Conference Schedule with Conference Papers
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Day 1: Friday, April 27th, 2018
8:30AM - 9:00AM Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30AM Welcome Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Albert Scharenberg, Ethan Earle
9:30 - 10:15AM - Memorial for William A. Pelz by Axel Fair-Schulz - Memorial for Narihiko ITO by Ottokar Luban
10:15AM - 10:20AM Short Break
10:20AM - 12:15PM Panel 1 Reports on International Research - Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Universiyof Calcutta, India “Evaluation of Rosa Luxemburg : an examination of changing perspectives of international scholarship"
- MA Jiahong, University Peking, PR of China; Post-doc researcher at IISH, Amsterdam, Netherlands „Review and Prospect of Chinese Study in Rosa Luxemburg”
- Axel Fair-Schulz, State University of New York, Potsdam, USA "Rosa Luxemburg and the November Revolution: Recent Trends in Historiography"
- Uwe Sonnenberg, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany Report: “Coming (Co-)Organized Events by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung on the Centenary of the German Revolution 1918/19” Chair: Mario Keßler
12:15PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM - 2:10PM P a r a l l e l Panel 2 a Race, Class, and Movement Building - Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, USA “Racism and the Logic of Capital: A Marxist-Humanist Assessment of the Relevance of Luxemburg’s Thought for Today’s Struggles Against Racism”
- Valentine Eben, Univ. of Minnesota, USA "A View from Indymedia Africa: What would Luxembourg Say About Today's Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Revolution? Chair: Michael Löwy
1:00PM - 2:10PM P a r a l l e l Panel 2 b The Private Rosa Luxemburg - Helen Scott, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA “’Like a flash from eternity’: Rosa Luxemburg on Literature”
- Rory Castle Jones, Swansea Univ., Wales, UK “’All the hidden, bitter tears’”: family, identity and the shaping of revolutionary Red Rosa” Chair: Helen Boak
2:10PM - 2:15PM Short Break
2:15PM – 3:25 Panel 3 Rosa Luxemburg and Colonialism - Alyssa Adamson, Stony Brook University, NY, USA “Rosa Luxemburg and Decolonial Political Theory
- Sandra Rein, University of Alberta, Canada “Rosa Luxemburg on colonialism: Why it still Matters” Chair: Lorraine Cohen
3:25PM – 3:40PM Coffee/Tea Break
3:40PM - 6:00PM Panel 4 Luxemburg and Other Female Socialist Thinkers - Andreas Stuhlmann, University of Alberta, Canada “The Ghost of Rosa Luxemburg”: Hannah Arendt on Undogmatic Judgment, Spontaneity, and Revolution” - Eleni Varikas, Univ. Paris 8/ Saint-Denis, CNRS, France; 2018: Visiting Prof. at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA, “Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt and the question of plurality”
- Franklin Dmitryev, Chicago, USA “Revolutionary Intercommunication between the Ages: The "Dialogue" between Rosa Luxemburg and Raya Dunayevskaya”
- Dana Mills, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK “Going Ahead in 1893: when Eleanor met Rosa” Chair: Sandra Rein
6:00PM - 6:05PM Short Break
6:05PM - 7:45PM Keynote 1 Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ, USA “The Contemporary Significance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Feminism” Chair: Ankica Čakardič
Day 2: Saturday, April 28th 8:30AM - 9:00AM Light Breakfast
9:00AM - 10:40AM Panel 5
Discussions on Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital (1) - Bradley Mayer, San Leandro, California, USA “Primitive Accumulation Inside and Out” Chair: Ingo Schmidt
10:40AM - 10:45AM Short Break
10:45AM - 11:45AM Panel 6 Discussions on Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital (2) - LIN Haochao, Wuhan University, PR of China “The Inevitable Rise of Opposing Individual Freedom in Modernization: Based on the Theory of the Accumulation of Capital”
- Ankica Čakardič, Univ. Zagreb, Croatia “Rosa Luxemburg and ‘woman question’- From theory of accumulation to social reproduction theory” Chair: MA Jiahong
