As an alternative to the annual London Conference, the Historical Materialism Editorial Board has curated a small number of panels to maintain conversations and give comrades intellectual nourishment between the 5th and the 15th November.
Topics covered will include: the US election; the Coronavirus pandemic; class, race, and capital; Marxism and intersectionality; social reproduction; queer Marxism; history, law, and capitalism; and more. After they've aired live, sessions will remain viewable on Haymarket's YouTube channel.
At Haymarket, we are offering 50% Off the entire Historical Materialism Book Series for the duration of the virtual conference.
View the conference schedule and register for sessions below:
Historical Materialism 2020:
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Nov 5, 1:30pm EST |
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (David McNally, Maia Pal & Tithi Bhattacharya) |
Watch here |
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Nov 6, 10:00am EST |
Performance and Political Economy (Shane Boyle, Martin Young & Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal) | Watch here |
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Nov 6, 1:00pm EST |
The Partisan Counter Archive: Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (Gal Kirn, Angela Dimitrakaki, Esther Leslie & Sezgin Boynik) | Watch here |
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Nov 7, 8:00am EST |
Historical Materialism: Meet the Editors (Panagiotis Sotiris, Maia Pal, Miriyam Aouragh, et al) | RSVP here |
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Nov 7, 10:00am EST |
Engels at 200 (Michael Roberts & Camilla Royle) | Watch here |
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Nov 7, 1:30pm EST |
The 2020 US Election: Bourgeois Democracy in Crisis (Kali Akuno, Meagan Day & Peter Drucker) | Watch here |
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Nov 8, 9:00am EST |
Notes from Below: Worker Writing and Class Composition | RSVP here |
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Nov 8, 1:00pm EST |
The Southern Key: Class, Race & Radicalism in the 1930s & 1940s (Michael Goldfield, Charlie Post & Ahmed White) |
Watch here |
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Nov 9, 11:00am EST |
Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy, and Coercion | Watch here |
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Nov 9, 1:30pm EST |
Intersectional Frameworks and Marxist Analysis (Ashley Bohrer, Holly Lewis & Paul Reynolds) | Watch here |
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Nov 10, 10:00am EST |
Leftovers Virtual: Reading Marx in the Age of Uprisings and Pandemics (Jordy Cummings, Jules Joanne Gleeson, A. Jaffe) | Watch here |
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Nov 10, 1:00pm EST |
CANCELLED Queer Anti-Racist Marxism in Pandemic Times (Grietje Baars, Gianfranco Rebucini, Megan Hoetger & Nat Raha) |
RSVP here |
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Nov 11, 9:00am EST |
Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks (Rob Jackson, Peter Thomas, et al) |
Watch here |
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Nov 11, 12:00pm EST |
Whither Real Abstraction? (Katerina Kolozova, Alberto Toscano & Conrad Hamilton) |
Watch here |
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Nov 12, 10:00am EST |
Transgender Marxism: A Discussion (Elle O'Rourke & Jules Joanne Gleeson) |
Watch here |
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Nov 12, 1:30pm EST |
Locust Review: Irrealism as Socialist Cultural Strategy (Alex Billet, Holly Lewis, et al) |
Watch here |
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Nov 13, 7:30am EST |
Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community (Peer Illner, Emma Teitelman, Aaron Benanav) |
Watch here |
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Nov 13, 10:00am EST |
Social Reproduction: Scope and Limits (Sue Ferguson & Jonathan Martineau) |
Watch here |
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Nov 13, 1:00pm EST |
Deutscher Prize Lecture Discussion: The New Enclosure (Brett Christophers, Mary Robertson & Grace Blakeley) |
Watch here |
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Nov 14, 7:00am EST |
The Pandemic and Responses: India (Paromita Chakrabarti, Ashwin Varghese & Aishwarya Rajeev) |
Watch here |
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Nov 14, 11:00am EST |
Politics of the Pandemic: Panel 1 (Rob Wallace, Richard Seymour, Josep Maria Antentas, et al) |
Watch here |
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Nov 14, 1:30pm EST |
Politics of the Pandemic: Panel 2 (Mike Davis, Andreas Malm, Panagiotis Sotiris) |
Watch here |
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Nov 15, 5:30am EST |
Historicizing Law and Capitalism: New Directions (Ntina Tzouvala, Rose Parfitt, et al) |
Watch here |
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Nov 15, 8:00am EST |
21st Century Socialism (Oisín Gilmore, Marie Moran & Paula Rauhala) |
Watch here |
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Nov 15, 11:00am EST |
Marxism and Identity Politics: Roundtable (Julia Damphouse, Ashok Kumar, Miriyam Aouragh) |
Watch here |
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