This page lists past events. Future events are announced on the home page
2024
Workshop
Rebecca Carson, Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in
Capital video
11th February 2024
Rebecca Carson
Marina Vishmidt
Christopher J. Arthur
2023
Nineteenth annual conference 2023
Marx and Kant
17th June 2023, University College London Institute of Education
- James Furner (Sussex)
An Antinomy Argument for Autonomy in Marx’s Capital video - Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus Rotterdam)
Socialism under Kantian Right video - Lea Ypi (LSE)
What is Moral Socialism? video - Suzie Love (Georgia State)
Freedom in Marx and Kant video - Allen Wood (Indiana)
Marx and Kant on Capitalist Exploitation video
Workshop
Marx and the Frankfurt School
25th February 2023, University College London Institute of Education
- Jacob McNulty (UCL)
The Liberation of the Senses: Hegel and Marx on Refinement video - Charlotte Baumann (Sussex)
Adorno’s Critique of Marx: Capitalism and the Non-Identical video
2022
Eighteenth Annual Conference 2022
Marxism and Race
18th June 2022, University College London Institute of Education
- Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)
Race, Gender, and Class in the Thought of Black Woman Marxists video - Robert Knox (Liverpool)
Law, Race and Abstraction: On the Limits of Human Rights video - Kyle Scott (UCLA)
Two Ideals of Necessary Labor in Marx video - Zachary Levenson (North Carolina) and Marcel Paret (Utah)
Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism video - Matt Shafer (Florida International University)
Plantation Capitalism video - August Nimtz (Minnesota)
The Class/Race Conundrum First Posed: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time video
Workshop
Christopher J. Arthur The Spectre of Capital
2 April 2022
Chris Arthur
Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Video of presentations
2021
Seventeenth Annual Conference 2021
Marxism and Nationalism
5 June 2021, online
Lea Ypi (LSE) video
Tatiana Llaguno (New School for Social Research) video
Adrian Kreutz (Oxford) video
Pascal Brixel (Clemson) video
Kevin Anderson (UCSB) video
Workshop
Marx and Engels, The Holy Family
20 February 2021, online
- Introduction (Meade McCloughan)
- Alienation (Jan Kandiyali)
- Speculation (Eric-John Russell)
- ‘The Jewish Question’ (Igor Shoikhedbrod)
- Materialism (Rebecca Carson)
2020
Seminar
Species-being
8th February 2020, University College London Institute of Education
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- Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities)
Gattungswesen and Universality - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Species-Consciousness and Species-Activity (paper)
- Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities)
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2019
Sixteenth Annual Conference 2019
The legacy of Georg Lukács
15th June 2019, University College London Institute of Education
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- Michael J. Thompson (William Paterson University)
Georg Lukács, Critical Social Ontology and the Renewal of Marxian Philosophy - Konstantinos Kavoulakos (University of Crete)
What is Reification in Georg Lukács’s early Marxist Work? - Agnes Heller (Eötvös Loránd University)
Comments on Lukacs - Sebastian Sanchez-Schilling
Foot or Lukács? The foundation of ethics - Eleonora Antonakaki Giannisi
Contemplative Stance or Blasé Attitude? Simmel as an interlocutor in Lukács’s work on reification - Richard Donnelly
Reconsidering the Blum Theses: Totalitarianism and the
degeneration of bourgeois culture in Lukács’s revolutionary middle period
- Michael J. Thompson (William Paterson University)
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Symposium
Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing (2018)
19th January 2019
Speakers:
Paul Blackledge, Meade McCloughan, David McLellan
And panel debate with Andrew Chitty, Jan Kandiyali, Sean Sayers
2018
Fifteenth Annual Conference 2018
Capital and capitalism
9th June 2018, University College London Institute of Education
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- Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Marx’s Concept of Capital and the Illusion of the Economic - Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich):
Whose Labour Theory of Value is it anyway? On the Classics, Marx, and the Interpretative Hegemony of Value Form Theory - Alfredo Saad Filho (SOAS)
Reading Capital in the 21st Century - Sara Farah (University of Minnesota)
Political Economy as Theology: Re-examining Marx’s theory of alienation - Andres Saenz De Sicilia (University of Roehampton)
