On behalf of the planning committee: thank you so much for a ✨FANTASTIC✨ conference!
Thanks to all comrades who attended with or without papers, thanks for the great discussions and thank you all so much for bringing amazing energy to this event! 💥✊
See you all next year!
Peter Osborne’s critique of Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty - which began its life as a keynote at our 7th annual conference in 2022 - is now out in print in the latest issue of
@NewLeftReview
👇👇👇
Our first keynote by
@CharmaineSChua
is underway, on what internationalism, global struggles, and the logistics revolution (and a little bit about Amazon) 🤩🤩
✨💥🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!🚨💥✨
Now is the time for YOU🫵 to submit your abstract for this year's conference!🔥
"The last half of the twentieth century saw the traditional industrial working class in the West decompose and its institutions suffer a series of decisive defeats.
This year’s conference location is currently an encampment in support of a free Palestine🇵🇸
We stand unconditionally with the brave students resisting complicity in genocide from Colombia to Copenhagen and beyond!✊
Today we launched our encampment at Rafah Garden at
@koebenhavns_uni
. Thank you for all the support. We recognize the irony of camping out at our campus while Palestinians are forced into displacement and mass death. Let’s keep our eyes on Palestine and keep up the pressure!
✨KEYNOTE
#1
✨
We are excited to present our first keynote, Dr Carolina Cristina Alves (
@cacrisalves
). She was recently appointed Associate Professor in Economics at University College London with research focusing on the IMF, the World Bank, and financial globalisation.
Our first keynote is underway!
Benno Teschke is giving the lecture ‘What Is Geopolitical Marxism? Radical Historicism and International Politics in Marxist IR’ 🤩
Apparently marxist conferences have become so popular in Denmark that we are literally running out of space!🤯
So if you want a spot at this year's conference to interact with these ✨amazing✨ presentations you need to register 🚨NOW🚨 as we only have like 10 spots left!
💕🥳The registration for the 9th conference is FINALLY OPEN!🥳💕
So if you (like us) are into FREE(!) marxist conferences with exciting presentations, decent coffee and great company from fellow marxists we strongly advise you to click the link below and register!
Day 4: No more papers from us at this year’s
@histmat
conference - but THANK YOU from the Danish delegation to all comrades for so many fantastic papers, chats, discussions, etc.
Hope to see some of you in Denmark next year for our 9th annual conference!
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
🚨KEY NOTE ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
We are high key, absolutely thrilled to reveal that our second keynote for this year's conference is
🥁🥁🥁
✨
@CharmaineSChua
✨
Charmaine Chua is a Singaporean organizer and writer, and Assistant Prof. of Global Studies at the University of California.
Would you all just look at THIS! A Danish translation by
@magnusz
of Kohei Saito's "Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism"! 😍
Get it before your comrades! 🔥
Well now it is!💝
The 2024 Conference for Marxist Studies will take place at Copenhagen University at the Dep. for Political Science.
It is located in central Copenhagen where there will be plenty of time to ignore tourist attractions and instead go to💖amazing presentations!💖
💖✨🙌PROGRAMME READY🙌✨💖
The preliminary programme for our eighth annual conference, "The National and the International", is now ready 👇
👀 More info to come here:
📣📣📣
The
#CallforAbstracts
for our 7th annual conference is out! This year's theme is 'Time and History in the Age of Capital' ⏰🦉💵
Submit your abstract of 200-300 words to info
@marxistiskestudier
.com by 1 June 💌
Read the full call here:
Yesterday, SMS executive committee member
@lotte_list
defended her dissertation, ‘Crisis Sovereignty - The Philosophy of History of the Exception’, and as expected it went swimmingly 🙌👩🎓🥳
And our own ✨brilliant✨ comettee members Marie-Louise Krogh,
@lotte_list
and
@magnusz
are doing exciting talks about politics and property in the Sattelzeit ✊♥️
Thank you for ✨1,000✨ followers!
