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RETHINKING CRISIS, RESISTANCE AND STRATEGY 1st Historical Materialism Athens Conference 2 - 5 May, 2019 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences PROGRAMME Historical Meterialism Athens 2019 is organized in cooperation with the department of Social Policy, Panteion University, and with the support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Athens

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RETHINKING CRISIS, RESISTANCE AND STRATEGY

1st Historical Materialism Athens Conference

2 - 5 May, 2019

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

PROGRAMME

Historical Meterialism Athens 2019 is organized in cooperation with the department of Social Policy, Panteion University, and with the support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Athens

A: THURSDAY, MAY 2 / 12:45 - 14:30 3

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Marxism and philosophy stream

Frank Engster

Lukács' existentialism. The three formula of a revolution:

Classical Marxism, Lenin and Lukács Sami Khatib

The return of the repressed: “Primitive accumulation” and

capitalist temporalities

Arturo Zoffmann

Rodriguez

The shadow of October in the heat of July: the memory of

the Russian Revolution in the anarchist “debate on power”,

Spain 1936

Konstantinos

Kavoulakos Crisis and praxis in Lukács’s Marxism of the 1920s Łukasz Moll

From communal turn in late Marx to new communism of

the commons Evangelos Karatzis

From the combat party to the art of insurrection: The

Bolshevik strategy reexamined

Patrick Eiden-Offe

Towards a biography of the problem of organisation:

Friends – party – disciples Gabriel Klimont

The XVIII century vagrancy crisis in Poland? Discussing

primitive accumulation on the peripheries Florian Wilde

Revolution as Realpolitik: Ernst Meyer and the origins of the

united front strategy of the KPD

Chair: Kostas Gousis Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

B3 B5 C1BOOK LAUNCH

Laura Farah Feitoza

Identirary struggles and the need for a broader

understanding of the concept of class

Panagiotis Iliopoulos,

Ashok Kumar, Giorgos

Galanis

Labor positionality in GVCs: Power dynamics in a network

context

Maia Pal, Alexandros Alexandropoulos, and Grietje Baars (author)

Taygeti Michalakea

Corporate accountability in times of transition: the case of

Colombia Ashok Kumar

A dynamic logic to global value chain and workers

bargaining power

Guilherme Prado

Almeida de Souza

There's No Alternative: Growth and development as a poor

fate to Latin America? Muhammad Azeem

The quest for a post-colonial theory of labour law: Labour

conditions under Chinese investment in Pakistan

Beatriz Pereira dos

Santos

The erosion of labor rights under austerity and the new

configurations of collective representation in Brazil

Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros Chair: Jamie Woodcock Chair: George Souvlis

AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3Political and urban ecology stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Tonia Katerini

Overburdening and surrender of residence and small

property. The anti-auction movement and its relation to the

issue of private property Panagiotis Sotiris Learning from defeat: The open questions for left strategy

Antonios Tsiligiannis

A materialist approach to the urban crisis through the

commodification of housing in Athens, Greece Elias Ioakimoglou

Is there a pathway leading from crisis of capitalism to

resistance, revolt and hegemonic aspirations?

Giorgos Sykas, Kostas

Gourzis, Stellios Gialis

Drawing the links between historical-dialectical materialism,

spatial fixes, and gentrification Spyros Sakellaropoulos

The failure of the greek radical left and the theory of the

weakest link

Nikos Kourachanis

Social housing policies in crisis Greece and their social

impact Spyros Marchetos Oligarchy, expropriative accumulation, and the Left

Chair: Alkisti Prepi Chair: Olga Lafazani

Gentrification, commodification and the right to housing:

Struggles and threatsFrom defeat to strategy

Georg Lukács’s politics of de-reification I Discussing primitive accumulation and the commonsQuestions of strategy in the historical revolutionary

movement

The political economy of Latin American struggles Labour in the global value chain The corporation, law and capitalism, by Grietje Baars

B: THURSDAY, MAY 2 / 14:45 - 16:30 4

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Marxism and philosophy stream Migration/Refugee stream

Paul Reynolds Comradeship, left phlegmatism and care in radical politics

Despoina Paraskeva-

Veloudogianni

From law to norm heading to subjecti(vati)on: Althusser

and Foucault revisited

Shahrzad Mojab &

Genevieve Ritchi The ideology of democracy/dictatorship as youth migrate

Ioannis Alysandratos Marxist ethics. Time, reflection and morality Evelina Praino Everyday resistance: a break in the panoptic vision Dan Swain A Seventh Man and the politics of migrant labour

Dimitrios Krassas

The Red Prophet: A textual analysis of Rosa Luxemburg's

brochure "Socialism and the churches" Nikos Folinas Collaboration, discipline and freedom

Pablo Muyo &

Christina Gerantoni

Borders, police, neoliberalism – The formation of subjectivity

in the neoliberal state, the role of the police and significance

of borders

Birgul Yilmaz

Translanguaging and political economy in humanitarian

crises

Chair: Alexandros Chrysis Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: Olga Lafazani

Β1 Β3 Β5

Latife Akyuz

Academic freedom in Turkey. The experience of

Academics for Peace

Alexandros Minotakis &

Kostas Gousis The rise of far right and the weaponization of mass culture Daniela Chironi

Elements for reconsidering the concept of class in social

movement research

Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ The boundaries of academic freedom in neoliberal times Anita Zsurzsán

Claiming back the everyday: Fighting fascism through

culture and the arts Ghada Waked

The emergence of new social classes and the income

distribution in financialized capitalism

Melehat Kutun Politicised "academic" labour and political power Victor Strazzeri

For a politics of human emancipation: Rethinking politics

beyond alienation

Chair: George Souvlis Chair: Parastou Saberi Chair: Iraklis Mavridis

C1 AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3Marxist feminist stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream [Greek Association of Political Economy Table I]

