Sunday, 8 February 2009

Communists sans Communism

The Program for the communism conference featuring JR at Birkbeck in March:

ON THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM

13th/14th/15th March 2009

Logan Hall, Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL

Friday March 13

2pm Costas Douzinas - Welcome

Alain Badiou Introductory remarks

Michael Hardt “The Production of the Common”

Bruno Bosteels “The Leftist Hypothesis: Communism in the Age of Terror”

Peter Hallward “Communism of the Intellect, Communism of the Will”

Alberto Toscano “Communist Power / Communist Knowledge”


Jean-Luc Nancy will be present throughout the conference and will intervene in the discussions.

6 pm End


Saturday March 14

10am Alessandro Russo “Did the Cultural Revolution End Communism?”

Wang Hui “Transition towards Socialism”

Toni Negri “Communisme: reflexions sur le concept et la pratique”


1pm Lunch


Birkbeck institute for the Humanities



3pm Terry Eagleton “Communism: Lear or Gonzalo?”

Jacques Ranciere “Communists without Communism?”

Alain Badiou ”Communism: a generic name”


6pm End


Sunday March 15

10am Slavoj Zizek “To begin from the beginning over and over again”

Gianni Vattimo “Weak Communism?”

Judith Balso “Communism: a hypothesis for philosophy, an impossible name for politics?”


Concluding Debate

2pm End

2 comments:

Hugo said...

I'm sorry to say, but it's already sold out. I was really looking forward to that conference. I kept looking for it, to register, since December. Then, in January, forgot to check for one week, and precisely then it became available and sold out.

Phil Major said...

Hugo,

Last I checked there were tickets available (Feb 12). They released more tickets, as they apparently found a larger space.

Cheers!