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"Capital, Empire and Revolution," London, Oct. 9–10, 2004
"Capital, Empire and Revolution"
London, Oct. 9–10, 2004
As part of the preparation for the London European Social Forum, the journals Historical Materialism and Socialist Register, as well as the Isaac and Tamara Deutcher Memorial Prize Committee invite you to a two-day conference on ‘Capital, Empire and Revolution’ on Saturday 9 October–Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).TIMETABLE:
SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER:
9.30–11.00 Plenary session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE SOUTH
PATRICK BOND, 'Necessary and Contradictory features of Subimperialism: The Case of South Africa’
PAUL MATTICK JNR., 'Explaining the Asian Crisis: Theory and Observation in the Critique of Political Economy’
DOUG STOKES, 'America’s Other War: Terrorising Colombia’
11.00–11.30 Break
11.30–13.00 Plenary session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE NORTH
ALEX CALLINICOS, 'Building a New Left: The Politics of Resisting Neoliberalism'
ELMAR ALTVATER, 'The Capitalist Social Formation, the Fossil Energy Regime, and Conflicts about Oil Supply’
RICHARD WALKER, ‘The Boom and the Bombshell: The New Economy and the Transformation of San Francisco’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Plenary session:
ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURES
NEIL DAVIDSON, 'How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?’
BENNO TESCHKE, 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem of the International'
Discussant: GEORGE COMNINEL
16.00–16.30
16.30–18.30 Workshops
Workshop 1:
MOISHE POSTONE, 'History and Helplessness: Toward a Critique of Fetishized Anti-Capitalism’
Workshop 2:
ANDRES PIQUERAS, 'The Social Structure of Accumulation, the Accumulation Model and its Closing under Mature Capitalism’
RAY KIELY, 'US Imperialism and Global Capitalism'
DENILE CONVERSI, 'Cultural Blowback: The USA in the Politics of Anti-Globalisation'
Workshop 3:
SUMIT SARKAR, 'Marxist Approaches to Hindutva’
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER:
09.30–11.00 Plenary session: CAPITAL AND VALUE
CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR, ‘The Idea of Capital’
PATRICK MURRAY, ‘Capital : The Mismeasure of Wealth’
MICHAEL HEINRICH, 'Ambivalences in Marx's Critique of Political Economy as Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism’
11.00–11.15 Break
11.15–13.00 Workshops
Workshop 1:
'Third-World Capitalism and the Developmentalist State in Comparative Perspective:
A Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India’
VIVEK CHIBBER
SUMIT SARKAR
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE
ROBERT WADE
Workshop 2:
GEORGE COMNINEL, 'The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe’
NEIL DAVIDSON
BENNO TESCHKE
Workshop 3:
JOSEPH FRACCHIA, ‘Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics: The Corporeal Foundations of Marx's Critique of Capitalism’
DAVID MCNALLY, 'Commodity Fetishism and the Labouring Body: Dialectical Reversals in "One of Marx's Least Understood Jokes"’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–17.00 Plenary session:
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF US IMPERIALISM TODAY, launching Socialist Register 2005, ‘The Empire Reloaded’
COLIN LEYS (Chair)
TONY BENN
SIMON BROMLEY
PETER GOWAN
JOHN GRAHL
LEO PANITCH
ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
Attendance is free, but if you would like to attend this conference, please register by sending your name by email to hm@lse.ac.uk
"Capital, Empire and Revolution"
London, Oct. 9–10, 2004
As part of the preparation for the London European Social Forum, the journals Historical Materialism and Socialist Register, as well as the Isaac and Tamara Deutcher Memorial Prize Committee invite you to a two-day conference on ‘Capital, Empire and Revolution’ on Saturday 9 October–Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).TIMETABLE:
SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER:
9.30–11.00 Plenary session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE SOUTH
PATRICK BOND, 'Necessary and Contradictory features of Subimperialism: The Case of South Africa’
PAUL MATTICK JNR., 'Explaining the Asian Crisis: Theory and Observation in the Critique of Political Economy’
DOUG STOKES, 'America’s Other War: Terrorising Colombia’
11.00–11.30 Break
11.30–13.00 Plenary session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE NORTH
ALEX CALLINICOS, 'Building a New Left: The Politics of Resisting Neoliberalism'
ELMAR ALTVATER, 'The Capitalist Social Formation, the Fossil Energy Regime, and Conflicts about Oil Supply’
RICHARD WALKER, ‘The Boom and the Bombshell: The New Economy and the Transformation of San Francisco’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Plenary session:
ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURES
NEIL DAVIDSON, 'How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?’
BENNO TESCHKE, 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem of the International'
Discussant: GEORGE COMNINEL
16.00–16.30
16.30–18.30 Workshops
Workshop 1:
MOISHE POSTONE, 'History and Helplessness: Toward a Critique of Fetishized Anti-Capitalism’
Workshop 2:
ANDRES PIQUERAS, 'The Social Structure of Accumulation, the Accumulation Model and its Closing under Mature Capitalism’
RAY KIELY, 'US Imperialism and Global Capitalism'
DENILE CONVERSI, 'Cultural Blowback: The USA in the Politics of Anti-Globalisation'
Workshop 3:
SUMIT SARKAR, 'Marxist Approaches to Hindutva’
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER:
09.30–11.00 Plenary session: CAPITAL AND VALUE
CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR, ‘The Idea of Capital’
PATRICK MURRAY, ‘Capital : The Mismeasure of Wealth’
MICHAEL HEINRICH, 'Ambivalences in Marx's Critique of Political Economy as Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism’
11.00–11.15 Break
11.15–13.00 Workshops
Workshop 1:
'Third-World Capitalism and the Developmentalist State in Comparative Perspective:
A Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India’
VIVEK CHIBBER
SUMIT SARKAR
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE
ROBERT WADE
Workshop 2:
GEORGE COMNINEL, 'The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe’
NEIL DAVIDSON
BENNO TESCHKE
Workshop 3:
JOSEPH FRACCHIA, ‘Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics: The Corporeal Foundations of Marx's Critique of Capitalism’
DAVID MCNALLY, 'Commodity Fetishism and the Labouring Body: Dialectical Reversals in "One of Marx's Least Understood Jokes"’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–17.00 Plenary session:
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF US IMPERIALISM TODAY, launching Socialist Register 2005, ‘The Empire Reloaded’
COLIN LEYS (Chair)
TONY BENN
SIMON BROMLEY
PETER GOWAN
JOHN GRAHL
LEO PANITCH
ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
Attendance is free, but if you would like to attend this conference, please register by sending your name by email to hm@lse.ac.uk