Capital and Capitalism: Production, Reproduction and Subsumption - Alexis Ioannides (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)
Method and Critique in Marx’s Capital
- Patrick Murray (Creighton)
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2017
Fourteenth Annual Conference 2017
Marx and the concept of labour
24th June 2017, University College London Institute of Education
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- Mike Neary (Lincoln)
Critical Theory as a Critique of Labour, Featuring Academic Work; or, How do Revolutionary Teachers Teach? - Sara Farris (Goldsmiths)
A Marxist-Feminist Approach to the Theory of the Reserve Army of Labour - Anselm Jappe (Sassari)
Marx and the ‘Two-fold Nature’ of Labour: The ‘Pivot’ of his Critique of Capitalism - Alastair Hemmens (Cardiff)
Labour, a ‘Rational Abstraction’? Robert Kurz’s Substance of Capital and Resolving the Labour Aporia in Marx - Sean Winkler (Leuven)
The Hessen-Grossmann-Lukács Thesis: A Marxist Study of the Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy - Michael Lazarus (Monash)
The Standpoint of Labour and Marx’s Method
- Mike Neary (Lincoln)
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Workshop: The Critique of Capital and the Critique of Labour
Led by Werner Bonefeld (York)
25 February 2017, University College London Institute of Education
2016
Thirteenth Annual Conference 2016
Hegel and Marx
Held jointly with the Hegel Society of Great Britain
1-2 September 2016, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Hegel and Marx on Human Solidarity - Eva Bockenheimer (Siegen)
‘Hegel and Marx on Family and Gender Relations - Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia)
Hegel and Marx on the Demands of ‘Spiritual Life - Rocío Zambrana (Oregon)
Critique in Hegel and Marx - Tim Carter (Sussex)
Property and Agency in Marx’s Notes on James Mill - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Re-Hegelianising Marx on the Subject of Right - David James (Warwick)
The Abstract Self and State Idealism: Hegel and Marx on the Necessity of the Reign of Terror
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Seminar: The Early Marx and Republicanism
11 June 2016, Institute of Philosophy, London
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- Bruno Leipold (Oxford)
‘Democracy is the Solved Riddle of All Constitutions’: Marx’s Early Republicanism and his Shift to Socialism, 1843-44 (.mov audio recording) - Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)
Marx’s Early Republicanism: A Reply to Leipold (.mov audio recording)
- Bruno Leipold (Oxford)
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2015
Twelfth Annnual Conference 2015
Marx and utopia
13 June 2015, University College London Institute of Education
Conference abstracts
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- Lea Ypi (LSE)
Revolutionary Partisanship - David Leopold (Oxford)
Marx’s Critique of Utopia - Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway)
Marx, Marxism and Utopia - Paul Raekstad (Cambridge)
Marx’s Realism, Utopianism, and the Role of Vision - Owen Holland (Cambridge)
Utopia and the Suspension of the Political - Sina Talachian (Amsterdam)
Between Universalism and Particularism: The Later Marx’s Conception of Reformism - Emily Cousens (Oxford Brookes)
Marx’s Contribution to Feminist Thought - Dimitri Kladiskakis (Sussex)
Marx and Heidegger: Social Ontology and the Object - Chris Ferguson (Sussex)
Collective Alienation in Marx’s early work
- Lea Ypi (LSE)
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Workshop on Marx’s ‘1857 Introduction’ to the Grundrisse
21 February 2015, London Knowledge Lab
Tom Bunyard (Goldsmiths), Tim Carter (Sussex)
English and German dual text: PDF Word
2014
Eleventh Annual conference
Marx, Reification and Recognition
14 June 2014, Senate House, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Heikki Ikäheimo (New South Wales)
From the Hegel to Marx and Back: Two Sketches of an Ontology of the Human Life Form - Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Brunswick)
Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Theory of Recognition as a Person - Douglas Moggach (Ottawa)
Perfectionism and Recognition: Leibniz, Wolff, Marx - Hannes Kuch (Stockholm)
A Hegelian Reading of Marx’s Concept of Recognition - Valentinos Kontoyiannis (Sussex)
Marx and Mauss contra Habermas: Reification and Recognition in Production and Exchange (pdf) - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Marx and the Struggle for Human Emancipation: What’s Recognition Got to Do with It?
