Agrarian Change Seminars – SOAS

Agrarian Change Seminars Term 2, 2018-19 SOAS Journal of Agrarian Change and Department of Development Studies, SOAS Note weekly variations of seminar day and room   Thursday 17 January, 6pm, 22 Russell Square T102 Class, politics and agrarian policies in post-liberalisation India Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University)   Wednesday 30 January, 5.15 pm, FG01

Deconstructing Development Discourse – SOAS, 15 January

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT Professor Andrea Cornwall (SOAS University of London) and Dr Tania Kaiser (SOAS University of London) Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords Revisited Tuesday, 15 January, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely there are more urgent things to

Hegel’s Science of Logic Workshop Series – London, 25 January

Quantum: A Continuation of the Dialectic of Hegel’s Science of Logic Workshop Seminar   25 January 2019 11:00am-5:00pm Penrhyn Road, Kingston University Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE Room JG 3006   Continuing with our chapter-by-chapter workshop seminar series on Hegel’s Science of Logic, we will continue with the section on Quantity with the chapter on Quantum (pp. 168-270).

Transnational Labour Regimes, Migrant Labour and the Changing Territoriality of Korean Development - London, 9 January

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (SOAS) Seminar Series Transnational Labour Regimes, Migrant Labour and the Changing Territoriality of Korean Development  Professor Dae-Oup Chang (Sogang University, Korea) Wednesday 9th January, 5:15pm, Room G3 (Main Building) (SOAS) Globalising capitalism affects the territoriality of labour regimes and the ways in which capitalist labour is reproduced, recruited and

Marx and Philosophy Society Symposium – London, 19 January

Marx and Philosophy Society Symposium A half-day symposium on: Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing (Routledge, 2018) (Details of the book below) 19th January 2019, 14.00-18.00 Room 728, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Speakers: Paul Blackledge, Meade McCloughan, David McLellan And a panel debate with Andrew Chitty, Jan Kandiyali and Sean Sayers

Reminder: HM Sydney Today

Please join us for this year’s Historical Materialism Sydney conference. The conference will take place on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 December on Level 2 of the Abercrombie Business School Building at The University of Sydney.  Highlights for this year’s conference include: Keynote addresses from: Lisa Adkins on ‘Social Reproduction in the Neoliberal Era’ Andreas

What are we in the Eyes of Marx?, Beiruit – 7 December

The Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung-Beirut and the Goethe-Institut-Beirutwould like to invite you to a conversation entitled What are we in the Eyes of Marx? between Michael Heinrich (author of Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, Monthly Review Press 2014) and Frank Ruda (co-author of Reading Marx, Polity 2018, with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek) moderated by Raymond

Quantity: A Continuation of the Dialectic of Hegel’s Science of Logic, London – 15 December

Quantity: A Continuation of the Dialectic of Hegel’s Science of Logic Workshop Seminar   15 December 2018 11:00am-5:00pm Knights Park, Kingston University Room TK 504 Grange Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2QJ Continuing with our chapter-by-chapter workshop seminar series on Hegel’s Science of Logic, we will continue, having now finished the first section of the book (Quality), by

Marx Returns:  a book launch and discussion – London- 5 December

Marx Returns – a book launch and discussion with Jason Barker, Alberto Toscano and Matthew Beaumont Housman’s Bookshop http://www.housmans.com/events.php   Wednesday 5th December, 7pm Entry £3 redeemable against any purchase An imaginative, uplifting, and sometimes disturbing alternative history. ~ Nina Power, Los Angeles Review of Books If you’re inclined to doubt the dramatic potential of differential

The Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics – SOAS, 27 November

Professor Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford) The Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics Tuesday, 27 November, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building In the 21st century, many parts of the South Asian subcontinent are being conquered not by settler-migrants (as was the case in the Wild West) but by unruly and

Mike Wayne on England’s Discontents – London, 13 December

Mike Wayne on England’s Discontents Date:  Thursday December 13th 2018   Venue:  Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW PSH Building, room 326   Time: 6:00 pm   To properly understand the significance of recent events such as Brexit, the Scottish Referendum on independence and transformations in the membership and leadership of