After the eruption of the international financial crisis in 2008, Marx's Capital received renewed academic and popular attention. Leading newspapers throughout the world discussed again the contemporary relevance of its pages. Faced with a deep new crisis of capitalism, many are now looking to an author who in the past was often wrongly associated with the "actually existing socialism", and who was hastily dismissed after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
For many scholars, today Marx's analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly than they did in Marx's own time. This international conference brings together several world-renowned sociologists, political theorists, economists, and philosophers, from diverse fields and 13 countries. Its aim is to explore diverse scholarly perspectives and critical insights into the principal contradictions of contemporary capitalism and, in so doing, to draw attention to alternative economic and social models.
The presenters will critically reconsider Marx's Capital as a work that continues to provide an effective framework to understand the nature of capitalism and the transformations of our times.

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Conference Program

Day 1: Wednesday, May 24

Session 1, 16:00 - 18:00
Senate Chamber, Ross Bldg 940 North

Dissemination and Reception of Capital in the World: A Roundtable

Marcello Musto (York University, Canada)

Michael Kraetke (Lancaster University, UK)

Tomash Dabrowski (Northwestern University, USA)

Babak Amini (London School of Economics, UK)

Paula Rauhala (University of Tampere, Finland)

Kohei Saito (Osaka City University, Japan)

Seongjin Jeong (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea)

Chair: Victor Wallis (Berklee College of Music, USA)


Day 2: Thursday, May 25

Session 1, 10:30 - 12:30
Senate Chamber, Ross Bldg 940 North

The Politics of Capital

Mauro Buccheri (York Univeristy, Canada), The Persistence of Marx’s Humanism: From the 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844' to 'Capital'

George Comninel (York University, Canada), The Political Theory of 'Capital': Fetishism of Commoditites

William Roberts (McGill University, Canada), Reading 'Capital' as a Political Intervention

Terrell Carver (University of Bristol, UK), Performativity, Parody and Post-Marxism: Reading 'Capital' All Over Again

Chair: Paula Rauhala (University of Tampere, Finland)


Session 2, 14:00 - 15:45
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

Beyond Labour and Capital

Himani Bannerji (York University, Canada), Reading 'Capital' for Understanding Violence Against Women in the Era of Neoliberalism

Kevin B. Anderson (UC Santa Barbara, USA), Multilinearity, Colonialism, and Race in 'Capital'

Pietro Basso (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Had 'Capital' Been Written Today

Chair: Tomash Dabrowski (Northwestern University, USA)


Session 3, 16:00 - 17:30
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

New Critical Stances

Leo Panitch (York University, Canada), The Challenge of Transcending ‘Capital’

Moishe Postone (University of Chicago, USA), The Current Crisis and the Anachronism of Value

Chair: Leigh Denholm (York University, Canada)


Session 4, 17:45 - 19:30
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

Extending the Critique of CapitaI

Michael Kraetke (Lancaster University, UK), Why and in what Respects is ‘Capital’ Incomplete?

Silvia Federici (Hofstra University, USA), Marx, Gender and the Reproduction of the Working Class

Richard Wolff (The New School, USA), Marx’s Economics and Social Movements for Worker Cooperatives

Chair: Babak Amini (London School of Economics, UK)


Day 3: Friday, May 26


Session 1, 10:30 - 12:30
Senate Chamber, Ross Bldg 940 North

Elements of Future Society

Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University, Canada), The Neglected Chapters on Wages in 'Capital'

Alfonso Maurizio Iacono (University of Pisa, Italy), The Ambivalence of Cooperation in Marx’s 'Capital'

Seongjing Jeong (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea), Marx on Globalization

Chair: Mauro Buccheri (York Univeristy, Canada)


Session 2, 14:00 - 15:45
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

Capitalism, Past and Present

Etienne Balibar (Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, France), Marx's Capitalism and Ours

Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire, UK), The Household in Marx’s 'Capital'

Bertell Ollman (New York University, USA), 'Capital' vol. 1 in Light of Marx's Unpublished Works

Chair: Leigh Denholm (York University, Canada)


Session 3, 16:00 - 17:45
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

New Grounds of Critique

Bob Jessop (Lancaster University, UK), Marx on the Analysis of Social Formations

John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon, USA), Marx's 'Capital' and the Earth: The Ecological Critique of Political Economy 

Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, USA), When the Material Becomes Invisible: A Conversation with Marx's Materialities

Chair: Babak Amini (London School of Economics, UK)


Session 4, 18:00 - 19:30
Vari Hall, Lecture Hall A

Which Marx for Today?

Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA), The Contemporary Relevance of Marx

Chair: Marcello Musto (York University, Canada)

Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism

May 24-26, 2017 - Toronto

Conference Organizer: Marcello Musto, The Marx Collegium - York University 
Info: marcello.musto at gmail.com -- b.amini86 at gmail.com