Maurício Hashizume

Abyssal matrix: colonial and patriarchal coercions as part of

capitalist hegemony Alexis Cukier

What to do in Europe? The strategic debate on the EU

seen from France

Dimitris Groumpos &

George Economakis

Foreign direct investments: A theoretical challenge for

Marxist economics

Clarisse de Almeida

Left’s refoundation, protofascism and women: Entrenching

Brazilian resistance on the fight for the common

Spyros Skamnelos &

Vasilis Panagou

Separatist movements as an indicator of crisis in the

European intergration project: The case of Catalonia

Nikolaos Chatzarakis

& Persefoni Tsaliki

The dynamics of capital accumulation in Solow’s growth

model and Marx’s schemes of expanded reproduction

Somayeh Rostampour

The emergence of "local feminism" at the crossroads of

armed struggle (in Turkey)

Angelos Kondogiannis-

Mandros Euroscepticism in (post-)crisis Greece

Lefteris Tsoulfidis &

Dimitris Paitaridis

Capital intensity, unproductive, activities and the Great

Recession in the US economy

Chair: Penny Galani Chair: Alkisti Prepi Chair: Stavros Mavroudeas

Marxism and ethics Power, subject and resistance: Marx, Althusser, Foucault Governance, migration and consciousness

Struggling for academic freedom in times of oppressionThere is always an alternative: Rethinking culture and politics

to take on the far rightClasses in contemporary capitalism

Feminist strategy and the Left Perspectives on the EU crisis I Issues of contemporary political economy I

C: THURSDAY, MAY 2 / 17:00 - 18:45 5

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Marxism and philosophy stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Siamandouras Sotiris

Claude Lefort, reader of Gramsci. On an absence, in an

absence Ioannis Perperidis

Psychoanalysis and Marxism: Fromm and Marcuse’s

debate over the intermediation between basis and

superstructure Ioannis Dimopoulos Revolutionary subjectivity in a post-capitalist world

Marko Hočevar (Mis)readings of Gramsci? On ideology and hegemony Nejc Slukan

It's not really about recognition: A Marxist critique of

contemporary concepts of alienation Sebastian Fritsch

Reconsidering the organizational question as a question of

social theory

Michele Filippini Decentralize populism: Four critiques to Laclau Daniel LeBlanc Aesthetic ecology: the concept of nature in Adorno Amelia Horgan Ideology at work: the productivist ethos in post-work thought

Lila Leontidou

Reflections on Mediterranean geographies inspired from

Gramsci’s historical materialism

Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris Chair: Edon Qesari Chair: Kostas Gousis

B1 B3 B5Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Christos Mais &

Manolis Arkolakis

Class against class strategy or strategy without class: Party

and front building as a proletarian strategy for seizing

power Thibault Biscahie

Ideological crisis, radical centre and the European elections

in France Petros Kosmas The transformation of Cyprus to International offshore centre

Eric Schmidt On the question of semi-feudalism semi-colonialism today Loren Balhorn

Berlin is not (yet) Weimar: The federal republic in

protracted decline Eugenia Pires Generalised impoverishment in Portugal

Abhinav Sinha

Problems of revolutionary communist movement in India:

The question of program, strategy and general tactics Ioannis Gerasimos

Subaltern counterpublics: In quest of the fading coordinates

of democracy Leonidas Vatikiotis

In record levels the unemployment and privatizations in

Greece

Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros Chair: Dionisios Tzarellas Chair: Alexis Cukier

C1 AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3Political and urban ecology stream

Alexander Popov &

Konstantin Georgiev

Liquid crises: Utopian remappings of the socioecological

imaginary Jernej Kaluža Seize the means of pop-culture production Rosa Burç

Reassembling the nation-state: The kurdish quest for

democratic confederalism

Florian Wagner

The species-being in the Anthropocene: Finding

companionship and collectivizing struggle in Gary Snyder’s

Turtle Island Salah Hassanpour

"Flying in a pocket of silence": Gramscian/Freirian

dialogism in Ken Loach's Kes

Hüseyin Rasit &

Alexander

Kolokotronis

Decentralist vanguards: Women's autonomous power and

Left convergence in RojavaViviana Asara, Maura

Benegiamo, Laura

Centemeri, Alice Dal

Gobbo, Emanuele

Leonardi, Salvo Torre,

Luigi Pellizzoni

Environmental conflicts and political ecology in Italian

debate Alexandra Antoniadou

Performing resistance: Protesting bodies and diverse

audiences Nazan Üstündağ Building a television for women by women

Danai Liodaki &

Marianna Stefanitsi

Reconsidering social structures through artistic practices:

Representations of habitus in theater and photography Kerem Schamberger

"We are the free press” – Kurdish media system and

journalism in Rojava

Anselm Schindler

Ecology and freedom in Rojava (with skype-connection to

internationalist commune in Rojava)

Vedran Štimac

Revolution in Rojava as an alternative for crisis of political

imagination on the dominant "Western" Left

Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair: George Souvlis

Reading (with) Gramsci Marxism and Critical Theory Subjectivity, organization and emancipation I

Revolutionary theory needed for revolutionary practice: Assessing

one's socio-economic country structure is necessary to map the

strategy and tactics for revolutionary change

Political crisis in EuropeThe Memorandum legacy: A lasting farewell to debt crises or a bitter

return to the markets just until the next financial crises? Destruction

tales by Cyprus, Portugal and Greece

Polititcal ecology and socio-enviromental struggles Aspects of contemporary political artBuilding the new: Radical democracy, women’s liberation,

media and ecology in Rojava and beyond

D: THURSDAY, MAY 2 / 19:00 - 21:00 6

KARAGIORGA I KARAGIORGA IIPolititcal crisis and strategy stream

Savvas Michael Marx and the bio-political Frédéric Lordon

The French "Yellow Vests" uprising: a philosophical

and political view

Giorgos Kalampokas

Marx (and the) political: From the "critique of politics"

to the "new practice of politics" Maia Pal

Thoughts on local organising during the Gilets

Jaunes movement in France

Warren Montag Marx's critique of criticism before 1848 Stephen Bouquin

Popular revolt in France. The "Yellow Jacket"

rebellion against the socio-historical background

Alexandros Chrysis

Reinventing democracy, fighting for communism.

Demos as a missing link of revolutionary politics Discussants: Alexis Cukier & Grietje Baars

Chair: Despoina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Marx and the political Gilets jaunes: Α persistent uprising

E: FRIDAY, MAY 3 / 10:00 - 11:45 7

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Richard Westerman

Organization and social practice: Lukács’s overcoming of

the thought-being dichotomy Spiros Makris

Social antagonisms and democratic counter-hegemonies.

