Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle

Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference

Central London

10–13 November 2011

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The themes discussed will include:  the Aesthetics of Marxism;  
Alternative Histories of Marxism; Althusser; Anti-Imperialist  
Struggles and Intellectualism; Art and Truth; Battling Austerity;  
Between Autonomy and Communism; Beyond the Developmental State; Black  
Critics of Empire and Capital in 1930s Britain; How Revolutionary were  
the Bourgeois Revolutions?; Building Palestine Solidarity in the  
Academy; Childhood, Global Capitalism and Marxism; the Comintern in  
Britain, France and Ireland; Crisis and Revolution in the Middle East;  
Derrida After Marx; the Early Years of the German Communist Party;  
European Crisis, the World Market, and the Left; Feminism, Race and  
Labour; For Lukacs; Forms of Capitalist Power; Franz Fanon’s the  
Wretched of the Earth: 50th Anniversary; Freedom, Liberalism, and  
Distribution; Geographies of Power; Gramsci and the Fourth Congress;  
Hegel Today; Histories of Class Struggle; the History of the  
International Communist Movement; Imperialism and Development in the  
Semi-Periphery; India’s Political Economy; Indigenous Revolt;  
International Law and Resistance; In the Name of the People?; Labour  
Struggles Today; Land, Food and Ecology; Latin American Political  
Economy; Local Resistance; Maoism and Social Movements in India and  
Nepal; Luxemburg, Levi and the Comintern; Marx and Lacan; Marxism and  
Anthropology; Marxism and Architecture; Marxism and Film; Marxist  
Theories of Money and Finance; Negation in Post-War Art Theory;  
Screening: Phil Collins’s Marxism Today; Popular Power in Latin  
America; Race, Migration and Capitalism; Racism and Imperialism;  
Radicalism in the US Working Class; the Rational Kernel of the  
Hegelian Dialectic; Reading Poulantzas; Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg;  
Revolution and Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia; Settler-Colonialism and  
Islamophobia; Social Forces in the Middle East; Social Movements in  
Theory and Practice; Spaces of Marxism: Thinking with David Harvey;  
Theorising the Crisis; A Tribute to Dorothy Thompson; Uneven and  
Combined Development; Urban Rebellion, Cities in Struggle; US Blacks  
and the Comintern; Utopia and Marxist Literary Criticism; Walter  
Benjamin; Who Pays for the Crisis?; Why Marx Was Right; the Worker  
Photography Movement 1926-39; Workers’ Control from the Commune to the  
Present; Workers’ Movements in East Asia

Also the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture by David Harvey,  
'History versus Theory: a Commentary on Marx's Method in Capital',  
(separate booking required): http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/deutscher


