DECOLONISING MARX: HISTORY, THEORY AND POLITICS
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall (8 Lewisham Way)
29 and 30 October 2018
MONDAY 29 OCTOBER
10:00 – 10:15 – Registration & Welcome
10:15 – 11:20
The Universal, the Particular, and the Romantic in Latin American Marxism: Reflections on José Carlos Mariátegui, René Zavaleta Mercado, and Álvaro García Linera
Jeffery Webber (Queen Mary University of London)
11:20 – 12:30
Out of Empire into Socialist Modernity: Soviet-African Comparisons and (Dis)connections
Steffi Marung (Universität Leipzig)
12:30 – 14:00 – Break
14:00 – 15:20
Decolonising History: Marx, Michael Löwy and Dipesh Chakrabarty
José Neves (NOVA University of Lisbon, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
15:20 – 16:30
Global Marx
Lucia Pradella (King’s College London)
TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER
10:15 – 11:20
C.L.R. James and the Tragedies of Leadership
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
11:20 – 12:30
Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: Naxalite Maoism as a Torsion of Marxism
Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
12:30 – 14:00 – Break
14:00 – 15:20
Savage Marx: Tensions and Encounters Between the European Revolutionary and Indigenous Perspective-Struggles
Jean Tible (Universidade de São Paulo)
15:20 – 16:30
Jacques Rancière Reading Marx: Lessons to Draw from Research on the Liberation Struggle in Mozambique
Maria-Benedito Basto (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
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Department Politics and International Relations, Centre for Postcolonial Studies
This event is supported by the British Academy’s Visiting Fellowships Programme under the UK Government’s Rutherford Fund.