Some reflections on Ernesto Laclau's contribution Theodoros Chiotis

Why is Slavoj Zizek afraid of Virginia Woolf? Contemporary

Greek poetry and the (apparent) abnegation of politics

Nikos Foufas The persistence of reification Grigoris Markou Populism and Marxism: Friends or foes?

Angelos

Evangelinidis

Street art as a as a form of visual communication of social

movements in times of crisis

Giorgos Papafragkou

The Western Marxist tradition and the problem of the

subject Anton Jaeger

Corporate and co-operative commonwealths: States and

intermediary bodies in populist political philosophy Eliana Otta

Lost & shared: A laboratory for collective mourning, towards

affective and transformative politics

Florian Geisler & Alex

Struwe Crisis and populism: The decline of the european Left

Chair: Kostas Gousis Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki

B1 B3 B5

Lotte Schack

Organising against state sanctioned precarity: lessons from

Berlin

Eugenia Siapera &

Lambrini Papadopoulou Greek fascist media in the media ecosystem

Edon Qesari &

Michalis Zotos

For a Gramscian study of some aspects regarding internet

governance

Dimitrije Birač

Workers' headquarters for the defense of companies as an

embryo of workers' control – Croatian case Seamus Farrell

Radical media post 2008, new frameworks, and

emancipatory returnings: Case studies from the US, UK

and Ireland Korina Patelis Politics and other technocapitalist externalities

Alexis Cukier Can labour law actually limit exploitation ? The French case Christos Avramidis

FreeERT: Exploring an experiment in radicalizing public

service broadcasting Leandros Savvides

Capitalist or Socialist? The role of hackerspaces and maker

culture in contemporary techno- politics 

Chair: Jamie Woodcock Chair: Alexandros Minotakis Chair: Dimitris Lenis

C1 C2 C5Marxist feminist stream Migration/Refugee stream

Svenja Huck The rediscovery of Kemalism as "democratic opposition"? Tryfonas Lemontzoglou

Trends towards "illegitimate" births in the early twentieth-

century Greece: Evidence from the natural movement of

population, causes of death, and agricultural censuses of

Greece, 1921-1938 Ariana Dongus The Camp as Labo(u)ratory

Muzaffer Kaya

The struggle against authoritarianism in Turkey: Potentials

and limitations Martha Makarantzi

Emancipation and education: women in doupt via greek

history textbooks

Ismini Mathioudaki,

Vily Milona & Emy

Karimali

The right to housing and refugee camps: Effective human

right protection, or a promise to be kept?

Ümit Akcay The crisis of dependent financialization: The case of Turkey Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez

Familial reconfigurations: self-organised institutionalities of

social reproduction in crisis-fraught Athens, Greece

Nikolaos Ioannis

Kanavaris City Plaza squat as common space

Hazal Hurman

Prisonized lives, cop-wise neighborhoods: Punitive turn,

neo-liberal authoritarian state-making and challenges to

Turkish penal state

Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros Chair: Stella Christou Chair: Celim Nadi

Georg Lukács’s politics of de-reification II Populism and Marxism Art in times of crisis

Studying labour struggles todayRadical journalism and radical politics in dark times: Exploring

radical left and fascist mediaTechnocapitalism & cyberpolitics

Turkey: Authoritarian statism and subaltern strugglesWomen, family and reproduction in modern and contemporary

GreeceHousing: Camps and alternatives

F: FRIDAY, MAY 3 / 12:00 - 13:45 8

A1 A2 Β1Marxism and philosophy stream

Dimitrios Koulos

The development of the social character of labor and the

formation of a new subject Gregor Moder Theatricality of power: From Foucault to Hegel Theodora Kotsaka

Commons transition and the role of the state: A new

question for the Left

Konstantinos

Fagogenis Between structure and consciousness Michalis Tegos

The philosophy of history and the theory of the event: Hegel

and the "French moment"

Begüm Özden Fırat

& Fırat Genç The commons, class recomposition and strategy

Spiros Boikos

Organizational and political function of Communism in

capitalist and socialist society Thomas Telios Solidairty's double bind

Asimina

Paraskevopoulou

Responses to crisis in the Athenian milieu: exploring the

street art movement

Eleni Michalopoulou

Perspectives on the challenge of the environment:

Theoretical frameworks in the 21st Century

Giannis Ninos

The production of the subject and the dynamics of

transition to socialism in the 21st century

Chair: [tba] Chair: Dimitra Alifieraki Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Β3 Β5 C1Migration/Refugee stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Kotsifakos Dimitrios

From Marxist perspectives on technology and the role of

marchines in the mode of production to the transition to

Μ2Μ (Macine to Machine) conditions in the organisation of

production: reversal, confirmation or else? Ankica Čakardić What is fascism? Clara Zetkin’s lessons from 1923

Adriana Silva

Gregorut

Crisis as a mode of governance: a study of the Brazilian

economic crisis and the rise of the authoritarian far-right

Themistoklis Tzimas Dependency and the role of new technocology Penny Galani

Not in the name of truth: Biology, reductionism and the rise

of a new far-right Victor Marques Organic crisis in Brazil

Lévio O. Scattolini

Junior Is technology a way out? Aleksandar Matković

The political economy of German fascism: Our past and its

present

Chair: Dimitris Lenis Chair: Kostas Gousis Chair & discussant: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros

C2 C5 AUDITORIUM 2Political and urban ecology stream

Giorgio Chiappa

A theatrical course in class history: The Schaubühne Berlin

in the 1970s as an example of artistic Marxist analysis Marianna Charitonidou

Juxtaposing autogestion and autonomy: Urban politics at

the crossroads of state reason and human reason Michael Heinrich The political significance of a Marx biography

Rachel Aumiller Dramatic resistance: Benjamin and partisan theater Dimitris Poulios

