PAST AND PRESENT Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci 18-19 June 2015 - King’s College London (Strand Campus) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – (FINAL)
Thursday 18.6.2015 (ROOMS: S-2.18; K0.20; K0.19; K0.17 for book stalls)
OPENING SESSION AND PLENARY
9:00 - 9:30
ROOM S-2.18 (Lucas Lecture Theatre) - Registration
9:30 - 9:45
ROOM S-2.18 (Lucas Lecture Theatre) - Welcome from the organising committee
9:45-10:45
ROOM S-2.18 - Keynote: Peter Thomas (Brunel University, UK) - We Good Subalterns: Gramsci's Theory of Political Modernity
10:45-11:00
15 min to change room
SESSION I – THURSDAY MORNING
11:00-12:30
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K0.20
ROOM K0.19
CIVIL SOCIETY AND HEGEMONY Chair: Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck, UK)
ANTI-ECONOMISM AND GRAMSCI’S CRITICAL ECONOMY Chair: Alex Callinicos (King’s College London, UK)
CRITICAL THEORY AND SUBALTERNITY Chair: Sonita Sarker (Macalester, US)
Valentina Cuppi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Hegemony, education, politics in Gramsci and the gramscian studies in Latin America Rachel Do Carmo (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - The formation of modern economic thought in Brazil and the hegemonic role of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
Yohann Douet (University of ParisNanterre, France) - Gramsci and the Rise of Capitalism Bruno Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) - Rethinking Fordism
Nicolas Vandeviver (Ghent University, Belgium) Reorienting Orientalism: Edward Said as a Gramscian critic Janek Niggeman (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany) - The Return of Authority? Hegemony, Education and the crisis of (reproducing) everyday life
Watcharabon Buddharaksa (Naresuan University, Thailand) - The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: Past and Present of Thailand's Organic Crisis
12.30 - 13.15
Susi Meret (Aalborg University, Denmark) - What to learn from Gramsci today? Immigrant Subalternity between exit and voice
Lunch break
SESSION II – THURSDAY AFTERNOON
13.15 – 14.45
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K0.20
ROOM K0.19
RELIGION, BUREAUCRACY AND SOCIETY Chair: Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino, Italy)
GRAMSCI, NEO-GRAMSCIANISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Chair: Simona Talani (King’s College London, UK)
GRAMSCI AND THE SUBALTERNS Chair: Cosimo Zene (SOAS, UK)
Takahiro Chino (Waseda University, Japan EUI, Italy) - Religion and Common Sense: Gramsci’s Critique of the Catholic Church Robert Jackson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) - Bureaucracy, Prestige and De-mummification in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
Lorenzo Fusaro (UAM, Mexico) Gramsci’s ‘Geopolitical Economy’: Hegemony at the International Level and the Rise of Contender States Esra Akgemci (Ankara University, Turkey) - Transnational Capitalist Class Formation and a Neo-Gramscian Critique of the "Global South" Literature Zeynep Sentek (University of Sussex, UK) – Rethinking the configuration of the Turkish state and security complex under AKP rule
14.45-15.00
15 min to change room
Carmine Conelli (University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy) - Back To The South: Revisiting Gramsci's Southern Question In The Light Of Subaltern Studies Riccardo Ciavolella (CNRS-EHESS, France) - The changing meanings of people’s politics. Gramsci and anthropology from the history of subaltern classes to contemporary political subjects
SESSION III AND PLENARY – THURSDAY AFTERNOON
15.00 – 17.00
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K0.20
ROOM K0.19
MACHIAVELLI, GRAMSCI AND ALTHUSSER Chair: Peter Thomas (Brunel University, UK)
NEOLIBERALISM AS PASSIVE REVOLUTION? Chair: Alex Callinicos (King’s College London, UK)
A GLOBAL GRAMSCI Chair: Magnus Ryner (King’s College London, UK)
Hugo Villegas (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile) - Machiavelli and ‘political realism’: Gramsci’s interpretation of Machiavelli Ross Speer (Oxford University, UK) Machiavellian Marxists: Comparing aspects of Gramsci’s and Althusser’s interpretations of Machiavelli Sebastian Neubauer (FU Berlin, Germany) Gramsci’s Machiavelli between Althusser and Gramsci Anthony Crézégut (Science-Po, France) - An imaginary Gramscism? Early French Gramscism and the quest for a Marxist Humanism (1947-1965)
