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Sixth annual conference, 6 June 2009
Institute of Education, University of London
Conference abstracts

Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne)
Beyond Telos and Totality: Immanent Critique as Selective Inheritance
outline

Jeremy Cohan (NYU)
What Marx Really Thought about Class

David Marjoribanks (Kent)
Marxism and Morality: Out of the 'Moral Wilderness'?'

Caleb Basnett (York University, Toronto)
Re-inventing the Subject: Marx and Ethics

Geoffrey Kay
Derivatives: 'Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties'

Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario)
Twenty-First Century Species-Being

Panel at Historical Materialism conference, 7 November 2008
SOAS, London

Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism

Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
The Uniqueness of Capitalism and the Normative Content of a Socialist Political Philosophy

Nicholas Joll (Essex)
The Normativity Problem in Critical Theory: Adorno, Bernstein, Freyenhagen

Joe McCarney memorial conference, 25 October 2008

London Knowledge Lab

Kai Nielsen (Calgary)
Towards an Emancipatory Social Science

David MacGregor (Toronto)
The Problem of Evil

John Clegg (New School for Social Research)
Rereading Marx on Ideology

Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Can there be an Ethical Critique of Capitalism?

Chris Arthur
Critique and Contradiction

Fifth annual conference, 24 May 2008
Is there a Marxian Philosophy?
Institute of Education, University of London

Timothy Hall (East London)
The Metacritique of Philosophy: Marx, Lukács and Adorno [pdf]

Silvia de Bianchi (Rome)
The Critique of Philosophy and the Practical Ground: Reflections on a Marxian Approach [pdf]

Simon Skempton (Middlesex)
Marx's Philosophy of Infinite Determinability

Amy Wendling (Creighton)
The Strife between Technology and Capital: Machines in the Communist Future

Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser)
Marxis and the Critique of Social Rationality: From Surplus Value to Technology Studies

Afternoon seminar, 23 February 2007
London Knowledge Lab

Scott Meikle (Glasgow)
Marx's Two Theories of Value

Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and David Leopold (Oxford)
Symposium on David Leopold's The Young Karl Marx (CUP, 2007)

Afternoon seminar, 13 October 2007
London Knowledge Lab

Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London)
Analytical Marxism: A Critical Appraisal [pdf]

Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Rudiments for a Political Philosophy of Socialism

Fourth annual conference, 19 May 2007
The Justification of Socialism
Institute of Education, University of London

Raj Sehgal (Roehampton)
Karl Marx's Scientific Socialism: A Defence

Gabriel Wollner (Oxford)
On the Purpose of Philosophy – A Defence of Marx's 'Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right' [pdf]

Charlotte Daub (Sussex)
A Hegel-Marx Debate about the Relation of the Individual and Society

Simon Choat (Queen Mary University of London)
Socialism without Idealism and without Justification: Marx via Late-Twentieth Century French Philosophy

Norman Geras (Manchester)
How is Socialism to be Justified?

Alex Callinicos (Kings College London)
How Big is Marxism's Moral Deficit?

Afternoon seminar, 17 February 2007
Royal Holloway, London

Meade McCloughan (UCL)
Marx and the Phenomenology of Spirit

Nina Power (Roehampton)
Marx, Feuerbach And Non-Philosophy

Panel at Historical Materialism conference, 10 December 2006
SOAS, London

Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Species Being and Capital

Martin McIvor
Marx as a Post-Kantian
Background papers:

Marx and German Philosophy Revisited
Marx's Modernism: Outline of a Defence

Sean Sayers (Kent)
Labour in 'Post-Industrial' Society

Frieder Otto Wolff
Materialist Dialectics

Afternoon seminar, 21 October 2006
Royal Holloway, London

James Furner (Sussex)
Marx's Account of the State from the German Ideology to the Eighteenth Brumaire

Andy Denis (City University, London)
Organicism in the Early Marx: Marx and Hegel on the State as an Organism

Third annual conference, 27 May 2006
Institute of Education, University of London

Bob Cannon (University of East London)
Capitalism, Fetishism and Modernity

Drew Milne (Cambridge)
Michel Henry's Marx

Mark Neocleous (Brunel)
The Politics of redemption: Marxism, National Socialism, and the Dead

Afternoon seminar, 25 February 2006
Royal Holloway, London

Robert Fine (Warwick)
Marx, Hegel and Legal Philosophy

Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
The Kingdom of Ends and Species Being

Second annual conference, 10 September 2005
Institute of Education, University of London

Chris Arthur
Capital and Logic

Patrick Murray (Creighton)
Value, Money, and Capital in Hegel and Marx

Scott Meikle (Gasgow)
The Composition of Marx's Reaction to Economic Thought

Moishe Postone (Chicago)
The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel

Afternoon seminar, 28 May 2005
London School of Economics

Sean Sayers (Kent)
Marx's Concept of Labour

Georgios Daremas (Indianapolis Athens)
Marx's Theory of Democracy in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the State

Afternon seminar, 5 March 2005
City University, London

William Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality

John Grant (Queen Mary, University of London)
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Hegel

Afternoon seminar, 'Marx and gender', 4 December 2004
London School of Economics

Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited

Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
Marx and Engels: Feminism/Gender/Masculinities

Inaugural conference, 29 May 2004
Institute of Education, University of London

Andrew Collier (Southampton)
Marx and Conservatism
Respondent: David McLellan (Goldsmiths)

Martin McIvor (London School of Economics)
The State of the Understanding: Politics and Epistemology in Marx's Earliest Writings
Respondent: Lawrence Wilde (Nottingham Trent)

David Harvey (City University of New York)
Space as a Key Word (with Overhead)
Respondent: Andrew Chitty (Sussex)