Events’ Reviews: Conference "Hegemony and fields. Working with the concepts of Gramsci and Bourdieu", Centre Émile Durkheim, Science Po Bordeaux, January 16-17, 2025

The underlying epistemological project of the conference was to deploy concepts from Gramsci and Bourdieu in their own logic, that is by employing and mobilizing them. Hegemony and field are analytical and heuristic concepts, therefore if they are considered statically as falling points or sites of anchorage, they lose their raison d’être. They can only be appreciated as devices for ongoing work and must be constantly put to the test, just as their operational quality and openness as thinking tools must be upheld; this is a fundamental feature common to both, as well as the respective conceptual constellations in which they are embedded.