'Capital' Against Capitalism
Sunday, June 26, 2011
And we are done...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
See you on Saturday...
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
Monday, May 16, 2011
Register now.
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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- select your tickets -$30 Full or $20 concession - and then be automatically forwarded to Paypal
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Any questions about ticketing can go to jonathoncollerson@gmail.com
Kind regards,
Jonathon.
Final timetable released.
09:00 | Welcome | |
09:15 | Plenary 1: AUSTRALIAN LABORISM Respondents: Geoffrey Robinson and Tad Tietze | |
10:45 | Morning Tea | |
11:00 | MARXISM & THEOLOGY | READING CAPITAL |
12:30 | Lunch | |
01:15 | SOCIAL CHANGE | TALKING REVOLUTION |
02:15 | MARXISM & LAW | ACCUMULATION OF VALUE |
03.45 | Afternoon Tea | |
04.15 | Plenary 2 MARX'S CAPITAL | |
05:15 | Wrap Up |
Monday, May 2, 2011
Registration open
Registration includes lunch.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Provisional Timetable
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