- Heikki Ikäheimo (New South Wales)
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Mind Association and the Institute of Philosophy for this conference
Workshop on Karl Marx and Moses Hess on Money
8 February 2014, London Knowledge Lab
Meade McCloughan and Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Parallel English-German text of Hess’s ‘The Essence of Money’ (1843) (pdf).
2013
Tenth Annual Conference
Marxism and Liberalism
15 June 2013, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Jeffrey Reiman (American University, Washington DC)
Marxian Liberalism - Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marx as a Critic of Liberalism - Christine Sypnowich (Queen’s, Ontario)
Liberalism, Marxism, Equality and Living Well - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Karl Marx’s Radical Critique of Liberalism and the Future of Right - Dan Swain (Essex)
Justice as Fetish (also available here) - Andrew Drever (Edinburgh)
The Necessity of Normativity in Marxism
- Jeffrey Reiman (American University, Washington DC)
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2012
Ninth annual conference
Marx and Hegel
2 June 2012, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Recognition and Property in Hegel and the Early Marx - Emmanuel Renault (Lyon)
The Early Marx and Hegel: The Young-Hegelian Mediation - Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia)
Marx and Hegel on the Value of ‘Bourgeois’ Ideals - Herbert De Vriese (Antwerp)
Breaking the Idealistic Spell: Marx’s Farewell to the Hegelian Ideal of Presuppositionless Thinking - Bue Rübner Hansen (Queen Mary)
Hegel, Marx, and Singular Times - Jacob Blumenfeld (New School for Social Research)
The Method and Object of Capital - Christopher Joonho Ro (Princeton)
Capital as Collective Product: Mutual Interaction in Marx’s Idea of Alienation - David Marjoribanks (Kent)
Universality and Particularity in the Political Philosophies of Hegel and Marx - Jan Kandiyali (Sheffield)
Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Account of Communism
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Symposium on Sean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (2011)
4 February 2012
2011
Eighth Annual Conference
Marx and Aristotle
4 June 2011, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Jon Pike (Open University)
‘From Each According to Their Ability …’: Marx, Demandingness and Neo-Aristotelianism - Jan Kandiyali (Sheffield)
Karl Marx and the Abolition of Social Roles - Yannig Luthra (UCLA)
A Puzzle about Production and Self-Realization - Steve Thomas (KCL)
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Marxist Humanism - Daniel Burnfin (KU Leuven)
Aristotle, the Value-Form and Real Abstraction - Guido Schulz (Sussex)
Marx’s Distinction between the Fetish Character of the Commodity and Fetishism (pdf) - Andrew Davenport (Sussex)
Marxist International Relations and the Problem of the Political - Geoffrey Kay
Aristotle and the Labour-Process - Tony Burns (Nottingham)
Marx and Natural Law
- Jon Pike (Open University)
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Workshop on the Notes on James Mill
5 February 2011, The London Knowledge Lab
Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and Martin McIvor
English and German parallel text of the Notes on James Mill
2010
Seventh annual conference
Abstraction, Universality and Money
5 June 2010, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- 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 [downloadable mp3] - Christopher Arthur
Abstraction, Universality and Money
- Richard Seaford (Exeter)
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Symposium on Georg Lukács’s ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat’
6 February 2010, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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
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2009
Launch of Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
28 November 2009, Historical Materialism conference, Birkbeck College, London
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- Meade McCloughan
Changing the World? Marxism and the Point of Philosophy - Nick Gray (Sussex)
Geist Stories and the Struggle over Modernity
- Meade McCloughan
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Sixth annual conference
6 June 2009, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- 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
- Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne)
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2008
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
7 November 2008, SOAS, London
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- 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
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
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Joe McCarney memorial conference
25 October 2008, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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
- Kai Nielsen (Calgary)
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Fifth annual conference
Is there a Marxian Philosophy?