Economic crisis and the limits of radical urban political

theory Thanasis Giouras

The political significance of the new editions of Karl Marx's

works

Alsena Kokalari

Remembering the communist past in Albania: The case of

Bunk Art Project Elsa Papageorgiou

Crisis, resistance and strategy: The ambiguity of the

spatialisation of politics Discussant: Giorgos Kalampokas

Benji Boyadgian

Still waters: A wolk along a Roman aqueduct in Jerusalem,

Palestine

Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair: Alkisti Prepi Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Marxism and technology Fascist threat: The past and the present Remapping the organic crisis in Brazil

Art in times of resistance Urban politics in crisis Karl Marx, the thinker and his work

21st century capitalism and beyond: The logic of transition Hegel and the "French moment" Rethinking the commons

G: FRIDAY, MAY 3 / 14:30 - 16:15 9

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream [Marxist Notebooks Table]

Michalis Bartsidis

“Discordance΄s eulogy”: democracy as an active balance of

forces in Machiavelli George Lechouritis Crisis and everyday life. The need for a new paradigm Samuel Carlshamre

Nation, class and religion: Political subjectivation in Arab

Marxism

Michael Rahlwes Althusser reading of Machiavelli in the light of Capital vol. 1 Triantafyllopoulou Eleni

Precarity and the everyday life of urban youth. In search of

new forms of resistance

Francesco

Anselmetti

"Responsibilities of the present": Arab Marxist historiography

after 1967

Giannis Maramathas Crisis, unity and violent forces: from Marx to Spinoza

Alexandros Minotakis,

Arhodula Varvaki Towards a Marxist approach to social media Ziad Kiblawi Reading history twice: Mahdi Amil, In defense of lost causes

Discussant: Samer Frangie

Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris Chair: Maia Pal

B3 B5 C1Marxist feminist stream

Leandros Fischer

Rethinking class politics in the Republic of Cyprus in times

of crisis Luka Bogdanic

October 1917: Revolution, dictatorial proletariat, and

hegemony in Lenin and Gramsci Mathias Klitgård Queer materialism: Diffractions of materialisms old and new

Daphnos Economou The first career of the Communist Party of Cyprus Yang Yang

The rise of the young Trotskyist movement in Hong Kong in

the 1970s Jakub Stanczyk Literary production of an HIV+ gay body

Antonis Pastelopoulos

& Alexis Ioannides

The nation "Left" nobody out - Examining the national

question through the dilemmas of the Cypriot Left Discussant: Angela Dimitrakaki

Chair: Spyros Sakellaropoulos Chair: Dimitra Alifieraki Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

C2 AUDITORIUM 2 KARAGIORGA IIMigration/Refugee stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

George Grollios

Crisis, neoliberal – neoconservative reconstruction and

evaluation of education in Greece

Dimitris Parsanoglou &

Vassilis S. Tsianos

Migration, subalternity and mobile commons: struggles

around/for the right to the city Kevin Ovenden Authoritarian neoliberalism and the category of fascism

Gianna Katsiampoura

Neoliberalism, austerity and the Greek universities: A

critical pedagogy account Konstantinos Gousis

Militant research in migration studies: A contradictory

process in the making

Yorgos Michailidis &

Panagiotis Mavroidis

Nationalism and the emergence of far-fight in Greece and

Europe. Problems and challenges for an anti-capitalist,

communist, response

Kostas Skordoulis

Neoliberalism and the new political economy of knowledge

production in education

Amy Bartholomew &

Hilary Wainwright

Showing it could be otherwise: Migrant spaces of radical

democracy, prefigurative politics, and the challenge to left

political parties Attila Antal

A hegemonic project against authoritarian neoliberalism and

authoritarian right in Eastern Europe

Chair & Discussant: Polina Chrysochoou Chair: Olga Lafazani Chair: Loren Balhorn

Crisis, neoliberalism and critical education policy features in

GreeceMigrant struggles, solidarity and research methods Authoritarian neoliberalism and the far right

Marx, between Machiavelli and SpinozaThe capitalist crisis and the way of life: Modern developments,

resistances and hegemony

1967 and beyond - continuity and rupture in the trajectory of

the Arab Marxist Left

The past and future lives of Cypriot communism History and strategy revisitedQueer Marxist perspectives on bodies, sexualities,

movements I

H: FRIDAY, MAY 3 / 16:30 - 18:15 10

A1 A2 B1Marxism and philosophy stream

Armin Schneider

The contingent and necessary violence of crisis in Hegel

and Marx Eren Kozluca

From experience to experimentation - The politics of Robert

Linhart Samir Gandesha The Spectre of the 1930s

Zachos

Christodoulopoulos

Counter-violence against the state of exception : A debate

between Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt Dimitris Papafotiou

The "ideal" NEP from Lenin to Linhart: A retreat or a

potential road to communism? Carmelo Buscema

The new Great Transformation (Towards a new systemic

cycle of accumulation and of total mobilization)

Valentina Antoniol

Between the Impossible and the necessary. An "Other"

Foucault: Starting from Schmitt, against Schmitt Discussant: Manolis Arkolakis Zoltan Pogatsa

The state of capitalism and the rise of the right in the 1930s

and today: Hungary as a case study

Jeremy Rayner

Latin America and the seasons of empire: A multiscalar

approach to hegemonic crisis and transition

Sara Caria

The win-win consensus: how globalization eliminated conflict

from today’s development debate

Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: [tba]

B3 B5 C2BOOK LAUNCH Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Michael Lazarus

Form and fetish: The adaption of Marx’s concept of value

into critical theory Michael Wilkinson

The new German Ideology? From a crisis to a critique of

post-sovereignty

Adam Dylan Hefty

Foucault and materialist philosophy today: Alienation of

labor, mental alienation, care of the self Eirini Tsoumani

Law as transcription of economic and political discourse(s):

The ideology of public interest in austerity Greece

Matthew Cole

The crisis of work and the valorsiation of services: A labour

process analysis Kyriaki Pavlidou

Re-imagining social rights Constitutionalism in Europe

through transindividuality

Chair: Kostas Dimoulas Chair: [tba] Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros

C5 AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3Political and urban ecology stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Giorgos Velegrakis Unraveling extractivism in the current capitalist crisis Jamie Woodcock The Notes from Below project and class composition Anika Jugović Spajić

Health activism under neoliberal transformation: Negotiating

state and civic responsibilities

Nikos Nikisianis Malthusian ecology, or ecology as austerity Callum Cant

A European cycle of struggle in food platforms: Workers’

self-organisation on the new terrain of production Stella Christou

Health social movements in anti-austerity contexts: The

cases of Greece and Spain

Elia Apostolopoulou &

Jose Cortes-Vazquez

The right to nature: Social-environmental movements and

radical practice Discussant: Christina Svana

Dimitris-Margaritis,

Moschos

Surplus populations, state budgets and the future of the

welfare state

Andreas Chatzidakis

& Lynne Segal Introducing the care collective

Chair: Thanos Andritsos Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris Chair: Despoina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

KARAGIORGA IIMigration/Refugee stream

Nicos Trimikliniotis

Encounters of crisis: Surplus population, migration, asylum

and social excess

Dario Firenze

A critique of race’s poilitcal economy and of care politics in

the refugee “crisis”. Coloniality of asylum system, mental

health, conflicts and mutualism.

