Hosted by:
The National Research Base for World Marxism and Thought Trends,
The School of Philosophy,
and The Center for Contemporary Marxism Abroad
of Fudan University
http://www.fudan.edu.cn/englishnew/
http://wmarxism.fudan.edu.cn/foreign_m/english/index.asp
Shanghai, July 17 2010
Room 2401, Guang Hua Tower (West Main Building)
During the last few years there has been a huge and widespread resurgence of interest in Karl Marx. The literature dealing with Marx, which had effectively disappeared 15 years ago, shows signs of revival in many countries. There has been an analogous growth in international conferences, university courses and seminars dedicated to this author.
Faced with the crisis of capitalist society and the deep contradictions within it, Marx, who was too hastily put aside after 1989, and whose thought still seems impossible to dismiss for purposes of comprehending and transforming the present, should now be interrogated again.
What remains of Marx today? How useful is his thought to the struggle for the freedom of humanity? What part of his work is most fertile for stimulating the critique of our times? The goal of the conference is to highlight the continuing explanatory power of Marxian categories for contemporary society and to establish a serious dialogue on Marx and Marxism between Asian and Western scholars.
8:30-8:45 Opening Speeches
Chair: Wang Xingfu
Chen Xue-ming
(Fudan University – Shanghai, Vice Director of the Center for Contemporary Marxism Abroad)
Marcello Musto
(York University – Canada, Toronto)
8:45-9:00 Photos
9:00-10:25 Session I
Marx and the Critique of Philosophy
Chair: Hiroshi Uchida
Norman Levine (Institute of International Policy – Phoenix, USA), The Doctrine of Essence in Hegel’s ‘Science of Logic’ and the Methodology of ‘Capital’
Liu Senlin (Sun Yat-sen University – Philosophy Department), Nihilism and Marx: a Rethinking
Wu Mong (Fudan University – School of Philosophy), The Philosophical Foundation of Communist Conception
Yang Haifeng (Peking University – Philosophy Department), Critique of Metaphysics, Capital Logic and Totality, and Social Critique Theory. The Three Critical Dimensions of Marx’s Philosophy
10:25-10:35 Coffee Break
10:35-11:50 Session II
Marx and a New Critical Theory of Contemporary Capitalism
Chair: Seongjin Jeong
Marcello Musto (York University – Toronto, Canada), History, Totality of Production and Scientific Method in the ‘1857 Introduction’
Wang Xingfu (Fudan University – Vice Director of the Center for Contemporary Marxism in Foreign Countries), The Meaning of Social Theory’s turn in the Marxist Tradition
George Comninel (York University – Toronto, Canada), The Limits of Exploitation and Potential for Emancipation: Capitalism as the Apex of Social Property Relations
11:50-12:20 Questions and Discussion
Chair: Zhang Shuang-li
12:30-13:30 Lunch at the Dining Hall for Faculty Members of Fudan University
14:00-15:10 Session III
Marx and the Globalization
Chair: Norman Levine
Seongjin Jeong (Gyeongsang National University, Seoul – South Korea), Marx’s Crisis Theory and Global Economic Crisis
Tong Shi-jun (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences – Director of Philosophy Institute),
Marx and the Possibility of Multiple Globalization—Writing in the Moment of Shanghai World Expo
Hiroshi Uchida (Senshu University, Tokyo – Japan), Marx’s Theory of Money as Potential for Globalization
15:10-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16:20 Session IV
Marxism(s) after Marx
Chair: Zhang Qing-xiong
Zhang Shuang-li (Fudan University – Vice Dean of Philosophy School Center for Contemporary Marxism in Foreign Countries), From Max Weber to Karl Marx – On George Lukacs’ Dual Critiques of the Capitalist Society
Li Wen-ge (Editorial board of the Journal Qiushi), The Basic problem Althusser’s Theory and its Relevances
Li Dian-lei (Wuhan University – Philosophy Department), Critical Social Theory and the Development of American Marxism
16:20-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session V
Marx in China Today
Chair: Wang Feng-cai
Xu Chang-Fu (Sun Yat-sen University – Philosophy Department), The De-theorization and De-liberalization of Marxism in China
Zou Shi-peng (Fudan University – School of Philosophy), Reflections on Studies of MEGA2 in China
Lu Shaochen (Fudan University – Center for Contemporary Marxism Abroad), Reflection on Sinification of Marxism in the New Period
17:30-18:00 Questions and Discussion
Chair:Tong Shi-jun
18:00-18:15 Summary of the Conference
Chair: Yu Wen-xiu
Wang Xingfu (Fudan University)
18:30 Dinner
The Resumption of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²)
Hosted by:
Chinese Academy of Social Science
http://www.cass.net.cn/
http://bic.cass.cn/english/InfoShow/Arcitle_Show_Cass.asp?BigClassID=1&Title=CASS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Social_Sciences
Beijing, July 22 2010
During the last few years there has been a widespread resurgence of interest in Karl Marx, even though with the end of the century its disappearance had been unanimously declared. One of the most significant examples of this rediscovery is the continuation of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2), the historico-critical edition of his complete works. From new philological discoveries there emerges a different author. The dogmatic thinker represented by Marxism-Leninism must be supplanted by the image of a scholar who left a major part of his writings incomplete, in order to carry on researching and verifying the validity of his claims. Faced with the crisis of capitalist society and the deep contradictions within it, this seminal author, who has been too hastily put aside after 1989, and whose thought still seems impossible to dismiss for the comprehension and transformation of the present, should now be interrogated once again.
