Fault Lines of Representation: Forms of Representation In and Beyond Democracy

PROGRAMME
Workshop at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
 
Thursday, 12 November 2026 
10:00 Introduction (Philipp Müller)
10:15 PANEL 1
Engineering Representation: Electoral Thresholds and the Layering of Representative Forms in Turkey, 1961-2023 | Seyfullah Yürük (Eskişehir Osmangazi University Turkey)
Autonomy or Representation? Civil Society and Popular Sovereignty in the French Third Republic Beyond ‘la representation numérique’ (1884-1920) | Tommaso Giordani (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)

12:00 PANEL 2
More Democracy, Less Representation? Electoral and Functional Modes of Representation in Rural Brandenburg from Socialism to Post Socialism | Christopher Banditt (University Potsdam)
The Conditions of a Successful Claim: Representing European Veterans and Postwar Democratization | Alexander Hobe (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)

15:00 PANEL 3
From the Bureaucracy of Rags to the Representation of Exile: The Spanish Socialist Party, Refugees in France, and the Wizard of Albi (1945-1965) | Benjamin Riviale (Université Paris Nanterre)
The Europeanisation of Economic Claim-Making: The Creation of the British Textile Confederation | Katharina Troll (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)

 
Friday, 13 November 2026
09:45 PANEL 4 | 
Representative Claims of Leagues Against Parties up Until the Middle of the 20th Century | Antonin Cohen (Université Paris Nanterre)
Transparency as a Greedy Institution: Analysing the Dynamic of Representation’s Changing Nature in Democracies | Dr Thomas Laux (Chemnitz University of Technology)

11:30 PANEL 5 | 
We Now Have a Voice and Vote: The Articulation of Political Legitimacy by the ‘Bancada Negra’ in the Brazilian National Congress | Dr Lívia de Souza Lima (University Regensburg)
Governing the Unenfranchised: Surrogate Representation and the Fault Lines of the Democratic Demos (19th-21st Century) | Chamseddine Hamrouni (University of Education Freiburg)