Next lecture:
Tuesday, June 9th, 7.30 p.m.
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance – Laura Horn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Luego de una exitosa serie inaugural de seminarios en 2007/2008, Regresos del Marxismo continuará a partir de octubre 2008. Los temas en la conferencia de este año incluyen: política latinoamericana contemporánea; la política de la 'gentrification'; lectura de capital, feminismo radical, marxismo, filosofía y más.
En años recientes se ha visto un renovado interés en el marxismo alrededor del mundo. Una nueva generación está descubriendo la fertilidad de muchas de las tradiciones del marxismo para entender y tratar de cambiar al mundo. Este seminario busca reunir académicos, escritores y activistas de diferentes campos para discutir la relevancia de las ideas marxistas en los debates contemporáneos.
Regresos del Marxismo 2008-2009
Octubre
La Izquierda en América Latina – Serie de conferencias por Jeff Webber, Universidad de Toronto
Martes 7: Teorías Competentes de la Nueva Izquierda Latinoamericana
Martes 14: Las Luchas de Liberación de la Izquierda Indígena en Bolivia
Martes 21: Argentina: De la Rebelión al Retorno del Capitalismo Normal, 2000-2008
Martes 28: Chávez y las Contradicciones y Posibilidades del Socialismo del Siglo Veintiuno en Venezuela, 1998-2008
Jueves 30
Martín Cobián, Universidad de Ámsterdam
Resistiendo la Economía Política de la 'Gentrification'
November
Wednesday, November 5th, 7.30 p.m.
Storming Heaven: Autonomist Marxism, Workerism and the left today - Panel with:
Steve Wright, Monash University Australia (author of 'Storming Heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism')
Katja Diefenbach, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
Guglielmo Carchedi, University of Amsterdam
Peter Thomas, Historical Materialism and University of Amsterdam
Tuesday, November 25th, 7.30 p.m.
Book presentation: Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History – by Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Jurriaan Bendien, Archivist and Translator
December,
Tuesday, December 9th, 7.30 p.m.
Workers of the world, who washes your socks? Feminist critiques of Marxism in the late 1970s – Chiara Bonfiglioli, University of Utrecht
Thursday, December 18th , 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “The commodity and the form of value” – Peter Thomas, Historical Materialism and University of Amsterdam
January
Friday, January 9th, 7.30 p.m.
The Cuban process: 1959-2009 – Antonio Carmona Baez, Executive Co-Director IIRE
Tuesday, January 27th, 7.30 p.m.
Does Marx have a principle of distributive justice? – Wei Xiaoping, Philosophy Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
February
Tuesday, February 3rd, 7.30 p.m.
Is Marx a Fichtean? – Tom Rockmore, Philosophy Institute of Duquesne University of USA
Thursday, February 12th, 7.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “The fetishism of commodities” – Geert Reuten, University of Amsterdam
Friday, February 27th, 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “Money, the general formula of Capital and labour process” – Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo
March
Tuesday, March 10th , 7.30 p.m.
The national question in post Cold War Europe - Murray Smith, Former Co-Director IIRE
Thursday, March 26th, 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “Constant and variable Capital and surplus value” – Guglielmo Carchedi, University of Amsterdam
April
Tuesday, April 14th, 7.30 p.m.
Althusser and Marxist political analysis (the case of Yugoslavia) – Gal Kirm, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
Friday, April 24th, 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “Relative surplus value, machinery and large-scale Industry” – Michael Kraetke, University of Amsterdam
May
Tuesday, May 5th, 7.30 p.m.
Immigration in Europe Today: Apartheid or Civil Cohabitation? – Darko Suvin, Professor Emeritus, McGill University
Friday, May 22nd, 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital: “Absolute and relative surplus value and the accumulation of Capital” – Michael Heinrich, PROKLA – Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin
June
Tuesday, June 9th, 7.30 p.m.
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance – Laura Horn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Friday, June 19th, 6.30 p.m.
Exploring Marx’s Capital::“Primitive accumulation” – Frieder Otto Wolf, Freie Universitaet Berlin.