Capital.150: Marx's Capital Today

Here are details of the two-day conference in September, with the relevant links:

Location: London WC1E 7HY, Malet Street, Student Central (formerly ULU)

Conference attendance fee £10.

Date/time: Tuesday 19 September (11am-8pm) – Wednesday 20 September 2017 (10am – 4pm)

Contact: capital150conference@gmail.com

Registration URL: http://bit.ly/2uhukxO

King's College website details here. 

Tuesday 19 September

Crises (11am–1:30pm)

• Guglielmo Carchedi – The old is dying and the new cannot be born: the exhaustion of the present phase of capitalist development
• Rolf Hecker – Marx’s critique of capitalism during the 1857 crisis
• Paul Mattick jr – Crisis: abstraction and reality
• Ben Fine, discussant

Imperialism (2:30pm–5pm)

• Marcelo Dias Carcanholo, Dependency, super-exploitation of labour and crisis – an interpretation from Marx
• Tony Norfield, Das Kapital, finance, and imperialism
• Raquel Varela (& Marcelo Badaró Mattos), Primitive accumulation in Das Kapital

Mapping the terrain of anti-capitalist struggles (6pm–8pm)

• David Harvey, Perspectives from the Circulation of Capital
• Michael Roberts, Perspectives from the Accumulation of Capital

Wednesday 20 September

The future of capital (10am–12:30noon)

• Alex Callinicos, Continuing Capital in the face of the present
• Hannah Holleman, Capital and socio-ecological revolution
• Fred Moseley, The rate of profit and the future of US capitalism
• Eduardo Motta Albuquerque, Technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide

Labour and beyond (1:30-4pm)

• Tithi Bhattacharya, Social reproduction theory: conceiving capital as social relation
• Michael Heinrich, Communism in Marx's Capital
• Lucia Pradella, Marx’s Capital and the power of labour: imperialism, migration, and workers’ struggles
• Beverly Silver, Marx’s general law of capital accumulation and the making and remaking of the global reserve army of labour