We hope to see every single one of you at our conference in Copenhagen the 4th-5th of October!💕
And also if you would like to join the conference with a presentation you still have one more day to submit your abstract!🥳
Today, SMS executive committee member Charlotte Cator defended her PhD, ‘Transforming the City for Sustainable Futures?’, in which she investigates the potentials and limits of the city as a vehicle for transformative social change in the face of global capitalism 🏘️🏢🍩
✨✊🚩Happy May Day🚩✊✨
To celebrate, we are excited to announce the call for abstracts for our 8th annual conference
THE NATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL
to be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, on 6-7 October 2023.
Read on 👇
Just in case you missed it the first time: Our first keynote speaker this year is Heide Gerstenberger 🙀🤯 A living legend among Marxist historians, she has been working on the historical origins of the capitalist state for literally decades. Recently, she published this baby 👇
Yesterday, day 3 of SMS x
@histmat
saw a great presentation from
@NickLandlord
and all of us marching in the sun with a million others for a
#FreeGaza
✊🇵🇸
And
@Sorensen1995
is doing an absolutely 💥 presentation on the social relations of power in the global value chains og artificial intelligence systems!
Thanks to those of you who have submitted an abstract! We are beyond grateful for the amazing titles and the generel level of interest🥰
BUT!
We have noticed that a few of you did not yet submit an abstract and we can't have that... 🥺💔
📢 a week until our archival open day at
@maydayrooms
+ evening discussion with
@docteur_en_rien
on his new book, situationism, cybernetics and the fate of the avant-garde!
🎉KEYNOTE REVEAL!🎉
We are SO excited to announce that one of the keynotes for this 9th conference is... 🥁🥁🥁
✨Patrick Eiden-Offe!✨
Patrick is a literary and cultural scientist and Heisenberg Scholar at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Litteratur- und Kulturforschung.
Thanks for a great conference to everybody attending! It was a great pleasure again to bring together people working within Marxist and critical traditions from all sorts of different perspectives. We are, of course, planning to continue the success next year. So stay tuned!
The old stock market "Børsen" burned to the ground this week and
@docteur_en_rien
has written a brilliant critique on the public grief over the loss of a symbol of power and oppression and thereby setting the comment section on fire just like Børsen!💪🔥
These sessions at this fully booked (!) marxist conference is packed with good comrades, great questions and exciting debates. Here we have an absolutely packed room for Charlotte Cator's presentation on collective self-government and green governmentality😍
Second day at the Danish Marxist conference is off for a great start with a session on feminist critiques😍
Anne Mari Borchert is giving a 🔥 critique of the notion of "Women's litterature" ❤️✊
"This is a cheerful paper!" 💀
New day, new keynote: Peter Osborne presenting the paper "'Excessively Social'? Histories, Temporalities, (Geo-)Politics".
.
@HeinJessen
at the final session of the conference, brilliantly defending his title as reigning champion of the conference by presenting for the seventh consecutive year 🏆 (and thereby securing a comfortable lead over
@NicolaiVon
's 4 SMS conference presentations)
Deadline for submitting your 200-300 words of utter genius to this year's conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies, 'Time and History in the Age of Capital', is 🚨TOMORROW 🚨
So get cracking you lazy academics 📨📨📨
See the full call here:
📣 We are proud to announce this year's first keynote: Dr HEIDE GERSTENBERGER!
She is professor emerita of the theory of state and society at
@UniBremen
and her work focuses on the history and development of capitalist states, most famously in her book, 'Impersonal Power'.
In this session on "Colonial Struggles"
@zoezofia
is giving a talk about colonial reforms in nineteenth century Greenland as a milestone in the transformation of Greenlandic society from subsistence economy to wage labor and Market integration🔥💪
DKSMS is now on ✨instagram!✨
Here we will also keep you up to date on the 9th annual conference such as, call for abstracts, important deadlines, practical info, keynotes and other presenters and generel news for this year's conference which takes place in ✨💖Copenhagen!💖✨
Huge congratulations to Heide Gerstenberger (SMS keynote alumni 2022) for this much deserved win 😍👏👏
Market and Violence is a monumental work, and it deserves every bit of attention it can get!!!
That was quick - we are officially full, people 🤯🤯
If you have registered but cannot attend PLEASE remember to cancel so your spot can go to someone else!
