Extra-Subjectivity, the first installment of the “New Concepts in Post-Identitarian Thought” conference series, took place at the University of Bern in December 1-2 2013. The conference was organized in cooperation with the Distinguished Lecture Series 2013 “Hybridity and/as Contingency” and supported by the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS) of the University of Bern and the CUSO Doctoral Program in English Language and Literature.

Its aim was to examine the concept of community in relation to that of subjectivity and to create a forum for different approaches to a crucial problematic in contemporary philosophy, while encouraging a tentative mapping of the changing landscape of the concept of the Subject at the crossing of various disciplines. The organic development of the theme also in this year’s conference seeks to establish a research platform for a fruitful and ongoing conversation to be pursued also in the future around the problematic concept of community.