Hm Conference Schedule 2017
Thursday
13.30 - 15.15
Utopias Old and New Forms of Exploitation
Critique of Political Economy and Civil Society Revolutionising Exploitation? Labour and Valorisation in the Marco Vanzulli Digital Age Matthew Cole Civil Society and 'Molecular' Transformation Robert Jackson Capital Transfer and the Transformation Problem Heesang Jeon Marxist Theory, Egalitarianism and Edward Bellamy's Utopia Fernando Lizarraga Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki
Chair: Svenja Bromberg Struggle or Starve Book Event Marxism Feminism Stream 1: Marxist Feminism, Revolution and Representation Sean Mitchell Notes on the Role of Women in Soviet Posters from the Second World War Rebecca De Oliveira Freitas
Gendered Legacy of 1956: Revolution and Female Resistance in Hungary After 1956 Dorottya Tamás
Chair: Tithi Bhattacharya 1917, Violence and Revolution Book Launch: 'Art and Production' by Boris Arvatov
Trotsky as Historian - The Nature and Role of Violence in the Alexei Penzin Revolution in Russia in 1917 and Beyond Mike Haynes John Roberts
"How Can One Make a Revolution Without Firing Squads?": Maria Chehonadskih Understanding the Bolsheviks' "Red Terror," 1918-1921 Jeff Goodwin Chair: Steve Edwards
Subsumption and Violence Andres Saenz De Sicilia
Chair 15.45 - 17.30
The EU and Labour Fascism and the Far Right
Work-Time Regulation and Labour Market Liberalization: The Far Right and Fascism: Convergence, Competition and Comparing the French and German Roads to Reducing Full- Radicalisation Time Work Hours Jonah Birch David Renton
From Colonial Empire to European Periphery: An Analysis of Whither 'Anti-fascism'? the Social Forces Behind Portugal’s Integration with Europe Stefan Kipfer Victoria B-G Stadheim Geeks Against Democracy: The Genealogy of Neoreaction Jon Anderson Chair: Gregory Schwartz
Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris Eco-Socialist Transitions as Alternatives to Capitalism Issues in British Socialist and Revolutionary Politics
Contemporary British Trotskyism: Party, Sect and Social Eco-Socialist Perspective on Role of the Individual in the Movement Ecological Crisis John Kelly Alan Thornett The Two Souls of Labour - Integrative and Transformative Simon Hannah
Can Ecosocialist Praxis be a Real Alternative? The New Breaks Into the Old: Towards an Understanding of Gordon Peters the Socialist New Joe Davidson, Simon Hannah
Chair: Ashok Kumar Where are the Girls? Age and Gender in Eco-Marxism
Judith Watson
Capitalist Agriculture and the Ecological Catastrophe of Groundwater Depletion in Punjab (India)
R.S Mann
Chair: Pritam Singh
Marxism Feminism Stream 2: Ongoing Struggles Antiquity and Modernity of Soviet Marxism. Presentation of Special Issue of the Journal Stasis (2, 2017) Struggles for a Dignified Life: Collectivisation in Chile 1970s Valentina Alvarez Lopez Alexei Penzin
South African Feminist Collectives as Sites of Marxist Keti Chukhrov Feminist Praxis Khayaat Fakier and Donna andrews Maria Chehonadsikh
Women and Revolution in the ‘Periphery’: Towards a Evgeni V. Pavlov Historical Sociology of Moroccan Feminism Meriam Mabrouk Chair:
Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki
18.15 - 20.00
Roundtable for the Marxist Feminist Legacies of the Russian Revolution The Labour Party and Momentum - a Stream: Marxist Feminism Today: Marxist Assessment: A Roundtable Revolution, Reproduction and György Lukacs and the Russian Discussion Resistance Revolution Tithi Bhattacharya Michael Lowy Richard Seymour
Angela Dimitrakaki Shelly Asquith 'Golden Toilets: 1917, Land Sara Salem Nationalisation and Architecture' Paul Reynolds Owen Hatherley Sara Farris Discussant: Daniel Lopez Chair: Demet Dinler Chair: Svenja Bromberg Chair: Esther Leslie Friday
9.15 - 11.00
Renewing Historical Materialism Colonial and Postcolonial Aesthetics
There is Only a Constituting Movement: Marx and Engels as Decolonizing Aesthetics: French Surrealism vs Colonialism Sophie Coudray, Selim Nadi Pioneers in the Study of Complex Adaptive Systems Julian Wells Caliban, Cuba, and the Caribbean Poetic-Political Tradition Andrea Penman-Lomeli Escaping Reductionism: Renewing Historical Materialism and Multi-Systems Theory Wayuu Contemporary Poetics and Latin American Marxism Jeremiah Gaster Laura Lema Silva
Chair: Maia Pal Ploughed Fields and Virgin Forests: Bogdanov versus Trotsky on Protetarian Culture Evgeni Pavlov
Chair: Althusser and Lukács on the October Revolution and Student Power Against Capital? The University, Class Lenin: (Missed) Encounters Towards a New Approach Struggle and Student Insurgency. Incorporating the to Political Practice Book Launch for Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation, Pluto 2017 Political Practice and the Creation of History: Questions of Determinism and Contingency in the Work of Lukács and Student Revolt, Generational Cleavage and the Corbyn Althusser Project Konstantinous Gousis Matt Myers
