Events and Seminars 2011-12

Andrew Kliman, Professor of Economics at Pace University in New York

The Failure of Capitalist Production

September 12

Professor Amiya Kr. Bagchi, (one of foremost contemporary political economists from India) India today: Democracy, oligarchy or popular power?

September 19

G. M. Tamás, (Hungarian philosopher and writer, amongst the most distinguished critical voices from Europe)
A Post-Capitalist Order - Normative Ideas versus History

October 17

Professor Sabah Alnasseri, Political Science, (scholar of the Middle East)
Revolutionaries seldom harvest the fruit! On the current revolutionary situation in the Arab Middle East

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November 7

John Saul, Professor Emeritus, Political Science (renowned scholar, activist, authority on Africa)

The liberation of the liberation struggle: The success and failure of the "thirty years war for southern African liberation" and the continuing regional struggle   

Click here for Professor Saul’s paper

November 8

Rathika Sitsabaiesan
NDP MP for Scarborough-Rouge River and the Official Opposition Post-Secondary Education Critic

November 14

Omri Evron (MA student; activist; conscientious war objector)

The Israeli Summer: The 2011 Social Protest Movement in Israel

November 16

Michael Marder, Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Introduction to the Politics of Fire: The last elemental regime of Carl Schmitt

YORK LANES 280N

November 21

Himani Bannerji, Professor of Sociology, York University (renowned Marxist, feminist and anti-racist theorist)
A pedagogy of decolonization: Reflections on Rabindranath Tagore, Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon

December 5

Michael Kraetke, Chair, Political Science, Lancaster University, UK, (renowned political economist and scholar of Marx/Marxisms)

Why could Marx not complete 'Capital'?

January 9, 2012

Marcelle Dawson, University of Johannesburg, (South African activist and academic)

Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa

January 17, 2012

Norman Levine, professor emeritus and Executive Director at the Institute for International Policy, USA, (author and renowned expert on Marx)

"Hegel and Marx on State and Civil Society"