Making the 1 0 th Annual Historical Materialism World Working Conference Class

7-10th November 2013 Central London 2

‘Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between Despite rising levels of class struggle - from a growing persons’ - and between classes. The complex task working class movement in China to the Arab uprisings of analysing class structures and, at the same time, and mobilisation against austerity in Southern Europe transforming and transcending them is at the core of – discourses of class remain largely marginal to political Marx’s legacy. debate and action. Class struggle is often recognised, namely through the language of inequality, but is being 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of CLR James’s increasingly filtered, also on the left, through notions of “The Black Jacobins” and the 50th anniversary of EP ‘the people’ or ‘the 99%’. Thompson’s “The Making of the English Working Class”. Wary of all reifications of class, Thompson showed how The tenth annual Historical Materialism aims to provide the working class was not only made by capital, but made a forum for debating the descriptive and prescriptive itself in everyday struggles and political agitation. James roles that concepts of class and class struggle can have affirmed the need to look at the international division of today. More generally, we seek contributions that account th Annual labour in the context of race and , and gave for how Marxist theory, historiography and empirical 1 0 voice to the revolutionary agency of the ‘black Jacobins’ research can explain and intervene in the contemporary Historical Materialism and other historically neglected enemies of and conjuncture. We will be hosting a stream on “Race . and Capital” (for which a separate call for papers is forthcoming, along with a CFP building on last year’s Conference In the wake of the new conflicts thrown up by “ and Feminism” stream). decolonisation and more recent processes of neoliberal ‘globalisation’, research in the field of labour and working class history has acquired an increasingly global The conference is self-funded and we will depend on dimension, and become more attentive to the critical role voluntary donations by attendants and participants to played by race and gender in the formations of working Making support the organisation and running of the event. The classes. Social struggles and resistance – from Latin suggested donation on the door is £75 for waged and America to Eastern Europe, from the Arab-Islamic world £35 for unwaged. the World to East Asia – continue to show that working classes worldwide have not ceased remaking themselves, at the same time as they struggle against capitalist strategies For logistical and other support – Historical Materialism to turn class composition into class decomposition, to would like to thank the Working Class unmake a world working class. • School of Oriental and African Studies Significantly, in order to understand this changing For their collaboration – thanks to reality and the roots of the crisis of the neoliberal • Faculty of Law and Social Sciences system, a growing body of scholarship questions the at SOAS 7-10th November 2013 representation of labour as a passive factor in production, • Brill Academic Publishers Central London and investigates how workers’ struggles co-determine • Deutscher Memorial Prize committee processes of capitalist development, as well as cultural Socialist Register. mutations and political transformations. • THURSDAY A 13.30-15.15 3

116 B102 B111 G50 Performance Rosa Luxemburg American power in Marxism – Feminism Aesthetics and Practice in Revolution decline? Theorizing the and the struggle Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: Sebastian Budgen future of world order against patriarchy Larne Abse Gogarty – Proletarian Ben Lewis – ‘Is that our Chair: Alex Anievas Chair: Abbie Bakan dance – reproduction and programme – Karl?’ Luxemburg – Sean Starrs – American economic Eleonora Forenza – The ROOM KEY communist consciousness democracy and the challenge of power hasn’t geclined, It «molecular» revolution: Marina Gerber – Collective the German Revolution globalized! Summoning the data connecting feminist and materialist A School of Oriental and African Studies actions and J. Cage Ottokar Luban – Was Rosa and taking seriously thoughts (SOAS) Josefine Wikström – Between Luxemburg’s confidence in the James Parisot – American empire Deborah Sielert – Feminist KLT - Khalili Lecture Theatre (ground floor) practice and performance: Socialist cleverness and creativity of the and emerging powers: In or perspectives: Global processes of DLT - G3 - G50 - G51 (ground floor) objects and dematerialised Proletarian masses justified? against empire? primitive accumulation and an 116 - First floor commodities Examples in the German Stephen Maher – Empire and example of local resistance 4426 - 4429 Fourth floor Revolutionary Movements resistance in the Middle East Ankica Cakardic – Socialist L67 - Lower ground floor 1918/1919 feminist approach to the artificial Peter Green – Rosa Luxemburg division of labour B Brunei Gallery versus Lukács on Class BGLT – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre – Consciousness – Party and basement Revolution B102 – B104 – B111 – first floor C Cruciform Lecture Theatre D Senate House L67 4426 4429 G51 Marxist theory and Law and Class in Marxist perspectives Queer theory 1 the human sciences 19th century Britain on digital labour Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Giorgos Galanis Chair: Robert Knox Chair: David Broder James Penney – Is there a queer C Alexandre Feron – Tran Duc Thao Marc W. Steinberg – Workplace Ursula Huws – ‘Productive and Marxism? and Marxism subjugation and the materiality of reproductive labour in the internet Holly Lewis – Towards a Marxist Catherine Moir – Ideas for a law: master and servant law and age’ theory of sex and gender materialist philosophy of language exploitation in Victorian England Christian Fuchs – ‘Defining and Phillip Homburg – Sign, symbol Edith Hall – The Greek and theorizing digital labour’ and fetish Roman classics and social class in Christoph Hermann – ‘Digital Johan Siebers – Wisdom in Britain 1789-1939 labour and working time’ Communism Colin Barker – Marx on the Eran Fischer – ‘The Ideology of factory acts: some questions digital labour’ A B D THURSDAY B 15.45-17.30 4

116 B102 B111 G50 Art, Race and Capital Race, Caste, Class Social Reproduction old and new Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Dae-Oup Chang Feminism Chair: Adam Hanieh Ben Pritchett – “These dying Doris Lee – Racialization of Chair: Sue Ferguson Luke Cooper – Class, state power centres”: Constructivism and anti- mainland Chinese ‘outsiders’ in Nicole Leach – Transitions to and transition in China colonialism in ‘This is Tomorrow’ Hong Kong, policies, politics and capitalism: Social reproduction Tyler Shipley – New Canadian Tim Fisken – “Mass culture and culture feminism encounters political imperialism political form in C. L. R. James’ Enrique Martino – A Plantation Marxis Tony Norfield – British ‘American Civilization’” island in the East Atlantic. Ann Wiesental – Inherent imperialism Nizan Shaked – Alliances? The Indentured labour in Spanish contradictions and the crises of left versus identity politics in US Fernando Pó and Equatorial social reproduction Art Guinea, 20th c. Selma James John O’Brien – Indian contradictions: Caste inequalities without class alienation? Riya Mary Al’sanah – Zionism and the enemy within: the struggle for Palestinain liberation in Israel

