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