http://myy.cass.cn/file/2010062836204.html
9:00-11:30 Session I
Chair: Cheng Enfu (Director of the Academy of Marxism of CASS)
Marcello Musto (York University – Toronto, Canada), The resumption of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²). Recent philological acquisitions and new critical interpretations of Marx’s oeuvre
George Comninel (York University – Toronto, Canada), Alienation, Emancipation, and the Critique of Political Economy in Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts
Norman Levine (Institute of International Policy – Phoenix, USA), Marx’s Discovery of the Proper Method of Criticism in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
12:00: Lunch
14:00-16:30 Session II
Chair: Feng Yanli (Director of the Department of International Marxism Research within the Academy of Marxism Research – CASS)
Terrell Carver (University of Bristol – England), The German Ideology Did Not Take Place
Kenji Mori (Sendai University – Japan), Never-before-published original reproduction schemata of Marx: philological findings in Manuscript II of Volume II of Capital
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later
Hosted by:
Central Compilation & Translation Bureau
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
http://www.cctb.net/
Beijing, July 24-25 2010
Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx’s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, the Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop elsewhere in his oeuvre and is therefore extremely important for an overall interpretation of his thought.
Analysing the collection Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (recently published into Chinese by China Renmin University Press), in this conference various international experts in the field present a Marx in many ways radically different from the one who figures in the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism and demonstrate the relevance of the Grundrisse to an understanding of Capital and of Marx’s theoretical project as a whole, which, as is well known, remained uncompleted.
July 24
9:00-12:00 Session I
Marx’s Grundrisse, then and now
Chair: YANG Jinhai (Central Compilation & Translation Bureau)
Marcello Musto (York University – Toronto, Canada), The Grundrisse’s Global Dissemination and Reception
ZHANG Shuguang (Beijing Normal University), Marx’s modern thought in the Grundrisse
Kenji Mori (Sendai University – Japan), The Grundrisse and the Birth of Multisectoral Analysis of Marx
WANG Dong (Peking University), The great achievement of economics, philosophy, world history: theoretical significance and contemporary value of the Grundrisse
12:00-13:00 lunch
14:00-17:30 Session II
Human Freedom and Social Production. The Contours of Marx’s Socialism in the Grundrisse
Chair: YANG Jinhai (Central Compilation & Translation Bureau)
Terrell Carver (University of Bristol – England), Marx’s Conception of Alienation in the Grundrisse
GU Hailiang (Wuhan University), Three forms of human development and the full development of individuals: an investigation in Marx’s most valuable thought in the Grundrisse
Norman Levine (Institute of International Policy – Phoenix, USA), Althusser’s Mis-Interpretation of the Grundrisse
LI Huibin (Central Compilation & Translation Bureau), Marx on the relation between production and distribution in the Grundrisse
18:00 dinner
July 25
9:00-12:00 Session III
Materialist Conception of History in the Grundrisse and Beyond
Chair: YANG Jinhai
George Comninel (York University – Toronto, Canada), Historical Materialism and Pre-capitalist Modes of Production in the Grundrisse
AN Qinian (Renmin University, Marx’s materialist conception of history in the Grundrisse
HAN Lixin (Tsinghua University), Chinese Germanic developmental road: an investigation in Marx’s Pre-capitalist modes of production
LU Kejian (Central Compilation & Translation Bureau), Is there any contradiction in materialist conception of history between the Grundrisse and Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy?
