Monday 29 October
10:00 – 10:15
Registration & Welcome
10:15 – 12:30 Morning Sessions
10:15 – 11:20
The Universal, the Particular, and the Romantic in Latin American Marxism: Reflections on José Carlos Mariátegui, René Zavaleta Mercado, and Álvaro García Linera.
Jeffery Webber (Queen Mary University of London)
11:20 – 12:30
Out Of Empire Into Socialist Modernity: Soviet-African Comparisons and (Dis)connections.
Steffi Marung (Universität Leipzig)
12:30 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Sessions
14:00 – 15:20
Decolonising History: Marx, Michael Löwy and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
José Neves (NOVA University of Lisbon, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
15:20 – 16:30
Global Marx.
Lucia Pradella (King’s College London)
16:30
Closing
Tuesday 30 October
10:10 – 12:30 Morning Sessions
10:15 – 11:20
C.L.R. James and the Tragedies of Leadership.
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths College, University of London).
11:20 – 12:30
Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: Naxalite Maoism as a Torsion of Marxism.
Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
12:30 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Sessions
14:00 – 15:20
Savage Marx: Tensions and Encounters Between the European Revolutionary and Indigenous Perspective-Struggles.
Jean Tible (Universidade de São Paulo)
15:20 – 16:30
Jacques Rancière Reading Marx: Lessons to Draw from Research on the Liberation Struggle in Mozambique.
Maria-Benedito Basto (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
16:30
Closing