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10th AnnualHistorical Materialism

Conference

Makingthe World

Working Class7-10th November 2013Central London

Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between

persons - and between classes. The complex task

of analysing class structures and, at the same time,

transforming and transcending them is at the core of

Marxs legacy.

2013 marks the 75th anniversary of CLR JamessThe Black Jacobins and the 50th anniversary of EP

Thompsons The Making of the English Working Class.

Wary of all reifications of class, Thompson showed how

the working class was not only made by capital, but made

itself in everyday struggles and political agitation. James

affirmed the need to look at the international division of

labour in the context of race and imperialism, and gave

voice to the revolutionary agency of the black Jacobins

and other historically neglected enemies of capitalism and

colonialism.

In the wake of the new conflicts thrown up bydecolonisation and more recent processes of neoliberal

globalisation, research in the field of labour and

working class history has acquired an increasingly global

dimension, and become more attentive to the critical role

played by race and gender in the formations of working

classes. Social struggles and resistance from Latin

America to Eastern Europe, from the Arab-Islamic 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

to turn class composition into class decomposition, tounmake a world working class.

Significantly, in order to understand this changing

reality and the roots of the crisis of the neoliberal

system, a growing body of scholarship questions the

representation of labour as a passive factor in production,

and investigates how workers struggles co-determine

processes of capitalist development, as well as cultural

mutations and political transformations.

Despite rising levels of class struggle - from a growing

working class movement in China to the Arab uprisings

and mobilisation against austerity in Southern Europe

discourses of class remain largely marginal to political

debate and action. Class struggle is often recognised,

namely through the language of inequality, but is beingincreasingly filtered, also on the left, through notions of

the people or the 99%.

The tenth annual Historical Materialism aims to provide

a forum for debating the descriptive and prescriptive

roles that concepts of class and class struggle can have

today. More generally, we seek contributions that account

for how Marxist theory, historiography and empirical

research can explain and intervene in the contemporary

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 yearsMarxism and Feminism stream).

The conference is self-funded and we will depend on

voluntary donations by attendants and participants to

support the organisation and running of the event. The

suggested donation on the door is 75 for waged and

35 for unwaged.

For logistical and other support Historical Materialism

would like to thank the

School of Oriental and African StudiesFor their collaboration thanks to

Faculty of Law and Social Sciencesat SOAS

Brill Academic PublishersDeutscher Memorial Prize committeeSocialist Register.


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PerformanceAesthetics and Practice

Chair: Steve Edwards

Larne Abse Gogarty Proletariandance reproduction and

communist consciousnessMarina Gerber Collectiveactions and J. CageJosefine Wikstrm Betweenpractice and performance: Socialistobjects and dematerialised

commodities

B102

Rosa Luxemburgin Revolution

Chair: Sebastian Budgen

Ben Lewis Is that ourprogramme Karl? Luxemburg

democracy and the challenge ofthe German RevolutionOttokar Luban Was RosaLuxemburgs confidence in the

cleverness and creativity of theProletarian masses justified?

Examples in the German

Revolutionary Movements1918/1919Peter Green Rosa Luxemburgversus Lukcs on Class

Consciousness Party andRevolution

B111

American power indecline? Theorizing thefuture of world order

Chair: Alex Anievas

Sean Starrs American economicpower hasnt geclined, Itglobalized! Summoning the data

and taking globalization seriouslyJames Parisot American empireand emerging powers: In or

against empire?Stephen Maher Empire andresistance in the Middle East

G50

Marxism Feminismand the struggleagainst patriarchy

Chair: Abbie Bakan

Eleonora Forenza Themolecular revolution:connecting feminist and materialist

thoughtsDeborah Sielert Feministperspectives: Global processes of

primitive accumulation and anexample of local resistanceAnkica Cakardic Socialistfeminist approach to the artificial

division of labour

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Marxist theory andthe human sciences

Chair: Giorgos Galanis

Alexandre Feron Tran Duc Thaoand MarxismCatherine Moir Ideas for amaterialist philosophy of languagePhillip Homburg Sign, symboland fetish

Johan Siebers Wisdom inCommunism

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Law and Class in19th century Britain

Chair: Robert Knox

Marc W. Steinberg Workplacesubjugation and the materiality of

law: master and servant law and

exploitation in Victorian EnglandEdith Hall The Greek andRoman classics and social class in

Britain 1789-1939Colin Barker Marx on thefactory acts: some questions

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Marxist perspectiveson digital labour

Chair: David Broder

Ursula Huws Productive andreproductive labour in the internet

ageChristian Fuchs Defining andtheorizing digital labourChristoph Hermann Digitallabour and working timeEran Fischer The Ideology ofdigital labour

THURSDAY A 13.30-15.15

ROOM KEY

School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS)KLT - Khalili Lecture Theatre (ground floor)DLT - G3- G50- G51(ground floor)116 - First floor4426 - 4429 Fourth floorL67 - Lower ground floor

Brunei GalleryBGLT Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre basementB102 B104 B111 first floor

Cruciform Lecture Theatre

Senate House

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Queer theory 1

Chair: Paul Reynolds

James Penney Is there a queerMarxism?Holly Lewis Towards a Marxisttheory of sex and gender


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Imperialismsold and new

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Luke Cooper Class, state power

and transition in ChinaTyler Shipley New CanadianimperialismTony Norfield Britishimperialism

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Art, Race and Capital


Ben Pritchett These dyingcentres: Constructivism and anti-

colonialism in This is TomorrowTim Fisken Mass culture andpolitical form in C. L. R. JamesAmerican CivilizationNizan Shaked Alliances? Theleft versus identity politics in US

Art

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Race, Caste, Class

Chair: Dae-Oup Chang

Doris Lee Racialization ofmainland Chinese outsiders in

Hong Kong, policies, politics andcultureEnrique Martino A Plantationisland in the East Atlantic.