24 May 2008, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Timothy Hall (East London)
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2007
Afternoon seminar
23 February 2007, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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)
- Scott Meikle (Glasgow)
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Afternoon seminar
13 October 2007, London Knowledge Lab
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- Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
Analytical Marxism: A Critical Appraisal - Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Rudiments for a Political Philosophy of Socialism
- Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
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Fourth annual conference
The Justification of Socialism
19 May 2007, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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?
- Raj Sehgal (Roehampton)
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Afternoon seminar
17 February 2007, Royal Holloway, London
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- Meade McCloughan (UCL)
Marx and the Phenomenology of Spirit - Nina Power (Roehampton)
Marx, Feuerbach And Non-Philosophy
- Meade McCloughan (UCL)
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2006
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
10 December 2006, SOAS, London
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- 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
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Afternoon seminar
21 October 2006, Royal Holloway, London
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- 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
- James Furner (Sussex)
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Third annual conference
27 May 2006, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Bob Cannon (University of East London)
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Afternoon seminar
25 February 2006, Royal Holloway, London
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- Robert Fine (Warwick)
Marx, Hegel and Legal Philosophy - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
The Kingdom of Ends and Species Being
- Robert Fine (Warwick)
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2005
Second annual conference
10 September 2005, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Chris Arthur
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Afternoon seminar
28 May 2005
London School of Economics
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- 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
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
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Afternon seminar
5 March 2005, City University, London
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- William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality - John Grant (Queen Mary, University of London)
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Hegel
- William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
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2004
Afternoon seminar, ‘Marx and gender’
4 December 2004, London School of Economics
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- Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited - Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
Marx and Engels: Feminism/Gender/Masculinities
- Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
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Inaugural conference
29 May 2004, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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)
- Andrew Collier (Southampton)
2022
Eighteenth Annual Conference 2022
Marxism and Race
18th June 2022, University College London Institute of Education
- Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)
Race, Gender, and Class in the Thought of Black Woman Marxists video - Robert Knox (Liverpool)
Law, Race and Abstraction: On the Limits of Human Rights video - Kyle Scott (UCLA)
Two Ideals of Necessary Labor in Marx video - Zachary Levenson (North Carolina) and Marcel Paret (Utah)
Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism video - Matt Shafer (Florida International University)
Plantation Capitalism video - August Nimtz (Minnesota)
The Class/Race Conundrum First Posed: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time video
Workshop
Christopher J. Arthur The Spectre of Capital
2 April 2022
Chris Arthur
Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Video of presentations
2021
Seventeenth Annual Conference 2021
Marxism and Nationalism
5 June 2021, online
Lea Ypi (LSE) video
Tatiana Llaguno (New School for Social Research) video
Adrian Kreutz (Oxford) video
Pascal Brixel (Clemson) video
Kevin Anderson (UCSB) video
Workshop
Marx and Engels, The Holy Family
20 February 2021, online
- Introduction (Meade McCloughan)
- Alienation (Jan Kandiyali)
- Speculation (Eric-John Russell)
- ‘The Jewish Question’ (Igor Shoikhedbrod)
- Materialism (Rebecca Carson)
2020
Seminar
Species-being
8th February 2020, University College London Institute of Education