Amongst the speakers:
Amr Abdulrahman, Maha Abelrahman, Younes Abuyoub, Omar Acha, Gilbert  
Achcar, Matilde Adduci, Hakim Adi, Stefano Agnoletto, Haseeb Ahmed,  
Ilaria Alabiso, Greg Albo, Tariq Ali, Jamie Allinson, Sabah Alnasseri,  
Kevin B. Anderson, Maurice Andreu, Alex Anievas, Ricardo Antunes,  
Valerio Arcary, Owen R. Ashton, Daniele Atzori, Pier Vittorio Aureli,  
Dario Azzellini, Grietje Baars, Erik M. Bachman, Antonio Carmona Baez,  
Ruixue Bai, Aristides Baltas, Franco Barchiesi, Banu Bargu, Colin  
Barker, Laurent Baronian, Emmanuel Barot, John Barzman, Pietro Basso,  
Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Dave Beech, Simon Behrman, Riccardo Bellofiore,  
Gregor Benton, Anindya Bhattacharya, Pietro Bianchi, Andreas Bieler,  
Ian Birchall, Paul Blackledge, Marcel Bois, Derek Boothman, Bruno  
Bosteels, Mark Bould, Stephen Bouquin, Paul Bowman, Honor Brabazon,  
Craig Brandist, Peter Bratsis, Lars Bretthauer, David Broder, Heather  
Brown, Ian Bruff, Nathaniel Boyd, Michael Calderbank, Alex Callinicos,  
Thomas Carmichael, Warren Carter, Giorgio Cesarale, Maria Elisa  
Cevasco, Dae-Oup Chang, Amy Charlesworth, Kunal Chattopadhyay,  
Francois Chesnais, Vivek Chibber, Lorenzo Chiesa, Joseph Choonara,  
Armelle Choplin, Todd Chretian, Riccardo Ciavolella, Carin Clement,  
Nicola Clewer, Joshua Clover, Mònica Clua-Losada, Sheila Cohen, Phil  
Collins, Simon Constantine, Luke Cooper, Penelope J. Corfield, Andrew  
Cumbers, Roberto Dainotto, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson, Gail Day, Tim  
Dayton, Alberto Martínez Delgado, Simon Dell, Alex Demirovic, Radhika  
Desai, Brecht De Smet, Peter Dickens, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Radha  
D'Souza, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Terry Eagleton,  
Caroline Edwards, Steve Edwards, Doug Elsey, Ertan Erol, Asefeh  
Esfahlani, Hester Eisenstein, Luke Evans, Lorenzo Fabbri, Adam Fabry,  
Sara Farris, Catherine Feely, Mariano Féliz, Susan Ferguson, Joseba  
Fernandez, David Fernbach, Ben Fine, Harrison Fluss, Duncan Forbes,  
Ben Fowkes, Bridget Fowler, Carl Freedman, Alan Freeman, Dan Freeman- 
Maloy, Lorenzo Fusaro, Alexander Gallas, Anthony Galluzzo, Samir  
Gandesha, Christian Garland, Franck Gaudichaud, Elif Genc, Marina  
Gerber, Stelios Gialis, Oisin Gilmore, Larne Abse Gogarty, Jeff  
Goodwin, Todd Gordon,  Jamie Gough, Gavin Grindon, Bruno Gullo, Peter  
Hallward, Jesper Hamark, Adam Hanieh, Bue Rübner Hansen, Jane Hardy,  
Harry Harootounian, Johan Hartle, Daniel Hartley, David Harvey, David  
Harvie, Evren Haspolat, Owen Hatherly, Mike Haynes, Daniel Hayward,  
Eric Hazan, Paul M. Heideman, Michael Heinrich, Henry Heller, Andrew  
Herod, Chris Hesketh, Andy Higginbottom, Joachim Hirsch, Christian  
Hogsbjerg, Jane Holgate, Ståle Holgersen, Owen Holland, Phillip  
Homburg, Angela Hubler, Peter Hudis, Elizabeth Humphrys, Michel  
Husson, Ursula Huws, Eka Ikpe, Anthony Iles, Feyzi Ismail, Robert  
Jackson, Dhruv Jain, Leslie James, Sarah Edith James, Anselm Jappe,  
Saru Jayaraman, Deborah Johnston, Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Mike Jones,  
Thai Jones, Alex Julca, Christoph Jünke, John Kannankulam, Jyotsna  
Kapur, Sami Khatib, Jim Kincaid, Andrew Kliman, Chris Knight, Robert  
Knox, Alessio Kolioulis, Paavo Kotiaho, Demetra Kotouza, Michael  
