News

– Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Seminar Series 2020-202, Now Online! All recordings can be found here: 

– Book talk on Capitalism and the Sea, Thursday, April 15, 5:00 pm BST: Contemporary Labour Issues in the Global Maritime Industry.

– “The Locomotives of History”: Historicizing Revolution. Enzo Traverso will analyze Marx’s famous definition of revolutions as the “locomotives of history,” taking us through the golden age of railways to the Russian Civil War, the Mexican Revolution and the Second World War. Friday, April 9, 2:30pm EDT

– Cosmopolitanisms: past, present, future?
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/04/202104211800/cosmopolitanisms?fbclid=IwAR29yhIW2_4NMAdgewvwcuL2NrYRZkekCWM0Z1YGdTtz2NzCeXxpbmmsUyU

– The interuniversity research group “Domenico Losurdo”, belonging to the Department of Humanities of the University of Urbino, announces – together with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, the Internationale Gesellschaft Hegel-Marx für dialektisches Denken and the journal “Materialismo Storico” – a contest for the assignment of three prizes for scholars and researchers, for authors of unpublished monographs, degree theses or essays concerning the thought, work and method of Domenico Losurdo.

– Launching Kevin B. Anderson’s new book, “Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism, and Its Critics Through a Lens of Race, Gender, and Colonialism”, March 21, 2021 6-9:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

– The registration for the ‘Ships in the Proletarian Night: Contemporary Marxist Thought in France and Britain’ is now open. If you wish to receive copies of it in advance, please email us at marxseminaradmin@riseup.net. Please register here:

– ‘Theory in Crisis’ online session: a paper by Benjamin Noys entitled ‘The Crisis of the Future’ (26 March, 16h CET). See here for details and registration:

– Call for Papers on Uneven and Combined Development, EISA Conference, September 2021. Please send paper/panel/roundtable titles (max 150 characters) and abstracts (max 1800 characters) to Justin Rosenberg at j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk by March 19th at the latest. Abstracts must be linked to two of the 44 existing Conference Sections (first choice and second choice). For a list of these Sections and the Submission Guidelines, see https://eisa-net.org/pec-2021-abstract-submission-guidelines/  

– CfP: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa

– Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory, Wednesday 3 March, 4-6:00pm GMT: Neoliberalism and Empire: Latin American and East Central European Perspectives. Quinn Slobodian discusses his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, with Virginia Fontes (Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brazil) and Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University). Register here in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldOCorDgqGtERdbt_7sr-Nors-iXXYK2K  

– An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her birth. Join the RLS and IRSS, 4–5 March 2021 for a series of panels, discussions, and keynote lectures on the life and legacy of this incredible woman, for whom “the most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening”. Website: www.rosalux.de/rosa-at-150, Livestream:www.facebook.com/rosaluxglobal/live_videos