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"Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism"
Historical Materialism's Annual Conference 2005
London, November 4–6, 2005

Birkbeck College and School of Oriental and African Studies, London, WC1

The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee and the Editorial Board of the Socialist Register, is pleased to announce its annual conference, ‘Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’, 4-6 November 2005.

Since its inception, Historical Materialism has been firmly committed to the project of creating a space of dialogue and debate which extends across disciplinary, linguistic and cultural borders, and promotes the circulation, cross-fertilisation and expansion of critical Marxist thought. For the 2005 conference we have invited a wide range of leading figures in European Marxist thought to discuss the terrain of a future ‘cosmopolitan Marxism’. This will be an exciting weekend of comradely exchange, which the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism hopes will grow into an important annual international event.

The conference will be organised with three plenary sessions (Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture, Socialist Register and Historical Materialism plenary sessions) and workshops dedicated to specific themes. Workshop themes include: the philosophy of Nietzsche, the critique of Liberalism, Gramsci, Althusser, the young Marx, European integration, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the interpretation of Capital, Marxism and intellectuals, Marxism and philosophy, ‘mutations’ in the mode of production, visions of socialism, Deleuze and Marx, imperialism, Venezuela, the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, thinking the political, and combined and uneven development.

The Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture, ‘The Politics of Assumption, the Assumption of Politics’, will be delivered by Michael Lebowitz on Friday evening, 4 November.

The Socialist Register Plenary Sessions, ‘Telling the Truth about Class’ and ‘The State of the Third Way’, will be held on Saturday evening, 5 November.

The Historical Materialism Plenary Session, ‘War and Capitalism’, will conclude the conference on Sunday afternoon, 6 November.

The language of the conference will be English with simultaneous translation provided for a limited number of sessions, where necessary.

Attendance is free. However, please register in advance by email to help us to guarantee sufficient seating:

List of Participants (in alphabestical order)

Chris Arthur (London, author of The New Dialectic and Marx’s Capital)

Giorgio Baratta (University of Urbino, author of Le rose e i quaderni. Il pensiero dialogico di Antonio Gramsci)

Thomas Barfuss (Freie Universität Berlin, author of Komformitaet und Bizarres Bewusstsein)

David Bates (Christ Church University College, Canterbury, co-editor of Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics)

Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo, editor of Global Money, Capital Restructuring and the Changing Patterns of Labour)

Tobias ten Brink (Fachhochschule Frankfurt/M, author of VordenkerInnen der globalisierungskritischen Bewegung: Pierre Bourdieu, Susan George, Antonio Negri)

Alex Callinicos (King’s College London, author of Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory)

Mario Candeias (University of Jena, author of Neoliberalismus, Hochtechnologie, Hegemonie)

Paresh Chattopadhyay (Université du Quebec à Montreal, author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience)

Simon Clarke (University of Warwick, author of Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology)

Neil Davidson (Open University, author of Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746)

Alex Demirovic (Universities of Wuppertal, Frankfurt am Main and Bern, author of Modelle kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie)

Gregory Elliott (Paris, author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory)

Roberto Finelli (University of Bari, author of Un parricidio mancato)

Roberto Fineschi (Università degli Studi di Siena, editor of Karl Marx: Rivisitazioni e prospettive)

Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, co-editor of The New Value Controversy)

Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino, author of Gramsci e la filosofia)

Peter Gowan (London Metropolitan University, author of The Global Gamble)

Marta Harnecker (director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana [MEPLA] in Havana, Cuba, author of Making the Impossible Possible: The Left at the Threshold of the XXIst Century)

Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Freie Universität Berlin, author of High-Tech-Kapitalismus. Analysen zu Produktionsweise, Arbeit, Sexualität, Krieg und Hegemonie, editor of Das historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus)

Bob Jessop (University of Lancaster, author of The Future of the Capitalist State)

Juha Koivisto (University of Helsinki, author of Unruly Subjects)

Michael R. Krätke (University of Amsterdam, author of Geschichte der Weltwirtschaft)

Michael Kustow (theatre producer and writer, author of theatre@risk)

Rocco Lacorte (University of Chicago, co-editor of a forthcoming anthology on Gramsci, Language and Translation)

Miko Lahtinen (University of Tampere, author of Niccolò Machiavelli ja aleatorinen materialismi. Louis Althusser ja Machiavellin konjunktuurit / Niccolo Machiavelli and aleatory materialism. Louis Althusser and Machiavelli's conjunctures)

Michael Lebowitz (Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, author of Beyond Capital)

Colin Leys (Queen's University, Canada, author of Market-Driven Politics, co-editor, the Socialist Register)

Domenico Losurdo (University of Urbino, author of Hegel and the Freedom of the Moderns)

Giacomo Marramao (Università di Roma III, author of Passaggio a occidente. Filosofia e globalizzazione)

David Miller (Strathclyde University, editor of Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq)

Rastko Mocnik (University of Ljubljana, author of How Much Fascism? Essays on post-communist politics)

Vittorio Morfino (University of Milano-Bicocca, author of Il tempo e l’occasione. L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli)

Oliver Nachtway (University of Göttingen, author of Weltmarkt und Imperialismus. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der klassischen marxistischen Imperialismustheorie)

Peter Osborne (Middlesex University, author of The Politics of Time)

Ozren Pupovac (Open University, editor of the journal Prelom)

Joost Ploeger (University of Amsterdam, author of Killing Two Birds With One Euro: A Marxist Analysis of the Attack on Labor and the Dollar)

Jason Read (University of Southern Maine, author of The Micro-politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present)

Jan Rehmann (Freie Universität Berlin, author of Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze und Foucault, eine Dekonstruktion)

Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam, co-author of Value-Form and the State)

Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS, editor of Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction)

G. M. Tamás (Central European University, author of On Post-fascism)

Martin Thomas (London, author of Three Traditions: Marxism and the USSR)

Massimiliano Tomba (University of Padova, author of Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken)

Nick Thoburn (University of Manchester, author of Deleuze, Marx and Politics)

Elisa Van Waeyenberge (SOAS, co-author of Correcting Stiglitz: From Information to Power in the World of Development)

Carlo Vercellone (University of Paris I, editor of La fin du capitalisme industriel?)

Nicolas Vieillescazes (Paris, author of essay on Fredric Jameson, A Singular Modernity. Essay on the Ontology of the Present)

Frieder Otto Wolf (Freie Universität Berlin, author of Radikale Philosophie).