G51 L67 4426 4429 FG01 Gramsci The theoretical and Neoliberalism and Race, Migration From French Chair: Peter Thomas political legacy Financialisation and Class Philosophy to of Yugoslav self- French Theory Kasim Tirmizey – Gramsci at the Chair: Giorgos Galanis Chair: Lucia Pradella management peripheries: Revisiting theories of Marcus Banks – Neoliberal Matthew Cooper – The remaking Chair: Esther Leslie the post-colonial state Chair: Toni Prug welfare production relations in of the British working class: trade Tzuchien Tho – From French Aaron Bernstein – Gramsci’s Vladimir Unkovski-Korica – Australia unions and black and Asian Philosophy to French Theory: 1964 reading of Marx’s 1859 Preface Workers’ Self-Management in Serdar Sengul – Finance workers in Britain 1949- 1984 Andrew Ryder – Badiou and the Robert Jackson – Is there a theory Yugoslavia 1948-1950: New and financialisation from the Michael M. Hall – Class and Hegelian Dialectic in 1960s French of fetishism in Gramsci’s Prison Evidence perspective of Marx’s Value Theory ethnicity in the formation of the Philosophy Notebooks? Catherine Samary – From the Jim Wolfreys – Neo-liberalism early Sao Paulo Working Class, Samo Tomsic – The Capitalist Alen Suceska – Gramsci and Yugoslav ‘social ownership’ to the and its limits 1890-1930 unconscious: Marx and Lacan Bahktin. A Marxist philosophy of ‘Commons’ Shaun Harkin – Neoliberalism, Knox Peden – (discussant) language Gal Kirn –Yugoslav Self- migration and the US working Management after the market class. reform (1965): between the logic of vanguard and capital THURSDAY C 18.15-20.00 5

B102 B111 G50 G51 Contemporary Concepts in On reproduction and Housing, rent and and the right Marxist Theory: new motherhood urban development Chair: Paul Reynolds time, machinery Chair: Alex Anievas Chair: Adam Hanieh and the state Kevin Ovenden – Which crisis; Ana Vilenica – Becoming a Mary Robertson – Financialisation whose multiculturalism? Chair: Matteo Mandarini Mother: From neoliberal regime and UK Housing Supply - Beyond Benjamin Opratko and Fanny Jonathan Martineau – Capitalist of motherhood towards radical the Land-Banking Debate Müller-Uri – What’s in a Name? value – appropriation and clock- political subjectivisation Jamie Gough – ‘Fictitious The Challenge of “Islamophobia” time: temporal alienation and the Daniela Danna – Surrogacy commodities’, generalised rents and Critical Theories of dialectics of capitalist time contracts: the ultimate workers’ and the contradictions of growth Dimitra Kotouza – Repressive Giorgos Kalampokas, Tassos exploitation? regions: a quantitative model Crisis Management, Nationalism Betzelos and Panagiotis Sotiris Ozlem Celik – The changing and Surplus Populations in – State, political power and of housing of Greece revolution: Althusser, Poulantzas, the poor in Istanbul between 1950 Balibar and the “Debate on the and 2010 State” Michael Edwards – Dilemmas in campaigning about housing and rent in London: distinct forms of financialisation and fragmented class experience

L67 4426 4429 FG01 Senate House (room 264) The International Cinema and The Politics of Anti- Adorno, the Bourgeois N.B. 18.00 Dimension to the Photography Colonialism Interior and the The Market, violence Russian Revolution Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: David Broder Ontology of Hell and consumers Chair: Sebastian Budgen Louis-Georges Schwartz – Nate George – The Prose Chair: Esther Leslie Keynote Speaker: Adam Collins – Arthur Ransome Cinema hostis or historicizing the of insurgency: Anticolonial Sebastian Truskolaski – Adorno Heide Gerstenberger, in Revolutionary Russia 1917- time and movement images movements and historiography in the Mirror: Inversion and University of Bremen 1923 Rianne Subijanto – Communist redemption in the bourgeois Kevin Morgan – In and out of Agata Pyzik – Representations of women and the anti-colonial intérieur This talk is organised as part of the swamp: the unpublished communist Poland on film – pride struggle in Indonesia Tom Allen – Angelus in the the Royal Holloway MA Marketing autobiography of Peter Petroff or contestation? David Barber – Anti-Colonial boudoir: Adorno and the angel of Camp, it begins at 6pm. John Riddell – Clara Zetkin in the Revolution and the origins of the the negative Lion’s Den Grant Mandarino – Capturing 1960s Jacob Bard-Rosenberg – The The talk will take place in Senate Jean-François Fayet – “Karl class: Photographic experience and interior without children: Adorno House, which is located between Radek and Paul Levi in 1921: Two Proletarian representation and the Kindertotenlieder the Brunei Gallery and Malet St. Conceptions of Communism or of International Discipline ” FRIDAY D 9.45-11.30 6

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Racialisation and Antisemitism and Migrant struggles Activity Theory: Researching Class and Black Radical Politics Socialist Strategy 1: Chair: Lucia Pradella from Lev Vygotsky Development: Panel 1 Central and Eastern to Evald Ilyenkov Chair: Brenna Bhandar Rossana Cillo – Immigrant Chair: Dae-Oup Chang Europe – 1880-1917 HLT Quan – Black radicality and workers in the Italian agricultural Chair: Adam Hanieh Owen Miller – The making of ungovernability Chair: Peter Thomas sector: Between informalisation – Alex Levant – The subject of the North Korean working class, Adam Elliott-Cooper – Race Brendan McGeever – Socialists casualisation and irregularisation activity theory: A CHAT with from colonial to postcolonial state to the city: Black-led social and antisemitism in Revolutionary Bernhard Weicht – The Ilyenkov capitalism movements – space and the Russia: February to October 1917 production of migrant care work: Vesa Oittinen – Vygotsky and Liam Campling – The class neoliberal state Gerald Surh – Antisemitism in the benefiting from the intersection Ilyenkov on Spinoza’s Significance dynamics of EU- fisheries Anna Curcio and Miguel eyes of a Jewish Revolutionary of economic, cultural and global for and Analysis of Mind relations Mellino – Race at work. The rise Wiktor Marzec – “Polish and inequalities Peter Jones – Vygotsky – Marxism Ben Selwyn – The many and challenge of Italian racism Jewish workers should struggle Richard Braude – Crisis in the and Pavlov’s reflexology determinants of class and together, under one common cleaning sector Brecht de Smet – Labor struggles development: Evidence from banner”. Antisemitism and counter in Sadat City: Workplaces in/of export grape production, North anti-semitic discoursive strategies in Revolution East Brazil political language during the 1905- 07 Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland Lars Fischer – Comparing Social Democratic responses to racism and antisemitism in Imperial Germany

