Monday, May 16, 2011

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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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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

Monday, May 2, 2011

Registration open

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

Registration includes lunch.

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