Indentured labour in SpanishFernando P and Equatorial

Guinea, 20th c.John OBrien Indiancontradictions: Caste inequalities

without class alienation?Riya Mary Alsanah Zionismand the enemy within: the strugglefor Palestinain liberation in Israel

G50

Social ReproductionFeminism

Chair: Sue Ferguson

Nicole Leach Transitions to

capitalism: Social reproductionfeminism encounters political

MarxisAnn Wiesental Inherentcontradictions and the crises of

social reproductionSelma James

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Gramsci

Chair: Peter Thomas

Kasim Tirmizey Gramsci at theperipheries: Revisiting theories ofthe post-colonial stateAaron Bernstein Gramscisreading of Marxs 1859 PrefaceRobert Jackson Is there a theoryof fetishism in Gramscis Prison

Notebooks?Alen Suceska Gramsci andBahktin. A Marxist philosophy of

language

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The theoretical andpolitical legacyof Yugoslav self-management

Chair: Toni Prug

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica Workers Self-Management in

Yugoslavia 1948-1950: NewEvidenceCatherine Samary From theYugoslav social ownership to theCommonsGal Kirn Yugoslav Self-Management after the market

reform (1965): between the logicof vanguard and capital

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Neoliberalism andFinancialisation

Chair: Giorgos Galanis

Marcus Banks Neoliberalwelfare production relations in

AustraliaSerdar Sengul Financeand financialisation from the

perspective of Marxs Value Theory

Jim Wolfreys Neo-liberalismand its limits

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Race, Migrationand Class

Chair: Lucia Pradella

Matthew Cooper The remakingof the British working class: trade

unions and black and Asian

workers in Britain 1949- 1984Michael M. Hall Class andethnicity in the formation of the

early Sao Paulo Working Class,1890-1930Shaun Harkin Neoliberalism,migration and the US working

class.

THURSDAY B15.45-17.30

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From FrenchPhilosophy toFrench Theory

Chair: Esther Leslie

Tzuchien Tho From FrenchPhilosophy to French Theory: 1964Andrew Ryder Badiou and theHegelian Dialectic in 1960s FrenchPhilosophy

Samo Tomsic The Capitalistunconscious: Marx and LacanKnox Peden (discussant)


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Contemporary racismsand the right

Chair: Paul ReynoldsKevin Ovenden Which crisis;

whose multiculturalism?Benjamin Opratko and FannyMller-Uri Whats in a Name?The Challenge of Islamophobia

and Critical Theories of RacismDimitra Kotouza RepressiveCrisis Management, Nationalism

and Surplus Populations inGreece

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Concepts inMarxist Theory:time, machineryand the state

Chair: Matteo MandariniJonathan Martineau Capitalistvalue appropriation and clock-time: temporal alienation and the

dialectics of capitalist timeGiorgos Kalampokas, TassosBetzelos and Panagiotis Sotiris State, political power andrevolution: Althusser, Poulantzas,

Balibar and the Debate on theState

G50

On reproduction andnew motherhood

Chair: Alex Anievas

Ana Vilenica Becoming a

Mother: From neoliberal regimeof motherhood towards radical

political subjectivisationDaniela Danna Surrogacycontracts: the ultimate workers

exploitation?

G51

Housing, rent andurban development

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Mary Robertson Financialisation

and UK Housing Supply - Beyondthe Land-Banking DebateJamie Gough Fictitiouscommodities, generalised rentsand the contradictions of growth

regions: a quantitative modelOzlem Celik The changingpolitical economy of housing ofthe poor in Istanbul between 1950

and 2010Michael Edwards Dilemmas incampaigning about housing and

rent in London: distinct forms offinancialisation and fragmented

class experience

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The InternationalDimension to theRussian Revolution


Adam Collins Arthur Ransomein Revolutionary Russia 1917-

1923Kevin Morgan In and out ofthe swamp: the unpublished

autobiography of Peter PetroffJohn Riddell Clara Zetkin in theLions DenJean-Franois Fayet KarlRadek and Paul Levi in 1921: Two

Conceptions of Communism or ofInternational Discipline

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Cinema andPhotography


Louis-Georges Schwartz Cinema hostis or historicizing the

time and movement images

Agata Pyzik Representations ofcommunist Poland on film pride

or contestation?

Grant Mandarino Capturingclass: Photographic experience and

Proletarian representation

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The Politics of Anti-Colonialism

Chair: David Broder

Nate George The Proseof insurgency: Anticolonial

movements and historiographyRianne Subijanto Communistwomen and the anti-colonial

struggle in Indonesia

David Barber Anti-ColonialRevolution and the origins of the1960s

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Adorno, the BourgeoisInterior and theOntology of Hell


Sebastian Truskolaski Adornoin the Mirror: Inversion and

redemption in the bourgeois

intrieurTom Allen Angelus in theboudoir: Adorno and the angel ofthe negativeJacob Bard-Rosenberg Theinterior without children: Adorno

and the Kindertotenlieder

THURSDAY C 18.15-20.00

Senate House (room 264)

N.B. 18.00

The Market, violenceand consumers

Keynote Speaker:Heide Gerstenberger,University of Bremen

This talk is organised as part ofthe Royal Holloway MA Marketing

Camp, it begins at 6pm.

The talk will take place in SenateHouse, which is located betweenthe Brunei Galleryand Malet St.


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Racialisation andBlack Radical Politics

Chair: Brenna BhandarHLT Quan Black radicality andungovernability

Adam Elliott-Cooper Raceto the city: Black-led social

movements space and theneoliberal stateAnna Curcio and MiguelMellino Race at work. The riseand challenge of Italian racism

B102

Antisemitism andSocialist Strategy 1:Central and EasternEurope 1880-1917

Chair: Peter ThomasBrendan McGeever Socialistsand antisemitism in Revolutionary

Russia: February to October 1917Gerald Surh Antisemitism in theeyes of a Jewish RevolutionaryWiktor Marzec Polish andJewish workers should struggletogether, under one common

banner. Antisemitism and counter

anti-semitic discoursive strategies inpolitical language during the 1905-

07 Revolution in the Kingdom ofPolandLars Fischer Comparing Social

Democratic responses to racism andantisemitism in Imperial Germany

B104

Migrant struggles


Rossana Cillo Immigrantworkers in the Italian agricultural

sector: Between informalisation casualisation and irregularisationBernhard Weicht Theproduction of migrant care work:benefiting from the intersection

of economic, cultural and globalinequalitiesRichard Braude Crisis in thecleaning sector

B111

Activity Theory:from Lev Vygotskyto Evald Ilyenkov

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Alex Levant The subject ofactivity theory: A CHAT withIlyenkovVesa Oittinen Vygotsky andIlyenkov on Spinozas Significancefor and Analysis of MindPeter Jones Vygotsky Marxismand Pavlovs reflexologyBrecht de Smet Labor strugglesin Sadat City: Workplaces in/ofRevolution

