Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle

Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference
Central London
10–13 November 2011

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual

To register in advance and benefit from a reduction: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/register
Advanced booking will stop on Monday 7 November

All queries: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk

The themes discussed will include: the Aesthetics of Marxism; Alternative Histories of Marxism; Althusser; Anti-Imperialist Struggles and Intellectualism; Art and Truth; Battling Austerity; Between Autonomy and Communism; Beyond the Developmental State; Black Critics of Empire and Capital in 1930s Britain; How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?; Building Palestine Solidarity in the Academy; Childhood, Global Capitalism and Marxism; the Comintern in Britain, France and Ireland; Crisis and Revolution in the Middle East; Derrida After Marx; the Early Years of the German Communist Party; European Crisis, the World Market, and the Left; Feminism, Race and Labour; For Lukacs; Forms of Capitalist Power; Franz Fanon’s the Wretched of the Earth: 50th Anniversary; Freedom, Liberalism, and Distribution; Geographies of Power; Gramsci and the Fourth Congress; Hegel Today; Histories of Class Struggle; the History of the International Communist Movement; Imperialism and Development in the Semi-Periphery; India’s Political Economy; Indigenous Revolt; International Law and Resistance; In the Name of the People?; Labour Struggles Today; Land, Food and Ecology; Latin American Political Economy; Local Resistance; Maoism and Social Movements in India and Nepal; Luxemburg, Levi and the Comintern; Marx and Lacan; Marxism and Anthropology; Marxism and Architecture; Marxism and Film; Marxist Theories of Money and Finance; Negation in Post-War Art Theory; Screening: Phil Collins’s Marxism Today; Popular Power in Latin America; Race, Migration and Capitalism; Racism and Imperialism; Radicalism in the US Working Class; the Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic; Reading Poulantzas; Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg; Revolution and Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia; Settler-Colonialism and Islamophobia; Social Forces in the Middle East; Social Movements in Theory and Practice; Spaces of Marxism: Thinking with David Harvey; Theorising the Crisis; A Tribute to Dorothy Thompson; Uneven and Combined Development; Urban Rebellion, Cities in Struggle; US Blacks and the Comintern; Utopia and Marxist Literary Criticism; Walter Benjamin; Who Pays for the Crisis?; Why Marx Was Right; the Worker Photography Movement 1926-39; Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present; Workers’ Movements in East Asia

Also the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture by David Harvey, ‘History versus Theory: a Commentary on Marx’s Method in Capital’ (separate booking required):

