Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference
‘Another World is Necessary:
Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives’
27–29 November 2008
at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Birkbeck College,
London, WC1
In association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara
Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2009.htm
The annual Historical Materialism conference is organised by the
editorial board of Historical Materialism in association with the
Deutscher Memorial Prize committee and the Socialist Register. The
conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an
annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of
historical-materialist research and has attracted an increasingly high
attendance over the past four years. The Editorial Board of Historical
Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in discussion
with panellists from new as well as prior participants with an
interest in critical-Marxist thought.
One of the principal objectives of the conference has been to build
bridges among the various Marxist communities, including the breaking
down some of the linguistic and intellectual barriers which continue
to hamper the circulation and expansion of critical-Marxist thought.
The sixth annual Historical Materialism Conference, under the banner
of ‘Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives’, promises to continue
and take forward this objective.
The conference is organised around three plenary sessions (the
Deutscher lecture, the launch of the Socialist Register 2010, and
Historical Materialism’s plenary) and a host of workshops dedicated to
specific themes.
Amongst the many speakers: Gilbert Achcar * Gregory Albo * Robert
Albritton * Kevin B. Anderson * Ricardo Antunes * Jairus Banaji *
Robin Blackburn * Wendy Brown * Alex Callinicos * Vivek Chibber *
Hester Eisenstein * Ben Fine * Robert Fine * Lindsey German * Peter
Hallward * Chris Harman * Fredric Jameson * Bob Jessop * * Randy
Martin * David McNally * Angela McRobbie * Kim Moody * Leo Panitch *
Alexei Penzin * Moishe Postone * John Rees * Sheila Rowbotham *
Alfredo Saad-Filho * Thomas Sekine * Julian Stallabrass * Hillel
Ticktin * Alberto Toscano * Hilary Wainwright *
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Attendance is free, but participants must register in advance online
(if this is not possible, please contact [log in to unmask]
). However, the conference is largely self-funded and we will depend
on voluntary donations by attendants and participants to support the
organisation and running of the event. The suggested advanced online
donation is £40 for waged and £15 for unwaged < http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2009.htm
>, and the suggested donation on the door is £50 for waged and £20
for unwaged.
For logistical and other support, Historical Materialism would like to
thank the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Centre for
International Security and Diplomacy. For sponsorship, thanks to the
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at SOAS, SOAS Student Union, Brill
Academic Publishers, the Deutscher Memorial Prize committee, Socialist
Register, Journal of Agrarian Change, the International Initiative for
the Promotion of Political Economy and Bookmarks.
The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism
THEMES FOR THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
A LEFT PROJECT: TRANSFORMING THE STATE? * AGENCY * AGRARIAN CHANGE IN
CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM: TECHNICAL DYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL
TRAJECTORIES * ALTHUSSER AND PHILOSOPHY * APOCALYPSE MARXISM * ART
AGAINST CAPITALISM * ART AND CRITIQUE IN GERMANY BETWEEN THE WARS *
BOOK LAUNCH: ALEX CALLINICOS'S IMPERIALISM AND GLOBAL POLITICAL
ECONOMY * BOOK LAUNCH: KARL MARX AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY *
CAPITALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND CRISIS * CLASS AND CONFLICT IN ANCIENT
GREECE * CLASS AND POLITICS IN THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ * CLASS, CRISIS,