G50

Researching Class andDevelopment: Panel 1


Owen Miller The making of

the North Korean working class,from colonial to postcolonial statecapitalismLiam Campling The classdynamics of EU-Africa fisheries

relationsBen Selwyn The manydeterminants of class and

development: Evidence fromexport grape production, North

East Brazil

KLT

Marxist Feminismand Art

Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki

Giulia Smith The biologicalimaginary of the independent

group: Mother-whoreRobin Simpson Hiddenmothers and matrices: Exposing

reproductive labour in nineteenthcentury studio photography

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Anti-CapitalistHorizons

Chair: David Broder

Eduardo Sartelli FromChiapanean Aborigines and

Argentinian Picketers to Spanish

indignados: The global rebellionof surplus population and the

dilemmas of class consciousnessand socialist revolution at the

beginning of the twenty-firstcenturyToni Prug Hacking Marxscircuits of reproduction: Towardsegalitarian accumulation and

mode of production UK nationalaccounts and public housing

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Class: Concepts andControversies


Ricardo Antunes Who is theworking class today?Klaus Drre and Singe ThePrecariat - A social class?Joseph Choonara Reflections

on Marxist theories of class

FRIDAY D 9.45-11.30

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Trajectories ofClass Formation

Chair: Jamie Allinson

Pepijn Brandon PopularOrangism and the making of the

Dutch working classRichard Roman and EdurVelasco Arregui Straddling the

border: The transnational makingof the Mexican working classCagri Idiman The Developmentof the Agrarian Questions

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Avant-Garde

Chair: Matteo Mandarini

Rory Dufficy the everyday life ofthe avant-gardeDavid Mabb Off with his head!Reworkings of Tatlins Monumentto the Third International and

monuments to Lenin in art since

the 1960s.


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Researching Class andDevelopment: Panel 2

Chair and discussant: AlessandraMezzadri

Jeffery R. Webber Reading E.P.Thompson in the AndesJonathan Pattenden DynamicDeterminations: A class-relationalapproach to social policy in India.Philip Roberts Resistance tocapitalism in Brazil during a periodof transformation: the condition

of the Movimento Sem Terraunder neoliberalism and post-

neoliberalism

B102

Antisemitismand SocialistStrategy 2: WesternEurope,1880-1917

Chair: Sebastian BudgenSatnam Virdee Socialists andantisemitism in Britain,1884-1914Sharon Vance Antisemitism &Socialism in colonial Algeria and

France in the 19th centuryJan Stutje Anti-Semitism andracism in the early Dutch labourmovement (1880-1994)Hakan Blomqvist Socialistpatriotism, racism and anti-semitism in the early Swedish

labour movement

B104

When the content goesbeyond the phrase:Reflections on the GeziResistance in Turkey

Chair: Adam HaniehFuat Ercan and IbrahimGundogdu Restructuring ofcapital and state in Turkey and

the transformation of blas

personalities to insurgents in theGezi resistanceSebnem Oguz Gezi resistanceand the political regime in Turkey:

Towards an exceptional stateform?Yasemin Ozgun Patriarchialcapitalism and the motives behindthe womens participation in the

Gezi Resistance

B111

Theorisingsubsumption andreification

Chair: David Broder

Stewart Martin What is thesubsumption of life by capital?Andrs Senz de Sicilia Timeand subsumptionPatrick Murray & Gil Skillman Capital at the margins: Does

Marx have the concept of hybrid

subsumption? An exchangebetween Patrick Murray and Gil

SkillmanFrederic Montferrand, VincentChanson and Alexis Cukier Between real abstractions and

class struggle: Reification

G50

Universities asCorporations andSites of Struggle

Chair: Peter Thomas

Andrew McGettigan Englishuniversities: what kind ofcorporations are they?Christopher Newfield Someelements of a non-capitalistuniversityHugo Harari-Kermadec and ElsaBoulet Commodity fetishism atthe universityJacken Waters and MollyBudd Within and against theuniversity-as-factory: SussexUniversitys anti-privatisation

occupation as a glimpse of rupture

with capital

FG01

Struggles in Africa

Chair: Robert KnoxLara Pawson The Nito Alvesuprising: views from belowAndrew Brooks An AfricanPassive Revolution? Joyce Bandas

New MalawiLeo Zeilig From exile to thethick of the struggle: Mozambiqueand Ruth FirstJohn S. Saul Discussant

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Agrarian transitionand left politics inIndia, Journal ofAgrarian Change panel

Chair: Subir Sinha

Jens Lerche agrarian transitionbypassed in neoliberal India?Alpa Shah The AgrarianQuestion in a Maoist Guerrilla

ZoneBarbara Harriss-White Capitalism and the common man:Petty and Petty Production in IndiaIsabelle Guerin Bonded labour,agrarian changes and capitalism in

South India.

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Race, Sex and Gender

Chair: Sara Farris

Sara Garbagnoli One Is NotBorn: On Sex And Race As Social

Structures. Political Insights FromFrench Materialist FeministsDolores MorondoTaramundi Intersectionality and

disaggregation of the subject

in the controversies over theheadscarfAsefeh Esfahlani Islamic formsof Reproduction: From Permanent

to Temporary MarriageKevin Floyd Commodified Biosand the Real Abstraction of

Gender

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Soviet Marxism andSocialist Humanism

Chair: Gregory Schwartz

Craig Brandist Russian Marxism,Hegemony and the Critique of

EurocentrismHannah Proctor Abstraction:Utopian or Scientific? SovietPsychologists in Central Asia in the

wake of the First Five Year PlanKevin Anderson RethinkingHumanismBarbara Epstein The Rise,Decline and Hopeful Revival of

Socialist Humanism

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Realism andModernism


Warren Carter Epic Modernism:Meyer Schapiro, George Lukacs,

and the Murals of Diego RiveraIshan Cader RefractingHegemony: The New Masses,Between Proletarian Art and

Sloanist IconologyAlex Potts Class Politics andRealism in Art in Postwar Italy

FRIDAY E 11.45-13.30

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Law and theConstitution ofCapitalist SocialRelations

Chair: Robert Knox

Paavo Kotiaho The Economic,Social and Cultural Administrationof Life through Law - Rights and

the Development of Capitalist in

the 21st CenturyBill Bowring The Law of Valueand the LawOisin Gilmore European Unionas State FormChristopher Boyd InternationalLaw(yers): a class-theoretical

critique of practice and theprofession

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Lunchtime meeting: Meet the editors of the HM Book Series and Journal to discuss any prospective projects. Room G50.


