Programme Amendments
Sunday 10th November
10:00-11:45
g3: The aporias of left strategy
Loren Balhorn: The seemingly inexorable decline of the German left
Colin Mooers: The electoral mirage: democracy, mass struggle and socialism
Catarina Principe: The state we’re in: on crises and strategy
Kevan Kennedy: Dictatorships of the proletariat: towards bridging divides between Marx and Bakunin
Chair: Josep María Antentas
12:00 – 13:45
Anti-colonial Marxisms and the global history of the left: NOW HAPPENING AT LLT (DLT)
Priscilla Judson Wallace: Claudia Jones: a global interpretation
Seth Uzman: Marxisms of the defeated: Walter Benjamin, Nâzım Hikmet and the German and Kurdish revolutions
David McNally: Anti-colonial Marxism in France: Tran DucThao, Frantz Fanon and global revolutionary theory
Aisha P.L. Kadiri: Fanon in Ghana: alienation, financial capitalism, and African socialism
Rafeef Ziadah (added to the discussion)
Chair: Kaan Kangal
//Roundtable discussion hosted by Spectre: CANCELLED//
Priscilla Judson Wallace: Claudia Jones: a global interpretation
Seth Uzman: Marxisms of the defeated: Walter Benjamin,
Nâzım Hikmet and the German and Kurdish revolutions
David McNally: Anti-colonial Marxism in France: Tran Duc
Thao, Frantz Fanon and global revolutionary theory
Aisha P.L. Kadiri: Fanon in Ghana: alienation, financial capi- talism, and African socialism
Chair: Kaan Kangal
mal-253 Critiques of the legal form
Andrew Munro: Economic and social rights and the limits of law: A Marxist critique of human rights law
Matthew Dimick: The legal form and public law
Robert Weber: Developing a critique of progressive corporate law from the left
Chair: Robert Knox
b103 Marxist theories on profit, late capitalism and imperialism
Ian José Horta Gois da Silva: Elements for a critical defence of the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
Alan Freeman: The pursuit of class struggle by other means
Josh Watterton: The economic effects of military spending: crisis, countertendency and the ‘permanent arms economy’
Ambrosia NabilahØ: The part of no Part – critique and break from empire and capitalism – launching the international vagabønd league
Chair: Sebastian Budgen
g51a: The political economy of climate change
Mads Hansen: Power, profit, and climate innovation: unveiling Big Tech’s influence on climate mitigation
Luis Andueza: Notes on climate, late neoliberalism and the hydropolitics of crisis in Chile
Adelita Husni Bey: Adaptability – like a flood
David Bond: American Empire of Oil in the Caribbean and the growing dissent of climate
Chair: Lukas Slothuus
14:45 – 16:30
g51: The Palestinian question: moral and political economy of colonialism: Panel Cancelled
g51 Figures of the Global Proletariat:New Panel, Marxism and Culture
Daniel Hartley: Beyond Alienation: The Cultural Logic of Agrarian Struggle
Charlotte Spear: Illegal Figurations and Labouring Subjects: The Contemporary Forced Migrant and Capitalism’s Labour Crisis
Mark Steven: Against the Wall: A Cinematics of Dispossession
Chair:
rg01: Roundtable discussion on the situation of Lebanon & the future of emancipation: New Panel
Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR):
Sami Khatib
Nadia Bou Ali
Ray Brassier
Ziad Kiblawi
Natasha Gasparian
Ghalya Saadawi
Thursday 7th November
Games night tonight is happening in UCL Bar!
