And we are done...

 

The 'Capital' Against Capitalism conference was a great success, 

and standing room only for the main plenary sessions. 

Thanks to everyone for attending, and those who assisted us to organise the day.

 We particularly want to thank the FBEU for use of their venue.

As we said at the conference yesterday, 

it was a pleasure to organise and we hope this is the first of many.

Jonathon and Elizabeth

 Bronislava Lee, Jean Parker and John Pardy.

 John Pardy, presenting his paper on working class schooling and education.

 The slightly overcrowded second room (during David Lockwood's talk on Marxism and bourgeois revolution, and Mark Steven's paper on the Marx Brothers and the strength of silliness in Marx).

Ben Reid, Humphrey McQueen, Rick Kuhn and Marcus Banks.

Dave Eden, Jonathon Collerson and Nicole Pepperell

Nicole Pepperell presenting work from her forthcoming book on Marx's Capital 

(Brill/Historical Materialism Book Series)

See you on Saturday...

Registrations for the conference have been flowing in, so if you have done registered yet please do so to ensure your place. Jonathon and I are looking forward to meeting everyone!

Conference packs will be available from 8.30am on the day, and the first session will begin promptly at 9am. Lunch and afternoon tea are provided (but please bring your own take away coffee or tea in the morning if you want one).

The conference is due to finish at 5.15pm, and will be followed by an informal discussion of the possibility of an official Historical Materialism Journal conference in Australia in 2012 (commencing at about 5.45pm). All attendees are welcome to be involved in this discussion.

See you soon.
Jonathon and Elizabeth

Register now.

Hi all.

Registrations are open. The ticketing works through a page supplied by Ticketbud, but payments are processed by Paypal. You just need to:

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2. select your tickets -$30 Full or $20 concession - and then be automatically forwarded to Paypal
   
3. pay securely with your credit card

There is limited space in our venue so don't wait.

Any questions about ticketing can go to jonathoncollerson@gmail.com

Kind regards,

Jonathon.

Final timetable released.

Here is the final timetable:

09:00	Welcome
09:15	Plenary 1: AUSTRALIAN LABORISM Speaker: Rick Kuhn, on his book, with Tom Bramble, Labor's Conflict: Big business, workers and the politics of class (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Respondents: Geoffrey Robinson and Tad Tietze
10:45	Morning Tea
11:00	MARXISM & THEOLOGY Roland Boer: ‘The Religion of Everyday Life’: Capital as Fetish Tamara Prosic: Orthodox Christian Theology and Social Change Remy Low: Religion and Revolutionary Praxis: Theologies of liberation in retrospect and prospect	READING CAPITAL Tom Barnes: From 'surplus populations' to informal labour: Is Capital relevant to class formation in the Global South? Paul Rubner: Deciphering the Dialectic in Marx’s Capital Mike Beggs: Zombie Marx and modern economics
12:30	Lunch
01:15	SOCIAL CHANGE Jean Parker: The Marxist Political Economy of Neoliberalism John Pardy: Patterns of schooling in Australia: Toward a historically materialist explanation.	TALKING REVOLUTION Mark Steven: The Silliest Insurrection: On Marxism and the Marx Brothers David Lockwood: Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution
02:15	MARXISM & LAW Jess Whyte: Leaving the ‘Eden of the innate rights of man’: Marx’s Critique of Rights Richard Bailey: Strategy, rupture, rights: law and resistance in Australian immigration detention David McInerney: To read and speak the law: Althusser on Montesquieu	ACCUMULATION OF VALUE Marcus Banks: How does workfare produce value? Humphrey McQueen: Labour time Ben Reid: Is there Australian Exceptionalism? Scenarios for capital accumulation and crises after the second great contraction
03.45	Afternoon Tea
04.15	Plenary 2 MARX'S CAPITAL Speaker: Nicole Pepperell on the key ides of her PhD thesis and forthcoming book Disassembling Capital (Brill/Historical Materialism Book Series 2011) Respondent: Dave Eden
05:15	Wrap Up

Registration open

Conference registration is now open. The cost is $30 full and $20 concession.

Registration includes lunch.

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Provisional Timetable

SATURDAY JUNE 25 - CENTRAL SYDNEY

9.00 – 9.15
Welcome

9.15 – 10.45
Plenary 1 – AUSTRALIAN LABORISM
Speaker: Rick Kuhn, on his book, with Tom Bramble, Labor's Conflict: Big business, workers and the politics of class (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Respondents: Geoffrey Robinson and Tad Tietze

10.45 – 11.00
Short morning tea

11 – 12.30
Workshop 1A – MARXISM AND THEOLOGY
Roland Boer: ‘The Religion of Everyday Life’: Capital as Fetish
Tamara Prosic: Orthodox Christian Theology and Social Change
Remy Low: Religion and Revolutionary Praxis: Theologies of liberation in retrospect and prospect

Workshop 1B – READING CAPITAL IN OUR OWN TIME
Tom Barnes: From 'surplus populations' to informal labour: Is Capital relevant to class formation in the Global South?
Paul Rubner: Deciphering the Dialectic in Marx’s Capital
Mike Beggs: Zombie Marx and modern economics

12.30 – 1.15
Lunch

1.15 – 2.15
Workshop 2A – SOCIAL CHANGE
Jess Gerrard: Hegemony, Class and Culture
John Pardy: Patterns of schooling in Australia: Toward a historically materialist explanation.

Workshop 2B – TALKING REVOLUTION
Mark Steven: The Silliest Insurrection: On Marxism and the Marx Brothers
David Lockwood: Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution

2.15 – 3.45
Workshop 3A – MARXISM AND LAW
Jess Whyte: Leaving the ‘Eden of the innate rights of man’: Marx’s Critique of Rights
Richard Bailey: Strategy, rupture, rights: law and resistance in Australian immigration detention
David McInerney: To read and speak the law: Althusser on Montesquieu

Workshop 3B – ACCUMULATION OF VALUE
Marcus Banks: How does workfare produce value?
Humphrey McQueen: Labour time
Ben Reid: Is there Australian Exceptionalism? Scenarios for capital accumulation and crises after the second great contraction

3.45 – 4.15
Afternoon tea

4.15 – 5.15
Plenary 2 – MARX'S CAPITAL
Speaker: Nicole Pepperell on the key ides of her PhD thesis and forthcoming book on Marx's Capital (Brill/Historical Materialism Book Series 2011)
Respondent: Dave Eden

5.15 – 5.30
Wrap Up