KLT L67 4426 4429 FG01 Marxist Feminism Anti-Capitalist Class: Concepts and Trajectories of Avant-Garde and Art Horizons Controversies Class Formation Chair: Matteo Mandarini Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair: David Broder Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Jamie Allinson Rory Dufficy – the everyday life of Giulia Smith – The biological Eduardo Sartelli – From Ricardo Antunes – Who is the Pepijn Brandon – Popular the avant-garde imaginary of the independent Chiapanean Aborigines and working class today? Orangism and the making of the David Mabb – Off with his head! group: Mother-whore Argentinian Picketers to Spanish Klaus Dörre and Singe – The Dutch working class Reworkings of Tatlin’s Monument Robin Simpson – Hidden indignados: The global rebellion Precariat - A social class? Richard Roman and Edur to the Third International and mothers and matrices: Exposing of surplus population and the Joseph Choonara – Reflections Velasco Arregui – Straddling the monuments to Lenin in art since reproductive labour in nineteenth dilemmas of class consciousness on Marxist theories of class border: The transnational making the 1960s. century studio photography and socialist revolution at the of the Mexican working class beginning of the twenty-first Cagri Idiman – The Development century” of the Agrarian Questions Toni Prug – Hacking Marx’s circuits of reproduction: Towards egalitarian accumulation and mode of production – UK national accounts and public housing FRIDAY E 11.45-13.30 7

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Researching Class and Antisemitism When the content goes Theorising Universities as Development: Panel 2 and Socialist beyond the phrase: subsumption and Corporations and Chair and discussant: Alessandra Strategy 2: Western Reflections on the Gezi reification Sites of Struggle Mezzadri Europe,1880-1917 Resistance in Turkey Chair: David Broder Chair: Peter Thomas Jeffery R. Webber – ‘Reading E.P. Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Adam Hanieh Stewart Martin – What is the Andrew McGettigan – English Thompson in the Andes’ Satnam Virdee – Socialists and Fuat Ercan and Ibrahim subsumption of life by capital? universities: what kind of Jonathan Pattenden – ‘Dynamic antisemitism in Britain,1884-1914 Gundogdu – Restructuring of Andrés Sáenz de Sicilia – Time corporations are they? Determinations: A class-relational Sharon Vance – Antisemitism & capital and state in Turkey and and subsumption Christopher Newfield – Some approach to social policy in India.’ Socialism in colonial Algeria and the transformation of blasé Patrick Murray & Gil Skillman elements of a non-capitalist Philip Roberts – Resistance to France in the 19th century personalities to insurgents in the – Capital at the margins: Does university capitalism in Brazil during a period Jan Stutje – Anti-Semitism and Gezi resistance Marx have the concept of hybrid Hugo Harari-Kermadec and Elsa of transformation: the condition racism in the early Dutch labour Sebnem Oguz – Gezi resistance subsumption? An exchange Boulet – Commodity fetishism at of the Movimento Sem Terra movement (1880-1994) and the political regime in Turkey: between Patrick Murray and Gil the university under neoliberalism and post- Hakan Blomqvist – Socialist Towards an exceptional state Skillman Jacken Waters and Molly neoliberalism patriotism, racism and anti- form? Frederic Montferrand, Vincent Budd – Within and against the semitism in the early Swedish Yasemin Ozgun – Patriarchial Chanson and Alexis Cukier – university-as-factory: Sussex labour movement capitalism and the motives behind Between real abstractions and University’s anti-privatisation the women’s participation in the class struggle: Reification occupation as a glimpse of rupture Gezi Resistance with capital

FG01 G51 KLT L67 4426 4429 Struggles in Africa Agrarian transition Race, Sex and Gender Soviet Marxism and Realism and Law and the Chair: Robert Knox and left politics in Chair: Sara Farris Socialist Humanism Modernism Constitution of India, Journal of Capitalist Social Lara Pawson – The Nito Alves Sara Garbagnoli – One Is Not Chair: Gregory Schwartz Chair: Esther Leslie Agrarian Change panel Relations uprising: views from below Born: On Sex And Race As Social Craig Brandist – Russian Marxism, Warren Carter – Epic Modernism: Andrew Brooks – An African Chair: Subir Sinha Structures. Political Insights From Hegemony and the Critique of Meyer Schapiro, George Lukacs, Chair: Robert Knox Passive Revolution? Joyce Banda’s Jens Lerche – ‘agrarian transition French Materialist Feminists Eurocentrism and the Murals of Diego Rivera Paavo Kotiaho – The Economic, New Malawi bypassed in neoliberal India?’ Dolores MorondoTaramundi Hannah Proctor – Abstraction: Ishan Cader – Refracting Social and Cultural Administration Leo Zeilig – From exile to the Alpa Shah – ‘The Agrarian – Intersectionality and Utopian or Scientific? Soviet Hegemony: ‘The New Masses’, of Life through Law - Rights and thick of the struggle: Mozambique Question in a Maoist Guerrilla disaggregation of the subject Psychologists in Central Asia in the Between Proletarian Art and the Development of Capitalist in and Ruth First Zone’ in the controversies over the wake of the First Five Year Plan Sloanist Iconology the 21st Century John S. Saul – Discussant Barbara Harriss-White – headscarf Kevin Anderson – Rethinking Alex Potts – Class Politics and Bill Bowring – The Law of Value ‘Capitalism and the common man: Asefeh Esfahlani – Islamic forms Humanism Realism in Art in Postwar Italy and the Law Petty and Petty Production in India’ of Reproduction: From Permanent Barbara Epstein – The Rise, Oisin Gilmore – European Union Isabelle Guerin – Bonded labour, to Temporary Marriage Decline and Hopeful Revival of as State Form agrarian changes and capitalism in Kevin Floyd – Commodified Bios Socialist Humanism Christopher Boyd – International South India. and the “Real Abstraction” of Law(yers): a class-theoretical Gender critique of practice and the profession 13:30 – 2:15pm Lunchtime meeting: Meet the editors of the HM Book Series and Journal to discuss any prospective projects. Room G50. FRIDAY F 14.15-16.00 8

