HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE:
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY
in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE
COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER
8-10 DECEMBER 2006
CENTRAL LONDON
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Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable
capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer’s analysis of the world crisis
of the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value;
financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration;
finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the political
economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl Polanyi; the
political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the
Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of
Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and
resistance in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement;
migration; land reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions;
commodity chains; waste and capitalism; global capitalism and urban
violence; globalisation; theories of imperialism; capital accumulation
and the state system; oil and rise of Asia; the governance of global
capitalism; China and Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China and
future of the global economy; accumumation by dispossession; economic
theory and economics imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism and
critical realism; Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze;
Foucault and governmentality studies; Marxism and political
subjectivity; Spinoza; early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s;
theories of the Soviet Union; Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois
revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris Wickham and the Middle Ages;
Marxism and international law; Marxism and theology; the US National
Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and contemporary warfare
technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and scifi; US leftist
theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States; Victor Serge’s
approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica; the future
for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life and
legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics;
Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; republicanism;
Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian political theory;
the Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and
social movements;...
and much more!
On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize,
Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture.
The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions to
launch the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism prevail?
and on eco-socialism, democratic planning and political strategy
Gilbert Achcar ✪ Greg Albo ✪ Elmar Altvater ✪ Daniel Ankarloo ✪
Christopher Arthur ✪ Sam Ashman ✪ Carlos Astarita ✪ Attila Aytekin ✪
Jennifer Bair ✪ Abigail Bakan ✪ Jairus Banaji ✪ Himmani Bannerji ✪
Richard Barrett ✪ Colin Barker✪ Clyde Barrow ✪ Jean Batou ✪ Matthew
Beaumont ✪ Pinar Bedirhanoglu ✪ Riccardo Bellofiore ✪ Daniel Bensaid ✪
Halil Berktay ✪ Henry Bernstein ✪ Rakesh Bhandari ✪ Paul Blackledge ✪
Roland Boer ✪ Manuela Bojadzijev ✪ Werner Bonefeld ✪ Bill Bowring ✪
Craig Brandist ✪ Lars Bretthauer ✪ Simon Bromley ✪ Carolyn A. Brown ✪
Ian Buchanan ✪ Daniel Buck ✪ Peter Burnham ✪ Alex Callinicos ✪ David
Camfield ✪ Paul Cammack ✪ Liam Campling ✪ Guglielmo Carchedi ✪ Maria
Elisa Cevasco ✪ Vincent Charbonnier ✪ Sharad Chari ✪ Vivek Chibber ✪
Simon Clarke ✪ Alex Colas ✪ Gareth Dale ✪ Neil Davidson ✪ Massimo de
Angelis ✪ Kathryn Dean ✪ Alex Demirovic ✪ Manali Desai ✪ Radhika Desai
✪ Jean Ducange ✪ Michael Dutton ✪ Howard Engelskirchen ✪ Barbara
Epstein ✪ Fuat Ercan ✪ Necmi Erdogan ✪ Ben Fine ✪ Roberto Fineschi ✪
Milton Fisk ✪ Carl Freedman ✪ Alan Freeman ✪ Fabio Frosini ✪ James
Furner ✪ Alexander Gallas ✪ Phil Gasper ✪ Andrew Glyn ✪ Peter Gowan ✪
Richard Greeman ✪ Haldun Gulalp ✪ Alexei Gusev ✪ Derek Hall ✪ Peter
Hallward ✪ Chris Harman ✪ David Harvey ✪ Henry Heller ✪ Rohini Hensman
✪ Mike Hill ✪ Sean Homer ✪ Ursula Huws ✪ Robert Jessop ✪ Jonathan
Joseph ✪ Angela Joya ✪ John Kannankulam ✪ John Kelly ✪ Geoff Kennedy ✪
Jim Kincaid ✪ Andrew Kliman ✪ Sam Knafo ✪ Stathis Kouvelakis ✪ Michael
Krätke ✪ Rick Kuhn ✪ Thierry Labica ✪ Mikko Lahtinen ✪ David Laibman ✪
Ines Langemeyer ✪ Costas Lapavitsas ✪ Alex Law ✪ Paul LeBlanc ✪
Jean-Jacques Lecercle ✪ Esther Leslie ✪ Colin Leys ✪ Lars Lih ✪ Marcel
van der Linden ✪ Urs Lindner ✪ Matteo Mandarini ✪ Jean-Jacques Marie ✪
Susan Marks ✪ John Marot ✪ Giacomo Marramao ✪ Marco Maurizi ✪ Scott
Meikle ✪ China Miéville ✪ Tamás Gáspár Miklós ✪ Alan Milchman ✪ Drew
Milne ✪ Andrew Milner ✪ Dimitris Milonakis ✪ Val Moghadam ✪ Kim Moody ✪
Vittorio Morfino ✪ Kevin Murphy ✪ Alan Norrie ✪ Jörg Nowak ✪ Sabine
Nuss ✪ Frieder Otto Wolf ✪ Leo Panitch ✪ Benita Parry ✪ Simon Pirani ✪
Joost Ploeger ✪ Fabio Raimondi ✪ Jason Read ✪ Geert Reuten ✪ John
Roberts ✪ Justin Rosenberg ✪ Alessandro Russo ✪ Alfredo Saad-Filho ✪
Thomas Sablowski ✪ Devi Sacchetto ✪ Spyros Sakelleropoulos ✪ Jørgen
Sandemose ✪ Peter Sarris ✪ Andrew Sayer ✪ David Seddon ✪ Ben Selwyn ✪
Claude Serfati ✪ Murray Smith ✪ Steve Smith ✪ Tony Smith ✪ Marcos
Soares ✪ Ingar Solty ✪ Panagiotis Sotiris ✪ Guido Starosta ✪ Jan-Willem
Stutje ✪ Peter Thomas ✪ Massimiliano Tomba ✪ Alberto Toscano ✪ Mario
Tronti ✪ Ates Uslu ✪ Jefford Vahlbusch ✪ Kees van der Pijl ✪ Nicolas
Vieillescazes ✪ Hilary Wainwright ✪ Ben Watson ✪ Mike Wayne ✪ Suzi
Weissman ✪ Paul Wetherly ✪ Chris Wickham ✪ Caroline Williams ✪ Phil
Woodhouse ✪ Galip Yalman ✪ Sami Zubaida ✪ and others...
Attendance at the conference is free but voluntary contributions are
encouraged to help with the costs of organising the conference (we
suggest £15 for unwaged/£30 waged).
PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO
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