi‰ een halve eeuw modern, in which he analyzes and criticizes the processes of modernization. His main fields of interest are consumerism, new social movements, environmental policy, and emancipation. He is working on a comparative study of the women's movement and environmental protection groups.

Jos de Mul is professor of philosophical anthropology, Erasmus University, and dean of the department of philosophy. He is the author of Homo Zappens (Kok Agora 1997), Romantic desire in (post)modern art and philosophy (SUNY press 1997) and The tragedy of finitude: Dilthey's hermeneutics of life (Yale university press 1998).

Philippe Nemo is professor at the department of law, economics and social sciences, at the Ecole Sup‚rieure de Commerce de Paris. His conversations with Emmanuel Levinas are published as Ethique et infini: dialogues avec Immanuel Levinas (Fayard 1984). He is the author of Le chaos pedagogique (Albin Michel 1993) and Job et l'exces du mal (Grasset 1978).

Gijs van Oenen teaches practical philosophy and philosophy of law, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam; he is also research fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of a book on the legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin, Conventie en rechtsintrige (W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink 1994). His main fields of interest are legal, social and political philosophy.

Jose Portillo Valdes is professor in the department of contemporary history, Universidad del Pais Vasco at Vitoria- Gasteiz. He has published on local rights in Bask country, and on the constitution of Cadiz. His publications include Los poderes locales en la formaci¢n del r‚gimen foral: Guip£zcoa, 1820-1850 (Bilbao 1989) and Monarq¡a y gobierno provincial. Poder y constituci¢n en las provincias vascas (1760-1808) (Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1991).

Steven Seidman is professor of sociology at the University of Albany, State University of New York. He is the editor of Postmodernism and social theory (with David Wagner, Blackwell 1992), The postmodern turn (Cambridge un. press 1994), Social postmodernism (with Linda Nicholson, Cambridge un. press 1995), and Queer theory/sociology (Blackwell 1996), and the author of, most recently, Embattled eros: sexual politics and ethics in contemporary America (Routledge 1992), Contested knowledge: social theory in the postmodern era (Blackwell 1994) and Difference troubles: queering social theory and sexual politics (Cambridge un. press, forthcoming). His main fields of interest are social theory, cultural studies, sexuality, lesbian and gay studies, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, and feminist theory.

Martin Thom is a writer and translator living in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is Republics, nations, and tribes (Verso 1995), on nationalism, republicanism, and their relation to romanticism. His translations include writings of Birnbaum, Godelier, Aftalion, and Auge.

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