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- Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities)
Gattungswesen and Universality - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Species-Consciousness and Species-Activity (paper)
- Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities)
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2019
Sixteenth Annual Conference 2019
The legacy of Georg Lukács
15th June 2019, University College London Institute of Education
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- Michael J. Thompson (William Paterson University)
Georg Lukács, Critical Social Ontology and the Renewal of Marxian Philosophy - Konstantinos Kavoulakos (University of Crete)
What is Reification in Georg Lukács’s early Marxist Work? - Agnes Heller (Eötvös Loránd University)
Cooments on Lukacs - Sebastian Sanchez-Schilling
Foot or Lukács? The foundation of ethics - Eleonora Antonakaki Giannisi
Contemplative Stance or Blasé Attitude? Simmel as an interlocutor in Lukács’s work on reification - Richard Donnelly
Reconsidering the Blum Theses: Totalitarianism and the
degeneration of bourgeois culture in Lukács’s revolutionary middle period
- Michael J. Thompson (William Paterson University)
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Symposium
Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing (2018)
19th January 2019
Speakers:
Paul Blackledge, Meade McCloughan, David McLellan
And panel debate with Andrew Chitty, Jan Kandiyali, Sean Sayers
2018
Fifteenth Annual Conference 2018
Capital and capitalism
9th June 2018, University College London Institute of Education
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- Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Marx’s Concept of Capital and the Illusion of the Economic - Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich):
Whose Labour Theory of Value is it anyway? On the Classics, Marx, and the Interpretative Hegemony of Value Form Theory - Alfredo Saad Filho (SOAS)
Reading Capital in the 21st Century - Sara Farah (University of Minnesota)
Political Economy as Theology: Re-examining Marx’s theory of alienation - Andres Saenz De Sicilia (University of Roehampton)
Capital and Capitalism: Production, Reproduction and Subsumption - Alexis Ioannides (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)
Method and Critique in Marx’s Capital
- Patrick Murray (Creighton)
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2017
Fourteenth Annual Conference 2017
Marx and the concept of labour
24th June 2017, University College London Institute of Education
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- Mike Neary (Lincoln)
Critical Theory as a Critique of Labour, Featuring Academic Work; or, How do Revolutionary Teachers Teach? - Sara Farris (Goldsmiths)
A Marxist-Feminist Approach to the Theory of the Reserve Army of Labour - Anselm Jappe (Sassari)
Marx and the ‘Two-fold Nature’ of Labour: The ‘Pivot’ of his Critique of Capitalism - Alastair Hemmens (Cardiff)
Labour, a ‘Rational Abstraction’? Robert Kurz’s Substance of Capital and Resolving the Labour Aporia in Marx - Sean Winkler (Leuven)
The Hessen-Grossmann-Lukács Thesis: A Marxist Study of the Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy - Michael Lazarus (Monash)
The Standpoint of Labour and Marx’s Method
- Mike Neary (Lincoln)
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Workshop: The Critique of Capital and the Critique of Labour
Led by Werner Bonefeld (York)
25 February 2017, University College London Institute of Education
2016
Thirteenth Annual Conference 2016
Hegel and Marx
Held jointly with the Hegel Society of Great Britain
1-2 September 2016, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Hegel and Marx on Human Solidarity - Eva Bockenheimer (Siegen)
‘Hegel and Marx on Family and Gender Relations - Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia)
Hegel and Marx on the Demands of ‘Spiritual Life - Rocío Zambrana (Oregon)
Critique in Hegel and Marx - Tim Carter (Sussex)
Property and Agency in Marx’s Notes on James Mill - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Re-Hegelianising Marx on the Subject of Right - David James (Warwick)
The Abstract Self and State Idealism: Hegel and Marx on the Necessity of the Reign of Terror
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Seminar: The Early Marx and Republicanism
11 June 2016, Institute of Philosophy, London
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- Bruno Leipold (Oxford)
‘Democracy is the Solved Riddle of All Constitutions’: Marx’s Early Republicanism and his Shift to Socialism, 1843-44 (.mov audio recording) - Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)
Marx’s Early Republicanism: A Reply to Leipold (.mov audio recording)
- Bruno Leipold (Oxford)
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2015
Twelfth Annnual Conference 2015
Marx and utopia
13 June 2015, University College London Institute of Education
Conference abstracts
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- Lea Ypi (LSE)
Revolutionary Partisanship - David Leopold (Oxford)
Marx’s Critique of Utopia - Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway)
Marx, Marxism and Utopia - Paul Raekstad (Cambridge)
Marx’s Realism, Utopianism, and the Role of Vision - Owen Holland (Cambridge)