Understanding and Changing the World: From October Generation Debut: The Student Movement, Apathy and Revolution to May ’68 Neo-Liberalism Dimitra Alifieraki Zoe Salanintro
Lukács’ Leninism or Revolutionary Realpolitik as a Way Out Students as a Class?: The University's Role in Class of the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’ and the Left Tina Trap Struggle Alexander Minotakis Connor Woodman
Chair and Discussant: Panagiotis Sotiris Chair/Discussant: Colin Barker Combined and Uneven Development: A Roundtable on Right Wing Threats Theorizing World-Literature Why is Anti-Immigrant Politics so Prevalent? A Hypothesis Nicolas Lawrence Based on a Political Economy of the Immigration Issue in Catalonia/Spain Pablo Mukherjee Luke Stobart
Sharae Deckard Fascism and the Crisis of Hegemony Robert Narai Chair: Chair: Hm Book Roundtable – The Politics of Style: Towards a Artistic Legacies of the Russian Revolution Marxist Poetics The Look of Class: Communist Graphic Satire After 1917 Daniel Hartley Grant Mandarino
Matthew Beaumont Proximity and Distance: 3 Encounters with the Art of Revolution Caroline Edwards Paul Wood
Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki ‘Every Day, Something Happens to Us’: Realism at the Crossroads Gail Day
Alex Potts
Chair: Steve Edwards Marxism Feminism Stream 3: HMSPEN: Radical Approaches to the Body Gendered Labour: Situated Perspectives and Case Studies Testicular Work: Constructions of Men's Labour in Reproduction The Role of the State and Conservative Politics in Frank Karioris Flexibilisation of Female Labour in Turkey Ayse Arslan Prosthetic Capital: On the Fungibility and Rebellion of Bodies Beyond the Gendered Division of Labour: Third Space Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor Feminism Magally A. Miranda-Alcazar Rethinking “Trans” Trajectories and Historical Method: The Processes and Positionings of Pepa in Puebla The Ends of Soviet Communism: Emancipatory Politics in Vek Lewis the East of Europe Saygun Gökariksel Chair: Paul Reynolds
Chair: Sara Farris
11.30 - 13.15
Radical Left in South East Asia Book Launch: "Aesthetic Marx" – The Politics of Aesthetics in Capital - Gandesha and Hartle History as Social Criticism: A Study on the Marxist Tradition in Philippine Historical Scholarship Through the Selected Johan Frederik Hartle Works of Renato Constantino Francisco Jayme Paolo Arino Guiang Daniel Hartley
Waves in the Lake: Tamil Migrants and Nationalism in Sami Khatib Malaya and Ceylon Siddharth Sridhar Discussant: Maya Andrea Gonzalez
Chair: Chair: Esther Leslie Debating the Skinnerian Canon-From Gramsci to the The Long Inter-Regnum: Within and Against Capital Yugoslavian Feminist Marxism
st The Eros of Intellectual History: Lydia Sklevicky’s Dialogic The Future of Capital and its Alternatives in 21 Century: Epistemology and Rada Iveković’s Decolonising The Essentiality of Economic Democratization Methodologies Barry Gills, S A Hamed Hosseini Vanessa Vasic-Kanekovic Civil Society, Class, and Twenty-First Century Saving the Periphery from Itself: The Problem With Thinking Transformations in the Uk Karen Buckley the Postcolonial from the Metropole Sophie Chamas Capitalism’s Climate Crisis: From Carbon Capital to ‘Energy Democracy’? Situated Writing: Simone De Beauvoir and the Social James Anderson, James Goodman History of Political Theory Jeremiah Gaster Chair
Text and Context in the History of Ideas: A Marxist Alternative to the Skinnerian Canon George Souvlis, Nicolai Von Eggers
Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris
A Historical Materialist Perspective on Social The Convergence of Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism Movements As Struggle in the Middle East
Accessing the Field of Struggle: Integrating Materialist State From Sisi To Trump: The State of Crisis Theory into Contemporary Social Movement Studies Brecht De Smet (Theoretical Considerations) Anne Engelhardt Aounism and the Rise of Army Populism in Post-War Reproductive Unrest: Neoliberalism and Social Unrest in Lebanon (Post)-Crisis Europe Elia El Khazen Madelaine Moore Authoritarian Neoliberalism for Neoliberal Authoritarianism? With the Law Against the Law: A Materialist Critique on the Limits to Democratisation in Neoliberal Egypt Role of the Legal Form in Anti-Capitalist Struggles Roberto Roccu Carolina Alves Vestena Egypt’s 2011 Revolution: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Restriction and Criminalization of Social Movements Through Juridical Interpretation: How a Deformalized Law Popular Resistance Opens Spaces to Neoliberal Interests Sara Salem Lara Freire Santanna Discussant: Adam Hanieh Chair: Svenja Bromberg Chair: Sara Salem Marxism Feminism Stream 4: Capitalist Violence, Financialization and Housing Precapitalist Legacies Mortgage Strikes and the Politics of Debt: The Case of the Morbidity of Social Reproduction: Decomposition in Uruguayan Federation of Mutual- Aid Housing Cooperatives Cybernetic Capitalism Lorenza Vidal Elise Thorburn What is Financialisation and how Could it be Explained? Capitalism, Violence, Masculinity The Case of South Korean Housing Financialisation George Tomlinson Hongseok Ryu