Krätke, Tor Krewer, Stephanie Kron, Clarice Kuhling, Alexi Kukuljevic,  
Ishay Landa, Costas Lapavitsas, Manuel Larrabure, Esther Leslie,  
Spencer Leonard, Ben Lewis, Jerome Lewis, Paul LeBlanc, Alex Levant,  
Colin Leys, Lars Lih, Marcel van der Linden, Au Loong-yu, Toby Lovat,  
Ottokar Luban, Moshe Machover, Stella Magliani-Belkacem, Artemy Magun,  
Andreas Malm, Matteo Mandarini, FTC Manning, Soma Marik, Stewart  
Martin, Jean-Jacques Marie Abelardo Marina-Flores, Thomas Marois,  
Jamila Mascat, Michele Masucci, Wendy Matsumura, Marcelo Badaró  
Mattos, Marco Maurizi, David Mayer, Annie McClanahan, John McDonald,  
Andrew McGettigan, Scott McLemee, David McNally, James Meadway,  
Antigoni Memou, Philip Merfleet, China Miéville, Keir Milburn, Tyrus  
Miller, Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Simon Mohun, Colin Mooers, Kevin Morgan,  
Claudio Morrison, Suzanne Morrison, Adam David Morton, Joshua Moufawad- 
Paul, Daniel Mourenza, Francis Mulhern, Patrick Murray, Paula Nabuco,  
Oliver Nachtwey, Mary-Jo Nadeau, Yutaka Nagahara, Nima Nakhaei, Nick  
Nesbitt, Immanuel Ness, Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kerem Nisancioglu, Brice  
Nixon, Tony Norfield, James Norrie, Benjamin Noys, João Nunes, Bertel  
Nygaard, Emmet O'Connor, Vesa Oitinnen, Chris O'kane, Ozlem Onaran,  
Judith Orr, Jesse Salah Ovadia, Carlos Oya, Ali Behran Ozcelik, George  
Paizis, Maia Pal, Bryan Palmer, Costas Panayotakis, Alexander Pantsov,  
Georgios Papafragkou, Hyun Woong Park, Leda Maria Paulani, Alexei  
Penzin, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, Lorenzo Pezzani, Kees van der Pijl,  
José Paulo Guedes Pinto, Charles Post, Alex Potts, Jeff Powell,  
Camilla Power, Nina Power, Gonzalo Pozo, Tim Pringle, Vasna Ramasar,  
José A. Laguarta Ramírez, Jason Read, Paul Reynolds, Jorge Ribalta,  
John Riddell, Sébastien Rioux, John Roberts, Marco Antonio Martins da  
Rocha, Ed Rooksby, Kristin Ross, Tomas Rotta, Frank Ruda, Thomas  
Sablowski, Devi Sacchetto, Agustin Santella, Jyoti Saraswati, Eduardo  
Sartelli, Hajime Sato, Edwin Sayes, Jeanne Schuler, Gregory Schwartz,  
Stephanie Schwartz, Alan Sears, Ben Selwyn, Orsan Senalp, Mitu  
Sengupta, Carlos Sevilla, Richard Seymour, Alpa Shah, Greg Sharzer,  
Steven Shaviro, Ahmed Shawki, Omar Shehabi, Stuart Shields, Pritam  
Singh, Marina Sitrin, John Smith, Martin Smith, Panagiotis Sotiris,  
Kerstin Stakemeier, Luke Stobart, Angela Stoutenburgh, Brigitte  
Studer, Rianne Subijanto, Matthew Swagler, Dan Swain, Abdel Takriti,  
Stefanie Tan, Daniela Tavasci, Owen Taylor, Rodrigo Alves Teixeira,  
Tzuchien Tho, Peter D. Thomas, Elise Thorburn, Tad Tietze, Oxana  
Timofeeva, Massimiliano Tomba, Stavros Tombazos, Samo Tomsic, Jan  
Toporowski, Alberto Toscano, Reiner Tosstorff, Alan Tuckman, Asuman  
Turkun, Nils Turnbull, Lori Turner, Alexej Ulbricht, Martin Upchurch,  
Miguel Urban, Elif Uzgoren, Marco Vanzulli, James M. Vaughn, Leandro  
Vergara-Camus, Giovanna Vertova, Matt Vidal, Marina Vishmidt, Jan  
Voelker, Hilary Wainwright, Gavin Walker, Jeffrey Webber, John Weeks,  
Daniel Whittall, Florian Wilde, Evan Calder Williams, Steve Wright,  
Veli Yadirgi, Deniz Yildirim, Christian Zeller, Rafeef Ziadah, Nadya  
Zimmerman, Roger van Zwannenberg



Provisional Programme online at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/HM2011Grid.pdf/view