Friday 8th November
14:15-16:00
b103 Struggling against the state and oppressive feminisms Marxist Feminism
Jenny Morrison: Representing Scotland: gender, devolution and social reproduction
Eleonora Roldán Mendívil and Josh Platzky Miller: Capital, social reproduction and ‘race’ in Peru and South Africa
Tanya Serisier: Hashtag feminism and the militarisation of sexual violence: understanding “#BelieveIsraeliWomen”
Chair: Sara Farris
16.15-18.00
rb01: Theoretical and cultural struggles in India Marxism and Culture
Aritra Bhattacharya: Tradition, ideology and emancipatory struggles: Reflections from Maharashtra
Prabuddha Ghosh: Religion, myth and leftism: failure and triumph of the Indian leftist authors
Juvaria Syed: Homographic politics in the poetry of Kashmiri progressive poets
Avishek Konar: Semi-feudalism, semi-colonialism and bourgeois-femocratic revolution: a theoretical cul-de-sac for Indian communists
Chair: Tatjana Söding
llt (dlt): The work and thought of Marina Vishmidt (I): contributions to Marxist thought
Jack Segbars: Infrastructural critique performing against the division of labour
Danny Hayward: “Exhilarating negation of violent and necrotic social stasis”: Marina Vishmidt’s infrastructural critique
Ciarán Finlayson
Kerstin Stakemeier
Chair: Roberto Mozacchiodi
FROM 8.30 PM ED EMERY [RED NOTES]: SONGS OF RESISTANCE, DISSENT AND TASTELESS VULGARITY
And Dancing with the SOAS Ceilidh Band
Saturday 9th November
10:00-11:45
b102 The struggle of ideas: The Italian Communist Party and philosophy after the Second World War (II)
Matteo Cavalleri: Ideal causes and possible history: philosophy, democracy and capitalism in Franco Rodano
Emanuele Lepore: The sign of a new world: Nicola Badaloni and the Marxism of Antonio Gramsci (1975)
Carlotta Cossutta: Widows of Lenin or daughters of Irigaray? The Italian Communist Party and feminism between emancipation and liberation
Chair: Riccardo Bellofiore
rg01 Violence, war, sexuality HMSPEN
Jess Fournier: From resistance to resilience: sexual violence activism and Cold War politics
Anna Simone Reumert: Towards a political economy of sex in Lebanon’s civil war
Yagmur Çagatay: Economies of visibility surrounding disclosures of sexual violence in Turkey
Chair: Alex Stoffel
rb01 Socialist planning (III): can socialism solve the ecological crisis? Post-Capitalism
Albin Söderqvist: Beyond the accumulation of capital
Simon Hannah: Reclaiming the future: socialist democratic planning in the face of climate crisis
Samia Mohammed: Planning for freedom: freedom be- yond ecological destruction in a socialist economy
Pedro H. J Nardelli, Harun Šiljak, Rodrigo Santaella Gonçalves: Commons-based ultra-scalable polycentric
social planning for multi-tier allocation of heterogeneous resources
Chair: Ferdia O’Driscoll
12:00-13:45
mal-254: Politics from below
Jonathan Rosenblum: Marxist political struggle inside the modern-day capitalist state: the 10-year Seattle experience
Paul Stubbs, Matthew Thompson: The limits and possibilities of radical municipalism: thinking conjuncturally with and about Zagreb Je Naš
Chair: Sai Englert
mal-253: Money and finance, the state and social reproduction
Brian Green: Modern Marxist monetary theory Christian Koutny: Financialisation as a general tendency of capital and central contradiction of financialised capitalism
David I. Backer: Socialism and school finance in the United States: theory, policy, and struggle
Maria Wallstam: Rentier capitalism and the absolute exploitation of labour in the Swedish house building industry
Chair: Juan Grigera
14:30-16:15
rb01: Western Marxism transmissions
Kaan Kangal: Friedrich Engels and the problem of the beginning of Western Marxism
Marcelo Novello: Perry Anderson, ‘Western Marxism’ and the Portuguese Revolution 1974/75
Zixuan Luo: Western Marxism in China: retrospect and reflection
Marzia Maccaferri: Transnational Western Marxism: An- glo-Italian hybridisation in the short 20th century
Chair: Darren Rosso
16:30-18:15
g51Language: Marxism and fascism Marxism and Culture
Nathaniel Barron: Ernst Bloch and the fascist and anti-fascist production of utterances
Johan Siebers: Towards a historical-materialist rhetoric as emancipatory praxis
Sinead Kwok: Re-individualising communication: Marxist metalanguage
Stefanie Prezioso: Fascisation : a misleading concept?
Chair: Craig Brandist