The State, Women, and Religion Accounting as the Language of Advanced Financial Capital Baraneh Emadian and Indebtedness Rebecca Warren, David Carter Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair Political Economy of Food Turkish Politics
From White Gold to Green Deserts: Subsumption in Turkey’s Failed Coup and Its Aftermath: Permanent State of Paraguay’s Soy and Cotton Sectors Exception or Exceptional State Form? Arturo Ezquerro-Canete Sebnem Oguz
The Rise of Legal Food Adulteration: Political Economy and Ways Out of Authoritarian Statism Through Democratic the Cheapening of the Value of Labour-Power Socialism - Poulantzas and the Case of Turkey Sébastien Rioux Rosa Burc
Commodification of Nature Within the Chilean Food System State and Labour During the AKP Rule in Turkey : A Pedro Glatz Balance Sheet of 15 Years Mehmet Erman Erol Chair Transformation of the State and Class Relations: Furthering Authoritarianism in Turkey Aylin Topal, Gaylip L. Yalman
Chair: Demet Dinler Marxism and Social and Cultural Theory
Max Weber and German Social Democracy: A New Take on Weber's Relationship to Marx, Socialism and the Labour Movement Victor Strazzeri
Raymond Williams's the Long Revolution Reconsidered Kenneth Surin
The Future is in the Living Present Peter Green
Chair:: Giorgio Cesarale
13.15 - 14.00
Meet the Editors of HM
14.00-15.45
Race and Class 1 - Black Power in America Dual Power
Racial Liberalism and its Discontents: “Postracialism,” Black Strategic Imagination, Party and Revolution Power, & Mental Labour Josep Maria Antentas Michael Bray #1917. Rethinking Dual Power to Take Back the Power Racial Anticapitalism: Detroit 1967 Emmanuel Barot Joshua Clover Rethinking Dual Power Dubois’s Marxist Mentor: Will Herberg and the Making of Panagiotis Sotiris Black Reconstruction in America Matt Nichter Chair: Demet Dinler
Chair: Rob Knox
Red Wedge Panel: Re-Creating 1917 Revisiting Brasilia as a Counter-Revolutions Weapon
The Three Crosses White Out, Black Stay: Permanent Revolution or Just a David Mabb Cultural Bomb? Ana Paula Pacheco Affirming the New: Art of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions 'Architecture Or Revolution', the Brazilian Way Crystal Stella Becerril Luiz Renato Martins
Lukacs, Greenberg, and the Spectre of Trotsky A Discussion of a Short Film on the Slaughter of Workers in Neil Davidson the Building of Brasilia by Clara Ianni
Chair: Alexander Billet Chair Autonomist Marxism The Russian Revolution on South Asia
Working Class Strategy of Reproduction: Reevaluation of Translating Russian Revolution: A Narrative of Vernacular Italian Autonomist Marxism Marxism from Late Colonial Kerala Eliasz Robakiweicz Ardra Neelakandan Girija
Romano Alquati and the Hyper-Communist Hypothesis Anti-Caste Movements and Bolshevik Revolution- Possible Gian Luca Pittavino Routes to Socialism Nachiket Kulkarni Manfredo and Tafuri and Henry Lefebvre. A Possible Encounter (Debates in Italian Workerism and Autonomism) People of Java! The Russian Revolution has Lessons for Luisa Lorenza Corna You Too! – Henk Sneevliet and Early Communist Anti- Colonialism Chair: Alex De Jong
Chair Technology, Work, Leisure and Capitalism Marxism and Ecology 1
Technological Change in Contemporary Capitalism: A Symptom of Disease Rather than a Cure Tony Smith Transcending Dualisms: Marx's Theory of Nature and Chronopolitics of Leisure Labour Sarah Stein Lubrano Heather Brown Laboratory of Resistance: An Interim Assessment of Union Organising at Global E-Commerce Leader Amazon in Germany and Europe Joern Boewe, Johannes Schulten Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Sketches of a Harveyan Theoretical Framework Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Rikard Warlenius
"The Money-Energy-Technology Complex: Machines as Fetishized Relations of Exploitation" Alf Hornborg
Chair: Andreas Malm
HMSPEN: Critical Questions in Queer and Marxist- Marxism and Revolutions Feminist Politics Hungary 1956, Lessons of a Forgotten Revolution Conceptual Hang-Ups: Or, We Need to Talk About Philippe Alcoy Abjection in Marxist-Feminism Amy De'ath Ambivalent Views from Central Europe: Rudolf Hilferding, Otto Bauer, and the Russian Revolutions of 1917 A Dialogue Between Social Reproduction Feminism and William Smaldone French Materialist Feminism. From Domestic Labour to Social Reproduction and (dialectically) Back Again Spontaneity and its Slippages: Lenin, Luxemburg and Elsa Boulet Beyond Gareth Dale The Work of Werk: Queer Identity, the Family and Social Reproduction Chair Kate Doyle Griffiths
Chair: Paul Reynolds Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933