Apparently marxist conferences have become so popular in Denmark that we are literally running out of space!🤯
So if you want a spot at this year's conference to interact with these ✨amazing✨ presentations you need to register 🚨NOW🚨 as we only have like 10 spots left!
Just a 🩷🦄🌸 friendly🌸🦄🩷 reminder from your favorite Danish Marxist conference organizers that you only have 5 more days to submit your abstract!
We are already OBSESSED over the amount of awesome abstracts we have gotten so far but we know there are more out there so:
Thanks to those of you who have submitted an abstract! We are beyond grateful for the amazing titles and the generel level of interest🥰
BUT!
We have noticed that a few of you did not yet submit an abstract and we can't have that... 🥺💔
Today, our committee member
@lotte_list
has written this very important and critical review of the republished edition of Theodor Adorno's "Zur Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus Heute" in the Danish newspaper
@informeren
!🔥
Link:
We are beyond excited and thankful (and slightly overwhelmed🥹) for the amount of abstracts this year!💕🩷
Thank you so much for taking your time and energy to submit amazing abstracts! It is so nice to see that marxist research is alive and well!🔥
Thank you!😍❤️
📚Looking to get
@docteur_en_rien
's superb new study of situationism, cybernetics and avant-garde agitation?
📢 Then join us at
@maydayrooms
at 6.30pm this Saturday (2nd March) to hear from Dominique and discuss all things situ!
Sign-up here:
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨
We have already received many great abstracts, but since we have a werewolf-like hunger for great critical scholarship, we have opted to extend the deadline to 15 JUNE 🐺
💌 Submit your abstract here:
✨✊🚩Happy May Day🚩✊✨
To celebrate, we are excited to announce the call for abstracts for our 8th annual conference
THE NATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL
to be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, on 6-7 October 2023.
Read on 👇
For this conference, we encourage contributions that critically engage with the intersections and interactions of class and other forms of classification."
Read the entire call and submit ✨your abstract✨ before May 1st through our website:
✨KEYNOTE
#2
✨
We are happy to announce our second keynote this year: Benno Teschke!
Dr Teschke is professor of international relations at the University of Sussex and a leading proponent of so-called Political Marxism, not least in the world of International Relations.
And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that this means that
@HeinJessen
retains his title as reigning champion of the conference as he has now presented at every single one of our 9 conferences 🫡
‼️ Are you joining us four our conference in Copenhagen today?
The main address for the venue is Øster Farimagsgade 5, but registration is in Building 35, which is more easily accesible from the side entrance at Gammeltoftsgade 15.
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
💕🥳The registration for the 9th conference is FINALLY OPEN!🥳💕
So if you (like us) are into FREE(!) marxist conferences with exciting presentations, decent coffee and great company from fellow marxists we strongly advise you to click the link below and register!
In the session on Colonial Struggle, Louis Cortés are presenting his paper "The Palestinian National Conflict as Class Struggle: Towards an International Industrial Reserve Army" ✊🇵🇸
Do you want to join more ✨amazing✨ conferences for critical research?
(Yes you do!)
Would you like to hear🔥line-ups of prominent researchers
(of course)
Can you get enough Scandinavian marxist conferences this autumn?
(No!)
Then join THIS conference at Lund University!✊
Mondays are the worst days😪
UNLESS! you are in Hvidovre at March 11th where you can join an interesting presentation about money, power and 19th century litterature by committee member 🌸Signe🌸
The event will be in Danish and tickets are available here
In the last 24h we have received about 20 top-notch abstracts, but we want MORE and are therefore officially extending the deadline 🙌
New deadline is JUNE 15.
The deadline will *not* be extended again, so send your 200-300 words post haste to info
@marxistiskestudier
.com📨🥰
Registration is now open!
👉 Submit your abstract before 1 June
👉 Register for the conference (free!) before 1 October
There is limited availability for the conference dinner, so it's literally first come first served! 😋🍲
✨✊🚩Happy May Day🚩✊✨
To celebrate, we are excited to announce the call for abstracts for our 8th annual conference
THE NATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL
to be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, on 6-7 October 2023.
