19th Apr, 2018
International Rosa Luxemburg Conference
Rosa Luxemburg and Her Ideas:
Engaging the Left and Changing the World
April. 27, 9AM - 29, 2018, 1PM (Free)
At UE HALL, 37 S Ashland Ave, Chicago
Conference Language: English
Organized by:
- International Rosa Luxemburg Society
(Chairs: Prof. Dr. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, India; Prof. Dr. William A. Pelz†, USA; Prof. Dr. Pablo Slavin, Argentina; Ottokar Luban, voluntary secretary, Germany)
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Office NewYork City
(Co-Director Dr. Albert Scharenberg; Program Director Ethan Earle)
Contact: Peter Hudis [peterhudis@aol.com]; Ottokar Luban [oluban@gmx.de];
Earle, Ethan [ethan.earle@rosalux.org]
http://www.internationale-rosa-luxemburg-gesellschaft.de
Programme
Day 1: Friday, April 27th
8:30AM - 9:00AM
Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30AM
Welcome
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Albert Scharenberg, Ethan Earle
9:30 - 10:15AM
Memorial for William A. Pelz by Axel Fair-Schulz
Memorial for Narihiko ITO by Ottokar Luban
10:15AM - 10:20AM
Short Break
10:20AM - 12:15PM
Panel 1
Reports on International Research
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Univ. Calcutta, India
"Evaluation of Rosa Luxemburg : an examination of changing perspectives of international scholarship"
MA, Jiahong, University Peking, PR of China; Post-doc researcher at IISH, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Review and Prospect of Chinese Study in Rosa Luxemburg"
Axel Fair-Schulz, State University of New York, Potsdam, USA
"Rosa Luxemburg and the November Revolution: Recent Trends in Historiography"
Uwe Sonnenberg, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Report: "Coming (Co-)Organized Events by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung on the Centenary of the German Revolution 1918/19"
12:15PM - 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:10PM
P a r a l l e l Panel 2 a
Race, Class, and Movement Building
Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, USA
"Racism and the Logic of Capital: A Marxist-Humanist Assessment of the Relevance of Luxemburg's Thought for Today's Struggles Against Racism"
Valentine Eben, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
"A View from Indymedia Africa: What would Luxembourg Say About Today's Software Revolution?"
1:00PM - 2:10PM
P a r a l l e l Panel 2 b
The Private Rosa Luxemburg
Helen Scott, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
"'Like a flash from eternity': Rosa Luxemburg on Literature
Rory Castle Jones, Swansea Univ., Wales, UK
"'All the hidden, bitter tears'": family, identity and the shaping of revolutionary Red Rosa"
2:10PM - 2:15PM
Short Break
2:15PM - 4:00PM
Panel 3
Rosa Luxemburg and Colonialism
Eleni Varikas, Univ. Paris 8/ Saint-Denis, CNRS, France; 2018: Visiting Prof. at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
„Rosa Luxemburg and Colonialism"
Alyssa Adamson, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
"Rosa Luxemburg and Decolonial Political Theory"
Sandra Rein, University of Alberta, Canada
"Rosa Luxemburg on colonialism: Why it still Matters"
4:00PM - 4:15 PM
Coffee/Tea Break
4:15PM - 6:00PM
Panel 4
Luxemburg and Other Female Socialist Thinkers
Andreas Stuhlmann, University of Alberta, Canada
"The Ghost of Rosa Luxemburg": Hannah Arendt on Undogmatic Judgment, Spontaneity, and Revolution"
Franklin Dmitryev, Chicago, USA
"Revolutionary Intercommunication between the Ages: The "Dialogue" between Rosa Luxemburg and Raya Dunayevskaya"
Dana Mills, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
"Going Ahead in 1893: when Eleanor met Rosa"
6:00PM - 6:05PM
Short Break
6:05PM - 7:45PM
Keynote 1
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ, USA,
"The Contemporary Significance of Rosa Luxemburg's Socialist Feminism"
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Day 2: Saturday, April 28th
8:30AM - 9:00AM
Light Breakfast
9:00AM - 10:40AM
Panel 5
Discussions on Luxemburg's
The Accumulation of Capital (1)
Inderjeet Singh, Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
"The Accumulation of Capital in the Era of Imperialism"
Andrew Kliman, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA
" Luxemburg's Theory of Capital Accumulation: Still Influential, but Still Wrong"
Bradley Mayer, San Leandro, California, USA
"Primitive Accumulation Inside and Out"
10:40AM - 10:45AM
Short Break
10:45AM - 11:45AM
Panel 6
Discussions on Luxemburg's
The Accumulation of Capital (2)
LIN Haochao, Wuhan University, PR of China
"The Inevitable Rise of Opposing Individual Freedom in Modernization: Based on the Theory of the Accumulation of Capital"
Ankica Čakardič, Univ. Zagreb, Croatia
"Rosa Luxemburg and 'woman question'- From theory of accumulation to social reproduction theory"
11:45AM - 12:00PM
Coffee/Tea Break
12:00PM - 1:10PM
Keynote 2
Helen Boak, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
"Women in the German revolution, 1918/19"
1:10PM - 2:00PM
Lunch
2:00PM - 4:00PM
P a r a l l e l Panel 7 a
Marxist Thinking
Julia Killet, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, office Munich, Germany
„Rosa Luxemburg's advice to the socialist movement (Considerations by the Luxemburg Biographer Paul Froelich)"
Mario Kessler, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany
"Ossip K. Flechtheim, 1909-1998: Editor of Rosa Luxemburg's Works and Pioneer of Research on Communism in Germany"
ZHANG Meng, Wuhan University, PR of China
"Reflection on the Relationship between Rosa Luxemburg's Thought and Marx's Theory"
Paul Zarembka, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
"Luxemburg, a Stable 'Materialized' Composition of Capital in the U.S. and Its Implications"
2:00PM - 4:00PM
P a r a l l e l Panel 7 b
Rosa Luxemburg's Activities in the Socialist Movement
Arunas Vysniauskas, University Vilnius, Lithuania
"Rosa Luxemburg and the Polish 'mosaic' in Lithuania"
Reiner Tosttorff, Univ. Mainz, Germany
„Between Bockenheim, Hanau and Frankfurt: Rosa Luxemburg's Rhein-Main connections"
Ottokar Luban, Berlin, Germany
"The Spartacus Group in the German Novemberrevolution 1918/19"
4:00PM - 4:10PM
Coffee/Tea Break
4:10PM - 6:00PM
Panel 8
Party and Leadership
Chris Cutrone, School of the Art Institute, University of Chicago, USA
"Rosa Luxemburg and the Party"
Lorraine Cohen, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA
"Rosa Luxemburg's theory of leadership: An Alternative Approach"
Edward Remus, Ronald Williams Library, Northern Illinois University, Chicago
"American Bernstein, American Luxemburg: Views of the SPD's revisionist dispute and great schism from the Socialist Party of America, 1900-1918"
Henry Holland, Hamburg, Germany
"Beyond Nationalisms: Spontaneity and Working-Class Organization in Scotland, 2012-2017 through the lens of Luxemburg's dialectic"
6:00PM – 6:05PM
Short Break
6:05PM - 8:00PM
International Plenary
Chances for Socialist Solutions of Current World Problems?
With Erek Slater, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Chicago; Michael Loewy, Brazil; Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, India; Ankica Čakardič, Croatia; Jiahong Ma, PR China; Ingo Schmidt, Canada
Chair: Peter Hudis
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Day 3: Sunday, April 29th
8:30AM - 9:00AM
Light Breakfast
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Panel 9
Luxemburg and Lukács and Gramsci: Interpretations and Evaluations
Kaveh Boveiri, Univ. Montreal, Canada
„Lukács's Reading of Rosa Luxemburg's Conception of Totality: A Reappraisal"
Sevgi Doğan, University of Pisa, Italy
"ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT AS POLITICAL ACTION THROUGH GRAMSCI AND LUXEMBURG"
Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
"Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike: A Corrective to Gramsci's Critique"
10:45AM - 11:00AM
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00AM - 12:45PM
Panel 10
Socialist Internationalism versus Imperialism
Michael Loewy, Univ. Paris 8/ Saint-Denis, CNRS, France, Paris, France; 2018: Visiting Prof. at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
„Rosa Luxemburg and Internationalism"
Attila Antal, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
"Anti-war Theory and Activism in Permanent State of Exception"
Ingo Schmidt, Athabasca University, Canada
"Hilferding, Luxemburg & Lenin on Imperialism: Variations Amongst the Classic"
12:45PM - 1:00PM
Final Words
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Albert Scharenberg