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The UnknownRosa Luxemburg:Her writings onanthropology political economy and post-capitalistsociety reconsidered

Chair: Alex Anievas

Chris Knight Rosa Luxemburgon Primitive Communism: Howdo her ideas stand up today?Riccardo Bellofiore Arevolutionary economic theorist:Rosa Luxemburgs Accumulation of

Capital 100 years laterPeter Hudis Rosa Luxemburgscontribution to developing a visionof a post-capitalist societyJan Toporowski Luxemburgand underconsumptionism

B102

Queer Theory 2


Gianfranco Rebucini Homonationalism and Integral

State. Neoliberal policies of rightsand GLB collusion in FranceJohannah May Black Queerrights and sexual regulation andthe neoliberal, post-welfare stateJames Hooper Queermaterialism and the Byzantine

eunuch

B104

TheorisingContemporary Racisms

Chair: Brenna Bhandar

Richard Seymour Racial states

in crisis: Poulantzas and racialformationsStella Magliani-Belkacem andFlix Boggio wanje-pe Social-chauvinism as a political

categoryRazmig Keucheyan Environmental Racism: A Marxist

perspective

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Politics andPolitical Economyof Consumption

Chair: Mary Robertson

Dave Beech Facebook andthe privatisation of the generalintellectAlan Bradshaw, NorahCampbell and Stephen Dunne the politics of consumptionIshay Landa Buying out of it:working-class consumption undercapitalism

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Marxism andPostcolonial Theory:Whats left of thedebate? Part 1

Chair: Jeff WebberPaolo Novak Borders: Marxistterritories and postcolonial terrainsPranav Jani Writing about1857: Marxism and RepresentationSharae Deckard and RashmiVarma Left Turns: the Politics ofCritique in Postcolonial Theory

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Critical Perspectivesin Political Economy

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Michael Kraetke ReadingCapital - how not to readCapitalPatrick Murray and JeanneSchuler Five Commonconceptual mistakes about value

and capitalMaria Ivanova The greatrecession and the great depressionin comparative perspectiveJim Kincaid China-centricdevelopment in the world

economy today: the Marxistdebate

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Philosophies ofthe Proletariat

Chair: Bue Hansen

Gaspar Tamas Towards a newconcept of the global proletariatJessica Whyte Nothing to losebut its chains: Giorgio Agambenon the auto- suppression of the

proletariat

Gavin Walker iek with Marx:Outside in the critique of political

economy

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Workers Autonomy,Workers control


Marcelo Vieta Makers of theirown history: Argentinas worker-recuperated enterprises and the

political economy of the workingclassDaniel Fuchs Class-

recomposition in China: Prospectsof Workers Autonomous

AgencyImmanuel Ness Discussant

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Crises and Transitions


Jorge Grespan The dilemmaof capitalist governments in thepresent crisisJos Antonio Pasta TheEighteenth Brumaire of Machado

de AssisLuiz Renato Martins Debts

and antidebts

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History as Method

Chair: Peter Thomas

Samuel Knafo and BennoTeschke Political Marxism andthe Question of Methodology for

Historical MaterialismClemens Hoffmann TheHeterogeneity of Universalism:

Making Sense of the Dual Spread

of Modernity: Debating Capitalismand the Inter-State System beyondEuropeCharlie Post Discussant


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Workers strugglesand social movementsunder neoliberalism


Win Windisch Self-assertivenessand leadership. From workersrecalcitrance to new trade unionactivismJeff Goodwin The rise and fallof Occupy Wall Street: A class

analysisElizabeth Humphrys Howlabour built neoliberalism

B102

Class, Capital andPolitics in Russia andEastern Europe

Chair: Gregory Schwartz

Eric Sevault The Legacy ofRussian Left CommunistsPaul Kellogg Miners of VorkutaAlexandr Buzgalin RussiasJurassic Capitalism: A Caricatureof the West?Andre Mommen Russia atthe crossroads: Popular protests social transformations and

Putinism

B104

Reformism andLeft Strategy

Chair: Peter Thomas

Paul Blackledge Left Reformism

the State and the Problem ofSocialist Politics TodayJonah Birch Social Democracyand Class Mobilization: the Leftwithout Reformism?Daniela Chironi Radical left-wing parties and anti- neoliberalsocial movements in Western

Europe: strategic interactions intime of crises. A comparative study

of Italy and GreecePanagiotis Sotiris Gramsciand contemporary Left strategy:

The historical bloc as a strategicconcept

B111

Materialism, Affectand Alienation:The French MarxistUse of Spinoza

Chair:Paul ReynoldsGeoff Pfeifer Ideology

Imagination and History:

Althussers Heretical SpinozismJason Read Economies of affect/affective economies: Towardsa Spinozist critique of political

economyTed Stolze Revisiting a MarxistEncounter with Spinoza: The Case

of Alexandre Matheron

G50

Emancipatory politicsin the Arab World inan era of Revolutions

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Anne Alexander The ArabRevolutions and the rebirth of theworkers movement in the MiddleEastNadine El-Anany The Limitsof Law as a Revolutionary Tool:

Rough Music in Egypt since Jan

25 2011Philip Marfleet The Streets andthe RevolutionsJoel Beinin Arab Workers andthe Popular Uprisings of 2011

G51

Discussion ofPostcolonial Theoryand the Spectreof Capital


Neil LazarusBenita ParryVivek Chibber

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Marxism and theInternational


Steven Rolf UnevenDevelopment and uneven andcombined development: towards a

unified theoryHannes Lacher Political Marxismand global historyJessica Evans Uneven and

combined development migrantlabour and working classformationCemal Burak Tansel onCapitalism Class andGeopolitics: Marx and Engels onthe Eastern Question

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Gender and theMaking of theWorking Class


Estelle Cooch Trouble at tMill- class and gender in the 1853Preston lock-outMargot Beal Domestic workin and around 19th century Lyon

(France): gender and class conflicts

within the householdSian Moore Gender and themaking of the English Workingclass: the Bradford worsted

industry 1780-1845

FG01

Reading Capital after1968: The commodityform, value andcrisis in the NeueMarx-Lektre andAlthusserian Marxism

Chair: Alberto Toscano

Frank Engster Money: theBlind Spot in Lukacs, Adorno and

Sohn-Rethels Commodity-form

CriticismChris OKane The Structure ofthe Process and Perception ofthe Process: Value and Fetishism

in Rancieres the concept ofcritique and the critique of political

economy.Jan Hoff Present-day debateson crisis and emancipation in

Germany

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The Agrarian Question

Chair: Jeff Webber

Wendy Matsumura UnoKozos analysis of the agrarianquestion, post-WWI Okinawas

small producers and prospects forthe attainment of revolutionary

subjectivityFlorian Schaefer Revisiting theAgrarian Question: Ethiopias New

Agrarian CapitalistsYe im Akmeraner Resistanceof Agricultural Petty CommodityProduction in Turkey: Working

Class Formation of Peasant-Based

WorkersEric Aunoble MakingRevolutionary Proletarians Out ofUkrainian Peasants


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Class Strugglesin India


Amit Anshumali Class

formation and localized agency ofmigrant farm workers in CentralIndiaElisabeth Armstrong Turning tothe village to f ight neoliberalism:

Inter-sectoral organizing in the

All India Democratic WomensAssociationSnehal Shingavi Class Strugglein Shining India

B102

Marxist-FeministPolitical Organising

Chair: Nina Power

Johanna Brenner Socialist-

Feminist Politics TodayHannah Dee Marxism, feminismand austerity

B104

Realism, Actualizationsof a Committed Art


Robert Burghardt For a new

Realism in ArchitectureJohannes Paul Raether OurRealism From political art to

artistic politics.Kerstin Stakemeier Realismand Naturalism. Another Media-

Specificity

B111

Challenges andOpportunities forthe Central and EastEuropean Left

Chair: Kate Hudson

Goran Markovic Challenges ofthe Czech Radical Left.Daniel Jakopovich ScorchedEarth and Subterranean Blues:

Notes on the Landscape of theDemocratic Left in Croatia.Anastasia Riabchuk RecentDevelopments in Workers

Struggles in UkraineGavin Rae RecentDevelopments on the Polish Left

Co-sponsored by Debatte: Journalof Contemporary Central and

Eastern Europe

G50

The Legacy of ItalianMarxist feminism

Chair: Sue Ferguson

David Palazzo Italian feminism

in the social factory: reproductionand the crisis of class compositionMaya Andrea Gonzalez Refusalor self-valorization: Rethinkingwages for housework todayAnna Frisone Labour Feminismin Italy in the 1970s. Giving voiceto working women: an oral history

G51

Marxism, Revolution,Insurrection


Peter Hallward Blanqui andMarx reconsideredAnindya Bhattacharyya KarlKorsch as a precursor of AlainBadiouHarrison Fluss Rational tyranny:

On Hegel, Robespierre andRevolutionary crisisNathaniel Boyd Stratificationand status: Hegels interrogation

into modernitys foundational split

G3

Dimensions ofSettler- Colonialism

Chair: Rafeef Ziadah

Brenna Bhandar Title byRegistration: instituting property &conjuring race in the settler colonyNiko Block Nation-buildingoppressions: a historical

framework of settler colonialism

and reproductive rightsParastou Saberi On working-class struggles and the politicsof space in white-settler-colonial

metropole

(DLT) G2

How Bourgeoiswere the BourgeoisRevolutions?


Neil DavidsonCharles PostColin Mooers

KLT

Communisation andthe End(s) of Art

Chair Benjamin Noys

Jaleh Mansoor ReadymadeMatrices: Notes on Determinismand the ArtistMarina Vishmidt Nihilation,Congelation, Art: For More Useless

Mediations

Anthony Iles Intentionalabolition of art is only more artDaniel Spaulding Value-Formand Art-Form: The End of the

European Neo-Avant-Garde 1957-1979

L67

Weimar Cultureand Art


Daniel Mourenza The Creationof a Proletarian Techno-Body:Walter Benjamin on Class and

TechnologyGene Ray Science in the ForceField: Brechts Galileo Now

Sabine Hake Weimar Cultureand Proletarian ModernismJenny Nachtigall The politics ofreproduction in Dada and beyond


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116

Recent WorkersStruggles


John Smith The Rana Plaza

disaster: how Bangladeshi workersprop up the British economyPierre Odin Unionism and classstruggles in the French West Indies: the case of LKP coalition (2009)Bill Crane The Contradictions ofCapitalism of the Oppressed inthe U.S. and India

B102

Marxism in theThird World: NewConfigurationsof Struggles

Chair: Amanda Latimer

Radha DSouza Class in theEpoch of Imperialism: Global

Apartheid and Lenins LabourAristocracy ThesisJlio da Silveira Moreira Investment megaprojects,

state violence and the actualconfiguration of capitalism in

BrazilAndy Higginbottom Chainextraction - chain reaction:

Following the extractivist chain:mining, finance, imperialism and

the BRICS

Karen Gabriel The Work andWorld of Surrogacy

B104

Deforming Refunctioning Destroying Capital


Alberto Toscano TransitionDeprogrammedSami Khatib Deforming theForms of Capital. On Destruction,

Negativity and NihilismBenjamin Noys Days of PhuturePast: Capitalism, Time and

Acceleration

B111

Social Wage andSocial Reproduction:Global Struggles inMexico, South Africaand North America

Chair: Elizabeth Esch

Christina Heatherton RedLove: Alexandra Kollontai, social

reproduction and the MexicanrevolutionKate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani Women, work and the precarious

state in South AfricaJordan T. Camp Urbaninsurgency in Detroit: Black

freedom and socialist struggles fora social wageStevphen Shukaitis Learningfrom affective revolts: social

reproduction & politicalsubjectiviation

G50

CLR James and history

Chair: Robert Knox

Scott McLemee ProletarianJournalism of a New Type: C.L.R.

James and CorrespondenceKevin Edmonds RevisitingCLR James and the West Indian

FederationChristian Hogsbjerg PeoplesHistory and Socialist Theory: WhenE.P. Thompson met C.L.R. James

G51

Feminismsdangerous liaisons:neoliberalism,liberalism, nationalism


Catherine Rottenberg Containing the LiberalImagination: How Superwoman

Became BalancedSara R. Farris State feminismand productivist ethics in times of

workfareSinead Kennedy Feminism andMarxism in an Age of Crisis: AResponse to Nancy Fraser

G3

Marxist LiteraryTheory


Jernej Habjan From culturalthird-worldism to the literaryworld-system and backDaniel Hartley Towardsa Marxist poetics: A critical

reconstruction of RaymondWilliamss theory of styleRoberta Fabbri Viscardi Theimpossibility of class mobility in thegreat gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(DLT) G2

The role of women inbuilding a strong left:between patriarchyand imperialismin the periphery(Roundtable)

Chair Chiara Bonfiglioli

Andrea MilatJelena PetrovicMariya IvanchevaMatija Medenica

KLT

The Arab UprisingThrough the lens ofMarxism: AroundGilbert AchcarsThe People Want: ARadical Explorationof the Arab Uprising

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Gilbert AchcarJoel BeininMaha Abdulrahman