12:00-13:00 lunch
Discussants:
Robert Ware (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
DUAN Zhongqiao (Renmin University)
NIE Jinfang (Peking University)
YANG Xuegong (Peking University)
YUAN Jifu (Beijing Administrative College)
ZHANG Xiuqin (China University of Political Science and Law)
ZHENG Jiwei (Renmin University)
Reading Marx’s Grundrisse Today
Hosted by:
Centre for the Study of Marxist Social Theory
Nanjing University
http://www.ptext.cn/english/index.php
Nanjing, July 28-29 2010
Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx’s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, the Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop elsewhere in his oeuvre and is therefore extremely important for an overall interpretation of his thought.
Analysing the Grundrisse and the collection Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (recently published into Chinese by China Renmin University Press), in this conference various international experts in the field present a Marx in many ways radically different from the one who figures in the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism and demonstrate the relevance of the Grundrisse to an understanding of Capital and of Marx’s theoretical project as a whole, which, as is well known, remained uncompleted. The goal of the conference is also to highlight the continuing explanatory power of Marxian categories for contemporary society and its present contradictions.
July 28
8:30-8:50 Opening Speeches
Chair: HU Daping
(Vice Director of the Institute for Marxism Studies, Nanjing University)
TBA: Official from office of Education of JiangSu Province
Zhang Yibing
(Vice President of Nanjing University)
XU Jun
(Vice Dean of the Postgraduate Institute, Nanjing University)
Marcello Musto
(York University – Canada, Toronto)
8:50-10:00 Session I
Chair: Tang Zhengdong (Nanjing University)
Zhang Yibing (Vice President of Nanjing University),The Grundrisse and Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
Marcello Musto (York University – Canada, Toronto), Alienation Redux. The Contours of Marx’s Socialism in the Grundrisse
Questions and Discussion 15 minutes
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break and Group Photo
10:15-12:00 Session II.
Chair: Marcello Musto (York University – Canada, Toronto)
Terrell Carver (University of Bristol – England), Re-reading Marx’s 1857 Introduction to the Grundrisse
Liu Senlin (Sun Yat-sen University), Thing, Reification and Versachlichung
Tang Zhengdong (Nanjing University), The dialectical characteristic and its modern significance of Karl Marx’s cirtique of fetishism
Questions and Discussion 15 minutes
12:00-13:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Session III
Chair: Liu Senling (Nanjing University)
Norman Levine(Institute of International Policy – Phoenix, USA),The 1857 Introduction to the Grundrisse and the Organic Image in Kant, Hegel and Marx
Yao Shunliang (Centre for the Study of Marxist Social Theory. Nanjing University), Material Production and Free Activities: the significant breakthroughs from German Ideology to the Grundrisse
Yang Haifeng (Peking University), Historical Materialism in the Critique of Political Economy
Questions and Discussion 15 minutes
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00- 17:45 Session IV
Chair: Yang Haifeng (Nanjing University)
George Comninel (York University – Toronto, Canada), Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism: Recognizing the Anatomy of the Ape
Liu Huaiyu (Centre for the Study of Marxist Social Theory, Nanjing University), Two Modern Social Theories based on the Critical view of Political Economy
Chen Zhong (Soochow University), The logic of collective action and the basic innovation of social development theory
Questions and Discussion 15 minutes
18:00 dinner
July 28
8:30-10:30 Session V
Chair:Yuan Jiuhong (Southeast University)
Lang Jiang, (Wuhan University of Technology), The critique of Capitalism by Contemporary French Radical Theorists
Zhou Jiaxin, (Centre for the Study of Marxist Social Theory, Nanjing University), From Grundrisse to Capital: the modifications of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
SUN Leqiang (Institute for Marxism Studies, Nanjing University), Grundrisse and the Breakthroughs of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Thoughts
HU Daping (Nanjing University), The Discursive Formation and Quality of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
Questions and Discussion 15 minutes
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 Session VI: Graduate Students Panel
Chair: Hu Daping
Discussants: Yuan Jiuhong , Liu Huaiyu, Chen Zhong, and Lang Jiang
11:45- 12:00 closing address Summary of the Conference
Chair : Tang Zhengdong (Nanjing University)
12:30 Lunch
Marcello
Musto
