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Conference Timetable
Conference Timetable Friday 7th April
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Time
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Session 1
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Session 2
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Session 3
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3 – 6pm
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Registration
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6:30 – 7pm
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Conference Welcome
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7:30 – 9pm
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Dinner
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Conference Timetable Saturday 8th April
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Time
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Session 1
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Session 2
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Session 3
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9:30 – 11am
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Resistance from Below I
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Neoliberalism and
Empire I
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Critical Realism
and Marxism
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a.
Edward Conlon, Dublin Institute of Technology
‘Ireland: Mobilising against
social partnership’
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Alison Ayers University of Southampton
‘Imperial Liberties:
Democratisation and Governance in the Post-Colonial Imperial
Order’
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a.
Jamie Morgan and Peter Nielson, Lancaster University and Roskilde
University
‘Ben Fine on critical
realism: from mainstream economics to the boundaries of Marxism’
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b.Andy
Mayers & Graham Taylor, University of West of England, Bristol
‘Evaluating
the Prospects for the Development of ‘Community
Unionism’ in the UK’
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b.
Natasha Mueller Hirth, Goldsmiths College, University of London
‘An African solution to an
African problem? Information technology, development and the indigenous NGO’
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b.
Andrew Brown, University of Leeds
‘A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value’
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c.
Simon Black, York University, Toronto
‘Community Unionism: towards
a new culture of organising, solidarity and resistance in the
neo-liberal era?’
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c.
Richard McIntrye & Michael Hallard
‘One
Big Multitude? Empire and Marxist Industrial Relations
Theory
and Practice’
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c. John
Roberts, Brunel University
‘Critical realism and
method’
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11 – 11:30am
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Coffee
Break
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11:30 – 1pm
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Resistance from
Below II
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Political Economy
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Socialist Register
I: US and UK states and Emergent Empire
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a.
Dsame, Associate Director of Institute of Pamela, US
‘Anti-Capitalism and
Globalisation’
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Seongjun Jeong, Gyeongsang University, S Korea
‘Globalisation and value
theory’
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a. Paul
Rogers, Peace Studies, Bradford
‘A war too far? Iraq and the
new American Century’
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b. E
Okafr, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
(Globalisation and organised
labour resistance in Nigeria)
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b. Nick
Potts, Southampton Solent University
‘Rentiers and the end of the
golden age: a sequential and non-dualistic value-theoretic view’
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b.
Peter Gowan, London Metropolitan University,
‘The Bid for a New World
Order based on American Primacy: An interim assessment’
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c.
Evren Tok, Carleton University, Canada
(“Cultures” of
informalities in Istanbul (Constantinople): Resisting and
reshaping neo-liberalism in developing countries)
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c.
Henry Van Maasakker, Netherlands
‘Keynes, Marx, monopoly
capitalism and crisis’
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c.
Colin Leys, co-editor, Socialist Register
‘The cynical state’
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1 – 2pm
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Lunch
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Conference Timetable Saturday 8th April
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Time
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Session 1
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Session 2
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Session 3
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2 – 3pm
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CSE AGM
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3 – 3:30pm
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Coffee Break
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3:30 – 5pm
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Debating Marxism
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Political Economy
of Neoliberalism I
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Socialist Register
II: Latin America & The US Empire
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a.
Funda Hulagu, Middle East Technical University
‘Open Marxism: a
critico-utopian stance?’
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Maria Caporale & Jose
Goncalves, Unicamp, Brazil
(Economic crises and international
order: beyond price and market stability)
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a. Paul
Cammack, Manchester Metropolitan University
( The new fact of imperialism in
Latin America)
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b.
Fabien Tarrit, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
‘Social classes and
Analytical Marxism: an attempt to answer the structural
transformations of capitalism’
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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).
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b. Doug
Stokes, City University
‘The dual logics of US oil
primary’
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c. Joo
Hyong Ji, Lancaster University
‘State Theory in the Era of
Globalisation’
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c.
Ozlem Tezcek & Fuat Ercam, Marmara University, Turkey
‘Understanding
Turkey‚s Knowledge Elites Through Class Theories’
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Discussant: Sara Motta ( LSE)
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5 – 6pm
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Plenary Session: Ray Kiely- Globalisation and Empire
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7:30 – 9pm
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Dinner
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Conference Timetable Sunday 9th April
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Time
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Session 1
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Session 2
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Session 3
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10 – 11am
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Plenary Session: Werner Bonefield
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11 – 11:30am
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Coffee
Break
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11:30 – 1pm
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Resistance from
Below III
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Political Theory
and Empire
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Political Economy
of Neoliberalism II
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a. Sara
Motta, LSE/CSE
‘Hegemony and resistance in Argentina’
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Kevin Young, LSE
‘Notions of “Social Capital” and their contradictions in the existing neoliberal
framework’
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a. Les
Levidov, Open University
‘European blockage of agribiotech and alternative futures’
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b.
Jordon Camp, University of California Santa Barbara
‘Zapatismo and autonomous
social movements: reading the communiqué politically’
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b.
Manjeet Ramgotra, LSE
‘Republicanism and Empire’
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b.
Richard McIntrye
‘New Factory Inspectors;
think locally, act globally’
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c.
Trevor Bark
‘The practices of Autonomy
and Class composition’
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c. Nick
Potts Southampton Solent University
‘The
relevance of Marx ‘
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c.
Pinar Bedirhano, Kurad Erturul, Ahmet Dikmen, Middle East
Technical University and Ankara University
‘The New configuration of
power in Turkish Economic Management’
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1 – 2:30pm
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Neoliberalism and Empire II
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Neoliberalism and the European Union
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Resistance from Below IV
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a. Ben
Reid, University of Bath
‘Neo-liberalism
and political impasse in the Philippines: Hegemony, empire and crisis’
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Christoph Hermann, University of Vienna
‘Neoliberalism and resistance in the EU’
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Francisco Dominguez, Middlesex University
‘The Bolivian Transformation of the Venezuelan State’
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b.
David & Yassamine Mather
‘Car Workers in Iran; exploitation and conflict’
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b.
Michael Fleming
‘The 2005 Polish Elections: the geography of abstention’
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b.
Mario Novelli
‘Resistance in Colombia’
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c.
Evron Tok Carleton University, Canada
‘Social Cohesion and the
IMF: recompositions and boundaries of “new state spaces”
in the neo-liberal globalisation era’
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c.
Chris Ford
‘Ukraine's Orange Revolution
and the Quest for Universal Liberation’
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c. TBA
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