On the KPD Before 1923 - the Building of a Mass Party Florian Wilde
From Heading the Hamburg Left to Becoming ‘Stalin’s German’, Ernst Thälmann C. 1918-1929 Normal Laporte
Beyond Party and Class? Willi Münzenberg, Media and the KPD Fredrik Petersson
Chair: Ralf Hoffrogge
16.15 - 18.00
Race and Class 2: Black Marxism Red Wedge Panel: Art, Music, and the Return of the Crowd Black Marxism and the Colonial World in Daniel Guérin's Political Thought Fascist, Neoliberal and Socialist Aesthetic Leveling Selim Nadi Adam Turl
Reflections on C.L.R. Jamess World Revolution, 1917-1936 Shake the City: Space, Time, Music, Crisis Christian Hogsbjerg Alexander Billet
Discussant: Holly Lewis Chair: Ashok Kumar Chair: Crystal Stella Becerril Shaikh's Capitalism Bolshevism and 1917
Shaikh’s Concept of Real Competition in Capitalism Did the Bolsheviks Call for Socialist Revolution in 1917? Peter Green Eric Blanc
Capitalism and Real Competition: What About Conflict and Bolshevism as a Revolutionary Collective Underdevelopment? Paul Leblanc Juan Grigera
Inequality Chair: Pedro Mendes Louiero
Money in Shaikh: What’s New? Carolina Alves
Interest in Marx and Shaikh Bruno Hofig
Chair Book Launch: Marxist Analysis of History Against Marxism, Culture and Resistance Marxist Philosophy of History Play and Revolution. A Vygotskian Understanding of the Heide Gerstenberger "Festival of the Oppressed" Brecht De Smet Discusstants: Jasper Strange Decolonial Museology, Grassroots Resistance, and the Andrew Wright Labour of Representation Pansee Atta Chair: Maia Pal Winter in America: Gil Scott Heron, Homeland and US Politics Toby Manning
Chair Middle East Politics Impasse in Latin America
The Evolution of Neoliberalism in Tunisia from 1980-2017 World Market, Patterns of Accumulation, and State Forms: Edna Bonhomme The Political Economy of the Latin American Left Jeffery R. Webber Relative Autonomy of State? Workers, the Oil Company and the Iranian State Before Revolution Class Struggle, Social Movements, and States: Two Maral Jefroudi Decades of Latin American Left Experience Franck Gaudichaud Chair: Jamie Allinson Hegemony and Passive Revolution: Gramsci and the Left Turn in Latin America Massimo Modonesi Chair Book Roundtable - For Humanism Marxist-Feminism 5: Book Launch: Social Reproduction Theory, Recentering Oppression by Tithi Bhattacharya David Alexander Alderson Angela Dimitrakaki Barbara Epstein Hester Eisenstein Kevin B Anderson Colin Barker Robert Spencer Tithi Bhattacharya Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Sara Farris Journal of Agrarian Change Roundtable: The Political Economy of Land and the Colombian Peace Process
Agrarian Elite Participation in Civil War Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
Peasant Differentiation and Service Provision in Colombia Mauricio Velásquez Ospina
Land Rights, Restitution, Politics and War in Colombia Christopher Cramer
The Agrarian Question and Violence in Colombia Frances Thompson
Chair: Helena Pérez Niño
18.30 - 20.00
Issac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture
In Wildness is the Liberation of the World: On Maroon Ecology and Partisan Nature
Andreas Malm
Chair: Alex Colas Saturday
9.15 - 11.00
US, the Left and Late Capitalism Marxism and Ecology 2
From Nixon to Trump: Metastases of Cultural Power The Centrality of Labour in Emerging Green Capitalist Carl Freedman Economies Rocio Hiraldo Cuban Breach: State, Revolution, and the Historical Novel of Late Capitalism Value, Struggle, and the Production of Nature Thomas William Lynn Travers Luis andueza
Assimilating the Russian Revolution: Earl Browder’s Struggle Commodification of the Labour of Nature to Americanise Communism Sanjay V Lanka Laura Browder Chair: Andreas Malm Chair Book Launch: Ralf Hoffrogge: A Jewish Communist in Getting Our Understanding of Capitalism Wrong and its Weimar Germany. The Life of Werner Scholem (1895 – Implications for Historical Understanding 1940) The New History of Capitalism: The Problem of U.S. Slavery Charles Post Ralf Hoffrogge The Non-Capitalist Economics and Politics of Post- Loren Balhorn Revolutionary France Xavier Lafrance Sami Khatib The Non-Capitalist Character of Economic Growth in the Qing and Why it Matters Chair: Grant Mandarino Christopher Issett
Discussant: Neil Davidson
Chair: Maia Pal Race and Class 3: Race and Capital Organising Today's Workforce
History, Race and Politics: Reading Marx’s Ethnological Class Consciousness, Group Consciousness, Work Notebooks Organisation and Unionisation Emanuela Conversano Ian Allinson
Marx the Eurocentrist? Capital Volume 1 and the So-Called Beyond “the Gig Economy”: Trade Union Insurgents Against English Road Super-Exploitation Chris Newlove Joe Haynes
