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. ADMISSION TO THIS CONFERENCE IS FREE NO REGISTRATION |
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 |