28th May, 2017

Marx and Philosophy Society

Annual Conference
 

Marx and the Concept of Labour
 

24th June 2017
University College London Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

Main speakers:
Mike Neary (Lincoln)
Critical theory as a critique of labour, featuring academic work; or, how do revolutionary teachers teach?
Sara Farris (Goldsmiths)
A Marxist-feminist approach to the theory of the reserve army of labour
Anselm Jappe (Sassari)
Marx and the 'two-fold nature' of labour: the 'pivot' of his critique of capitalism 

Graduate and early career panel:
Alastair Hemmens (Cardiff) 
Labour, a 'rational abstraction'? Robert Kurz’s substance of capital and resolving the labour aporia in Marx
Sean Winkler (Leuven) 
The Hessen-Grossmann-Lukács Thesis: A Marxist study of the emotions in early modern philosophy'
Michael Lazurus (Monash) 
The standpoint of labour and Marx’s method

Further details (including abstracts): http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/society
Directions: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ioe
Admission is free but please reserve a place in advance by emailing Eric John Russell at johndavid.correspondence@gmail.com