
Karl Marx
DELHI HISTORICAL MATERIALISM CONFERENCE 2013: UPDATE
The organisers of the Delhi HM Conference (3-5 April 2013) are appealing to supporters and readers of HM for contributions towards the airfares of 2 speakers from abroad whom we’ve got down for our plenary sessions. The rough target is 1200 pounds in total.
Any donations, however small, would be most welcome! http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/delhifunds
Please also note that the conference venue has now been shifted to the Convention Centre in JNU. There is an extra conference day as well, 5th April.
Here’s a small sample of what’s on offer from a total of 48 sessions and 3 plenaries:
* Alberto Toscano and Matteo Mandarini,‘The Communist intellectual: Lessons from some Italian debates’;
* Andreas Merkens, ‘Counterhegemony, political education & pedagogy in Antonio Gramsci’;
* João Arsénio Nunes, ‘The revolutionary thought of Alvaro Cunhal’;
* Jeff Goodwin, ‘How kings survived the Arab spring’;
* Gilbert Achcar on the Arab uprising & its aftermath;
* Ajit Zacharias on domestic labor, value of labor-power and poverty;
* Pranav Jani and Nivedita Majumdar on postcolonial theory;
* Teesta Setalvad and Harsh Mander on Gujarat ten years after the genocide;
* Apoorvanand, Ishwar Singh Dost, Kumar Rana and Kamal Chenoy on the crisis of the Indian left;
* Brinda Bose on ‘Queer matriarchies’;
* Jean Dreze on ‘Anarchist thought & the future of the Left’;
* Moinak Biswas on ‘The political film in crisis’;
* Javed Anand on the Muslim Right in India & Pakistan;
* Saroj Giri on Maoists in Nepal;
* A LeftWord Books panel on ‘Communist histories’;
* Soma Marik on Rosa Luxemburg & the party;
* Uday Chandra on the ‘State, popular resistance & “democracy” in the forests of eastern India’;
And loads more including the launch of Vivek Chibber’s new book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital; films by Kluge and others; books…
Submissions Update: https://rikowski.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/historical-materialism-conference-in-delhi-submissions-update/
First published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/delhi-historical-materialism-conference-3-5-april-2013
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