Kinmaking Against Racemaking? Elisions in Resurgent Anti- Theorising the Power of Rail Workers in Britain Since Natalism Privatisation Sophie Anne Lewis Tom Haines-Doran Chair: Rob Knox Chair: Jamie Woodcock Marxism Feminism Stream 6: 'Marxism and Art History': HM Book Launch Panel Revolutions Past: Critical Legacies Andrew Hemingway Reevaluating Inessa Armand Judy Cox Luiz Martins
Women in the Revolutionary Party & Process: Class/Gender Respondents: Debates & Strategy Rupi Minhas Alex Potts
Women & Labour in the 17th Century: Social Reproduction Gail Day Theory & Political Marxism Joana Perrone Chair: Steve Edwards
Chair: Sara Salem Worker’s Movements and Politics
Workers’ Movements and Self-Organization Against Trade Unions and the State Luciana Zorzoli
Work, Resistance and Development: Two Case Studies from Argentina Adam Fishwick
The Relevance of the Central Obrera Boliviana Today: The Labour Bureaucracy and Mass Labour Officialdom Angus Mcnelly
Chair 11.30 - 13.15
Latin American Marxism Marxism and Ecology 3
Crisis as Method: Zavaleta Mercado and the Making of a Ecologies of Surplus Value: The Case of Nitrogen Capital 'Motley' Marxism Matt Huber Felipe A. Lagos Revolution, Energized: Theorizing Petro-Capitalism The Other Marx: Philosophy and Critical Theory in Latin Jordan B Kinder America Bruno Bosteels Liberating the Fields: Towards a Feminist and Eco-Marxist Critique of Genetic Engineering José Carlos Mariátegui on the Russian Revolution Anneleen Kenis Nicolas Lema Habash Chair: Andreas Malm Chair: Svenja Bromberg Analysing Work: Reproducing Labour-Power Inside and HMSPEN: Sexual Politics - Backward and Forward Outside of the Market The Bolsheviks and Sexuality: The Importance of Historical Language, Labour and Social Reproduction: What the Context GCSE English Curriculum Tells us About Education, Social Colin Wilson Reproduction and Struggle Today Jen Wilkinson Looking Forward, Looking Back – What Can we Learn from Gay Liberation/Lesbian Feminism (1969-1976) for the Towards a Materialist Theory of Marketing Current Struggle Against the Neoliberal Queer? Alan Bradshaw Gary Kinsman
Is This the Best Use of my Time? Motherhood and Sexual Politics, 1917/2017: Proletarian Morality – and Reproductive Labour in Neoliberal Britain Beyond? Camille Alice Barbagallo Peter Drucker
Chair: Jamie Woodcock Chair: Paul Reynolds Marxism Feminism Stream 7: Revisions and Departures The Agrarian Question
Rosa Luxemburg & the ‘Woman Question’: From the Theory Agrarian Class Differentiations in Uzbekistan: Bypassing the of Accumulation to Social Reproduction Theory Market Versus State Dichotomy Ankica Cakardic Lorena Lombardozzi
Rethinking Patriarchy in Relation to Social Reproduction Uneven and Combined Development as a Universal Aspect Hester Eisenstein of Capitalist Industrialisation Neil Douglas Davidson A Critical Analysis of Social Reproductive Labour of Women in the Context of Neoliberal/Rural Dispossessions: The The Agrarian Question and Revolutions Against Capitalism: Turkish Case How 'Green' are the New 'Peasant Wars'? Ozlem Tezcek Mark Tilzey
Chair: Tithi Bhattacharya Chair: Jamie Allinson
The Political Economy of Money Race and Class 4:
The Civilization of Capital: How Empire Pervaded the ‘Epistemic Revolution’ and Counterrevolution. A Marxist Epistemology of Emerging Marginalist Economics Critique of Decolonial Reason Mischa Suter Alexandru Cistelecan
Derivatives Market - Extraction and Distribution of Surplus Viewing the Myth of the Lazy Malay Through Neoliberal Value Through Risk Management Lens: the Professional-Managerial Class in Malaysia Tomasz Plominski Jonathan Yong Tienxhi
The Money Form as an Agent of Revolution Against Capital, Capitalism as Postcolonial: Rewriting European Citizenships or Capital Against Revolution? The De Brunhoff/ Berti Ilaria Bertazzi Debate Rebecca Carson Chair:Ashok Kumar
Chair Marx’s Capital and Contemporary Art 1 Value Theory
What's Made When Art's Made, and What's it Worth? The Commodity Spectrum Bryan Parkhurst Jeanne Anne Schuler
Art Meets Capital The Power of Capital: On Value and Class Stewart Martin Søren Mau
Digital Cultural Commodities vs Marx’s Capital What's Value Got to Do With the Critique of Political Dave Beech Economy? The Multiple Meanings of Value Theory in Marx Riccardo Bellofiore Chair: Steve Edwards Marx's Capital, Surplus-Value and Labour Super- Exploitation Andy Higginbottom
Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Disputing Concepts Socialist Register/Red Pepper Roundtable: Rethinking Labour: Inside and Outside the Party Calumny Fetishism: The Origins and Obscurantism of the Concept of “Vulgar Marxism” Beth Foster-Ogg, Momentum Organizer David Sockol Andrew Murray, Chief of Staff, Unite Death and Life in Marx's Capital: An Ethical Investigation Ted Stolze Michael Calderbank, Red Pepper
October 1917, Marxism and the Beginnings of Soviet Alex Nunns, author, The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Oriental Studies Improbable Path to Power Craig Brandist James Foley/Pete Ramand, Co-Authors, What is Scottish Chair: Giorgio Cesarale Independence For?