11:45AM - 12:00PM Coffee/Tea Break
12:00PM - 1:10PM Keynote 2 - Helen Boak, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK “Women in the German revolution, 1918/19” Chair: Alyssa Adamson
1:10PM - 2:00PM Lunch
2:00PM - 4:00PM P a r a l l e l Panel 7 a Marxist Thinking - Julia Killet, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, office Munich, Germany „Rosa Luxemburg‘s advice to the socialist movement (Considerations by the Luxemburg Biographer Paul Froelich)”
- Mario Keßler, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany "Ossip K. Flechtheim, 1909-1998: Editor of Rosa Luxemburg's Works and Pioneer of Research on Communism in Germany"
- ZHANG, Meng, Wuhan University, PR of China “Reflection on the Relationship between Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought and Marx’s Theory” Chair: Albert Scharenberg
2:00PM - 4:00PM P a r a l l e l Panel 7 b Rosa Luxemburg’s Activities in the Socialist Movement - Arunas Vysniauskas, University Vilnius, Lithuania “Rosa Luxemburg and the Polish ‘mosaic’ in Lithuania”
- Reiner Tosstorff, University Mainz, Germany „Between Bockenheim, Hanau and Frankfurt: Rosa Luxemburg's Rhein-Main connections“
- Ottokar Luban, Berlin, Germany “The Spartacus Group in the German Novemberrevolution 1918/19” Chair: Rory Castle
4:00PM - 4:10PM Coffee/Tea Break
4:10PM - 6:00PM Panel 8 Party and Leadership - Chris Cutrone, School of the Art Institute, University of Chicago, USA “Rosa Luxemburg and the Party”
- Lorraine Cohen, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA “Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of leadership: An Alternative Approach”
- Edward Remus, Ronald Williams Library, Northern Illinois University, Chicago "American Bernstein, American Luxemburg: Views of the SPD's revisionist dispute and great schism from the Socialist Party of America, 1900-1918”
- Henry Holland, Hamburg, Germany “Beyond Nationalisms: Spontaneity and Working-Class Organization in Scotland, 2012-2017 through the lens of Luxemburg’s dialectic” Chair: Kaveh Boveiri
6:00PM – 6:05PM
Short Break
6:05PM - 8:00PM
International Plenary Chances for Socialist Solutions of Current World Problems? With Erek Slater, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Chicago; Michael Löwy, Brazil; Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, India; Ankica Čakardič, Croatia; Jiahong Ma, PR China; Ingo Schmidt, Canada Chair: Peter Hudis
Day 3: Sunday, April 29th 8:30AM - 9:00AM Light Breakfast
9:00AM - 10:45AM Panel 9 Luxemburg and Lukács and Gramsci: Interpretations and Evaluations - Kaveh Boveiri, Univ. Montreal, Canada „Lukács’s Reading of Rosa Luxemburg’s Conception of Totality: A Reappraisal”
- Sevgi Doğan, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy “ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT AS POLITICAL ACTION THROUGH GRAMSCI AND LUXEMBURG”
- Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA “Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike: A Corrective to Gramsci’s Critique” Chair: Ethan Earle
10:45AM - 11:00AM Coffee/Tea Break
11:00AM - 12:45PM Panel 10 Socialist Internationalism versus Imperialism - Michael Löwy, Univ. Paris, France, Paris, France; 2018: Visiting Prof. at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA “Rosa Luxemburg and Internationalism“ https://www.dropbox.com/s/caa8icxzrer2khb/Copie%20de%20secours%20de%20Rosa%20Luxemburg%2C%20Internationalism%2C%202018.doc?dl=0
- Attila Antal, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary: “Anti-war Theory and Activism in Permanent State of Exception”
- Ingo Schmidt, Athabasca University, Canada “Hilferding, Luxemburg & Lenin on Imperialism: Variations Amongst the Classic” Chair: Bradley Mayer
12:45PM - 1:00PM Farewell Words Peter Hudis, Ottokar Luban, Albert Scharenberg
Pablo Slavin had to cancel his paticipation due to a serious case of illness in his family but sent his paper: - Prof. Dr. Pablo Slavin, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina “The Thinking of Rosa Luxemburg in our Time: The Fight for the Right to the City”
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