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 The Unknown Queer Theory 2 Theorising Politics and Marxism and Rosa Luxemburg: Chair: Paul Reynolds Contemporary Racisms Political Economy Postcolonial Theory: Her writings on of Consumption What’s left of the Gianfranco Rebucini – Chair: Brenna Bhandar anthropology – debate? Part 1 Homonationalism and «Integral Richard Seymour – Racial states Chair: Mary Robertson political economy State». Neoliberal policies of rights in crisis: Poulantzas and racial Dave Beech – Facebook and Chair: Jeff Webber – and post-capitalist and GLB collusion in France formations the privatisation of the general Paolo Novak – Borders: Marxist society reconsidered Johannah May Black – Queer Stella Magliani-Belkacem and intellect territories and postcolonial terrains Chair: Alex Anievas rights and sexual regulation and Félix Boggio Éwanjée-Épée – Alan Bradshaw, Norah Pranav Jani – Writing about the neoliberal, post-welfare state Social-chauvinism as a political Chris Knight – Rosa Luxemburg Campbell and Stephen Dunne 1857: Marxism and Representation James Hooper – Queer category on ‘Primitive Communism’: How – the politics of consumption Sharae Deckard and Rashmi materialism and the Byzantine Razmig Keucheyan – do her ideas stand up today? Ishay Landa – Buying out of it: Varma – Left Turns: the Politics of eunuch Environmental Racism: A Marxist Riccardo Bellofiore – A working-class consumption under Critique in Postcolonial Theory perspective revolutionary economic theorist: capitalism Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital – 100 years later Peter Hudis – Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to developing a vision of a post-capitalist society Jan Toporowski – Luxemburg and underconsumptionism

G51 FG01 L67 4426 4429 Critical Perspectives Philosophies of Workers’ Autonomy, Crises and Transitions History as Method in Political Economy the Proletariat Workers’ control Chair: Dae-Oup Chang Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Adam Hanieh Chair: Bue Hansen Chair: Jamie Allinson Jorge Grespan – “The dilemma Samuel Knafo and Benno Michael Kraetke – Reading Gaspar Tamas – Towards a new Marcelo Vieta – Makers of their of capitalist governments in the Teschke – Political Marxism and Capital - how not to read concept of the global proletariat own history: Argentina’s worker- present crisis” the Question of Methodology for “Capital” Jessica Whyte – ‘Nothing to lose recuperated enterprises and the José Antonio Pasta – “The Historical Materialism Patrick Murray and Jeanne but its chains’: Giorgio Agamben political economy of the working Eighteenth Brumaire of Machado Clemens Hoffmann – ‘The Schuler – Five Common on the auto- suppression of the class de Assis” Heterogeneity of Universalism: conceptual mistakes about value proletariat Daniel Fuchs – Class- Luiz Renato Martins – “Debts Making Sense of the ‘Dual Spread’ and capital Gavin Walker – Žižek with Marx: recomposition in China: Prospects and antidebts” of Modernity: Debating Capitalism Maria Ivanova – The great Outside in the critique of political of Workers’ Autonomous and the Inter-State System beyond recession and the great depression economy Agency Europe’ in comparative perspective Immanuel Ness – Discussant Charlie Post – Discussant Jim Kincaid – China-centric development in the world economy today: the Marxist debate FRIDAY G 16.15-18.00 9

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Workers’ struggles Class, Capital and Reformism and Materialism, Affect Emancipatory politics and social movements Politics in Russia and Left Strategy and Alienation: in the Arab World in under neoliberalism Eastern Europe Chair: Peter Thomas The French Marxist an era of Revolutions Use of Spinoza Chair: Lucia Pradella Chair: Gregory Schwartz Paul Blackledge – Left Reformism Chair: Adam Hanieh Win Windisch – Self-assertiveness Eric Sevault – The Legacy of – the State – and the Problem of Chair: Paul Reynolds Anne Alexander – ‘The Arab and leadership. From worker´s Russian Left Communists Socialist Politics Today Geoff Pfeifer – Ideology – Revolutions and the rebirth of the recalcitrance to new trade union Paul Kellogg – Miners of Vorkuta Jonah Birch – Social Democracy Imagination – and History: workers’ movement in the Middle activism Alexandr Buzgalin – Russia’s and Class Mobilization: the Left Althusser’s ‘Heretical’ Spinozism East’ Jeff Goodwin – The rise and fall “Jurassic Capitalism”: A Caricature without Reformism? Jason Read – Economies of affect/ Nadine El-Anany – ‘The Limits of Occupy Wall Street: A class of the West? Daniela Chironi – Radical left- affective economies: Towards of Law as a Revolutionary Tool: analysis Andre Mommen – Russia at wing parties and “anti- neoliberal a Spinozist critique of political Rough Music in Egypt since Jan Elizabeth Humphrys – How the crossroads: Popular protests social movements” in Western economy 25 2011’ labour built neoliberalism – social transformations and Europe: strategic interactions in Ted Stolze – Revisiting a Marxist Philip Marfleet – ‘The Streets and Putinism time of crises. A comparative study Encounter with Spinoza: The Case the Revolutions’ of Italy and Greece of Alexandre Matheron Joel Beinin – ‘Arab Workers and Panagiotis Sotiris – Gramsci the Popular Uprisings of 2011’ and contemporary Left strategy: The ‘historical bloc’ as a strategic concept

G51 L67 4426 FG01 4429 Discussion of Marxism and the Gender and the Reading Capital after The Agrarian Question Postcolonial Theory International Making of the 1968: The commodity Chair: Jeff Webber and the Spectre Working Class form, value and Chair: Jamie Allinson Wendy Matsumura – Uno of Capital crisis in the Neue Steven Rolf – Uneven Chair: Lucia Pradella Kozo’s analysis of the ‘agrarian Marx-Lektüre and Chair: Sebastian Budgen Development and uneven and Estelle Cooch – Trouble at t’Mill question’, post-WWI Okinawa’s Althusserian Marxism Neil Lazarus combined development: towards a - class and gender in the 1853 small producers and prospects for Benita Parry unified theory Preston lock-out Chair: Alberto Toscano the attainment of revolutionary subjectivity Vivek Chibber Hannes Lacher – Political Marxism Margot Beal – Domestic work Frank Engster – Money: the Florian Schaefer – Revisiting the and global history in and around 19th century Lyon Blind Spot in Lukacs, Adorno and Agrarian Question: Ethiopia’s New Jessica Evans – Uneven and (France): gender and class conflicts Sohn-Rethel’s Commodity-form Agrarian Capitalists combined development – migrant within the household Criticism’ Ye im Akmeraner – Resistance labour and working class Sian Moore – Gender and the Chris O’Kane –The Structure of of Agricultural Petty Commodity formation making of the English Working the Process and Perception of Production in Turkey: Working Cemal Burak Tansel on class: the Bradford worsted the Process: Value and Fetishism Class Formation of Peasant-Based Capitalism – Class and industry 1780-1845 in Ranciere’s ‘the concept of Workers Geopolitics: Marx and Engels on critique and the critique of political Eric Aunoble –Making the ‘Eastern Question’ economy. Revolutionary Proletarians Out of Jan Hoff – Present-day debates Ukrainian Peasants on crisis and emancipation in Germany FRIDAY 19.30-21.30 10

Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize Lecture

At the lecture Chair: Gilbert Achcar the winner of the 2013 Deutscher Memorial Prize will be announced. The following books David McNally have been shortlisted: winner of the 2012 Deutscher Memorial Prize • Heather Brown Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Brill, 2012) The Blood of the Commonwealth: • Vivek Chibber Postcolonial Theory War–the State and the and the Spectre of Making of World Money Capital (Verso, 2013) • Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2012) Room B34, Main Building, Birkbeck, University of London • Massimiliano Malet Street – Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX Tomba Marx’s Temporalities (N.B. This location is not at SOAS) (Brill, 2013) SATURDAY H 9.15-11.00 11

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Class Struggles Marxist-Feminist Realism, Actualizations Challenges and The Legacy of Italian in India Political Organising of a Committed Art Opportunities for Marxist feminism Chair: Jamie Allinson Chair: Nina Power Chair: Steve Edwards the Central and East Chair: Sue Ferguson European Left Amit Anshumali – Class Johanna Brenner – Socialist- Robert Burghardt – For a new David Palazzo – Italian feminism formation and localized agency of Feminist Politics Today Realism in Architecture Chair: Kate Hudson in the social factory: reproduction migrant farm workers in Central Hannah Dee – Marxism, feminism Johannes Paul Raether – Our Goran Markovic – `Challenges of and the crisis of class composition India and austerity Realism – From political art to the Czech Radical Left’. Maya Andrea Gonzalez – Refusal Elisabeth Armstrong – Turning to artistic politics. Daniel Jakopovich – `Scorched or self-valorization: Rethinking the village to fight neoliberalism: Kerstin Stakemeier – Realism Earth and Subterranean Blues: wages for housework today Inter-sectoral organizing in the and Naturalism. Another Media- Notes on the Landscape of the Anna Frisone – Labour Feminism All India Democratic Women’s Specificity Democratic Left in Croatia’. in Italy in the 1970s. Giving voice Association Anastasia Riabchuk – `Recent to working women: an oral history Snehal Shingavi – Class Struggle Developments in Workers’ in “Shining India” Struggles in Ukraine’ Gavin Rae – `Recent Developments on the Polish Left’

Co-sponsored by Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT L67 Marxism, Revolution, Dimensions of How Bourgeois Communisation and Weimar Culture Insurrection Settler- Colonialism were the Bourgeois the End(s) of Art and Art Chair: Matteo Mandarini Chair: Rafeef Ziadah Revolutions? Chair – Benjamin Noys Chair: Esther Leslie Peter Hallward – Blanqui and Brenna Bhandar – Title by Chair: Mary Robertson Jaleh Mansoor – Readymade Daniel Mourenza – The Creation Marx reconsidered Registration: instituting property & Neil Davidson Matrices: Notes on Determinism of a Proletarian Techno-Body: Anindya Bhattacharyya – Karl conjuring race in the settler colony Charles Post and the Artist Walter Benjamin on Class and Korsch as a precursor of Alain Niko Block – Nation-building Colin Mooers Marina Vishmidt – Nihilation, Technology Badiou oppressions: a historical Congelation, Art: For More Useless Gene Ray – Science in the Force Harrison Fluss – Rational tyranny: framework of settler colonialism Mediations Field: Brecht’s Galileo Now On Hegel, Robespierre and and reproductive rights Anthony Iles – Intentional Sabine Hake – Weimar Culture Revolutionary crisis Parastou Saberi – On working- abolition of art is only more art and Proletarian Modernism Nathaniel Boyd – Stratification class struggles and the politics Daniel Spaulding – Value-Form Jenny Nachtigall – The politics of and status: Hegel’s interrogation of space in white-settler-colonial and Art-Form: The End of the reproduction in Dada and beyond into modernity’s foundational split metropole European Neo-Avant-Garde – 1957-1979 SATURDAY I 11.15-13.00 12

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Recent Workers’ Marxism in the Deforming Social Wage and CLR James and history Struggles Third World: New – Refunctioning – Social Reproduction: Chair: Robert Knox Configurations Destroying Capital Global Struggles in Chair: Lucia Pradella Scott McLemee – Proletarian of Struggles Mexico, South Africa John Smith – The Rana Plaza Chair: Matteo Mandarini Journalism of a New Type: C.L.R. and North America disaster: how Bangladeshi workers Chair: Amanda Latimer Alberto Toscano – Transition James and Correspondence prop up the British economy Radha D’Souza – ‘Class in the Deprogrammed Chair: Elizabeth Esch Kevin Edmonds – Revisiting Pierre Odin – Unionism and class ‘Epoch’ of Imperialism: Global Sami Khatib – Deforming the Christina Heatherton – ‘Red CLR James and the West Indian struggles in the French West Indies Apartheid and Lenin’s Labour Forms of Capital. On Destruction, Love: Alexandra Kollontai, social Federation : the case of LKP coalition (2009) Aristocracy Thesis’ Negativity and Nihilism reproduction and the Mexican Christian Hogsbjerg – People’s Bill Crane – The Contradictions of Júlio da Silveira Moreira Benjamin Noys – Days of Phuture revolution’ History and Socialist Theory: When “Capitalism of the Oppressed” in – ‘Investment megaprojects, Past: Capitalism, Time and Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani – E.P. Thompson met C.L.R. James the U.S. and India state violence and the actual Acceleration ‘Women, work and the precarious configuration of capitalism in state in South Africa’ Brazil’ Jordan T. Camp – ‘Urban Andy Higginbottom – ‘Chain insurgency in Detroit: Black extraction - chain reaction: freedom and socialist struggles for Following the extractivist chain: a social wage’ mining, finance, imperialism and Stevphen Shukaitis – Learning the BRICS’ from affective revolts: social Karen Gabriel – The Work and reproduction & political World of Surrogacy subjectiviation

G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT L67 Feminism’s Marxist Literary The role of women in The Arab Uprising Critical Perspectives dangerous liaisons: Theory building a strong left: Through the lens of on Rancière neoliberalism, Chair: Esther Leslie between patriarchy Marxism: Around Chair: Jamie Allinson liberalism, nationalism and imperialism Gilbert Achcar’s Jernej Habjan – From cultural Ledys Sanjuan Mejia – “We Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki third-worldism to the literary in the periphery The People Want: A Speak in Tongues”: A Woman (Roundtable) Radical Exploration Catherine Rottenberg world-system – and back of Colour Critique of Ranciere’s – Containing the Liberal Daniel Hartley – Towards Chair Chiara Bonfiglioli of the Arab Uprising Political Subject Imagination: How Superwoman a Marxist poetics: A critical Andrea Milat Chair: Adam Hanieh Knox Peden – The Irony of reconstruction of Raymond Equality: Rancière’s Control Group Became Balanced Jelena Petrovic Gilbert Achcar Williams’s theory of style Max Kubinyi – Reflections on the Sara R. Farris – State feminism Mariya Ivancheva Joel Beinin Roberta Fabbri Viscardi – The Making of Revolutionary Agency and productivist ethics in times of Matija Medenica Maha Abdulrahman workfare impossibility of class mobility in the in E.P.Thompson and Jacques Sinead Kennedy – Feminism and great gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Rancière Marxism in an Age of Crisis: A Response to Nancy Fraser