Roberto Roccu (King’s College London, UK) - Neoliberalism as Passive Revolution? A Comparative Analysis of France and Egypt Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar (University of New Mexico, US) - Passive revolution, resistance, and a theory of antipassive revolution: Insights from antineoliberal struggles in Latin America Serhat Yalcin (University of Kassel, Germany) - The neoliberal transformation of the Arab Gulf countries: A process of passive revolution? Insights from the United Arab Emirates
Corey Gibson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) - Gramsci in a Glasgow Prison Anne Freeland (Columbia University, US) - Gramsci and Latin American Subaltern Studies Daniel Fuchs (SOAS, UK) - Gramsci in China. Conceptual reflections on the operationalization of materialist theories of state and hegemony for an analysis of political stability in the People’s Republic of China Bilge Duruturk & Mustafa Ali Sezal (Yildirim Beyazit University & Hacettepe University, Turkey) - Reading Turkey’s political life through Gramscian lenses: an analysis of historical blocs
17.00 – 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.30
ROOM S-2.18 - Roundtable: “PAST OR PRESENT: To what degree are Gramsci's concepts still relevant today?” Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck, UK); Carl Levy (Goldsmiths University of London, UK); Cosimo Zene (SOAS, UK); Derek Boothman (University of Bologna, Italy)
Friday, 19.6.2015 (ROOMS: Safra Lecture Theatre; K-1.56; K2.29; K0.17 for book stalls) PLENARY AND SESSION IV – FRIDAY MORNING
9:45-10:45
Safra Lecture Theatre - Keynote: Alex Loftus (King’s College London, UK) – Gramsci and Geography
10:45-11:00
15 min to change room
11:00-12:30
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K2.29
THE INTEGRAL HISTORIAN Chair: Carl Levy (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
SUBJECTIVITY AND INTELLECTUALS Chair: Alex Loftus (King’s College London, UK)
Michele Fiorillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)- From the critic of parliamentarism to the “true democracy” in a gramscian perspective
12.30 - 13.15
Duygu Ersoy (Istanbul Gedik University, Turkey) - Searching for the “Sense of Distinction”: An Examination of Gramsci’s Contribution to the Literature on Intellectuals
Sadia Schneider (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Contesting Hegemony: A Gramscian Enquiry into the German Revolution 191819
Matia Vaz Pato (University of Pavia, Italy) - The Gramscian intellectual and culture. New research perspectives
Alessio Panichi (University of Pisa, Italy) - Between Belonging and Originality. Norberto Bobbio’s Interpretation of Gramsci
Kevin Molin (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) - Gramsci’s epigones in the present time
Lunch break
SESSION V – FRIDAY AFTERNOON
13.15 – 14.45
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K2.29
GRAMSCI’S PHILOSOPHY AND THE MARXIAN LEGACY Chair: Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino, Italy)
GRAMSCI ON LANGUAGE Chair: Derek Boothman (University of Bologna, Italy)
Francesca Savoia (UNAM, Mexico) - The Marxian legacy and the philosophical autonomy of Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis
Alen Suceska (University of Frankfurt, Germany) - Hegemonic Language
Aaron Bernstein (King’s College London, UK) - title TBA
Marta Wroblewska (Warwick University, UK) - Antonio Gramsci on translation and in translation
Francesca Antonini (University of Pavia, Italy)- Interpreting the present from the past: Gramsci, Marx and the historical Can Irmak Özinanir (Ankara University, Turkey) analogy Translatability and Media as a Hegemonic Apparatus
14:45-15:00
15 min to change room
SESSION VI AND CLOSING PLENARY – FRIDAY AFTERNOON
15.00 – 16.00
ROOM K-1.56
ROOM K2.29
THE GRAMSCIAN CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE Chair: Derek Boothman (University of Bologna, Italy)
CULTURE, LITERATURE AND (ANTI) COLONIALISM Chair: Alessandro Carlucci (Oxford University, UK)
Elisabetta della Corte (University of Calabria, Italy) - The "deconstruction" of scientific ideology in Gramsci
Thomas Langley (Newcastle University, UK) - Killing (and Eating) a Chinese Mandarin: Reading Anti-Colonialism in Gramsci’s Early Writings
Massimiliano Badino & Pietro Omodeo (MPIWG, Germany/MIT, US) - Hegemony in the History of Science
Ingo Pohn-Lauggas (University of Vienna, Austria) - Past and Present: Popular Literature
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30
Safra Lecture Theatre - Keynote: Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino, Italy), Time and Revolution in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
17.30 - 18.00
Safra Lecture Theatre - Closing Remarks