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/deutscher

Amongst the speakers:
Amr Abdulrahman, Maha Abelrahman, Younes Abuyoub, Omar Acha, Gilbert Achcar, Matilde Adduci, Hakim Adi, Stefano Agnoletto, Haseeb Ahmed, Ilaria Alabiso, Greg Albo, Tariq Ali, Jamie Allinson, Sabah Alnasseri, Kevin B. Anderson, Maurice Andreu, Alex Anievas, Ricardo Antunes, Valerio Arcary, Owen R. Ashton, Daniele Atzori, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Dario Azzellini, Grietje Baars, Erik M. Bachman, Antonio Carmona Baez, Ruixue Bai, Aristides Baltas, Franco Barchiesi, Banu Bargu, Colin Barker, Laurent Baronian, Emmanuel Barot, John Barzman, Pietro Basso, Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Dave Beech, Simon Behrman, Riccardo Bellofiore, Gregor Benton, Anindya Bhattacharya, Pietro Bianchi, Andreas Bieler, Ian Birchall, Paul Blackledge, Marcel Bois, Derek Boothman, Bruno Bosteels, Mark Bould, Stephen Bouquin, Paul Bowman, Honor Brabazon, Craig Brandist, Peter Bratsis, Lars Bretthauer, David Broder, Heather Brown, Ian Bruff, Nathaniel Boyd, Michael Calderbank, Alex Callinicos, Thomas Carmichael, Warren Carter, Giorgio Cesarale, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Dae-Oup Chang, Amy Charlesworth, Kunal Chattopadhyay, Francois Chesnais, Vivek Chibber, Lorenzo Chiesa, Joseph Choonara, Armelle Choplin, Todd Chretian, Riccardo Ciavolella, Carin Clement, Nicola Clewer, Joshua Clover, Mònica Clua-Losada, Sheila Cohen, Phil Collins, Simon Constantine, Luke Cooper, Penelope J. Corfield, Andrew Cumbers, Roberto Dainotto, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson, Gail Day, Tim Dayton, Alberto Martínez Delgado, Simon Dell, Alex Demirovic, Radhika Desai, Brecht De Smet, Peter Dickens, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Radha D’Souza, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Terry Eagleton, Caroline Edwards, Steve Edwards, Doug Elsey, Ertan Erol, Asefeh Esfahlani, Hester Eisenstein, Luke Evans, Lorenzo Fabbri, Adam Fabry, Sara Farris, Catherine Feely, Mariano Féliz, Susan Ferguson, Joseba Fernandez, David Fernbach, Ben Fine, Harrison Fluss, Duncan Forbes, Ben Fowkes, Bridget Fowler, Carl Freedman, Alan Freeman, Dan Freeman-Maloy, Lorenzo Fusaro, Alexander Gallas, Anthony Galluzzo, Samir Gandesha, Christian Garland, Franck Gaudichaud, Elif Genc, Marina Gerber, Stelios Gialis, Oisin Gilmore, Larne Abse Gogarty, Jeff Goodwin, Todd Gordon, Jamie Gough, Gavin Grindon, Bruno Gullo, Peter Hallward, Jesper Hamark, Adam Hanieh, Bue Rübner Hansen, Jane Hardy, Harry Harootounian, Johan Hartle, Daniel Hartley, David Harvey, David Harvie, Evren Haspolat, Owen Hatherly, Mike Haynes, Daniel Hayward, Eric Hazan, Paul M. Heideman, Michael Heinrich, Henry Heller, Andrew Herod, Chris Hesketh, Andy Higginbottom, Joachim Hirsch, Christian Hogsbjerg, Jane Holgate, Ståle Holgersen, Owen Holland, Phillip Homburg, Angela Hubler, Peter Hudis, Elizabeth Humphrys, Michel Husson, Ursula Huws, Eka Ikpe, Anthony Iles, Feyzi Ismail, Robert Jackson, Dhruv Jain, Leslie James, Sarah Edith James, Anselm Jappe, Saru Jayaraman, Deborah Johnston, Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Mike Jones, Thai Jones, Alex Julca, Christoph Jünke, John Kannankulam, Jyotsna Kapur, Sami Khatib, Jim Kincaid, Andrew Kliman, Chris Knight, Robert Knox, Alessio Kolioulis, Paavo Kotiaho, Demetra Kotouza, Michael Krätke, Tor Krewer, Stephanie Kron, Clarice Kuhling, Alexi Kukuljevic, Ishay Landa, Costas Lapavitsas, Manuel Larrabure, Esther Leslie, Spencer Leonard, Ben Lewis, Jerome Lewis, Paul LeBlanc, Alex Levant, Colin Leys, Lars Lih, Marcel van der Linden, Au Loong-yu, Toby Lovat, Ottokar Luban, Moshe Machover, Stella Magliani-Belkacem, Artemy Magun, Andreas Malm, Matteo Mandarini, FTC Manning, Soma Marik, Stewart Martin, Jean-Jacques Marie Abelardo Marina-Flores, Thomas Marois, Jamila Mascat, Michele Masucci, Wendy Matsumura, Marcelo Badaró Mattos, Marco Maurizi, David Mayer, Annie McClanahan, John McDonald, Andrew McGettigan, Scott McLemee, David McNally, James Meadway, Antigoni Memou, Philip Merfleet, China Miéville, Keir Milburn, Tyrus Miller, Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Simon Mohun, Colin Mooers, Kevin Morgan, Claudio Morrison, Suzanne Morrison, Adam David Morton, Joshua Moufawad-Paul, Daniel Mourenza, Francis Mulhern, Patrick Murray, Paula Nabuco, Oliver Nachtwey, Mary-Jo Nadeau, Yutaka Nagahara, Nima Nakhaei, Nick Nesbitt, Immanuel Ness, Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kerem Nisancioglu, Brice Nixon, Tony Norfield, James Norrie, Benjamin Noys, João Nunes, Bertel Nygaard, Emmet O’Connor, Vesa Oitinnen, Chris O’kane, Ozlem Onaran, Judith Orr, Jesse Salah Ovadia, Carlos Oya, Ali Behran Ozcelik, George Paizis, Maia Pal, Bryan Palmer, Costas Panayotakis, Alexander Pantsov, Georgios Papafragkou, Hyun Woong Park, Leda Maria Paulani, Alexei Penzin, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, Lorenzo Pezzani, Kees van der Pijl, José Paulo Guedes Pinto, Charles Post, Alex Potts, Jeff Powell, Camilla Power, Nina Power, Gonzalo Pozo, Tim Pringle, Vasna Ramasar, José A. Laguarta Ramírez, Jason Read, Paul Reynolds, Jorge Ribalta, John Riddell, Sébastien Rioux, John Roberts, Marco Antonio Martins da Rocha, Ed Rooksby, Kristin Ross, Tomas Rotta, Frank Ruda, Thomas Sablowski, Devi Sacchetto, Agustin Santella, Jyoti Saraswati, Eduardo Sartelli, Hajime Sato, Edwin Sayes, Jeanne Schuler, Gregory Schwartz, Stephanie Schwartz, Alan Sears, Ben Selwyn, Orsan Senalp, Mitu Sengupta, Carlos Sevilla, Richard Seymour, Alpa Shah, Greg Sharzer, Steven Shaviro, Ahmed Shawki, Omar Shehabi, Stuart Shields, Pritam Singh, Marina Sitrin, John Smith, Martin Smith, Panagiotis Sotiris, Kerstin Stakemeier, Luke Stobart, Angela Stoutenburgh, Brigitte Studer, Rianne Subijanto, Matthew Swagler, Dan Swain, Abdel Takriti, Stefanie Tan, Daniela Tavasci, Owen Taylor, Rodrigo Alves Teixeira, Tzuchien Tho, Peter D. Thomas, Elise Thorburn, Tad Tietze, Oxana Timofeeva, Massimiliano Tomba, Stavros Tombazos, Samo Tomsic, Jan Toporowski, Alberto Toscano, Reiner Tosstorff, Alan Tuckman, Asuman Turkun, Nils Turnbull, Lori Turner, Alexej Ulbricht, Martin Upchurch, Miguel Urban, Elif Uzgoren, Marco Vanzulli, James M. Vaughn, Leandro Vergara-Camus, Giovanna Vertova, Matt Vidal, Marina Vishmidt, Jan Voelker, Hilary Wainwright, Gavin Walker, Jeffrey Webber, John Weeks, Daniel Whittall, Florian Wilde, Evan Calder Williams, Steve Wright, Veli Yadirgi, Deniz Yildirim, Christian Zeller, Rafeef Ziadah, Nadya Zimmerman, Roger van Zwannenberg

Provisional Programme online at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/HM2011Grid.pdf/view