13:00-13:45pm Lunchtime meeting: For International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) Room 116 SATURDAY J 13.45-15.30 13

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Problematising Althusser and Class struggles in Workers’ Inquiry Book Launch: Histories of Thompson revisited Latin America Yesterday and Today Profiting without Capitalism: Working Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Jeff Webber Chair: Alberto Toscano Producing (Costas class – law and Paul Reynolds – ‘We cannot have Laurent Baronian – The Salar Mohandesi – Workers’ Lapavitsas book state formation love without lovers, nor deference economic genesis of contemporary Inquiry: A Genealogy roundtable) without squires and labourers’: left-wing States in Latin America: Asad Haider – Crisis and Inquiry Chair: Robert Knox Chair: Dae-oup Chang Frantz Gheller – Rethinking Thinking the moral agency and the cases of Argentina, Bolivia, Liz Mason-Deese – Unemployed practice in Marxist thought with Ecuador and Venezuela Inquiry and Investigation in Costas Lapavitsas the social roots of Quebec’s Charles Masquelier development: The challenge of Thompson and Althusser Thomas Chiasson-LeBel – Class Argentina. Susan Brophy – From Pashukanis relationships In Ecuador and Jamie Woodcock – An attempt at Samantha Ashman international relations Samuel Knafo Xavier Lafrance – ‘Problematising to Thompson to Banaji: Fresh Venezuela: a comparative study on a workers’ inquiry in a call centre: capitalism and re-thinking the Avenues in Law and Marxism class organizations under left wing possibilities of resistance, potential making of a working class in Studies governments for organisation France’ Marcelo Badaro Mattos – E. P. Leonardo Brito – The impasse of Maia Pal – ‘Processes of Thompson, historical materialism capitalism and democracy in the jurisdictional accumulation in early and political intervention: a view twenty-first century Brazilian: the modern Spain & France: a pre- from Brazil debate on Lulism capitalist history of international Ana Cecilia Dinerstein – law’ Autonomy and emancipation Javier Moreno Zacarés – in Latin America: On shaping Rethinking the Spanish empire absences and the untranslatable and world systems capitalist excess development: the role of burghers G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT L67 CLR James and Photography & the Marxist Feminisms: Registering Class: The Politics of Marxist theory Left: Producing Theoretical Launching the Trade Unionism Chair: Mary Robertson Politics & Publics contributions to 50th volume of the Chair: Dimitris Milonakis anti-capitalism Socialist Register Azfar Hussain – The ‘Dark Chair: Steve Edwards Immanuel Ness – State Proletariat’ in Du Bois and James: Blake Stimson – Photographic Chair: Sara Farris Chair Leo Panitch Repression of New Workers Is a race theory of value possible? Communism Susan Ferguson – Theorizing Vivek Chibber Movements Matthieu Renault – C. L. R. Sarah James – Picturing Class Through Gender and Race Ursula Huws Sai Englert – Zionism, workers James. Towards a decolonial Communism in LIFE: Photography Shahrzad Mojab – From Bryan Palmer and the Histadrut: laying the materialism Against the Grain Women’s Revolt to Revolutionary Alfredo Saad-Filho foundations of the Israeli state Kenneth Surin – The Three Jorge Ribalta – Politicisation vs Marxist-Feminist Organizing Samuel Hayat – The role of ‘Logics’ of CLR James Institutionalisation Abigail B. Bakan – Marxism, representative government in Feminism, Indigeneity: Re- the making of the French labour thinking/re-reading Engels’ Origins movement of the Family, Private Property and the State Heather Brown – Gender, Politics and Political Thought: Revisiting Marx’s Political Economy SATURDAY K 15.45-17.30 14

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 Popular and Class movements Politics and Morality Occupation and Capitalist Crisis and communist politics in in China from Machiavelli Liberation in Critique: Race, Class, early Soviet Russia Chair: Lucia Pradella to E.P. Thompson Israel/Palestine Gender, Nation Chair: Ana Cecilia Paula Nabuco – Laid-off workers Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Adam Hanieh Chair: Mary Robertson Gleb J. Albert – Bolsheviks, and social struggles at the Chinese Jeremie Barthas – Marx with Neve Gordon and Nicola Nancy Fraser – Crisis, Critique, Workers and ‘Proletarian “rust belt” Machiavelli. A Genealogy of the Perugini – The Human Right to Capitalism Internationalism’ in NEP Russia Tim Pringle – Reflections on Critique of Economic Fetishism. Kill Rose Brewer – “Capitalist crisis Simon Pirani – The politics of Labour in China: From a moment Carlos Frade – The political Steve Nutt – Liberal Zionism and and social transformation: The working-class dissent: Moscow, to a movement meaning of the plebs’ moral the Question of Labour black radical tradition today, Petrograd and Kronstadt in 1921 Pierre Rousset – Reflexions on economy in Thompson vis-à-vis the gender, race, class and nation” Arturo Zoffmann – Russian post-1949 revolution and counter- people’s desire in Machiavelli and Tania Toffanin – Marxism or Working Class Identity in a Period revolution in China its implications for a communist feminism, class or gender: The of Ideological Crisis: 1900-1921 political strategy analysis of the Italian case William Dixon and David Wilson – E.P. Thompson and the Moral Depletion Hypothesis

G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT L67 Debates in Marxist Non-Western Marxist Feminisms Socialist Register Virtual paupers: The Political Economy Critical Marxisms and Anti-Capitalist at 50: Class and politics of surplus Chair: Dae-Oup Chang Chair: Jeff Webber Organizing Today Politics in Britain populations Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Jorge Murga Armas – Marxism Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair Greg Albo Chair: Matteo Mandarini Carchedi – The long roots of and Racism in Guatemala Alan Sears – Queering anti- Madeleine Davis Ken Kawashima and Gavin the present crisis: Keynesianism, Samuel Carlshamre – capitalist organizing: Learning Colin Leys Walker – Resurrection and Austerians and Marx’s law Materializing Tradition. Arabic from sexual and gender liberation Andrew Murray Insurrection: On the figure of Radhika Desai – Reassessing Marxist writing on Islamic Clarice Kuhling – Marxist Leo Panitch Lazarus in Marx’s Capital Regulation Theory: productivity, Intellectual History Feminism – Sexual violence and Daniel Zamora and Nic Gortz – post-Fordism and finance anti-capitalist organizing The ‘They’ below ‘Us’ Riccardo Bellofiore – Sweezy and Rafeef Ziadah – Lessons of Mattick on capitalism and crisis Palestine organizing Mary-Jo Nadeau – Towards a politics of critical diversity: Reflecting on the legacy of left anti-racist struggle in Canada’s women’s movements SATURDAY 18.00-19.45 15

G2 KLT Half-Plenary: Half-Plenary: Historical Materialist The Other Face of the BRICs Geography Chair: Sam Ashman Chair: Mary Robertson Tim Pringle Alex Loftus – The violence of geographical abstractions Snehal Shingavi Inqilab Zindabad – the contradictions of Indian economic development Kanishka Goonewardena – Marxism and totality: Henri Lefebvre on state capitalism, urbanizationband Aleksandr Buzgalin everyday life Maria Cevasco – Where does the anger in the streets come from? Perspectives from Brazil

20.00 Wine and Cheese Reception

SOAS Student Bar (downstairs from the book stalls) SUNDAY L 10.00-11.45 16

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 What Was “Real” Feminism, James, Mariategui, Revolutionary The Poor Stockinger, in “Really Existing Corporations and the Fanon and the Internationalism the Luddite cropper Communism”? Capitalist World Order national question Chair: Sebastian Budgen and the deluded Revisiting ideas and followers of Joanna Chair: Abbie Bakan Chair: Lucia Pradella George Paizis – The Federacion of narratives of the Southcott (Luke Adrienne Roberts – Gender, Vasant Kaiwar – The category Salonica – Jewish, Internationalist, Soviet age, Part 1: leadership and the corporate-led of class in the oppositions to anti-war, the foundation of the Fowler 2012) Platonov and the aid industry capitalism and imperialism. Greek Communist Party [KKE] Film Screening and panel October Revolution Genevieve LeBaron – Felipe Lagos – Marxist method Maurice Andreu – The Owen Hatherley, Steve Chair: David Broder Corporatizing feminism in Imperialist Times: reading Communist International and Edwards and John Roberts – Sara Wallin – The EBRD Mariategui on Marxism and the the World Working Class - an Oxana Timofeeva – ‘Animality Discussants and privatised ‘solutions’ to national issue ideological approach and Utopian Community: From re(production) in Turkey Neil Larsen – Fanon, the Brazilian William A Pelz – The Myth Kafka to Platonov and Back’ Fowler’s 61-minute film mixes Julie Dowsett – The historical/ Selma James – Discussant and Reality of the International Artemy Magun – ‘Andrey archive footage with newly-shot theoretical roots of contemporary Working Men’s Association as a Platonov’s Negative Revolution’ material in an a typically evocative corporatized feminism Facilitator of Strikes and workers’ video essay that reflects on the life Maria Chehonadskih – movements. 1864-1874 Communism in Desert: Political and times of the critic, historian Weakness and Potentiality of the and activist E.P. Thompson. “Poor Life” in Andrei Platonov’s “Dzhan”

G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT 4429 Brunei Gallery Drone Theories Recent Marxist-Feminist Revisiting the Making Histories of Black Book Launch: Chair: Rafeef Ziadah reinterpretations of Keywords: Texts, of the English Communism Theories of Ideology: the ‘Transformation theories, histories and Working Class Chair: Alex Anievas The powers of Jamie Allinson – Cyborg empire Problem’ praxis – roundtable and necropolitical economy Chair: Adam Hanieh Bryan Banker – “Black Men alienation and Gregoire Chamayou – Manhunt Chair: Giorgos Galiana Chair: Adrienne Roberts Bryan Palmer – History as Speak!”: Mapping the radical subjection (Brill 2013) political philosophy of Paul from the skies. Hunter-killer drone Fred Moseley – Recent Helen Colley – The Marxist- argument: The contrarian analytics Chair: Paul Reynolds as the weapon of contemporary Reinterpretations of the Feminist Keywords Project of E P Thompson’s The Making of Robeson and Langston Hughes Jan Rehmann cynegetic warfare. ‘Transformation Problem’ Katharina Volk – Foundations the English Working Class Paul Heideman – A. Philip Esther Leslie Eyal Weizman – Forensic warfare Simon Mohun – ‘Value and Prices and basic concepts of a Marxist Matthew Roberts – E. P. Randolph and the Intellectual David McNally (video presentation) in the “New Interpretation”’ Feminism – A German- based Thompson, Luddism and The History of American Socialism Bob Jessop Mary Robertson – Discussant international dictionary project Making of the English Working Evan Sarmiento – The New Peter Thomas Anders Ekeland – Discussant Jamie Magnusson – Class Communist Movement and Financialization Kostas Kanellopoulos – The desegregation in Boston Ruth May – In search of herstory remaking of the Greek working -- market women, for example class Claudia Gdaniec – Feminist- Marxist concepts and terms as a linguistic challenge Sheila Gruner – Nature and the environment SUNDAY M 12.00-13.45 17

116 B102 B104 B111 G50 What Was “Real” Lineaments of Social Crossing borders: Dilemmas of Should dialectics in “Really Existing Reproduction, Past writing the histories Democracy break weird? Communism”? and Present: Examples of Marxism in Chair: Alex Anievas Speculative realism Revisiting ideas and from domestic a transnational and/or historical Fabio Frosini – Emancipation in narratives of the labour and sex perspective the singular materialism. A Mute Soviet age, Part 2: worker struggles Chair: Lucia Pradella Alfredo Saad-Filho and Alison magazine discussion Communism, state, Chair: Paul Reynolds David Mayer – ‘Transnational J. Ayers – Democracy against Chair: Benedict Seymour sexuality and present Laura Schwartz – ‘Servants’ Trade Marxism in Latin America – actors neoliberalism: paradoxes, Giorgio Cesarale – A dialectical reverberations of Unions and Feminist Debates on and ideas in connection’ limitations, transcendence critique of the ‘necessity- the Soviet legacy Work, Britain 1900-1914’ Bertel Nygaard – ‘Young Marx Romain Felli – Markets against contingency’ couple in speculative democracy in environmental Chair: Sebastian Budgen Kate Hardy – Sex Work, Social to the North: The use of Marx realism and Engels in Denmark during the governance Alexei Penzin – The State that Reproduction and the Neoliberal John Cunningham – Speculative 1840’s’ Falls Asleep: An Update to Lenin’s State: The case of AMMAR Horror, Weird Marxism and the Jean-Numa Duncange – ‘What is Idea of Communism Katie Cruz – ‘Sex work as or Dread of Real Abstraction. Marxist historiography? Elements Keti Chukhrov – Sexuality in the against wage labour’ Svenja Bromberg – The politics for a transnational historical Conditions of the Non-Libidinal of an object-oriented aesthetics method’ Economy Sebastian Truskolaski – Ilya Budratskis – Soviet, Anti- Reflections on Realism – Adorno Soviet and the identity of the contra Meillassoux Russian Left Alberto Toscano – Discussant

