Conference Timetable

Conference Timetable Friday 7th April

Time

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

3 – 6pm

Registration





6:30 – 7pm

Conference Welcome





7:30 – 9pm

Dinner






Conference Timetable Saturday 8th April

Time

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

9:30 – 11am

Resistance from Below I

Neoliberalism and Empire I

Critical Realism and Marxism

a. Edward Conlon, Dublin Institute of Technology

‘Ireland: Mobilising against social partnership’

a. Alison Ayers University of Southampton

‘Imperial Liberties: Democratisation and Governance in the Post-Colonial Imperial Order’

a. Jamie Morgan and Peter Nielson, Lancaster University and Roskilde University

‘Ben Fine on critical realism: from mainstream economics to the boundaries of Marxism’

b.Andy Mayers & Graham Taylor, University of West of England, Bristol

‘Evaluating the Prospects for the Development of ‘Community

Unionism’ in the UK’

b. Natasha Mueller Hirth, Goldsmiths College, University of London

‘An African solution to an African problem? Information technology, development and the indigenous NGO’

b. Andrew Brown, University of Leeds

‘A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value’

c. Simon Black, York University, Toronto

‘Community Unionism: towards a new culture of organising, solidarity and resistance in the neo-liberal era?’

c. Richard McIntrye & Michael Hallard

‘One Big Multitude? Empire and Marxist Industrial Relations

Theory and Practice’


c. John Roberts, Brunel University

‘Critical realism and method’





11 – 11:30am

Coffee Break








11:30 – 1pm

Resistance from Below II

Political Economy

Socialist Register I: US and UK states and Emergent Empire

a. Dsame, Associate Director of Institute of Pamela, US

‘Anti-Capitalism and Globalisation’

a. Seongjun Jeong, Gyeongsang University, S Korea

‘Globalisation and value theory’

a. Paul Rogers, Peace Studies, Bradford

‘A war too far? Iraq and the new American Century’

b. E Okafr, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

(Globalisation and organised labour resistance in Nigeria)

b. Nick Potts, Southampton Solent University

‘Rentiers and the end of the golden age: a sequential and non-dualistic value-theoretic view’

b. Peter Gowan, London Metropolitan University,

‘The Bid for a New World Order based on American Primacy: An interim assessment’

c. Evren Tok, Carleton University, Canada

(“Cultures” of informalities in Istanbul (Constantinople): Resisting and reshaping neo-liberalism in developing countries)

c. Henry Van Maasakker, Netherlands

‘Keynes, Marx, monopoly capitalism and crisis’

c. Colin Leys, co-editor, Socialist Register

‘The cynical state’





1 – 2pm

Lunch






Conference Timetable Saturday 8th April

Time

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

2 – 3pm

CSE AGM





3 – 3:30pm

Coffee Break





3:30 – 5pm

Debating Marxism

Political Economy of Neoliberalism I

Socialist Register II: Latin America & The US Empire

a. Funda Hulagu, Middle East Technical University

‘Open Marxism: a critico-utopian stance?’

a. Maria Caporale & Jose Goncalves, Unicamp, Brazil

(Economic crises and international order: beyond price and market stability)

a. Paul Cammack, Manchester Metropolitan University

( The new fact of imperialism in Latin America)

b. Fabien Tarrit, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

‘Social classes and Analytical Marxism: an attempt to answer the structural transformations of capitalism’

b. Carlos Jesús Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Managerial Discourses and Capitalism: the Road to new forms of Discipline in the age of the Empire).

b. Doug Stokes, City University

‘The dual logics of US oil primary’

c. Joo Hyong Ji, Lancaster University

‘State Theory in the Era of Globalisation’

c. Ozlem Tezcek & Fuat Ercam, Marmara University, Turkey

‘Understanding Turkey‚s Knowledge Elites Through Class Theories’

Discussant: Sara Motta ( LSE)





5 – 6pm

Plenary Session: Ray Kiely- Globalisation and Empire





7:30 – 9pm

Dinner






Conference Timetable Sunday 9th April

Time

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

10 – 11am

Plenary Session: Werner Bonefield





11 – 11:30am

Coffee Break





11:30 – 1pm

Resistance from Below III

Political Theory and Empire

Political Economy of Neoliberalism II

a. Sara Motta, LSE/CSE

‘Hegemony and resistance in Argentina’

a. Kevin Young, LSE

‘Notions of “Social Capital” and their contradictions in the existing neoliberal framework’

a. Les Levidov, Open University

‘European blockage of agribiotech and alternative futures’

b. Jordon Camp, University of California Santa Barbara

‘Zapatismo and autonomous social movements: reading the communiqué politically’

b. Manjeet Ramgotra, LSE

‘Republicanism and Empire’

b. Richard McIntrye

‘New Factory Inspectors; think locally, act globally’

c. Trevor Bark

‘The practices of Autonomy and Class composition’

c. Nick Potts Southampton Solent University

‘The relevance of Marx ‘


c. Pinar Bedirhano, Kurad Erturul, Ahmet Dikmen, Middle East Technical University and Ankara University

‘The New configuration of power in Turkish Economic Management’





1 – 2:30pm

Neoliberalism and Empire II

Neoliberalism and the European Union

Resistance from Below IV

a. Ben Reid, University of Bath

‘Neo-liberalism and political impasse in the Philippines: Hegemony, empire and crisis’


a. Christoph Hermann, University of Vienna

‘Neoliberalism and resistance in the EU’

a. Francisco Dominguez, Middlesex University

‘The Bolivian Transformation of the Venezuelan State’

b. David & Yassamine Mather

‘Car Workers in Iran; exploitation and conflict’

b. Michael Fleming

‘The 2005 Polish Elections: the geography of abstention’

b. Mario Novelli

‘Resistance in Colombia’

c. Evron Tok Carleton University, Canada

‘Social Cohesion and the IMF: recompositions and boundaries of “new state spaces” in the neo-liberal globalisation era’

c. Chris Ford

‘Ukraine's Orange Revolution and the Quest for Universal Liberation’

c. TBA


 
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