From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it)
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 05:34:02 EDT
Dear Jerry, and dear OPE-L members, below you find the preliminary information about a conference I am organising in Bergamo next July. The conference will being July 15th at 14.00 and will end the evening of July 18th. Please, distribute widely and through all the lists which all of you may think can be interested. The attendance to the conference is free. I plan to have a web page no later than end of May. I'll comunicate the url to all of you asap. A more detailed programme will be distributed in June. riccardo --------------- Reading the Grundrisse July 15th- 18th, 2008 Aula 3, Via Salvecchio 19 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Bergamo Upper Town Howard Engelskirchen (Iowa State University, USA) The Grundrisse's Grundbestimmung: Form Determination and the Concept of Capital in General Andrew Brown (Leeds University Business School, UK) Materialism, Spinozism and Dialectics: E.V. Ilyenkov on why 'material production' is the 'object before us' at the outset of Marx's Grundrisse Patrick Murray (Creighton University, Omaha, USA) The Development of Marx's Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse: Reflections on Backhaus Martha Campbell (SUNY Postdam, USA) Marx's Transition from Simple Circulation to Capital: A Comparison of the Grundrisse, Urtext and Capital, Volume 1 Christopher J. Arthur (University of Sussex, UK) The practical truth of abstract labour Massimiliano Tomba (University of Padua, Italy) Pre-Capitalistic Forms of Production and Primitive Accumulation. Marx's Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College, USA) The Whole and the Parts. The Beginning of Marx's Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Grundrisse Tony Smith (Iowa State University, USA) The Role of the General Intellect in Marx's Grundrisse and Beyond Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) & Peter Thomas (Historical Materialism) From the 'fall of the rate of profit' in the Grundrisse to the cyclical development of the profit rate in Capital: a fundamental change in Marx's notion of the capitalist mode of production. Roberto Fineschi (University of Siena, Italy) Can we consider the Grundrisse the dialectically most developed version of Marx's theory of Capital? Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo, Italy) The Grundrisse after Capital, or how to re-read Marx backwards The Conference is part of the Bergamo Unit activities for the Inter-University Research Program "Issues of German Classical Philosophy: Edition of Text and Critical Studies" 2006 PRIN (funded by The Italian Ministry of University), for which Mario Cingoli is the National Coordinator and Riccardo Bellofiore is the Local Coordinator. It is also part of the activities of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory (ISMT) Organiser Riccardo Bellofiore Email address: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it Secretary of the Conference Simona Locatelli Email address: eventidse@unibg.it Free Attendance to the Conference INFORMATION If you would like to receive any furher information on the International Conference Reading the Grundrisse you can send an email to the Secretary of the Conference Simona Locatelli and to the organiser TRAVEL INFORMATION Bergamo is in Northern Italy, 50 Kms north-east of Milan, on the way to Lake Garda and Venice. Thanks to its international airport: (sometimes advertised as 'Milan-Orio al Serio', or Milan-BGY), http://www.sacbo.it/Airpor/portalProcess.jsp Bergamo can be reached by low-cost flights from many European cities, like London (London Standsted and Luton), Paris (Beauvais), Amsterdam (Schipol), Berlin (Tegel), Frankfurt (Hahn). Further information on how to reach Bergamo may be found at http://www.unibg.it/struttura/en_struttura.asp?cerca=en_comearrivare ACCOMODATION Details about accomodation in Bergamo may be found at http://www.apt.bergamo.it/L_inglese/home_inglese.html -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/pers/?riccardo.bellofiore _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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