Hilary Wainwright, Author, Reflections of the Future of the Left
Leo Panitch, Chair, Co-Author, The End of Parliamentary Socialism
13.15 - 14.00
14.00-15.45
Marxism and Ecology 4 Land, Law and Capital
Take Back Control The Role of Law and the State in the Emancipatory Process Alex Richardson-Price Dimitrios Kivotidis, Natalia Delgado
Alternative Responses to the Diabolic Crisis: Austerity, The Myth of Primary Accumulation and the Myth Land- Keynesianism or Ecosocialism Appropriation Ståle Holgersen Nikolaos Tzanakis-Papadakis
Eco-Austerity Repetition of Primitive Accumulation and Legal Violence: Troy Vettese New Approaches to the Critical Sociology of Law Guilherme Leite Goncalves Chair: Andreas Malm Chair Analysing Digital Work: Platforming, Dashboards, and The Accumulation of Debt: New Perspectives on Profit, the Gig Economy Crisis, and Inequality
Labour, Resistance, and Organisation in the Online Gig Debt Accumulation and the Capital Circuit Economy Niko Block Jamie Woodcock English Debt Accumulation and the Making of Capitalist Slaves to the Algorithm? Class (de/re)Composition in Money Computationally-Dependent Workplaces Sune Sandbeck Craig Gent Credit, Financial Regulation, and the Canadian State Organising Against the Odds: Gig Economy Couriers' Greg Albo Mobilisation in Italy and the UK Arianna Tassinari & Vincenzo Maccarrone Chair:
Chair: Jamie Woodcock Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács: From the October HMSPEN: Queer Marxism? Revolution to Philosophy Queer Marxism and the Problem of Internationalism Georg Lukács's Concept of Praxis Holly Lewis Daniel Lopez Sexualities in Permanent Revolution 'History and Class Consciousness' and French Marxism Alan Sears Conall Cash The Contours of a Queer Materialism Karl Korsch's Philosophical Breakthrough in 'Marxism and Paul Reynolds Philosophy' Darren Roso Chair: Peter Drucker
Value in György Lukács's Ontology Murillo Van Der Laan
Chair: Giorgio Cesarale Latin American Politics Transition to Capitalism, Race and Underdevelopment
Latin American Progressive Governments: Passive Revolutions? Transformism? Ceasarim? A Necessary Debate Colonialism(s), Race, and the Transition to Capitalism In Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, Jean Pierre Reed Canada Labour Against Capital: The Revolution in Latin America Ricardo Antunes Jessica Evans
Posthegemony: Grammars of the Multitude and Latin America Peter Baker Capital's First Colony? A ‘Political Marxist’ Engagement with the Historiography of Irish Underdevelopment Chair Tiarnan O'muilleoir
Blacking Out: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the Historicity of Anti-Blackness Sean O'brien
Chair:Maia Pal
Marx’s Capital and Contemporary Art 2 Thinking About Capital
The Substance of Symbolic Value: Museums, Collections, Marx's Capital: Scientifically Erroneous? and the Appearance of Value in Art Michael Roberts Nizan Shaked The Hypothesis of Today’s Insuperable Immanent Barriers Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception to Capitalist Production and A Discussion of Some its in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art Implications Marina Vishmidt Francois Chesnais
Exploring the Mind is Muscle Redeeming Marx's Capital Theory of Value Josefine Wikstrom Bob James Cannon
Chair: Steve Edwards Chair:Ashok Kumar Launching the Socialist Register 2018 I: Rethinking Defend the “Other”: A Discussion On and Beyond the Democracy: Legacies, Impasses, Prospects Current Refugee Movement – Insights From Greece’s Solidarity Spaces and the Formation of Political The Struggle Over Actually Existing Democracy Subjectivities Denis Pilon 'Everyone Who is Here is From Here' – Rethinking Political Women: Linking Lives With Democracy Subjectivities Within, Beyond and Against the Juridical Sheila Rowbotham Definitions of the Citizenship, in the Centennial of the Russian Revolution From Hayek To Trump: The Logic of Neoliberal Democracy Anastacia Matsouka and Konstantinos Gousis Martijn Konings Solidarity and Resistance Spaces of the Refugees: Barcelona En Comu: Urban Democracy and the Common (Trans)forming Political Consciousness and Engagement Good Giorgos Velegrakis and Erin Gaitanou Greig Charnock Articulations of Migration and Crisis in Mainstream New Agrarian Democracies? The Pink Tide’s Lost Discourses and Policies Opportunity Lafazani Olga Leandro Vergara-Camus/Cristobal Kay Chair: Chair: Leo Panitch, Socialist Register 16.15 - 18.00
Inside the Black Box: Workers' Inquiries Into the The 'German October' of 1923: A Reassessment Automation of Management at Deliveroo and Sainsburys
‘I Predict A Deliver-Riot’: Findings of a Workers Inquiry at Dead Men On Leave: Communist Cadre and the ‘German Deliveroo October’ 1923 Callum Cant Sean Larson
A Workers’ Inquiry at Deliveroo: An Account and Analysis of Delivery Work in London Facility Waters Reexamining 1923: German October from the Perspective of the Factory Councils Lost Dreams and Unpaid Rent: An Inquiry Into Supermarket Work Loren Balhorn Bill Golding
Chair: Jamie Woodcock 1923: The Summer of National Bolshevism?