L67

Critical Perspectiveson Rancire


Ledys Sanjuan Mejia WeSpeak in Tongues: A Womanof Colour Critique of Rancieres

Political SubjectKnox Peden The Irony ofEquality: Rancires Control GroupMax Kubinyi Reflections on theMaking of Revolutionary Agency

in E.P.Thompson and JacquesRancire

13:00-13:45pm

Lunchtime meeting:For International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE)Room 116


13/20

13SATURDAY J 13.45-15.30

116

ProblematisingHistories ofCapitalism: Workingclass law andstate formation

Chair: Robert Knox

Frantz Gheller Rethinkingthe social roots of Quebecs

development: The challenge ofinternational relationsXavier Lafrance Problematisingcapitalism and re-thinking the

making of a working class inFranceMaia Pal Processes ofjurisdictional accumulation in earlymodern Spain & France: a pre-

capitalist history of internationallaw

Javier Moreno Zacars Rethinking the Spanish empire

and world systems capitalist

development: the role of burghers

B102

Althusser andThompson revisited

Chair: Peter Thomas

Paul Reynolds We cannot have

love without lovers, nor deferencewithout squires and labourers:Thinking the moral agency and

practice in Marxist thought withThompson and AlthusserSusan Brophy From Pashukanisto Thompson to Banaji: FreshAvenues in Law and Marxism

StudiesMarcelo Badaro Mattos E. P.Thompson, historical materialismand political intervention: a view

from Brazil

B104

Class struggles inLatin America

Chair: Jeff Webber

Laurent Baronian The

economic genesis of contemporaryleft-wing States in Latin America:the cases of Argentina, Bolivia,

Ecuador and VenezuelaThomas Chiasson-LeBel Classrelationships In Ecuador and

Venezuela: a comparative study onclass organizations under left wing

governmentsLeonardo Brito The impasse ofcapitalism and democracy in thetwenty-first century Brazilian: the

debate on LulismAna Cecilia Dinerstein Autonomy and emancipation

in Latin America: On shapingabsences and the untranslatable

excess

B111

Workers InquiryYesterday and Today


Salar Mohandesi Workers

Inquiry: A GenealogyAsad Haider Crisis and InquiryLiz Mason-Deese UnemployedInquiry and Investigation inArgentina.Jamie Woodcock An attempt ata workers inquiry in a call centre:possibilities of resistance, potential

for organisation

G50

Book Launch:

Profiting withoutProducing (CostasLapavitsas book

roundtable)Chair: Dae-oup Chang

Costas LapavitsasCharles MasquelierSamantha AshmanSamuel Knafo

G51

CLR James andMarxist theory


Azfar Hussain The DarkProletariat in Du Bois and James:

Is a race theory of value possible?Matthieu Renault C. L. R.

James. Towards a decolonialmaterialismKenneth Surin The ThreeLogics of CLR James

G3

Photography & theLeft: ProducingPolitics & Publics


Blake Stimson PhotographicCommunismSarah James Picturing

Communism in LIFE: PhotographyAgainst the GrainJorge Ribalta Politicisation vsInstitutionalisation

(DLT) G2

Marxist Feminisms:Theoreticalcontributions toanti-capitalism

Chair: Sara Farris

Susan Ferguson TheorizingClass Through Gender and Race

Shahrzad Mojab FromWomens Revolt to Revolutionary

Marxist-Feminist OrganizingAbigail B. Bakan Marxism,Feminism, Indigeneity: Re-

thinking/re-reading Engels Originsof the Family, Private Property and

the StateHeather Brown Gender, Politicsand Political Thought: Revisiting

Marxs Political Economy

KLT

Registering Class:Launching the50th volume of theSocialist Register

Chair Leo Panitch

Vivek ChibberUrsula Huws

Bryan PalmerAlfredo Saad-Filho

L67

The Politics ofTrade Unionism

Chair: Dimitris Milonakis

Immanuel Ness StateRepression of New Workers

MovementsSai Englert Zionism, workers

and the Histadrut: laying thefoundations of the Israeli stateSamuel Hayat The role ofrepresentative government inthe making of the French labour

movement


14/20

14SATURDAY K 15.45-17.30

116

Popular andcommunist politics inearly Soviet Russia

Chair: Ana Cecilia

Gleb J. Albert Bolsheviks,Workers and ProletarianInternationalism in NEP RussiaSimon Pirani The politics ofworking-class dissent: Moscow,Petrograd and Kronstadt in 1921Arturo Zoffmann RussianWorking Class Identity in a Periodof Ideological Crisis: 1900-1921

B102

Class movementsin China


Paula Nabuco Laid-off workersand social struggles at the Chinese

rust beltTim Pringle Reflections onLabour in China: From a momentto a movementPierre Rousset Reflexions onpost-1949 revolution and counter-revolution in China

B104

Politics and Moralityfrom Machiavellito E.P. Thompson

Chair: Peter Thomas

Jeremie Barthas Marx withMachiavelli. A Genealogy of theCritique of Economic Fetishism.Carlos Frade The politicalmeaning of the plebs moraleconomy in Thompson vis--vis the

peoples desire in Machiavelli and

its implications for a communistpolitical strategyWilliam Dixon and DavidWilson E.P. Thompson and theMoral Depletion Hypothesis

B111

Occupation andLiberation inIsrael/Palestine

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Neve Gordon and NicolaPerugini The Human Right toKillSteve Nutt Liberal Zionism andthe Question of Labour

G50

Capitalist Crisis andCritique: Race, Class,Gender, Nation


Nancy Fraser Crisis, Critique,CapitalismRose Brewer Capitalist crisisand social transformation: The

black radical tradition today,gender, race, class and nationTania Toffanin Marxism orfeminism, class or gender: Theanalysis of the Italian case

G51

Debates in MarxistPolitical Economy


Michael Roberts and GuglielmoCarchedi The long roots ofthe present crisis: Keynesianism,

Austerians and Marxs lawRadhika Desai ReassessingRegulation Theory: productivity,

post-Fordism and financeRiccardo Bellofiore Sweezy andMattick on capitalism and crisis

G3

Non-WesternCritical Marxisms

Chair: Jeff Webber

Jorge Murga Armas Marxismand Racism in GuatemalaSamuel Carlshamre Materializing Tradition. Arabic

Marxist writing on IslamicIntellectual History

(DLT) G2

Marxist Feminismsand Anti-CapitalistOrganizing Today


Alan Sears Queering anti-capitalist organizing: Learningfrom sexual and gender liberationClarice Kuhling MarxistFeminism Sexual violence and

anti-capitalist organizingRafeef Ziadah Lessons ofPalestine organizingMary-Jo Nadeau Towardsa politics of critical diversity:

Reflecting on the legacy of leftanti-racist struggle in Canadas

womens movements

KLT

Socialist Registerat 50: Class andPolitics in Britain

Chair Greg Albo

Madeleine DavisColin LeysAndrew MurrayLeo Panitch

L67

Virtual paupers: Thepolitics of surpluspopulations


Ken Kawashima and GavinWalker Resurrection andInsurrection: On the figure of

Lazarus in Marxs CapitalDaniel Zamora and Nic Gortz The They below Us


15/20

15SATURDAY 18.00-19.45

G2

Half-Plenary:

Historical Materialist

Geography


Alex Loftus The violence of geographicalabstractions

Kanishka Goonewardena Marxism and totality:Henri Lefebvre on state capitalism, urbanizationband

everyday life

KLT

Half-Plenary:

The Other Face of the BRICs

Chair: Sam Ashman

Tim Pringle

Snehal Shingavi Inqilab Zindabad thecontradictions of Indian economic development

Aleksandr Buzgalin

Maria Cevasco Where does the anger in the

streets come from? Perspectives from Brazil

20.00

Wine andCheese

Reception

SOAS Student Bar

(downstairs from the book

stalls)


16/20

16SUNDAY L 10.00-11.45

116

What Was Realin Really ExistingCommunism?Revisiting ideas andnarratives of the

Soviet age, Part 1:Platonov and theOctober Revolution

Chair: David Broder

Oxana Timofeeva Animalityand Utopian Community: FromKafka to Platonov and BackArtemy Magun AndreyPlatonovs Negative RevolutionMaria Chehonadskih Communism in Desert: PoliticalWeakness and Potentiality of the

Poor Life in Andrei PlatonovsDzhan

B102

Feminism,Corporations and theCapitalist World Order

Chair: Abbie Bakan

Adrienne Roberts Gender,leadership and the corporate-ledaid industryGenevieve LeBaron Corporatizing feminismSara Wallin The EBRDand privatised solutions to

re(production) in TurkeyJulie Dowsett The historical/theoretical roots of contemporarycorporatized feminism

B104

James, Mariategui,Fanon and thenational question


Vasant Kaiwar The categoryof class in the oppositions tocapitalism and imperialism.Felipe Lagos Marxist methodin Imperialist Times: readingMariategui on Marxism and the

national issueNeil Larsen Fanon, the BrazilianSelma James Discussant

B111

RevolutionaryInternationalism


George Paizis The Federacion ofSalonica Jewish, Internationalist,

anti-war, the foundation of theGreek Communist Party [KKE]Maurice Andreu TheCommunist International and

the World Working Class - an

ideological approachWilliam A Pelz The Mythand Reality of the InternationalWorking Mens Association as a

Facilitator of Strikes and workersmovements. 1864-1874

G50

The Poor Stockinger,the Luddite cropperand the deludedfollowers of JoannaSouthcott (Luke

Fowler 2012)Film Screening and panel

Owen Hatherley, SteveEdwards and John Roberts Discussants

Fowlers 61-minute film mixesarchive footage with newly-shot

material in an a typically evocativevideo essay that reflects on the life

and times of the critic, historianand activist E.P. Thompson.

G51

Drone Theories

Chair: Rafeef Ziadah

Jamie Allinson Cyborg empireand necropolitical economyGregoire Chamayou Manhuntfrom the skies. Hunter-killer droneas the weapon of contemporary

cynegetic warfare.Eyal Weizman Forensic warfare(video presentation)

G3

Recentreinterpretations ofthe TransformationProblem

Chair: Giorgos Galiana

Fred Moseley RecentReinterpretations of theTransformation ProblemSimon Mohun Value and Prices

in the New InterpretationMary Robertson DiscussantAnders Ekeland Discussant

(DLT) G2

Marxist-FeministKeywords: Texts,theories, histories andpraxis roundtable

Chair: Adrienne Roberts

Helen Colley The Marxist-Feminist Keywords ProjectKatharina Volk Foundationsand basic concepts of a Marxist

Feminism A German- basedinternational dictionary projectJamie Magnusson FinancializationRuth May In search of herstory-- market women, for exampleClaudia Gdaniec Feminist-Marxist concepts and terms as a

linguistic challengeSheila Gruner Nature and theenvironment

KLT

Revisiting the Makingof the EnglishWorking Class

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Bryan Palmer History asargument: The contrarian analyticsof E P Thompsons The Making of

the English Working ClassMatthew Roberts E. P.

Thompson, Luddism and TheMaking of the English WorkingClassKostas Kanellopoulos Theremaking of the Greek working

class

4429

Histories of BlackCommunism

Chair: Alex Anievas

Bryan Banker Black MenSpeak!: Mapping the radicalpolitical philosophy of Paul

Robeson and Langston HughesPaul Heideman A. PhilipRandolph and the Intellectual

History of American SocialismEvan Sarmiento The NewCommunist Movement anddesegregation in Boston

Brunei Gallery

Book Launch:

Theories of Ideology:The powers ofalienation andsubjection (Brill 2013)


Jan RehmannEsther LeslieDavid McNally

Bob JessopPeter Thomas


17/20

17SUNDAY M 12.00-13.45

116

What Was Realin Really ExistingCommunism?Revisiting ideas andnarratives of the

Soviet age, Part 2:Communism, state,sexuality and presentreverberations ofthe Soviet legacy


Alexei Penzin The State thatFalls Asleep: An Update to LeninsIdea of CommunismKeti Chukhrov Sexuality in theConditions of the Non-Libidinal

EconomyIlya Budratskis Soviet, Anti-Soviet and the identity of the

Russian Left

B102

Lineaments of SocialReproduction, Pastand Present: Examplesfrom domesticlabour and sex

worker strugglesChair: Paul Reynolds

Laura Schwartz Servants TradeUnions and Feminist Debates onWork, Britain 1900-1914Kate Hardy Sex Work, SocialReproduction and the NeoliberalState: The case of AMMARKatie Cruz Sex work as oragainst wage labour

B104

Crossing borders:writing the historiesof Marxism ina transnationalperspective


David Mayer TransnationalMarxism in Latin America actors

and ideas in connectionBertel Nygaard Young Marxto the North: The use of Marxand Engels in Denmark during the

1840sJean-Numa Duncange What isMarxist historiography? Elements

for a transnational historicalmethod

B111

Dilemmas ofDemocracy

Chair: Alex Anievas

Fabio Frosini Emancipation inthe singularAlfredo Saad-Filho and AlisonJ. Ayers Democracy againstneoliberalism: paradoxes,limitations, transcendenceRomain Felli Markets againstdemocracy in environmentalgovernance