Giannis

Gkolfinopoulos Undocumented flows: value, control and migration crisis

Angela Joya

Economic Liberalization, Dispossession, and the Current

Migrant Crisis in the Maghreb

Chair: Dimitris Parsanoglou

On violence: From Marx to Schmitt via Benjiamin and

FoucaultThe Marxism of Robert Linhart Back to the 30s? #1. Crisis and transition

"Crisis" - neoliberalism - migration: A complex relation

Class, labour and financeVoices of the Left: Challenging the capitalist hegemony, by

George Souvlis (ed.)Crisis, rupture and European constitutional imaginaries

Maia Pal, David Broder, Loren Balhorn, Catarina Principe, Grietje Baars,

Kanishka Goonewardena, and George Souvlis (editor)

The political ecology of austerity. A discussion on and beyond the

dynamics of the current socio-ecological conflictsNotes from Below: Workers' inquiry and class composition Health welfare state and neoliberalism

I: FRIDAY, MAY 3 / 18:45 - 20:45 11

KARAGIORGA II PLENARY

John Milios Value, fictitious capital and finance. The timeless of Karl Marx's Capital

Michael Roberts Marx's theory of crisis in the 21st century

Costas Lapavitsas Financialized capitalism and its prospects

Chair: [tba]

Karl Marx and contemporary capitalism

J: SATURDAY, MAY 4 / 10:00 - 11:45 12

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream [Greek Association of Political Economy Table IΙ] Marxism and philosophy stream

Agon Hamza Žižek and the dialectical materialist theory of belief Alexis Ioannides

Hidden unemployment during the Greek crisis; The role of

self employment Georgios Kranidiotis

The origins of Marx's communism in Hegel's

“Phenomenology of Spirit”

Haralambos Ventis

Pacifist pluralism versus militant truth: Christianity at the

service of revolution in the work of Slavoj Žižek

Ioannis Zisimopoulos,

George Economakis &

George Androulakis The class composition of trade union movement in Greece Jannis Kozatsas

Labour, product and tool: The practical constitution of

subject and object in Marx and Hegel

Dionysios Skliris The community of those who are not included in a concept

Emilia G. Marsellou &

Costas Passas

The Greek economic adjustment programmes and the tax

burden on social classes Panagiotis Galanis

Historical materialism and Marx’s critique of Hegel:

Dialectics and contemporary reality of legal judgment,

especially on environmental law

Sotiris Mitralexis Transcending Christianity’s perverse core with Slavoj Žižek Paris Yeros Neo-colonialism and the return of fascism Kanakis Leledakis

The subject and political action: From Hegel to Marx and

from Marx to us

Chair: Costas Raptis Chair: Dimitris Paitaridis Chair: Olga Lafazani

B1 B3 B5Polititcal crisis and strategy stream Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Mislav Zitko, Jelena

Ostojic Locating precariat: New class or labor market effect? Angeliki Papathanasiou

Is "social economy" an alternative to the current economic

crisis? From Karl Marx’s critique of capitalist forms of

cooperation to Michel Foucault’s critique of "Entrepreneur

of the Self"

Theofanis

Papageorgiou,

Antonis

Papangelopoulos &

Sotiris Koskoletos

The beauty and the beast of neoliberal rationality: A post-

crisis assessment

Dimitris Souftas

Organising the new shift: youth struggles in Greece during

the crisis Iraklis Mavridis

A braver new world? Notes on the emerging neoliberal

social dystopia - And beyond

Raluca Bejan & Igor

Shoikhedbrod Brexit, Grexit, Lexit: Against the fallacy of generalization

Damjan Jugović Spajić

The future of work in neoliberal Serbia: Investigating

practices of youth volunteerism Vasilis Zoumpos

The forms of bourgeois hegemony and how to counteract

them Victoria Stadheim

The political economy of European Integration: Portugal's

path from colonial empire to European periphery

Chair: Dimitra Alifieraki Chair: Zachos Christodoulopoulos Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros

C2 AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3Marxist feminist stream

Yasin Sunca & Tobias

Reinhardt

Global movement for (radical) democracy: The PKK and

subaltern internationalism

Despoina Koutsoudaki &

Angeliki-Maria Koufou Α feminist critical approach to Marxist theory Joss Hands

Reframing the public sphere for the digital age, yet again,

and again

Sardar Saadi

Neighborhood as the battleground: The urban dynamics of

the Kurdish movement and self-rule resistance in Sur Kaitlin Peters

Caliban and the Witch and Women as an ontological

category Nikos Smyrnaios

Internet oligopoly vs. journalism: How Google & Facebook

took over the news

Gülay Kilicaslan

Forced migration and kurdish political mobilization in

Kurdistan and Turkey Branislava Petrov

Physical abuse of women as inherent to social structure

shaped by capitalist mode of production

Athina Karatzogianni

& Korinna Patelis

Digital labour meets false consciousness: When digital

activists turn trolls

Ariadni Polichroniou

Perceptions of collective identity, solidarity and resistance

strategies in the feminist thought of Nancy Fraser, Gayatri

Spivak and Judith Butler: an attempt to understand and

analyze the social movements of the crisis in a post-marxist

era

Chair: Rosa Burç Chair: Despoina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Cartographies of Kurdish resistance Marxist feminist critiquesDigital materialism: State, capital, and resistance in the

algorithmic age

Materialist (re)considerations of Christianity: The case of

Slavoj ŽižekIssues of contemporary political economy II The Hegel - Marx connection