Ralf Hoffrogge
Chair: Grant Mandarino
Revolutions Against Capital Revolutions, Imperialism and International Law
Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital Kevin B. Anderson Imperialism, International Law and Race in the Haitian What Revolution in the Context of Capital? Revolution Marcelo Badaró Mattos Robert Knox
Daniel Bensaid's Reading of Capital Darren Roso Imperialism, International Law and Race in the Haitian Revolution Chair: Svenja Bromberg Tor Krever
The Gift of Scottish Backwardness: ‘Revolutions from Above’ and the Geopolitics of Post-Napoleonic British International Legal Argument
Eric Loefflad
Chair: Maia Pal
Marxism and Ecology 5 HMSPEN: Queer Politics
New Developments in Eco-Marxism We Need To Talk About Milo: Queer Marxism and the Alt Jim Kincaid Right Alex Dymock
Bogdanov's Return and Contemporary Marxian Critique of Queer Movements and Class Politics in New York City Global Political Economy Michelle Esther O'brien Mehmet Cursan Senalp, Orsan Senalp (Gender) Policing the Poor:Capitalism, Sexuality, and Degrowth-Related Thinking in Russian and Soviet Thought Carcerality in the 21st Century Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Ashley Bohrer Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Andreas Malm Critiques of Political Economy Launching Socialist Register 2018 ii:: Rethinking Democracy: Revolutionizing the Media? Marxism Without Class: A Critique of Postone's Interpretation of Marx Fake Democracy, Bad News Mozart Silvano Pereira Natalie Fenton/Des Freedman
The Architecture of Capital Book Three Democracy and Public Broadcasting Jorge Grespan Tom Mills
Notes On Competition, Credit System and World Economy Digital Democracy? In Marx's Capital Nina Power Janaina De Faria Chair: Greg Albo, Socialist Register
Chair:Ashok Kumar The Demise of the Pink Tide in Brazil Marx’s Capital and Contemporary Art 3
On the Place of Brazilian Corruption in the Reproduction of Art is… the Permanent Revolution: Working Artists Against Capitalism Capital Amélia Coelho Rodriques Maciel Marcos Fabris
Contradictions and Limits of Neo-Developmentalism in Marx and Conceptual Art: Art and Language in the Late Brazil: The Brazilian Working-Class, Unions and the 1970s Impeachment Process Kim Charnley Lara Khattab Documenting the Hidden Abode of (Re)Production: The The Neo-Development of Underdevelopment: Brazil and the Renewal of Realism in Contemporary Art Political Economy of South American Integration Under PT Kirsten Lloyd Fabio Luis Barbosa Dos Santos Commodification as Social Form: The Political Aesthetics of "Crisis of Praxis:” Explaining the Fragmentation of the Contemporary 'Art Practice' Brazilian Left David Hodge Sabrina Fernandes Chair: Steve Edwards Chair Dependency Theory – Contemporary Perspectives
Marxian Dependency Theory in Latin America After the Pink Tide. Lessons Learned From Popular Movements and its Struggles Mariano Féliz
“Rebellious Realities” – Theoretical Synergies? Reading Marini Under the Sign of Uneven and Combined Development Felix Buchwald
Degenerated Dependency Theory and the Forgotten Roots of Neodevelopmentalism Felipe Antunes De Oliveira
Chair: Juan Grigera
18.30 - 20.00
Plenary: Value and Value Theory
The Current Dual Crisis and Marx’s Critical Theory of Value Moishe Postone
“Value Form”: Steps of Marx’s Research Project Michael Heinrich
Thoughts on Value David Harvey
Chair: Juan Grigera Sunday - 10.00 - 11.45
Affect and Consciousness Revolution and History
Why Don’t we Get Indignant? Reflection on the Revolution Ancient Multitudes and Modern Revolution and its Obstacles From an Affective Point of View Marcus Bajema Arthur Duhe Koselleck, Marx and the Conceptual Development of Capitalist Neurons? Mindfulness, Neoliberal Affect and the Revolution Human Brain Matt Bolton António Carvalho Michael Lebowitz's Critique of Vanguard Marxism What of the Subjective Factor in the Struggle: Species- Paul Raekstad Being, the Cathartic Moment, Aesthetic Consciousness? John Eustice O'brien Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair: Maia Pal Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of Revolution Marxism, Protest and Resistance
Rosa Luxemburg’s Writings on the 1906-06 Russian Explaining the Absence of Anti-Austerity Mobilization in Revolution and its Lessons for the 1917 Revolution Cyprus: Class Struggle and the “National Question” Holger Politt Leandros Fischer
Paul Levi: Ohne Einen Tropfen Lakeienblut Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" as a Leaderless Jörn Schütrumpf Movement: Lessons from Trotsky and Mao Wai Kit Choi The Importance of Rosa Luxemburg Today, Especially Her The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born - Now is the Understanding of Revolution Time to Organize Evelin Wittich Sarah Nagel and Christina Kaindl
Chair: Riory Castle The Antiwar and the War Veterans Movements in Greece 1920-26 Kostas Skordoulis
Chair Marxism Feminism Stream 8: The (mis)uses of Women’s Western Philosophy and Marxism 1 Rights: A Panel on Sara Farris’s In the Name of Women’s Rights Aleatory Materialism and Theoretical Practice: The Logic of Struggle in the Later Althusser Lisa Tilley Thomas Carmichael Rafeef Ziadah Akanksha Mehta On (Non-)Contemporaneity Ashley Bohrer Daniel Kashi Nayda Ali Sara Farris Lenin's Idea of Dialectics Vesa Oittinen
Chair: Sara Salem Chair: Marxism, Women, Ireland Rethinking Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics Rediscovering the Legacy of Revolutions for Marxist Feminists : A Focus On Ireland Gaze, Address, Interpellation: Rethinking Contemporary Penelope Elizabeth Duggan Theatre Production Sophie Coudray The Legacy of Alice Milligan: Protestant, Feminist, Modernist and Unrepentant Fenian For an Independent Revolutionary Art Ruth Taillon Dora Longo Bahia
Chair: Chair: Steve Edwards
Reading Marx Populist Politics and Right Wing Responses
Marx-Biographies as Political Interventions Michael Heinrich Horizontalism, Popular Assemblies, and Imagining a Marxism and the Abuse of the Enlightenment Aaron Jaffe Democratic Transition to Socialism in the 21st Century?
