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
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
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
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
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
K: SATURDAY, MAY 3 / 12:00 - 14:00 13
KARAGIORGA II PLENARY
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
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:
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
KARAGIORGA II PLENARY
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-