G50

Should dialecticsbreak weird?Speculative realismand/or historicalmaterialism. A Mute

magazine discussionChair: Benedict Seymour

Giorgio Cesarale A dialecticalcritique of the necessity-contingency couple in speculative

realismJohn Cunningham SpeculativeHorror, Weird Marxism and the

Dread of Real Abstraction.Svenja Bromberg The politicsof an object-oriented aestheticsSebastian Truskolaski Reflections on Realism Adorno

contra Meillassoux

Alberto Toscano Discussant

G51

Logistics, supplychains and theinternationalisationof production


Jonny Jones Logistics andlabour in the global economyGrietje Baars Regulating awaythe revolution?: Supply chain

regulation and resistance in theBangladesh garment sectorFrido Wenten Making sense ofclass struggle in global capitalism The internationalisation of a global

automotive firm to Mexico and

China, 1970s to today

G3

Wrestling withthe Legacy of 20thCentury Marxism

Chair: Giorgos Galianis

Georg Souvlis History andPolitics: Revisiting Perry Andersonshistorical sociologyKimon Markatos Passages fromModernity to Postmodernity: Perry

Anderson as a cultural thinkerChristoph Jnke A contributionto the critique of philo- and neo-

Stalinism: Notes on Canfora andLosurdo

(DLT) G2

Existence and politics:the work of Race &Class and the Instituteof Race Relations


A. Sivanandan Catchinghistory on the wing: a conversation

with Avery F. GordonJenny Bourne Revolution and

reconstruction: a political history ofthe Institute of Race RelationsColin Prescod The seeds ofopposition: culture, anti-raciststruggles and communities of

resistanceLiz Fekete In the shadow ofthe new nativism: European racism

and the migrant experience

KLT

The TurkishWorking Class

Chair: Peter Thomas

Ismail Doga Karatepe State,Bourgeoisie and Economic Policiesin TurkeyIsil Erdinc Reconnecting withthe Leftwing Political Parties as a

Working Class Strategy: The case

of Trade Unions and LeftwingPolitics in Turkey since 2002 in a

Context of Political Repression andSocial InequalityEzgi Pinar A Class Finding ItsWay: A Historical Period from the

Turkish Labor HistoryAylin Topal and Galip Yalman The Turkish Winter of Discontent

and its Aftermath: The Case ofTekel Workers

4429

The Politics ofthe Critique ofPolitical Economy

Chair: Adam Hanieh

Paula Rauhala and MiikaKabata Heinrich and abstractlabourMassimiliano Tomba Forms ofsubsumption of labour

Elena Louisa Lange The Spectreof Japanese Marxism Uno Kz,Karatani Kjin and the problem of

value

L67

Althusser andPolitics 1

Chair: David Broder

Katja Kolsek Althusser andHegelian TotalityOzren Pupovac AlthussersThree Elements of the Dialectic:Structure, Fusion, RuptureAgon Hamza Althussers iek


18/20

18SUNDAY N 14.30-16.15

116

Peter Sedgwickslegacy: Politics,psychiatry & freedom


Ian Birchall Peter Sedgwick,Lenin and LeninismTad Tietze Neither psychiatrynor anti-psychiatry, but mental

health as radical politicsHelen Spandler The ethical-political value of Sedgwicks

concept of illness

B102

Marxism and Music


Martyn Hudson Music andmateriality: Avant-garde and

workers music in Tippett andCardewNicholas Till Pop Star to OperaStar: Class, labour and value inpost-fordist societiesMark Abel The African rootsof Western popular music - A

reconsideration

B104

Financialisation andthe Transition inpost-Yugoslavia


Mislav

itko After the Crisis:Financialisation and CreditEuroization in Eastern EuropeAndreja ivkovi From theMarket...to the Market: On theorigins of the present debt crises in

the former YugoslaviaJan Toporowski Discussant

B111

Class Wars andGreen Wars


Andreas Malm To cut off thesource of power: Attacks on fossil

infrastructure as a strategy of classstruggle, from the general strike of

1842 to the presentLes Levidow The GreenEconomy agenda: marketising

natural resources, dispossessingcommunitiesAnders Ekeland Do theecosocialist left have an exit

strategy from fossil fuelcapitalism?

G50

Marxism andPostcolonial Theory:Whats Left of theDebate? Part 2


Kamran Matin Marxism and thePostcolonial Challenge: What Is To

Be Done?Lucia Pradella Postcolonial

theory and the making of theworld working classSubir Sinha Some observationson primitive accumulation andsubaltern political subjectivityAlf Gunvald Nilsen Welcomedebate? A critical reading ofChibbers postcolonial theory and

the specter of capital

G51

Considerations onContemporary Brazil


Ruy Braga Class Configurationin Lulas BrazilEdu Teruki Otsuka Socialdisintegration in contemporaryBrazil, through Beatriz Brachers

fiction

Ivone Dar Figurations ofContemporary metropolitan LifeValerio Arcary Is there a newmiddle class in Brazil?Maria Elisa Cevasco Wither isBrazil bound?

(DLT) G2

A comparative analysisof socialist/classstruggle feminism inFrance and Britain inthe 1970s and 1980s

Chair: Nina Power

Josette Trat Contribution to thehistory of feminist class strugglein France as part of second wave

feminismTerry Conway Socialistfeminism in Britain in the 1970sand 1980s, hidden from hestoryPenelope Duggan The feministchallenge to traditional politicalorganisingFanny Gallot Professionalequality policies tested among

the popular class: the case of thefemale workers in France from

1968 to the 1980s

KLT

Free labour andWage Slavery


Heide Gerstenberger Thepolitical economy of capitalistlabourRobin Blackburn Dynamics ofthe Second SlaveryPriyamvada Gopal A Barbaric

Independence: Morant Bay 1865and the Meaning of Freedom

4429

Althusser andPolitics 2

Chair: Peter Thomas

Thomas Carmichael Atomismand Class Formation: LouisAlthusser and the underground

current of class struggleLaurent de Sutter LouisAlthusser and the Theatre of the

TrialWilliam Lewis PhilosophicalCosmopolitanism and Class PoliticsJuha Koivisto Discussant


19/20

19SUNDAY 17.00-19.00

Closing Plenary

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

Chair: Robert Knox

David RoedigerThe 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

Sbu Zikode (Founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo, shack dwellers social movement in South Africa)

Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

University College London

Gower Street

(N.B. This location is not at SOAS)


20/20

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