Events

Forthcoming events

7th Annual Conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society

Abstraction, Universality and Money

London, 5 June 2010

Details to follow

Past events

All papers are posted in Word unless mentioned

2010

Symposium on Georg Lukács's 'Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat'

6 February 2010
London Knowledge Lab

Speakers:

Gordon Finlayson
Tim Hall
Michalis Skomvoulis

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)

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