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Past Conference of the
.International R o s a L u x e m b u r g Society
October 5 / 6, 2011 in Moscow.
Venue:
R G A S P I
(Russian State Archive of Social-Political History)
Bolshaya Dmitrovka 15
Moscow, Russia, 103 821
Main Conference Issues:
- Rosa Luxemburg and “World Politics“ – World Economy and Imperialism
- Rosa Luxemburg and Russia
See the list of registered conference papers on the site “Ankuendigungen”with a number of English abstracts as downloads
See also the conference report (in German) on the site “Konferenzen” with several German and English lecture papers as downloads.
Co-organizers:
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation with its Moscow Office, Foundation “Alternatives”, Moscow
Further Information:
Prof. Dr. Narihiko I t o , 1-12-12 Omachi, Kamakura-City, J a p a n 248-0007,
FAX: xx81/467/22-7554, E-Mail: ito-lux248@nifty.com [or]
Ottokar L u b a n, Eisenacher Str. 43, D-10823 Berlin, Germany,
Tel./Fax: 0049 30 781 72 68, E-Mail: oluban@gmx.de
Our Last Conference Reader
with essays from the events in Tokyo (2007) and Berlin (2009)
has been published at the end of 2010:
Narihiko Ito, Annelies Laschitza, Ottokar Luban (ed.):
Rosa Luxemburg. Ökonomische und historisch-politische Aspekte ihres Werkes. Internationale Rosa-Luxemburg-Gesellschaft in Tokio, April 2007, und Berlin, Januar 2009, Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2010, ca. 190 S., Broschur, 16,90 €, ISBN 978-3-320-02233-4
Please help us for a wide distribution of our new booklet - e. g. in asking your library to buy it.
You find the contents of our conference reader ( in German) at this website, see site “Ankündigungen”
We would appreciate your suggestions for supplements for new Rosa Luxemburg literature on this website.
Kind regards
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Past Conference
Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle
Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference
Central London
10–13 November 2011
The ongoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, alongside intimations of a resurgence in workers' struggles against 'austerity' in the North and myriad forms of resistance against exploitation and dispossession across the globe make it imperative for Marxists and leftists to reflect critically on the meaning of collective anticapitalist action in the present.
Over the past decade, many Marxist concepts and debates have come in from the cold. The anticapitalist movement generated a widely circulating critique of capitalist modes of international 'development'. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2008 has led to mainstream-recognition of Marx as an analyst of capital. In philosophy and political theory, communism is no longer merely a term of condemnation. Likewise, artistic and cultural practices have also registered a notable upturn in the fortunes of activism, critical utopianism and the effort to capture aesthetically the workings of the capitalist system.
The eighth annual Historical Materialism conference will strive to take stock of these shifts in the intellectual landscape of the Left in the context of the social and political struggles of the present. Rather than resting content with the compartmentalisation and specialisation of various 'left turns' in theory and practice, we envisage the conference as a space for the collective, if necessary, agonistic but comradely, reconstitution of a strategic conception of the mediations between socio-economic transformations and emancipatory politics.
For such a critical theoretical, strategic and organisational reflection to have traction in the present, it must take stock of both the commonalities and the specificities of different struggles for emancipation, as they confront particular strategies of accumulation, political authorities and relations of force. Just as the crisis that began in 2008 is by no means a homogeneous affair, so we cannot simply posit a unity of purpose in contemporary revolutions, struggles around the commons and battles against austerity.
In consideration of the participation of David Harvey, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, at this year's conference, we would particularly wish to emphasise the historical and geographical dimensions of capital, class and struggle. We specifically encourage paper submissions and suggested panel-themes that tackle the global nature of capitalist accumulation, the significance of anticapitalist resistance in the South, and questions of race, migration and ecology as key components of both the contemporary crisis and the struggle to move beyond capitalism.
There will also be a strong presence of workshops on the historiography of the early communist movement, particularly focusing on the first four congresses of the Communist International.
The conference will aim to combine rigorous and grounded investigations of socio-economic realities with focused theoretical reflections on what emancipation means today, and to explore – in light of cultural, historical and ideological analyses – the forms taken by current and coming struggles.
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/submit
P a s t International Conference in Chicago:
A Century of May Days: Labor and Social Struggles
29 April - 2 May 2010
See Photoreport and Schedule on site “Konferenzen”
These were the lectures on Rosa Luxemburg :
Friday, 30 April 2010
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R e c e n t P u b l i c a t i o n s
- Riccardo Bellofiore (ed.): Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy [papers of the conference in Bergamo December 2004], London 2009 (see: contents to the right on this site)
- Subhanlal Datta Gupta: Comintern and the Destiny of communism in India 1919-1943. Dialectics of Real and a Possible History, Seribaan 2006
- Peter Hudis & Kevin B. Anderson (Hg.): The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, New York 2004
- Narihiko Ito: Is the national question an aporia for humanity? How to read Rosa Luxemburg's “The national question and autonomy”,
in: Research in Political Economy, Volume 26 [2010], Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Bingley, U. K., ISSN: 0161-7230
also available online at: www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230
- Mathilde Jacob: Rosa Luxemburg. An Intimate Portrait, translated by Hans Fernbach with an introduction by David Fernbach, London 2000
- Paul LeBlanc (Hg.): Rosa Luxemburg. Reflections and Writings, Amherst / New York 1999
- Helmut Konrad (ed.): Masao Nishikawa: Socialists and International Actions for Peace 1914 - 1923, Berlin 2010
- William A. Pelz: Karl Marx - A World to Win, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2011,ISBN: 0321355830, 131 pages, including chronology, glossaries, index, Paperback, $22.67
- Nirmal Ray: Rosa Luxemburg. A Revolutionary Socialist, vol. I, Kolkata [India] 2005
- Nirmal Ray: Rosa Luxemburg. Life and Personality [vol. II], Kolkata 2007
- Nirmal Ray: Rosa Luxemburg on Literature and Art, vol. II, Kolkata 2010, ISBN: 13-978-81-905962-3-
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