DISTRIBUTION * COGNITIVE MAPPING, TOTALITY AND THE REALIST TURN *
COMMODIFYING HEALTH CARE IN THE UK * CUBAN REVOLUTION AND CUBAN
SOCIETY * DERIVATIVES * DEVELOPMENTALISM, THE STATE AND CLASS
FORMATION * DIMENSIONS OF THE FOOD CRISIS * EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPE
FROM TRANSITION TO EU ENLARGEMENT: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE GLOBAL
POLITICAL ECONOMY * ECOLOGICAL CRISIS * EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM *
ENERGY AND GEOPOLITICS * ENERGY, WASTE AND CAPITALISM * EPISTEMOLOGY,
DIALECTICS AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM * EXTENDING THE MINERALS-ENERGY-
COMPLEX * FEMINISM AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY * FINANCE, THE HOUSING
QUESTION AND URBAN POLITICS * GLOBAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS: MARXIST
REFLECTIONS * GRAMSCI RELOADED * GREEN CAPITALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS * HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND LATE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT *
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND SOCIAL RESEARCH * HISTORICISING HISTORICAL
MATERIALISM * HM BOOK SERIES LAUNCH: MIKKO LAHTINEN ON ALTHUSSER AND
MACHIAVELLI * HM BOOK SERIES LAUNCH: PETER THOMAS’S THE GRAMSCIAN
MOMENT * IN MEMORY OF PETER GOWAN * INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE
CRISIS * INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CRISIS * ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER
MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURE: KEES VAN DER PIJL, NOMADS, EMPIRES, STATES *
KNOWLEDGE, NATURE, PROPERTY * LABOUR * LABOUR AND THE ECONOMIC SUBJECT
IN CONTEMPORARY ART * LABOUR BEYOND THE FACTORY * LATIN AMERICAN
WORKING CLASSES * LEARNING FROM PAST CRISES * LINEAGES OF
NEOLIBERALISM * LISTEN TO VENEZUELA SCREENING AND DISCUSSION * MARXISM
AND LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY * MARXISM AND NATIONALISM TODAY * MARXISM
AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE * MARXISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS * MARXISM AND
TIME * MARXISM BETWEEN ETHICS AND UTOPIA * MARXISM, DEMOCRACY AND
CLASSICAL POLITICAL THEORY * MIGRATION * MONEY * MORBID SYMPTOMS:
HEALTH UNDER CAPITALISM * NEOLIBERALISM, AESTHETICS AND THE
RECUPERATION OF DISSENT * ON THE OBJECTS OF COMMUNISM: A HACKING PANEL
* PHILOSOPHY AND COMMUNISM IN THE EARLY MARX * PLANNING, LOCALISM AND
THE LEFT * POSTNEOLIBERALISM * PRESENTATION OF THE JOURNAL CHTO DELAT/
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? * RACE, NATION AND ORIENTALISM * RED PLANETS:
MARXISM AND SCIENCE FICTION * RE-EMBEDDING MARXISM: COERCION AND
POLITICAL ECONOMY * REGISTERING THE CRISIS: A SOCIALIST REGISTER
ROUNDTABLE * RESEARCH ON MARX * RESTRUCTURING, OUTSOURCING,
DISTRIBUTION: DIMENSIONS OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS * REVOLUTIONARY THEORY,
AUTONOMIST MARXISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY * SLAVERY AND
CAPITALISM IN THE US SOUTH * SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: THE
CURRENT CONJUNCTURE * STUDENT MOVEMENTS AND YOUTH REVOLTS * THE ARTS
AND CAPITALIST CRISIS: THE NEW DEAL EXPERIENCE * THE CRITIQUE OF
RELIGION AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM * THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF
REALISM * THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORK * THE POLITICS OF FINANCE *
THE POLITICS OF THE WILL * THE POLITICS OF VALUE * THE RIGHT: RACE,
NATION, IDENTITY * THE TURN TO ETHICS AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM *
'TURBULENCE: IDEAS FOR MOVEMENT', NEW ISSUE LAUNCH * UNION STRUGGLES *
UNOISM, ECOLOGY AND CRISIS * UTOPIAS, DYSTOPIAS AND SOCIALIST
BIOPOLITICS * WEBLOGS AND THE OPPOSITIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE: A DISCUSSION
* WHAT IS ABSTRACTION? * WORKERS AND STRUGGLE TODAY * ZIONISM,
ANTISEMITISM AND THE LEFT - A DEBATE
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Gilbert Achcar * Gregory Albo * Robert Albritton * Peter Alexander *
Noaman Ali * Kevin B. Anderson * Ricardo Antunes * Caroline Arscott *