Utopia and the Suspension of the Political - Sina Talachian (Amsterdam)
Between Universalism and Particularism: The Later Marx’s Conception of Reformism - Emily Cousens (Oxford Brookes)
Marx’s Contribution to Feminist Thought - Dimitri Kladiskakis (Sussex)
Marx and Heidegger: Social Ontology and the Object - Chris Ferguson (Sussex)
Collective Alienation in Marx’s early work
- Lea Ypi (LSE)
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Workshop on Marx’s ‘1857 Introduction’ to the Grundrisse
21 February 2015, London Knowledge Lab
Tom Bunyard (Goldsmiths), Tim Carter (Sussex)
English and German dual text: PDF Word
2014
Eleventh Annual conference
Marx, Reification and Recognition
14 June 2014, Senate House, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Heikki Ikäheimo (New South Wales)
From the Hegel to Marx and Back: Two Sketches of an Ontology of the Human Life Form - Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Brunswick)
Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Theory of Recognition as a Person - Douglas Moggach (Ottawa)
Perfectionism and Recognition: Leibniz, Wolff, Marx - Hannes Kuch (Stockholm)
A Hegelian Reading of Marx’s Concept of Recognition - Valentinos Kontoyiannis (Sussex)
Marx and Mauss contra Habermas: Reification and Recognition in Production and Exchange (pdf) - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Marx and the Struggle for Human Emancipation: What’s Recognition Got to Do with It?
- Heikki Ikäheimo (New South Wales)
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Mind Association and the Institute of Philosophy for this conference
Workshop on Karl Marx and Moses Hess on Money
8 February 2014, London Knowledge Lab
Meade McCloughan and Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Parallel English-German text of Hess’s ‘The Essence of Money’ (1843) (pdf).
2013
Tenth Annual Conference
Marxism and Liberalism
15 June 2013, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Jeffrey Reiman (American University, Washington DC)
Marxian Liberalism - Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marx as a Critic of Liberalism - Christine Sypnowich (Queen’s, Ontario)
Liberalism, Marxism, Equality and Living Well - Igor Shoikhedbrod (Toronto)
Karl Marx’s Radical Critique of Liberalism and the Future of Right - Dan Swain (Essex)
Justice as Fetish (also available here) - Andrew Drever (Edinburgh)
The Necessity of Normativity in Marxism
- Jeffrey Reiman (American University, Washington DC)
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2012
Ninth annual conference
Marx and Hegel
2 June 2012, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Recognition and Property in Hegel and the Early Marx - Emmanuel Renault (Lyon)
The Early Marx and Hegel: The Young-Hegelian Mediation - Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia)
Marx and Hegel on the Value of ‘Bourgeois’ Ideals - Herbert De Vriese (Antwerp)
Breaking the Idealistic Spell: Marx’s Farewell to the Hegelian Ideal of Presuppositionless Thinking - Bue Rübner Hansen (Queen Mary)
Hegel, Marx, and Singular Times - Jacob Blumenfeld (New School for Social Research)
The Method and Object of Capital - Christopher Joonho Ro (Princeton)
Capital as Collective Product: Mutual Interaction in Marx’s Idea of Alienation - David Marjoribanks (Kent)
Universality and Particularity in the Political Philosophies of Hegel and Marx - Jan Kandiyali (Sheffield)
Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Account of Communism
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Symposium on Sean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (2011)
4 February 2012
2011
Eighth Annual Conference
Marx and Aristotle
4 June 2011, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- Jon Pike (Open University)
‘From Each According to Their Ability …’: Marx, Demandingness and Neo-Aristotelianism - Jan Kandiyali (Sheffield)
Karl Marx and the Abolition of Social Roles - Yannig Luthra (UCLA)
A Puzzle about Production and Self-Realization - Steve Thomas (KCL)
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Marxist Humanism - Daniel Burnfin (KU Leuven)
Aristotle, the Value-Form and Real Abstraction - Guido Schulz (Sussex)
Marx’s Distinction between the Fetish Character of the Commodity and Fetishism (pdf) - Andrew Davenport (Sussex)
Marxist International Relations and the Problem of the Political - Geoffrey Kay
Aristotle and the Labour-Process - Tony Burns (Nottingham)
Marx and Natural Law
- Jon Pike (Open University)
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Workshop on the Notes on James Mill
5 February 2011, The London Knowledge Lab
Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and Martin McIvor
English and German parallel text of the Notes on James Mill
2010
Seventh annual conference
Abstraction, Universality and Money
5 June 2010, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- 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 [downloadable mp3] - Christopher Arthur
Abstraction, Universality and Money
- Richard Seaford (Exeter)
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Symposium on Georg Lukács’s ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat’
6 February 2010, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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
