MARX 200

Marx (1818-2018):
Central and Eastern European Perspectives

International scientific conference with English-Hungarian simultaneous interpretation

 

Time and location: 9 am, Wednesday, October 17,
Institute of Political History (1054 Budapest, Alkotmány str. 2.).

 

Organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Budapest) and Social Theory Research Group (STRG) at Institute of Political History

 

Programme

 

Opening – VIDEO

Jörg Bergstermann (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) 

Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History)

 

PANEL 1
Anti-Communism and Political Avant-Garde
Chair: Zsolt Kapelner

MICHAEL HAUSER (Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Marx and the Regressive Political Avant-Garde in Central and Eastern Europe – VIDEO

PAUL STUBBS (Senior research fellow, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb): Marxism and Welfare: Rethinking the Yugoslav Exception – VIDEO

Q&A – VIDEO

 

PANEL 2
Marxist Perspectives from Romania and Yugoslavia
Chair: Attila Antal

ATTILA SZIGETI (Researcher, Hungarian Institute of Philosophy Babeș-Bolyai University): Behind the Value-form: Expropriation of Social Reproduction and Nature as the Enabling Condition of Capitalism – VIDEO

ALEXANDRU CISTELECAN (Independent researcher, Romania): Avatars of Marx and Marxism in Contemporary Romania – VIDEO

Q&A – VIDEO

 

PANEL 3
Marx in the Centre and on the Margins
(Co-organizer: Eszmélet)
Chair: Tamás Krausz

RASTKO MOČNIK (Sociologist and literary theorist, Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, Belgrade): Marx in Yugoslavia and After – VIDEO

MARCELLO MUSTO (Associate professor of political theory, Department of Sociology York University, Toronto, Canada): The Late Marx on non-Western Societies – VIDEO

ANITA ZSURZSÁN (PhD-student, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities): Gender politics and Anti-communism in Eastern Europe – VIDEO

Q&A – VIDEO

 

PANEL 4
Karl Polanyi and Karl Marx: Connections and debates
(Co-organizer: Polanyi Center)
Chair: Alexandra Kowalski (Assistant professor, Central European University)

GARETH DALE (Senior lecturer, Brunel University): Marx, Polanyi, and Europe’s “Immigration Crisis” – VIDEO

KOMLOSY ANDREA (Professor, Universität Wien): Re-visiting Surplus Value and Unpaid Work – VIDEO

SERCAN CINAR (PhD-candidate, Central European University): “To arrive its own content:” The Commune, Marxism, and Self-Government in Rojava – VIDEO

Q&A – VIDEO

 

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OUR FORMER MARX 200 EVENTS
(the lectures are recorded)

2018. 10.17-18. – A tőke 150 éve (in Hungarian language)

2018. 05. 30. – Marx 200 – Egy hosszú élet és utóélet (in Hungarian language)

 

OUR BOOK
(under preparation – is scheduled to be published in the end of 2018):

Marx… Interpretációk, irányzatok, iskolák (in Hungarian language)

Napvilág Publishing House

 

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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

 

Social Theory Research Group (STRG)