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: