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

http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/

 

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