From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 19:39:47 EDT
----- Original Message ----- From: Sebastian Budgen Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:45 PM Subject: HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER 8-10 DECEMBER 2006 CENTRAL LONDON Further details will be sent to registered participants. PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL AS PLACES ARE LIMITED. UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer’s analysis of the world crisis of the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value; financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration; finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the political economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl Polanyi; the political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and resistance in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement; migration; land reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions; commodity chains; waste and capitalism; global capitalism and urban violence; globalisation; theories of imperialism; capital accumulation and the state system; oil and rise of Asia; the governance of global capitalism; China and Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China and future of the global economy; accumumation by dispossession; economic theory and economics imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism and critical realism; Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze; Foucault and governmentality studies; Marxism and political subjectivity; Spinoza; early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s; theories of the Soviet Union; Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris Wickham and the Middle Ages; Marxism and international law; Marxism and theology; the US National Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and contemporary warfare technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and scifi; US leftist theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States; Victor Serge’s approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica; the future for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life and legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics; Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; republicanism; Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian political theory; the Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and social movements;... and much more! On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize, Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture. The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions to launch the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism prevail? and on eco-socialism, democratic planning and political strategy Gilbert Achcar ? Greg Albo ? Elmar Altvater ? Daniel Ankarloo ? Christopher Arthur ? Sam Ashman ? Carlos Astarita ? Attila Aytekin ? Jennifer Bair ? Abigail Bakan ? Jairus Banaji ? Himmani Bannerji ? Richard Barrett ? Colin Barker? Clyde Barrow ? Jean Batou ? Matthew Beaumont ? Pinar Bedirhanoglu ? Riccardo Bellofiore ? Daniel Bensaid ? Halil Berktay ? Henry Bernstein ? Rakesh Bhandari ? Paul Blackledge ? Roland Boer ? Manuela Bojadzijev ? Werner Bonefeld ? Bill Bowring ? Craig Brandist ? Lars Bretthauer ? Simon Bromley ? Carolyn A. Brown ? Ian Buchanan ? Daniel Buck ? Peter Burnham ? Alex Callinicos ? David Camfield ? Paul Cammack ? Liam Campling ? Guglielmo Carchedi ? Maria Elisa Cevasco ? Vincent Charbonnier ? Sharad Chari ? Vivek Chibber ? Simon Clarke ? Alex Colas ? Gareth Dale ? Neil Davidson ? Massimo de Angelis ? Kathryn Dean ? Alex Demirovic ? Manali Desai ? Radhika Desai ? Jean Ducange ? Michael Dutton ? Howard Engelskirchen ? Barbara Epstein ? Fuat Ercan ? Necmi Erdogan ? Ben Fine ? Roberto Fineschi ? Milton Fisk ? Carl Freedman ? Alan Freeman ? Fabio Frosini ? James Furner ? Alexander Gallas ? Phil Gasper ? Andrew Glyn ? Peter Gowan ? Richard Greeman ? Haldun Gulalp ? Alexei Gusev ? Derek Hall ? Peter Hallward ? Chris Harman ? David Harvey ? Henry Heller ? Rohini Hensman ? Mike Hill ? Sean Homer ? Ursula Huws ? Robert Jessop ? Jonathan Joseph ? Angela Joya ? John Kannankulam ? John Kelly ? Geoff Kennedy ? Jim Kincaid ? Andrew Kliman ? Sam Knafo ? Stathis Kouvelakis ? Michael Krätke ? Rick Kuhn ? Thierry Labica ? Mikko Lahtinen ? David Laibman ? Ines Langemeyer ? Costas Lapavitsas ? Alex Law ? Paul LeBlanc ? Jean-Jacques Lecercle ? Esther Leslie ? Colin Leys ? Lars Lih ? Marcel van der Linden ? Urs Lindner ? Matteo Mandarini ? Jean-Jacques Marie ? Susan Marks ? John Marot ? Giacomo Marramao ? Marco Maurizi ? Scott Meikle ? China Miéville ? Tamás Gáspár Miklós ? Alan Milchman ? Drew Milne ? Andrew Milner ? Dimitris Milonakis ? Val Moghadam ? Kim Moody ? Vittorio Morfino ? Kevin Murphy ? Alan Norrie ? Jörg Nowak ? Sabine Nuss ? Frieder Otto Wolf ? Leo Panitch ? Benita Parry ? Simon Pirani ? Joost Ploeger ? Fabio Raimondi ? Jason Read ? Geert Reuten ? John Roberts ? Justin Rosenberg ? Alessandro Russo ? Alfredo Saad-Filho ? Thomas Sablowski ? Devi Sacchetto ? Spyros Sakelleropoulos ? Jørgen Sandemose ? Peter Sarris ? Andrew Sayer ? David Seddon ? Ben Selwyn ? Claude Serfati ? Murray Smith ? Steve Smith ? Tony Smith ? Marcos Soares ? Ingar Solty ? Panagiotis Sotiris ? Guido Starosta ? Jan-Willem Stutje ? Peter Thomas ? Massimiliano Tomba ? Alberto Toscano ? Mario Tronti ? Ates Uslu ? Jefford Vahlbusch ? Kees van der Pijl ? Nicolas Vieillescazes ? Hilary Wainwright ? Ben Watson ? Mike Wayne ? Suzi Weissman ? Paul Wetherly ? Chris Wickham ? Caroline Williams ? Phil Woodhouse ? Galip Yalman ? Sami Zubaida ? and others... Attendance at the conference is free but voluntary contributions are encouraged to help with the costs of organising the conference (we suggest £15 for unwaged/£30 waged). PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL AS PLACES ARE LIMITED. UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS
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