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 |
