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ArgumentPublic sphere has been conceptualized as a discursive realm, enlightened sphere of ideas, opinions and rational debate in a national context. In the contemporary era, cultural heterogeneity and global connections challenge the unity of national communities and its norms. Art participates to the agonistic dimension of the public sphere, challenges dominant norms and becomes part of controversies. Visual culture mobilizes affects, accelerates (mis)communications across the national boundaries in the construction of multicultural settings. We will explore the ways in which plurality of perspectives emerge and help to open up &#160;the emancipatory potential of the public sphere and its culture.Program9.00 Welcoming Coffee09.30 Nil&#252;fer G&#246;le, General introduction10.00 Roundtable 1: Urban space for appearance, resistance and experience&#160;10.00 Judit Carrera, Artistic interventions for democratizing city life10.30 Sarah Dornhof, Public art and everyday resistance: Case of the monument installation in Dresden11.00 Mustafa Diktas, Public space and hybrid spirituality: Aya Yorgi in Istanbul11.30 Sencer Vardarman, Image archive of Gezi protests12.00 General discussion12.30 Lunch Break13.30 Roundtable 2: Art in tension with national norms13.30 Marina Repezza, The Mosque: Contemporary Art and the Question of&#160;Separation. Analysis of a controversy at the 56th Venice Biennale14.00 Asmaa Soliman, Emerging Counterpublics:&#160;German Muslim Female Artists Challenging the Public Sphere14.30 Peter Ronald deSouza, From celebrated artist to villain: The&#160;paintings of MF Husain15.00 P&#233;n&#233;lope Larzilli&#232;re, Artistic testimony and commitment:&#160;Perspectives on political art in the Middle East15.30 Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Daddy Issues &#38; Middle Eastern Politics16.00 General discussion16.15 Coffee Break16.30 Roundtable 3: Public controversies: Religious and secular&#160;fantasies, affects and critics16.30 Camil Ungureanu, Nihilism, religious fantasy, and humor in&#160;Michel Houellebecq&#8217;s &#8220;Submission&#8221;17.00 Nadia Fadil, Why we (need to) condemn. Investigating the calls&#160;for &#8216;auto critique&#8217; after the Paris and Brussels attacks17.30 Nur Yasemin Ural, Law and affective order: Entanglements of&#160;religious feelings and secular affects18.00 General discussion&#160; &#38; Conclusion &#160;Project Directed by Nil&#252;fer G&#246;le EHESS/NOMISTeam membersWarda HadjabZeynep UğurG&#246;k&#231;e Tuncel&#160;Registrations via publicdemosgroups@gmail.com