G51 G3 (DLT) G2 KLT 4429 L67 Logistics, supply Wrestling with Existence and politics: The Turkish The Politics of Althusser and chains and the the Legacy of 20th the work of Race & Working Class the Critique of Politics 1 internationalisation Century Marxism Class and the Institute Chair: Peter Thomas Political Economy Chair: David Broder of production of Race Relations Chair: Giorgos Galianis Ismail Doga Karatepe – State, Chair: Adam Hanieh Katja Kolsek – Althusser and Chair: Dae-Oup Chang Georg Souvlis – History and Chair: Esther Leslie Bourgeoisie and Economic Policies Paula Rauhala and Miika Hegelian Totality Jonny Jones – Logistics and Politics: Revisiting Perry Anderson’s A. Sivanandan – “Catching in Turkey Kabata – Heinrich and abstract Ozren Pupovac – Althusser’s labour in the global economy historical sociology history on the wing: a conversation Isil Erdinc – Reconnecting with labour Three Elements of the Dialectic: Grietje Baars – Regulating away Kimon Markatos – Passages from with Avery F. Gordon” the Leftwing Political Parties as a Massimiliano Tomba – Forms of Structure, Fusion, Rupture the revolution?: Supply chain Modernity to Postmodernity: Perry Jenny Bourne – “Revolution and Working Class Strategy: The case subsumption of labour Agon Hamza – Althusser’s Žižek regulation and resistance in the Anderson as a cultural thinker reconstruction: a political history of of Trade Unions and Leftwing Elena Louisa Lange – The Spectre garment sector Christoph Jünke – A contribution the Institute of Race Relations” Politics in Turkey since 2002 in a of Japanese Marxism – Uno Kõzõ, Frido Wenten – Making sense of to the critique of philo- and neo- Colin Prescod – “The seeds of Context of Political Repression and Karatani Kõjin and the problem of class struggle in global capitalism – Stalinism: Notes on Canfora and opposition: culture, anti-racist Social Inequality value The internationalisation of a global Losurdo struggles and communities of Ezgi Pinar – A Class Finding Its automotive firm to Mexico and resistance” Way: A Historical Period from the China, 1970s to today Liz Fekete – “In the shadow of Turkish Labor History the new nativism: European racism Aylin Topal and Galip Yalman – and the ‘migrant’ experience The Turkish Winter of Discontent and its Aftermath: The Case of Tekel Workers SUNDAY N 14.30-16.15 18

116 B102 B104 B111 Peter Sedgwick’s Marxism and Music Financialisation and Class Wars and legacy: Politics, Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki the Transition in Green Wars psychiatry & freedom post-Yugoslavia Martyn Hudson – Music and Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Paul Reynolds materiality: Avant-garde and Chair: Mary Robertson Andreas Malm – ‘To cut off the Ian Birchall – Peter Sedgwick, worker’s music in Tippett and Mislav Žitko – After the Crisis: source of power’: Attacks on fossil Lenin and ‘Leninism’ Cardew Financialisation and Credit infrastructure as a strategy of class Tad Tietze – Neither psychiatry Nicholas Till – Pop Star to Opera Euroization in Eastern Europe struggle, from the general strike of nor anti-psychiatry, but mental Star: Class, labour and value in Andreja Živkovi – From the 1842 to the present health as radical politics post-fordist societies Market...to the Market: On the Les Levidow – ‘The Green Helen Spandler – The ethical- Mark Abel – The African roots origins of the present debt crises in Economy’ agenda: marketising political value of Sedgwick’s of Western popular music - A the former Yugoslavia natural resources, dispossessing concept of illness reconsideration Jan Toporowski – Discussant communities Anders Ekeland – Do the ecosocialist left have an “exit strategy” from fossil fuel capitalism?

G51 4429 G50 (DLT) G2 KLT Considerations on Althusser and Marxism and A comparative analysis Free labour and Contemporary Brazil Politics 2 Postcolonial Theory: of socialist/class Wage Slavery Chair: Jamie Allinson Chair: Peter Thomas What’s Left of the struggle feminism in Chair: Alberto Toscano Debate? Part 2 Ruy Braga – Class Configuration Thomas Carmichael – Atomism France and Britain in Heide Gerstenberger – The in Lula’s Brazil and Class Formation: Louis Chair: Dae-Oup Chang the 1970’s and 1980s political economy of capitalist Edu Teruki Otsuka – Social Althusser and the underground Kamran Matin – Marxism and the Chair: Nina Power labour disintegration in contemporary current of class struggle Robin Blackburn – Dynamics of Postcolonial Challenge: What Is To Josette Trat – Contribution to the Brazil, through Beatriz Bracher’s Laurent de Sutter – Louis the Second Slavery Be Done? history of feminist class struggle fiction Althusser and the Theatre of the Priyamvada Gopal – A ‘Barbaric Lucia Pradella – Postcolonial in France as part of second wave Ivone Daré – Figurations of Trial Independence’: Morant Bay 1865 theory and the making of the feminism Contemporary metropolitan Life William Lewis – Philosophical and the Meaning of Freedom world working class Terry Conway – Socialist Valerio Arcary – Is there a new Cosmopolitanism and Class Politics Subir Sinha – ‘Some observations feminism in Britain in the 1970s middle class in Brazil? Juha Koivisto – Discussant on primitive accumulation and and 1980s, hidden from hestory Maria Elisa Cevasco – Wither is subaltern political subjectivity’ Penelope Duggan – The feminist Brazil bound? Alf Gunvald Nilsen – Welcome challenge to traditional political debate? A critical reading of organising Chibber’s postcolonial theory and Fanny Gallot – Professional the specter of capital equality policies tested among the popular class: the case of the female workers in France from 1968 to the 1980s SUNDAY 17.00-19.00 19

Closing Plenary

Labour, Race and Gender in the Making of the World Working Class

Chair: Robert Knox

David Roediger The Self-Emancipation of U.S. Slaves: The Jubilee of Freed people and Freedom for All

Abigail Bakan (OISE, University of Toronto) When Class meets Race and Gender: Reflections on Method

S’bu Zikode (Founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo, shack dwellers’ social movement in South Africa)

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