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2009
Launch of Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
28 November 2009, Historical Materialism conference, Birkbeck College, London
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- Meade McCloughan
Changing the World? Marxism and the Point of Philosophy - Nick Gray (Sussex)
Geist Stories and the Struggle over Modernity
- Meade McCloughan
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Sixth annual conference
6 June 2009, Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts
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- 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
- Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne)
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2008
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
7 November 2008, SOAS, London
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- 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
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
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Joe McCarney memorial conference
25 October 2008, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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
- Kai Nielsen (Calgary)
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Fifth annual conference
Is there a Marxian Philosophy?
24 May 2008, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Timothy Hall (East London)
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2007
Afternoon seminar
23 February 2007, London Knowledge Lab
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- 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)
- Scott Meikle (Glasgow)
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Afternoon seminar
13 October 2007, London Knowledge Lab
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- Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
Analytical Marxism: A Critical Appraisal - Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Rudiments for a Political Philosophy of Socialism
- Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
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Fourth annual conference
The Justification of Socialism
19 May 2007, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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?
- Raj Sehgal (Roehampton)
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Afternoon seminar
17 February 2007, Royal Holloway, London
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- Meade McCloughan (UCL)
Marx and the Phenomenology of Spirit - Nina Power (Roehampton)
Marx, Feuerbach And Non-Philosophy
- Meade McCloughan (UCL)
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2006
Panel at Historical Materialism conference
10 December 2006, SOAS, London
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- 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
- Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
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Afternoon seminar
21 October 2006, Royal Holloway, London
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- 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
- James Furner (Sussex)
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Third annual conference
27 May 2006, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Bob Cannon (University of East London)
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Afternoon seminar
25 February 2006, Royal Holloway, London
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- Robert Fine (Warwick)
Marx, Hegel and Legal Philosophy - Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
The Kingdom of Ends and Species Being
- Robert Fine (Warwick)
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2005
Second annual conference
10 September 2005, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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
- Chris Arthur
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Afternoon seminar
28 May 2005
London School of Economics
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- 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
- Sean Sayers (Kent)
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Afternon seminar
5 March 2005, City University, London
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- William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality - John Grant (Queen Mary, University of London)
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Hegel
- William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
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2004
Afternoon seminar, ‘Marx and gender’
4 December 2004, London School of Economics
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- Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited - Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
Marx and Engels: Feminism/Gender/Masculinities
- Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
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Inaugural conference
29 May 2004, Institute of Education, University of London
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- 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)
- Andrew Collier (Southampton)