Programme

Programme (updated on Sept. 24th)

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Marx  1818 / 2018

New developments on Karl Marx’s thought and writings

9.15 am                     

Plenary session 1 / Opening (1)

Chair: Heinz D. Kurz — room ‘François de Sales’

• Regina Roth (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)

Potentials in the legacy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Concepts of the critical edition (MEGA)

• Kenji Mori (Tohoku University, Japan)

New aspects of Marxian crisis theory in MEGA. The Books of Crisis and the Tooke-Newmarch excerpts.

10.30 am / Coffee break

11 am             

Plenary session 2 / Opening (2)

Chair: Christian Gehrke — room ‘François de Sales’  

• Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz, Austria)

Will the MEGA2 edition be a watershed in interpreting Marx?

• Izumi Omura (Tohoku University, Japan)

Re-examining the authorship of the “Feuerbach” chapter in The German Ideology on the basis of a hypothesis of dictation  

• Oleg Ananyin (National Research University HSE, Moscow, Russia)

Design of Marx’s Capital. An outline of intellectual history 

12.30 am / Lunch

2 pm              

Parallel session 3A / Money

Chair: Jean Cartelier — room ‘François de Sales’

• Michele Ciccone (University of Siena, Italy)

Some notes on interest and money in Marx’s analysis

• Giovanni Scarano (University of Roma Tre, Italy)

The dialectical view of real and financial crises in Marx's thought

• Rebeca Gómez Betancourt (University Lumière Lyon 2, France) & Matari Pierre Manigat (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Mexico)

James Steuart and the making of Karl Marx’s monetary thought.

Parallel session 3B / French speaking session

Chair: Alain Béraud — room ‘Michel Rua’

• Pierre Le Masne (University of Poitiers, France)

D'où vient la théorie de l'exploitation de Marx?

• Jean-Pierre Potier (University Lumière Lyon 2, France)

Karl Marx (et Friedrich Engels), les salaires et la question de la paupérisation

• Alexandre Chirat (University Lumière Lyon 2, France)

Marx et l’émergence de la société par actions : fonctions, revenus et classes de la ‘grande industrie’

3.30 pm / Coffee break

4 pm              

Parallel session 4A / Origin and development of capitalism

Chair: Susumu Takenaga — room ‘François de Sales’  

• Jonathan Perraton (University of Sheffield, Great Britain)

Marx and the development of development economics

• Nicolas Eyguesier (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Marx and Sismondi on primitive accumulation.

• Marcello Musto (York University, Canada)

Marx and the controversy on the development of capitalism in Russia

Parallel session 4B / Individualism and philosophy of history

Chair: Ludovic Frobert — room ‘Michel Rua’

• Daniel Diatkine (University of Évry / Paris-Saclay, France) & Ragip Ege (University of Strasbourg, France)

Three aspects of ‘production’ in Marx

• Vitantonio Gioia (University of Salento, Italy)

Individualism and social change. An unexpected theoretical dilemma in Marxian analysis

• Riccardo Soliani (University of Genoa, Italy)

Marx and Fourier. Criticism of contemporary society and new philosophical anthropology

5.45 pm / Cocktail

Thursday 28 September

9 am              

Plenary session 5 / Ground rent — Falling rate of profit

Chair: Richard Sturn — room ‘François de Sales’

• Susumu Takenaga (Daito Bunka University, Japan)

Marx’s research on the theory of ground rent during the first half of 1860s — manuscripts of 1861-63, chapter 6 of the main manuscript of Book III of Capital (1865), and the related excerpt notes (agro-chemistry of Liebig)

• Saverio Maria Fratini (Roma Tre University, Italy)

Is Marx’s absolute rent due to a monopoly price?

• Jou Ishii (Kanto Gakuin University, Japan)

Marx’s theories of falling rate of profit and relative surplus population. Comparison with those of J. S. Mill

10.30 am / Coffee break

11 am             

Parallel session 6A / Philosophy and economy

Chair: David Andrews — room ‘François de Sales’  

• Herbert De Vriese (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Karl Marx and ruthless pragmatism. An unknown character study by Edgar Bauer

• Zacharias Zoubir (Sophiapol, University of Paris Nanterre, France)

 ‘Alienation’ and Critique in Marx’s 1857-1858 manuscripts (Grundrisse)

• Michele Bee (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Marx and the emancipation of human senses

Parallel session 6B / Wage labour and human capital

Chair: Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira — room ‘Michel Rua’  

• Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University of London, Great Britain) & Naoki Yoshihara (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Unequal exchange, international justice and migration

• Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

How capitalists dominate: Marx’s modes of subsumption revisited

• Cosimo Perrotta (University of Salento, Italy)

Crises and consumption in Marx and his followers

12.30 am / Lunch

2 pm              

Parallel session 7A / Critique of political economy (1)

Chair: Renee Prendergast — room ‘François de Sales’  

• Guillaume Fondu (University of Rennes, France)

What is to be done with Capital? Meanings of the critique of political economy

• Philippe Gillig (University of Strasbourg, France)

Marx, the “Wakefield system” and the critique of political economy

• Eric Rahim (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain)

Marx — From Hegel and Feuerbach to Adam Smith. A new synthesis

Parallel session 7B / Labour and value

Chair: Jean-Pierre Potier — room ‘Michel Rua’

• Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo, Italy)

The adventures of ‘Vergesellschaftung’ in Marx

• Wilfried Parys (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Labour values versus energy values. Some developments on the common substance of value since 1867

• Jean Cartelier (University of Paris Ouest, France)

From ‘the double character of the labour embodied in commodities’ to payment matrices. A critical analysis of Marx’s commodity theory

3.30 pm / Coffee break

4 pm              

Parallel session 8A / Critique of political economy (2)

Chair: Saverio Maria Fratini — room ‘François de Sales’  

• Renee Prendergast (Queen’s University Belfast, Great Britain)

Historical materialism and Karl Marx’s engagement with doctrines of progress

• David Andrews (State University of New York at Oswego, USA)

Self‐movement of nature and capital: the Aristotelian roots of Marx’s critique of classical political economy

• Jacob Samuel Abolafia (Harvard University, USA)

“Classical” Political Economy: Marx’s Aristotelianism Revisited

Parallel session 8B / Labour, employment and class struggle

Chair: Roberto Veneziani — room ‘Michel Rua’

• Nick Deschacht (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Marx and the economics of monopsony: the power of capitalists to set wages

• Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira & Ragip Ege (University of Strasbourg, France)

The employment contract with externalized costs: the avatars of Marxian exploitation

• Michael Assous (University Lumière Lyon 2, France)

Marx and Kalecki on (in)stability and class struggle

7.30 pm / Gala dinner