Historical MaterialismMELBOURNE

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Parco Cafe

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Trades Hall

MEETING ROOM ONE QUILT ROOM ARCHIVE ROOM9am-10:30am

SESSION 1 FREEDOM AND NATURE: HÄGGLUND, POSTONE, AND IMMANENT CRITIQUECHAIR: Emma Black

Marx’s Naturalism: On Self-Conscious Species Knowledge Mathew Abbott

Praxis, History, and Immanent Critique in the Marxism of Merleau-Ponty and HägglundConall Cash

MARXISM AND LITERATURE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURECHAIR: Michael Lazarus

Literature and/or Revolution: Leon Trotsky and Modernism Rory Dufficy

Sally Rooney, or a Marxist literature for our time Jesse Clifton

Utopian Futures in Recent Climate Fiction: MaddAddam, MAEVA! and New York 2140 Andrew Milner

DECOLONIAL THEORY AND PRACTICECHAIR: Daniel McLoughlin

Global Palestine: The Cuban ConnectionRobert Austin Henry

Māori Mārx: Some provisional materialsSimon Barber

10:45am-12:15am

SESSION 2FINANCIAL CRISIS AND POLITICAL ECONOMYCHAIR: Robert Boncardo

Building a comprehensive approach to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath by applying the concept of transitional crisis Artemisa Montes Sylvan Overaccumulation and Financial Instability in Canada Geoffrey McCormack

Social Necessity Bill Dunn

MARXISM AND POLITICAL STRATEGYCHAIR: Mathew Abbott

Poulantzas and Authoritarian Neoliberalism Daniel McLoughlin

When the going got tough the left … just left. William Briggs The Workers’ Government and the Strategic Legacy of the Comintern Simon Aplin

BORDERS AND PRISONSCHAIR: Robert Austin Henry

Economic Asylum: The Moral case for broadening the definition of Refugees Nathan Bell

Hydraulics and flood: rhetorics and realities of fluidity in Australian cities Lauren Piko

Prison abolition, contradiction and the justice system Ti Lamusse

HM Melbourne 7 Dec 2019 Saturday

10:30am-10:45am

BREAK

12:15am-1pm

LUNCH

Look out for NIBS and Trades Hall Workers’ Art Collective stalls

5pm-6:30pm

KEYNOTE

Martin HägglundThe Material Conditions of Spiritual FreedomCHAIR: Rory Dufficy

MEETING ROOM ONE QUILT ROOM ARCHIVE ROOM1pm-3pm

SESSION 3TABULA RASA AND TERRA NULLIUS CHAIR: Mathew Abbott

George VassilacopoulosTyson YunkaportaRoxley FoleyMercedes ZankerYoni Molad

TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE RIVAS AFFAIRCHAIR: Dino Varasso

Robert Austin HenryMónica LópezMaría Teresa Mardones

MATERIALISM AND THE DIALECTICCHAIR: Rory Dufficy

Totality is modern and it is material David Blencowe

Marxism versus Engelsism Lachlan Ross

Brother: We Are To Do Better Than That Reto Oechslin

3:15pm-4:45pm

SESSION 4CONTEMPORARY MARXIST PHILOSOPHYCHAIR: Daniel Lopez

The Theory of Justice in the Perspective of Historical Materialism Yanhui Bai

Public Interest and Community: Interpretation of Historical Materialism Ting Kong

Capital Logic and the ‘Community of Shared Future for Mankind’ Danfei Liu

CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS,LEFT AND RIGHTCHAIR: Rory Dufficy

Badiou and Rancière on the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ Robert Boncardo

Fascists in and out of uniform: making sense of street fascism in the broader context of white supremacy Anastasia Kanjere

Extinction Rebellion: A Moral Duty to Rebel / Ethics of Rebellion Desmonda Lawrence

3pm-3:15pm

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4:45pm-5pm

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HM Melbourne 7 Dec 2019 Saturday

MEETING ROOM ONE QUILT ROOM ARCHIVE ROOM9:30am-11am

SESSION 1 AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS [BOOK LAUNCH]CHAIR: Rory Dufficy

Essays in Cultural MaterialismAndrew Milner, James Burgmann

TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURECHAIR: Jesse Lambourn

Innovation, Science and Capital Shannon Walsh

The Future in Marx’s Grundrisse Vanessa Arapko

HEGEL AND PHILOSOPHYCHAIR: Mathew Abbott

What Marx drew from Hegel Peter Green

Art and AlientionMelanie Lazarow

What is the Significance of Contradiction? On Contemporary Dialectical Thought and its Theoretical Limitations Daniel Badenhorst

1:30pm-3:15pm

SESSION 3FEMINISM AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION THEORYCHAIR: Anastasia Kanjere

Housework and Value: Domestic Labour in Marxist analysis Alice Nilsson

Social Reproduction Theory and Abortion Rights in Australia Today Judith McVey

Reclaiming Virtual Social Spaces; A Study Indian Urban Working Women Anshita Sharma, Anurandha Banerjee

Feminism via media: understanding the origin and trajectory Sazzad Parwez

GREEN NEW DEAL AND ECOLOGYCHAIR: Mathew Abbott

The Climate Movement and a Green New Deal in Australia Dino Varasso

Class Power, Systemic Change, and the Green New Deal Paul Raekstad

Liquid Gold? The reconfiguration of social reproduction through Water Grabbing in Australia and IrelandMadeline Moore

GILLIAN ROSE: REASON AND DESPAIRCHAIR: Rory Dufficy

The Contemporary Relevance of Gillian Rose’s Concept of ‘The Broken Middle’ Suzie Gibson

Gillian Rose and the ‘Eternal Activity’ of Philosophy Jesse Lambourn

Gillian Rose and the Politics of Absolute Ethical Life Michael Lazarus

Gillian Rose and the Reformation of Marxism Daniel Lopez

HM Melbourne 8 Dec 2019 Sunday

11am-11:15am

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12:45pm-1:30pm

LUNCH

3:15pm-3:30pm

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11:15am-12:45pm

KEYNOTEJessica WhyteThe Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of NeoliberalismCHAIR: Mathew Abbott

MEETING ROOM ONE QUILT ROOM ARCHIVE ROOM3:30pm-5pm

SESSION 4PARTIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTSCHAIR: Robert Boncardo

Doing Without a Boss in the Twenty-First Century Verity Burgmann

Is your school revolting?’: high school radicalism in the Vietnam War era Tim Briedis

‘Was the Russian revolution a carrier pigeon revolution?’: Digital technology, communication and organisation in the Victorian Socialists electoral campaign Ian Anderson

NEOLIBERALISM, WORK AND RESISTANCECHAIR: Mercedes Zanker

Beyond failure in the face of fatalism and fetishism Nathalie Jacques

From the Bildungsroman to Privilege Checking: Historicizing Human Capital Paddy Gordon

Automation beyond Taylorism Tsvetlina Hristova

MARXISM AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY/THEORYCHAIR: Mathew Abbott

Franz Neumann, Monopoly Capitalism and Dictatorship, Today Matthew Sharpe

Metabolic Monstrosities: Gothic Marxism and Vampire Capital in the Anthropocene Gregory Marks

HM Melbourne 8 Dec 2019 Sunday

5:30pmBBQ SOCIAL

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