Youth, labour, precariousness Fighting against neoliberalism Perspectives on the EU crisis II

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Ines Schwerdtner Contradictory left strategies in Europe's core

Josep Maria Antentas Integral strategy, party and the dialectics of dual power and counter-power

Panagiotis Sotiris The strategic question revisited

Catarina Principe To leave or not to leave? The European Union and the role of nation states

Chair: [tba]

Political crisis and left strategy

L: SATURDAY, MAY 4 / 14:45 - 16:30 14

A1 A2 A4[Sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung] [Theseis Journal table] BOOK LAUNCH BOOK LAUNCH

Bojana Tamindzija

Working conditions in the textile industry in Serbia as a

paradigm of the position of workers on the periphery of

capitalismCostas Skordoulis, Costas Lapavitsas, and Helena Sheehan (author)

Georgi Medarov

Garments subcontracting in Bulgaria: the limits of sectoral

agreements

Bora Mema

Challenges of trade unionism in the garments sector in

Albania

Kristina Ampeva

Garments working conditions in Macedonia: a view from

Shtip

Chair: Jana Tsoneva Chair & Discussant: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: George Souvlis

B1 B3 B5Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Keli Daskala

Mythology revisited: Cartoons and poems on (of) the Greek

crises Lotte List

Who's afraid of the sovereign? A Benjaminian analysis of

sovereignty in a time of debt crisis

Stelios

Foteinopoulos

The future of European capitalism – can it become more

aggressive? The case against supranationalism and the

EU´s White Paper as the roadmap for a new most

aggressive European Union

Iordanis Koumasidis Crisis and historical/political context in Greek literature Eirini Gaitanou Sovereignty of the people in times of retreat Dionysios Tzarellas

The crisis and the transformations of the European

superstructure

Stratos Myrogiannis

Crime and crisis in Greece: Renewing the canon through

self-awareness

Manuel Disegni &

Michele Rosenberg

Anti-hegemonic struggle and the nationalistic rhetoric in a

class perspective

Vincenzo

Maccarrone

The new European economic governance and its impact on

national industrial relations

Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki Chair: Zachos Christodoulopoulos Chair: [tba]

C1 C5 AUDITORIUM 2Marxist feminist stream

Arhodula Varvaki Greek sitcoms in austerity times Ömer Turan

The '68 movement/s in the world and in Turkey: One

movement or many? Joshua Clover Living Chapter 25

Peter Milonas

The Golden Dawn and the mainstream media: A symbiotic

relationship Erol Ülker

Anti-imperialism, Kemalism, and youth movements in

Turkey’s Long 1960s Christopher Nealon

Sexuality without queerness, or, who will the implosion make

us?

Yiannis Mylonas The "Greek crisis" in Europe: race, class and politics Nikos Christofis

Student mobilization and Cyprus in Turkey’s Long 1960s:

Kemalism, nationalism and anti-imperialism Colleen Lye The third Marxism-feminism

Kenan Behzat Sharpe

From psychedelic rock to socialist realism: Cultural

production in the Long Turkish 1960s

Chair: Alexandros Minotakis Chair: Anastasia Matsouka Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

AUDITORIUM 3Political and urban ecology stream

Erik Forman

The municipalist moment: A historical materialist

assessment of anti-systemic possibility

Alkistis Prepi

A historical materialist critique to the notion of resilience

and its effects on urban policies

Jakub Crcha The industrial wilderness

Chair: Dimitris Poulios

The Greek crisis in the mediaTurkey’s '68 in the global Long "Sixties": Politics, student

mobilization and cultureThe subject of crisis

Enviroment, cities and historical materialism

Labour exploitation and subcontracting: Case studies from

the Balkans

The origins of capitalism as a social system. The prevalence

of an aleatory encounter, by John MiliosNavigating the Zeitgeist, by Helena Sheehan

Nicos Trimikliniotis, Vasilis Tsianos, Michael Heinrich, and John Milios (author)

Representations of crisis in Greek literature: Production,

topics, trends/tensionsRethinking sovereignty Contradictions and limits of the European Integration

M: SATURDAY, MAY 4 / 16:45 - 18:30 15

A1 A2 Α4Marxism and philosophy stream

Faik Onur Acar Surplus value at the molecular level in Deleuzian sense Vasilis Galis

We have never been abled-bodied: thoughts on dis/ability

and technology Jeremy Rayner

Back to the 30s? Nationalism, populism, and the limits to

liberalism

Morteza Samanpour

Capital or capitalism? The value-form theory and the global

South Maria Jaidopulu Vrijea

The everyday life as a machine and the war on rhythms,

times and spaces Michael A. Wilkinson

Authoritarian liberalism in the postwar constitutional

imagination: A misdiagnosis of the 1930s?

Siyaves Azeri

The crisis of value, “right-wing populism”, and the prospects

of human emancipation Aristotle Tympas

Analog-feminine labor, digital-masculine capital: Technical

concepts in social contexts Saygun Gokariksel

The return of the interwar? Historical lineages of anti-

communism and "militant democracy" in postsocialist

eastern Europe

Kenan Sharpe Internationalist poetics from the 1930s to today

Chair & discussant: Dimitris Papafotiou Chair: Natalia Avlona Chair: George Souvlis

Β1 Β3 Β5Migration/Refugee stream

Guilherme Leite

Gonçalves & César

Mortari Barreira

The plasticity of the democratic state of law: The Brazilian

legal coup as capitalist expropriation

Monika Mokre & Patrick

Mokre

Trump versus free trade. Just a crazy President or a new

way of dealing with conflicts within the capitalist class? Parastou Saberi

Left politics and anti-racism: Europe's urban crisis and the

question of Islamophobia

Luiz Renato Martins

Brazil 2013-2019: The Worker's Party political collapse and

the bourgeois class war declaration Sascha Radl

The political economy of Germany’s new engagement in

the Southern Mediterranean: The case of Tunisia, 2010-13 Daniel Gutiérrez

Mapping methods: Field notes on militant inquiry in Berlin’s

migrant movement

Neofytos Karkotis

Reflections of US imperialism and Russia regional rivalries:

The "Americanization" of Cyprus financial sector Maral Jefroudi

Back to the future: From Iranians of 1980s to Syrians of

2010s, political refugee experiences in Turkey

Theodoros Rakopoulos

Commodity citizenship: The international market for EU

passports

Chair: Alkisti Prepi Chair: Zachos Christodoulopoulos Chair: Kostas Gousis

C1 C2 C5Political and urban ecology stream Marxist feminist stream

Marianna Charitonidou

Marxist theory and the impact of architectural drawings’

digitization on the dissemination of knowledge Ciara Cremin Be a man? No, thanks! The politics of femininity Fouad Oveisy

Toward a Left realpolitik: Evaluating the technicalities of

resistance in Rojava

Srdjan Atanasovski Practices of listening and class analysis Ben Miller Friedrich Radszuweit and the false security of collaboration Behnam Amini Rojava and the radical Left: When theory fails solidarity

Eva Kekou

Cities calling out: Public space and art in public space as a

terrain of expression

María Teresa Martínez

González

LGTBI movements in Tunisia, a network of support for

LGBT asylum seekers Sara Kermanian After statelessness and the limits of Rojava's political time

Yonathan Listik Aesthetic regime's occupation of representation

Chair: Thanos Andritsos Chair: Eirini Gaitanou Chair: Rosa Burç

AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3BOOK LAUNCH

Papageorgiou

Theofanis Marx on crisis: Between tendencies and laws Panagiotis Sotiris, Costas Lapavitsas (Author)

Dimitris Lenis

New technologies, old exploitation: Is capital near a

technological revolution?

Spyros Lapatsioras,

John Milios, Dimitris P.

Sotiropoulos Capitalism, financial system and forms of exploitation

Vasilis Minakakis &

George Pisinas

Capitalist relations and crisis in the 21st century:

Methodological issues and contemporary debate

Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair & discussant: Petros Papaconstantinou

Art, aesthetics and the cityQueer Marxist perspectives on bodies, sexualities, movements

II

When resisting is not enough: Critical reflections on

survival, endurance and strategy in Rojava

Rethinking capitalist crisis and forms of exploitation The left case against the EU, by Costas Lapavitsas

Value form and philosophy: Marx with Deleuze and beyond Technology and society: Critical perspectivesBack to the 30s? #2. Nationalism, populism, and the limits to

liberalism

Changing dynamics in Latin America International political economy Refugee experiences/struggles and left politics

N: SATURDAY, MAY 3 / 19:00 - 21:00 15

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Sandro Mezzadra The gaze of autonomy, a Marxist gaze? Taking stock of the autonomy of migration approach

Ranabir Samaddar A historical perspective on globalisation and migrant labour

Shahrzad Mojab Migration as class struggle: A Marxist feminist analysis

Olga Lafazani City(zenship) Plaza: Challenging multiple borders from below

Chair: Kostas Gousis

Migration - Marxism - Movements

O: SUNDAY, MAY 5 / 10:30 - 12:15 16

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Marxist feminist stream

Prof. Gabriella

Paolucci Bourdieu and Marx. The fecundity of a difficult relationship Leonidas Moiras

Who is the leader of the brigands Karl Marx and what is the

Kırmızı Cumhuriyet? The Ottoman perceptions of socialism

and communism during the second half of the 19th century Rosa Vasilaki

Feminism in dark times: between postsecularism and

femonationalism

Omur Birler

Revolution and political collectivism in Alain Badiou's

thought Nikos Potamianos

Moral economy, the anti-profiteering protest and the

shopkeepers of Athens 1912-1945 Ewa Majewska

… and another time as farce. Antifascist counterpublics in

time of fascism, again

Jacob Collins

The free development of each: Lucien Sève and the

Marxist theory of the Individual

Bartłomiej Błesznowski,

Mikołaj Ratajczak

Principles of the common: Towards a political philosophy of

Polish cooperativism

Ioulia Livaditi &

Dimitra Spanou

New feminist movements in Greece: Understanding the

crisis through a gender violence perspective

Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Eirini Gaitanou

B1 B3 B5Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Mert Büyükkarabacak

Why can’t the left develop a counter hegemonic project

during the economic crisis period? Niccolò Cuppini The logistics of struggles Alexis Alecou AKEL, anti-imperialism and the national issue in Cyprus

Lewis Bassett Corbynism: between ideology and practice Mattia Frapporti

Sovereignism vs Globalism: A misleading rhetorical

opposition

Abdullah

Korkmazhan The left movements in the Turkish Cypriot community

Emmanouil-Stylianos

Skoufoglou SYRIZA: the failure of the "broad party" strategy Carlotta Benvegnù Public/private role in the expansion of Paris Antonis Antoniou

National ideology, anti-imperialist politics and social protest:

Communist party of Greece and the Cyprus issue in the

1950s

Floriano Milesi Amazonization Nikos Christofis

The Greek and Turkish Left over Cyprus: Between anti-

imperialism and nationalism

Maurilio Pirone Resisting the power of platforms

Chair: Kostas Gousis Chair: Jamie Woodcock Chair: Leandros Fischer

C1 C2Political and urban ecology stream

Nikos Karfakis

Neoliberalism, technocracy and the struggle for

environmental justice within the EU Giorgio Stamboulis

Teaching Marx in neoliberal Italian High school: a dialectical

contradiction?