Sam Ashman * John Ashworth * Ilker Atac * Jairus Banaji * Fletcher
Baragar * Banu Bargu * Colin Barker * Tom Barnes * Luca Basso *
Matthew Beaumont * Pinar Bedirhanoglu * John Bell * Aaron Benanav *
Halil Berktay * Armin Beverungen * Robin Blackburn * Paul Blackledge *
Max Blechman * Derek Boothman * Mark Bould * Bill Bowring * Ulrich
Brand * Craig Brandist * Michael Brie * Wendy Brown * Dick Bryan *
Adrian Budd * Verity Burgmann * Alex Callinicos * Mauro Farnesi
Camellone * Bob Cannon * Thomas Carmichael * Warren Carter * Giorgio
Cesarale * Maria Elisa Cevasco * Dae-op Chang * Vivek Chibber * Andrew
Chitty * Christopher Chitty * Joseph Choonara * Sheila Cohen * Alex
Colas * Tim Cooper * Stipe Curkovic * Steve Cushion * Gareth Dale *
Neil Davidson * Gail Day * Tim Dayton * Kathryn Dean * Angela
Dimitrakaki * Demet Dinler * Kevin Doogan * Elizabeth Dore * Nick Dyer-
Witheford * Juliane Edler * Aram Eisenschitz * Hester Eisenstein *
Fuat Ercan * Adam Fabry * Daniel Fairfax * Mariano Feliz * Ben Fine *
Robert Fine * Mark Fisher * Peter Fleming * Gregory C. Flemming *
Keith Flett * John Foran * Vassillis Fouskas * Carl Freedman * James
Furner * Alexander Gallas * Andreia Galvao * Ferruccio Gambino * Earl
Gammon * Mike Geddes * Lindsey German * Frantz Gheller * Lesley Gill *
John Glenn * Jesse Goldstein * Maya Gonzalez * Jeff Goodwin * Jamie
Gough * Nick Gray * Juan Grigera * Peter Hallward * Ayeesha Hameed *
Carrie Hamilton * Bue Hansen * Jane Hardy * Chris Harman * Stefano
Harney * Barnaby Harran * David Harvie * Owen Hatherley * Mike Haynes
* Lesley Henderson * Christoph Henning * Rob Heynen * Andy
Higginbottom * Sarah Hines * John Holloway * John Holst * Patricia
Howard * Peter Hudis * Liz Humphries * Robert Jackson * Dhruv Jain *
Fredric Jameson * Elinor Jean * Seongjin Jeong * Bob Jessop * Bonn
Juego * Anush Kapadia * Brian Kelly * Sami Khatib * Jeff Kinkle *
Kelvin Knight * Meri Koivusalo * Ahmet Hasim Kose * Conor Kostick *
Primoz Krasovec * Maria Kyriakidou * Xavier Lafrance * Mikko Lahtinen
* Alex Levant * Les Levidow * Iren Levina * William Lewis * Nicola
Livingstone * Jean-Guy Loranger * Monica Clua Losada * David Mabb *
Andreas Malm * Gonzo Poso Martin * Randy Martin * Jonathan Martineau *
Meade McCloughan * David McNally * Angela McRobbie * Simon Mohun *
Peter P. Mollinga * Kim Moody * Colin Mooers * Jason W. Moore * Adam
Morton * Sara Motta * Tadzio Müller * Vlad Mykhnenko * Ozgur Narin *
Jonathan Neale * Mike Newman * Susan Newman * Benjamin Noys * Blair
Ogden * Ozlem Onaran * Deidre O'Neill * Ebru Deniz Ozan * Melda Ozturk
* Leo Panitch * Giorgos Papafragkou * David Parker * Jaime Pastor *
Jody Patterson * Knox Peden * Alexei Penzin * Simon Pirani * Iain
Pirie * Amedeo Policante * Nicolas Pons-Vignon * Charles Post * Moishe
Postone * Nina Power * Gonzalo Pozo-Martin * Lucia Pradella * Toni
Prug * Ozren Pupovac * Thomas Purcell * Hugo Radice * Ravi Raman *
Akbar Rasulov * Gene Ray * John Rees * Tobias Reichardt * Paul
Reynolds * Sébastien Rioux * John Roberts * Ed Rooksby * Ellen Rosen *
Christina Rousseau * Sheila Rowbotham * Sally Ruane * Frank Ruda *
Alfredo Saad-Filho * Spyros Sakellaropoulos * Birgit Sauer * Johannes
Dragsbaek Schmidt * Alan Sears * Thomas Sekine * Ben Selwyn * Greg
Sharzer * Stuart Shields * Subir Sinha * Gary Slater * John Smith *
Johan Soderberg * Clare Solomon * Panagiotis Sotiris * Dimitris
Sotiropoulos * Susan Spronk * Kerstin Stakemeier * Julian Stallabrass
* Engelbert Stockhammer * Adam Swain * Erik Swyngedouw * Lotta Takala-
Greenish * Daniel Tanuro * Jean Baptiste Thomas * Peter Thomas *
Hillel Ticktin * John Timberlake * Bruno Tinel * Massimiliano Tomba *
Jonathon Tomlinson * Alberto Toscano * Ben Trott * Julian Tudor-Hart *
Emily van der Meulen * Marco Vanzulli * Leandro Vergara-Camus * Zaira
Rodrigues Vieira * Dmitry Vilensky * Marina Vishmidt * Andriana
Vlachou * Hilary Wainwright * Mike Wayne * Xiaoping Wei * Duncan Wigan
* Evan Calder Williams * Michael Wood * Phil Woodhouse * Galip Yalman
* Karel Yon * Christian Zeller * Alexander Zevin * Mislav Zitko *
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