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CAPITAL, EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION
As part of the preparation
for the London European Social Forum, the
journals HISTORICAL MATERIALISM and SOCIALIST REGISTER, as well as the
ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE COMMITTEE invite you to a
two-day conference on ‘CAPITAL, EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION’ on Saturday 9
October – Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet
Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).
TIMETABLE:
SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER:
9.30–11.00 Plenary
session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE SOUTH
PATRICK BOND, 'Necessary
and Contradictory features of Subimperialism:
The Case of South Africa’
PAUL MATTICK JNR., 'Explaining the Asian Crisis: Theory and Observation
in the Critique of Political Economy’
DOUG STOKES, 'America’s Other War: Terrorising Colombia’
11.00–11.30 Break
11.30–13.00 Plenary
session:
CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE NORTH
ALEX CALLINICOS,
'Building a New Left: The Politics of Resisting
Neoliberalism'
ELMAR ALTVATER, 'The Capitalist Social Formation, the Fossil Energy
Regime, and Conflicts about Oil Supply’
RICHARD WALKER, ‘The Boom and the Bombshell: The New Economy and the
Transformation of San Francisco’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Plenary
session:
ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURES
NEIL DAVIDSON, 'How
Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions ?’
BENNO TESCHKE, 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem
of the International'
Discussant: GEORGE COMNINEL
16.00–16.30
16.30–18.30 Workshops
Workshop 1:
MOISHE POSTONE, 'History and Helplessness: Toward a Critique of
Fetishized Anti-Capitalism’
Workshop 2:
ANDRES PIQUERAS, 'The Social Structure of Accumulation, the
Accumulation Model and its Closing under Mature Capitalism’
RAY KIELY, 'US Imperialism and Global Capitalism'
DENILE CONVERSI, 'Cultural Blowback: The USA in the Politics of
Anti-Globalisation'
Workshop 3:
SUMIT SARKAR, 'Marxist Approaches to Hindutva’
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER:
09.30–11.00 Plenary
session: CAPITAL AND VALUE
CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR,
‘The Idea of Capital’
PATRICK MURRAY, ‘Capital : The Mismeasure of Wealth’
MICHAEL HEINRICH, 'Ambivalences in Marx's Critique of Political Economy
as Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism’
11.00–11.15 Break
11.15–13.00 Workshops
Workshop 1:
'Third-World Capitalism and the Developmentalist State in Comparative
Perspective:
A Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place: State-Building and Late
Industrialization in India’
VIVEK CHIBBER
SUMIT SARKAR
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE
ROBERT WADE
Workshop 2:
GEORGE COMNINEL, 'The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe’
NEIL DAVIDSON
BENNO TESCHKE
Workshop 3:
JOSEPH FRACCHIA, ‘Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics: The
Corporeal Foundations of Marx's Critique of Capitalism’
DAVID MCNALLY, 'Commodity Fetishism and the Labouring Body: Dialectical
Reversals in "One of Marx's Least Understood Jokes"’
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–17.00 Plenary
session:
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF US IMPERIALISM TODAY, launching Socialist
Register 2005, ‘The Empire Reloaded’
COLIN LEYS (Chair)
TONY BENN
SIMON BROMLEY
PETER GOWAN
JOHN GRAHL
LEO PANITCH
ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
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