Natalie Suzelis Climate struggle and social reproduction

Jakub Krzeski and

Krystian Szadkowski

Rethinking the crisis in, against and beyond the university

through Marx’s method of critique

Ioannis-Panagiotis

Raptis Contradictions in environmental policies Julia Damphouse

Power is knowledge - political education in the SPD after

1891

Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis Chair: David Broder

Crisis/recomposition of the LeftCounter-logistics trajectories within, against and beyond the

binary sovereignism vs globalism

Cyprus and the Left: Comparative perspectives on the

national issue and anti-imperialism

Environmental policies vs enviromental justice Resistance to neoliberal education

Revisitng French readings of Marxist philosophy History, commons and moral economy Feminist movements against neoliberalism and the far right

P: SUNDAY, MAY 5 / 12:30 - 14:30 17

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Ankica Čakardić Early social reproduction theory and its contemporary strands

Holly Lewis A Marxist feminist approach to queer struggle

Lynne Segal Building resistance to capitalism’s comprehensive crises of care

Angela Dimitrakaki The technological imaginary, social reproduction, and feminism for the 99%

Chair: Depoina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

Social reproduction and Marxist feminism

for the 21st century

Q: SUNDAY, MAY 5 / 15:00 - 16:45 18

A1 A2 A4Marxism and philosophy stream Marxist feminist stream [Zero tolenace feminist group table] Polititcal crisis and strategy stream

Dimitra Alifieraki

From "Theory of Theoretical Practice" to "Philosophy as

class struggle": Adventures of dialectical materialism

across Alsthusser's revisions Eirini Dafermou, Esra Dogan Kumru F. Toktamis Contentious (re-)entrenchment as a theory of resistance?

Ingo Kramer

From state to non-state. Louis Althusser's contribution to a

Marxist theory of the state Deniz Yonucu Policing dissent: Counterinsurgency and counterviolence

Lea Kuhar Reading Althusser Hendrik Erz

From Arab Spring to Gilets Jaunes: Riots and the

annihilation of legality

Kanishka

Goonewardena Lukács and Althusser in Fredric Jameson’s Marxism Rui Coelho Do we live in an “Era of Riots”?

Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas Chair: Ismini Mathioudaki Chair: Salim Nabi

B1 B3 C1

Thanasis Argyriou

US institutional investors stock market portfolio overlapping

and “common” property relations David Broder De Ste Croix and the English (and French) Marxists

Seevan Saeed &

Alan Hassaniyan

The discourse of the leftist movement in Iran: From Tudeh

Party to KODAR

Vangelis Bantekas

A Marxist perspective on the critique of the neoclassical

production-function. Emile Chabal

Looking south: Eric Hobsbawm and the renewal of Marxist

thought from the periphery, 1956-1995 Katya Lachowicz Becoming: Red Sanandaj and the Iranian protests

Tomasz Plominski

Notions of risk and uncertainty in light of Marx's critique of

political economy Panagiotis Zervoudakis

Ethnoarchaeology of foraging: tracing parallel subsistence

models

Chair: Dimitris Lenis Chair: George Souvlis Chair & Discussant: Costas Raptis

AUDITORIUM 2 AUDITORIUM 3[Contentious politics circle table]

Seraphim Seferiades

"Populism" as deceptive invocations of the popular: A

political approach Will Darwall Rights, tactics, and subjectivity: Some strategic paradoxes

Loukia Kotronaki

The politics of solidarity: Mapping collective action during

the refugee crisis Dave Mesing Theory, strategy, and the tactics of the subject

Kostas Kanellopoulos

The Greek Left in the post-Memoranda era. In search of

strategy and leadership Aaron Berman From forms of subsumption to pathways to recomposition?

Chair: Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Questions of critique of political economy Marxism and historical research Counter-hegemonic struggles in Iran

Contentious politics in times of austerity Subjects of strategy

Revisiting Althusser's contribution and antinomiesDo we care enough to change the world? Grassroots

movements from a feminist perspectiveRethinking resistance

R: SUNDAY, MAY 5 / 17:00 - 18:45 19

A1 A4 B1Marxism and philosophy stream Migration/Refugee stream

Bartosz Wójcik &

Maciej Sosnowski Marek Siemek as a Hegelian. Between Marx and Lukács Doruk Atahan Erbas

In search of lost subject: Marx's historical materialism,

subject and existentialism Antigoni Stavrinou Hospitality as a performative action

John-Baptiste Oduor Hegel > Marx Thomas Zimmermann

Back and forth: Renaissance of the original proletariat and

neo-artisan forms of resistance Salim A. Nabi

Politics of solidarity versus biopolitics of the state and NGOs:

Reflections on practices in Lesbos, Greece post EU-Turkey

Statement

Stephanie Yu

Antinomies of Heidegger’s thought: False authenticity and

identity politics Dimitra-Dora Teloni

Antiracist and solidarity movement in the era of crisis:

Lessons for social services and social work

Chair: Dimitra Alifieraki Chair: Kanakis Leledakis Chair: Ismini Mathioudaki

B3 C1 C2Marxist feminist stream

Anja Ilić

Decade(s) of crisis in Serbia: another future than

neoliberal? Thanos Liapas

The Greek economic adjustment program(s) examined as

strategy of the European transnational capital Attila Szigeti

Value-form and the expropriation of social reproduction and

nature

Martina Mirković

Historical materialism in Yugoslavia between Tito and the

IMF Gabriel Sakellaridis

Eurozone crisis, shadow banking and ECB’s response: An

Insight through Marx’s theory of world money Dimitra Georgiadou

Flexible bodies and precarious lives: Gender, work and

education in crisis Greece

Anna Piekarska

The (mis)rule of law in the time of Polish post-communist

transition

Alexandros

Alexandropoulos Financialization and the democratic legitimation crisis Nelli Kambouri

The gendering of platform labour and the feminist debates

on domestic work: an analysis of hosting in London

Chair: Jana Tsoneva Chair: George Souvlis Chair: Eleni Prokou

C5 AUDITORIUM 2Marxism and philosophy stream

Nicholas Evangelos

Levis

U.S. Politics: Russia panic as attempt to impose a new

ideological hegemony Natalia Romé

Time for desire and fury. Counter-tendencies in the

neoliberal conjuncture

Fourikos Konstantinos

Framing the imperialist intervention: Western media

representation of opposing sides in Syrian war Warren Montag The concept of the masses

Efthymia Garidi

The Greek crisis and the representation of social actors in

mainstream and independent journalism Panagiotis Sotiris From mass to class: hegemony as new practice of politics

Eleni Mavrouli &

Alexandros Minotakis "Objectivity" and the crisis of journalism Agon Hamza Althusser, Žižek and the Hegelian critique of ideology

Chair: Penny Galani Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

Uses of media and global conflict Masses, ideologies, conjunctures

The Lukács connection Subjectivity, organization, emancipation II Migration and solidarity practices

Debating the post-Communism era Political economy of the EUGendered labour: Expropriation, precarity and social

reproduction