The Concept of the Political in Marx's Concept of Crisis Sarah Mason Jonas Van Vossole
The Boomerang Effect. Colonial Genealogies of Fascism Chair: Svenja Bromberg Eleni Varikas Chair 12.15 - 14.00
Marxism and Islam Cinema Against Capital
The Nature and Dynamics of Islamic Fundamentalist Barthes, Tel Quel, and the Genesis of Third Meaning Movements Ian Peter Stone Joseph Daher Forging an Anti-Capitalist Film Culture: Ken Loach and The The Meaning of Wahhabism: Origins, Afterlives and Debate About Naturalism in Britain Alternative Explanations - Safia Albaiti Marcos Soares
The Contradictions of Neoliberal Islam in Turkey Sabine Dreher Chair:
Chair: Sara Salem
The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867- Marxism Feminism Stream 9: Resistance Routes 2017) Wages For Housework & the Future of Social Reproduction Dissemination and Reception of Capital in the United States, Alva Gotby Britain, and Canada Babak Amini Abortion as Strike, Abortion as Riot Eleanor Penny Capital in Nordic Countries Paula Rauhala and Jussi Silvonen Transcending Cultural Feminism: Towards a Militant and Marxist Chicanisma Capital in Bulgaria Crystal Stella Becerril Stanimir Panayotov Chair: Sara Farris Capital in Romania Alex Cistelecan
Chair The Great Grunwick Strike (Film Showing) Disaster, Desire and the Representation of Revolution
Discussants The Music of Destruction: Trotsky, Blok, Mayakovsky Alberto Toscano Sundari Anitha Lenin, the Body in Memorials and the Ecstatic Sexuality in Amrit Wilson Eisenstein's the General Line Esther Leslie Ruth Pearson The Role of ‘Sexual Revolutions’ in the Films of Zhelimir Chair:and Introduction - Sujata Aurora Zhilnik Matthias Meindi
Chair: Paul Reynolds
Migration and Labour in Contemporary Barbarism
Immigrant Labour in Japan: Class, Gender and Ethnicity Mariana Shonihara Roncato
On Syrian Refugees, Berlin, and Soap Zuher Jazmati
Calais: Border, Labour, Life Roberto Mozzachiodi
Chair: Maia Pal Marxism, the Carceral and Processes of Subjectivation
Carceral Infrastructures and Settler Colonial Technologies: Primitive Accumulation Through Electronic Monitoring Elise Thorburn, Kamilla Petrick
Capital Crimes: Incarceration and Confinement In Capitalist Modernity Ashley Bohrer
Processes of Subjectivation Through the Lens of Coloniality of Gender Marie Moise
Chair: Ashok Kumar 14.00 - 14.45
Lunch
14.45 - 16.30
Sub Saharan African Politics Marxism Feminism Stream 10: Negatives: Art and Culture The BRICs Face Anti-Subimperial Resistances Patrick Bond The Necropolitics of Social Reproduction The National Democraction Revolution and Capitalism in Carina Brand South Africa Nyiko Floyd Shivambu Labours of Love: Women’s Work and ‘Dark Matter’ in the Cultural Sector Considerations on 'Red Africa': Revolutionary Theory and Macushla Robinson Practice in Lusophone African Socialist Thought, 1956-1986 Kevin Ochieng Okoth Chair: Sara Salem Chair Western Philosophy and Marxism 2 Totality, Defeat and Marxism
Three Dialectics of Barbarism: Luxemburg, Benjamin, Adorno The Politics of the Concept of Totality Geoffrey Wildanger Kanishka Goonewardena
Right-Nietzscheanism, Left-Nietzscheanism: A Historical and The Experience of Defeat: On Max Horkheimer’s Concept of Conceptual Perspective Critique Ishay Landa Stathis Kouvélakis
Human Nature and Social Arrangements Walter Benjamin’s Concept of ‚Anthropological Materialism’ William Dixon As Critique of Soviet Marxism in His Essay ‚Moscow’ (1926/27) Caroline Adler Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Svenja Bromberg Transitions to Socialism Let us Free Ireland
Historicizing Strategy: The Mir in Conversation with Lenin Revolutionary Ireland: From Insurrection to Reaction Daniel Tutt, Diego Arrocha Shaun Harkin
Rethinking Transition as Struggle, Experimentation and The Fight Against Water Charges and Class Struggle in Cultural Revolution: Value Form Theory and Questions of Modern Ireland Revolutionary Strategy Paul O'connell Dimitris Papafotiou, Panagiotis Sotiris The Struggle for Women's Liberation in Ireland: 1916 to The New Economic Policy: Revolution, Backwardness and Today Transition Maev Mcdaid Alberto Handfas Chair: Ashok Kumar Chair Socialist Development Strategies in the 21st Century Art and Politics
The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: Subtle Revolutions: Resistance as Seen in the Development The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left of Female Mobilization and Socially Collaborative Art Jeffrey R Weber Practices in Cyprus Evanthia Tselika Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorising Without Parachutes Encounters Betwixt and Between: Contemporary Art Ana Dinerstein Curatorial Performances and the Left in the Republic of Cyprus The Struggle for Development Despina Pasia Benjamin Selwyn Does Montage Aesthetics Have Revolutionary Potential in Chair: Demet Dinler Anti-Capitalist Struggles? Irina Samokovska
Chair Migration and Class in the Right-Wing Populist Moment Revolutions and European Perspectives
Migrant Workers’ Self-Organisation, Labour Unions and the Sweden Between Revolutions 1917-20 Management of Migration Kjell Östberg, Håkan Blomqvist Mark Bergfeld Italy 1919: Nationalism and Revolution Border Anxiety: White Nationalism & the Capitalist State Megan Trudell Niko Block The Riddle of the Revolution: Between Truth and Totality Chair/Discussant: Mostafa Henaway Lea Kuhar
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17.00- 19.00
Final Plenary: Race, Migration and the Left
Nadya Ali Satnam Virdee John Narayan Sara Farris
Chair: Sara Salem