Reminder: London Conference: New Insights into Gramsci's Life and Work

A one-day conference organised by Alessandro Carlucci (Royal Holloway, University of London) in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) 

Sponsored by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, and by the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The main aim of the conference is to disseminate the results of recent, specialised research on Gramsci. Significant novelties will be presented by leading experts with the aim of overcoming disciplinary boundaries and helping to reduce the  gaps between: a) widespread, conventional understandings of Gramsci and up-to-date specialised research; and b) the work on Gramsci’s writings and biography and the use of Gramsci’s theories for understanding current social, political and cultural issues.

Confirmed contributors: Derek Boothman (SSLMIT, University of Bologna), Craig Brandist (University of Sheffield), Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino), Carl Levy(Goldsmiths, University of London), James Martin (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck, University of London), and Peter Thomas(member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism).

Entrance: FREE

Programme

10.00 am – Coffee and Registration
10.30 am – Introduction
Alessandro Carlucci, ‘Gramsci’s Life and Work: Recent Findings and New Interpretative Trends’

11.00 am – Session I
 Chair: Federico Faloppa (University of Reading)

• Anne Showstack Sassoon, ‘Gramsci’s Struggle with Language Revisited’
• Derek Boothman, ‘Gramsci’s Interest in Language: The Influence of the Dispense di glottologia (1912-13) on the Prison Notebooks’
• Craig Brandist, ‘Gramsci’s Politics of Language in the Light of the Soviet Sociological Linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s’

1.00 am – Lunch break
2.00 pm – Session II
Chair: Simone Testa (IGRS, University of London)

• Peter Thomas, ‘Hegemony, the Philosophy of Praxis and the Third International’
• Fabio Frosini, ‘Reformation, Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern State’

3.20 pm – Tea and biscuits
3.45 pm – Session III

• Chair: Anne Showstack Sassoon
• Carl Levy, ‘Gramsci and Anarchism’
• James Martin, ‘Gramsci and Gobetti: A Case of Elective Affinity?’