Events
Forthcoming events
Workshop on the Notes on James Mill
5 February 2011
Eighth Annual Conference: Aristotle and Marx
4 June 2011 (provisional)
Past events
All papers are posted in Word unless mentioned
2010
Seventh annual conference
5 June 2010
Abstraction, Universality and Money
Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
- Richard Seaford (Exeter)
Money, Abstraction, and the Genesis of the Psyche handout - Alberto
Toscano (Goldsmiths)
The Dead Pledge of Society: Methodological Problems and Political Consequences of 'Real Abstraction' - Jan Sailer (Freiburg)
Securities: The Purest Form of Abstract Wealth. A Re-evaluation of the Concept of 'Fictitious Capital' - Nick
Gray (Sussex)
Abstraction, Universality, Money and Capital: The Capital-Theory of Value - Marina Vishmidt (Queen Mary, University of
London)
Art in and as Abstract Labour - Brian Fuller (York University, Toronto)
Materialism and Dialectic: Reading Marx after Adorno - Tim Carter (Sussex)
Alienation and Domination in Marx and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Anthropologies -
Chris Allsobrook (Sussex)
Meta-Maieusis: The Ideological Normative Grounds of Immanent Critique - Martin Sohn-Rethel
Memories of my Father, Alfred Sohn-Rethel - Christopher Arthur
Abstraction, Universality and Money
Symposium on Georg Lukács's 'Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat'
6 February 2010
London Knowledge Lab
Speakers:
- Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)
- Tim Hall (East London)
Justice and the Good Life in Lukács's History and Class Consciousness [pdf] - Michalis Skomvoulis (Paris)
On Hegel's presence in Lukacs' Essay
2009
Launch of Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
28
November 2009
Historical Materialism
conference, Birkbeck College, London
- Meade McCloughan
Changing the World? Marxism and the Point of Philosophy - Nick Gray
Geist Stories and the Struggle over Modernity
Sixth annual conference
6 June 2009
Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
- Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne)
Beyond Telos and Totality: Immanent Critique as Selective Inheritance outline - Jeremy Cohan (NYU)
What Marx Really Thought about Class - David Marjoribanks (Kent)
Marxism and Morality: Out of the 'Moral Wilderness'? - Caleb Basnett (York University, Toronto)
Re-inventing the Subject: Marx and Ethics - Geoffrey Kay
Derivatives: 'Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties' - Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario)
Twenty-First Century Species-Being
2008
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
7 November 2008
SOAS, London
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism - Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
The Uniqueness of Capitalism and the Normative Content of a Socialist Political Philosophy - Nicholas Joll (Essex)
The Normativity Problem in Critical Theory: Adorno, Bernstein, Freyenhagen
Joe McCarney memorial conference
25 October 2008
London Knowledge Lab
- Kai Nielsen (Calgary)
Towards an Emancipatory Social Science - David MacGregor (Toronto)
The Problem of Evil - John Clegg (New School for Social Research)
Rereading Marx on Ideology - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Can there be an Ethical Critique of Capitalism? - Chris Arthur
Critique and Contradiction
Fifth annual conference
24 May 2008
Is there a Marxian Philosophy?
Institute of Education, University of London
- Timothy Hall (East London)
The Metacritique of Philosophy: Marx, Lukács and Adorno [pdf] - Silvia de Bianchi (Rome)
The Critique of Philosophy and the Practical Ground: Reflections on a Marxian Approach [pdf] - Simon Skempton (Middlesex)
Marx's Philosophy of Infinite Determinability - Amy Wendling (Creighton)
The Strife between Technology and Capital: Machines in the Communist Future - Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser)
Marxis and the Critique of Social Rationality: From Surplus Value to Technology Studies
2007
Afternoon seminar
23 February 2007
London Knowledge Lab
- Scott Meikle (Glasgow)
Marx's Two Theories of Value - Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and David Leopold (Oxford)
Symposium on David Leopold's The Young Karl Marx (CUP, 2007)
Afternoon seminar
13 October 2007
London Knowledge Lab
- Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
Analytical Marxism: A Critical Appraisal [pdf] - Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Rudiments for a Political Philosophy of Socialism
Fourth annual conference
19 May 2007
The Justification of Socialism
Institute of Education, University of London
- Raj Sehgal (Roehampton)
Karl Marx's Scientific Socialism: A Defence - Gabriel Wollner (Oxford)
On the Purpose of Philosophy – A Defence of Marx's 'Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right'[pdf] - Charlotte Daub (Sussex)
A Hegel-Marx Debate about the Relation of the Individual and Society - Simon Choat (Queen Mary University of London)
Socialism without Idealism and without Justification: Marx via Late-Twentieth Century French Philosophy - Norman Geras (Manchester)
How is Socialism to be Justified? - Alex Callinicos (Kings College London)
How Big is Marxism's Moral Deficit?
Afternoon seminar
17 February 2007
Royal Holloway, London
- Meade McCloughan (UCL)
Marx and the Phenomenology of Spirit - Nina Power (Roehampton)
Marx, Feuerbach And Non-Philosophy
2006
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
10 December 2006
SOAS, London
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Species Being and Capital - Martin McIvor
Marx as a Post-Kantian, Background papers:
Marx and German Philosophy Revisited
Marx's Modernism: Outline of a Defence - Sean Sayers (Kent)
Labour in 'Post-Industrial' Society - Frieder Otto Wolff
Materialist Dialectics
Afternoon seminar
21 October 2006
Royal Holloway, London
-
James Furner (Sussex)
Marx's Account of the State from the German Ideology to the Eighteenth Brumaire - Andy Denis (City University, London)
Organicism in the Early Marx: Marx and Hegel on the State as an Organism
Third annual conference
27 May 2006
Institute of Education, University of London
- Bob Cannon (University of East London)
Capitalism, Fetishism and Modernity - Drew Milne (Cambridge)
Michel Henry's Marx - Mark Neocleous (Brunel)
The Politics of redemption: Marxism, National Socialism, and the Dead
Afternoon seminar
25 February 2006
Royal Holloway, London
- Robert Fine (Warwick)
Marx, Hegel and Legal Philosophy - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
The Kingdom of Ends and Species Being
2005
Second annual conference
10 September 2005
Institute of Education, University of London
- Chris Arthur
Capital and Logic - Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Value, Money, and Capital in Hegel and Marx - Scott Meikle (Gasgow)
The Composition of Marx's Reaction to Economic Thought - Moishe Postone (Chicago)
The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel
Afternoon seminar
28 May 2005
London School of Economics
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marx's Concept of Labour - Georgios Daremas (Indianapolis Athens)
Marx's Theory of Democracy in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the State
Afternon seminar
5 March 2005
City University, London
- William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality - John Grant (Queen Mary, University of London)
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Hegel
2004
Afternoon seminar, 'Marx and gender'
4 December 2004
London School of Economics
- Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited - Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
Marx and Engels: Feminism/Gender/Masculinities
Inaugural conference
29 May 2004
Institute of Education, University of London
- Andrew Collier (Southampton)
Marx and Conservatism
Respondent: David McLellan (Goldsmiths) - Martin McIvor (London School of Economics)
The State of the Understanding: Politics and Epistemology in Marx's Earliest Writings
Respondent: Lawrence Wilde (Nottingham Trent) - David Harvey (City University of New York)
Space as a Key Word (with Overhead)
Respondent: Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