Read on 👇
Copenhagen is almost ALWAYS rainy during October but all the amazing scholars who are joining us from abroad did not only bring 💕lovely presentations💕 but also lovely weather and we are very thankful🙏
I understand that
@DKMarxSoc
will be live-tweeting their conference proceedings from rainy Copenhagen; follow them to follow the day' s proceedings, starting with "Property and Empire Among the German Idealists."
Denmark’s only Adornorite Plato scholar and long-time friend of SMS, Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen, gives her retirement lecture on the balance between blindly following the newest trend and being old and grumpy.
Danish labour historian
@BertelNygaard
talking about his new book, "History and the Formation of Marxism", out now in the Marx, Engels, and Marxisms series from Brill
Registration is still open for the event of the year if you’re into critical scholarships cute Marxists, and are anywhere near Copenhagen in October 💖✨
(there are even a few available spots left for the conference dinner 🍛 - first come first served, literally!!)
💕🥳The registration for the 9th conference is FINALLY OPEN!🥳💕
So if you (like us) are into FREE(!) marxist conferences with exciting presentations, decent coffee and great company from fellow marxists we strongly advise you to click the link below and register!
If you would like to join the conference dinner you can pay a dinner fee through the registration formular.
Be aware that there are limited spots for the conference dinner!
Follow the link for both conference registration AND conference dinner ticket here:
This has left a growing number of “surplus populations” exposed to the naked imperatives of neoliberalism and increasingly militarised policing of intersecting hierarchies of class, race, gender, and colonialism.
Still need convicing that you should submit an abstract to our 7th annual conference, 'Time and History in the Age of Capital'?
Well, what if we tell you that our second keynote speaker this year will be Dr PETER OSBORNE 🙌🤯
No fewer than four of the organisers of our yearly conference, including Mikkel, will be presenting at HM - and so will many others who presented at our conference this year. So if you missed us in Aarhus, come say hi at this only slightly less awesome event i London! 🙋
The draft programme for Historical Materialism London 2022 looks great. I look forward to present on a panel with Lotte List and Rodrigo Costa de Andrade. My contribution is entitled “Against Sovereignty: Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Theology.”
‘Sexualities and Critiques of Capital’ special issue in
@kkf_journal
has just been published! So proud that it’s out - big thanks to
@LauraLoHorn
and
@LiuxinYB
for a wonderful editorial collaboration. And it’s open access!
#dkforsk
1/16
And last but not least! She co-founded the Marxist Institute of Research and organizes with the Logistics Workers League and Amazonians United, an independent union of Amazon warehouse workers! 🔥✊
Her interdisciplinary, scholarly and political work investigates how planetary networks of production and distribution shape the organization of racialized and class divisions within capitalist social formations
✨KEYNOTE
#1
✨
We are excited to present our first keynote, Dr Carolina Cristina Alves (
@cacrisalves
). She was recently appointed Associate Professor in Economics at University College London with research focusing on the IMF, the World Bank, and financial globalisation.
Of course, our very own
@docteur_en_rien
also had a piece in
@NewLeftReview
’s Sidecar recently, criticising Latour and Schultz’s ecological memo as “a ‘how to’ book for would-be climate activists … too timid to blow up a pipeline”
On today's episode of "Members of Danish Society for Marxist Studies Dropping Relevant and Absolute 🔥 Articles", we have
@M_Flohr
on Hannah Arendt's "We Refugees' Eighty Years Later" in the Latest issue of New Political Science!
🚨Now online is Mikkel Flohr's article " Beyond the Nation State: Rereading Hannah Arendt's 'We Refugees' Eighty Years Later" in our latest issue of NPS!
Available at:
He is the author of several books including the newly translated piece “The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat” where he focusses on the interconnections between literature, economics, and politics😍🔥
She is currently writing two books "The Logistics Counterrevolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation" And "How to Beat Amazon: The Struggle of America's New Working Class" co-authored with Spencer Cox: 🔥🔥
Also: if you by any chance have registered your attendance but are no longer able to participate PLEASE🙏 FOR THE LOVE OF MARX unregister your attendance so more people can join us!
We are looking so much forward to see you all very soon!🌸💕🩷
📣 We are proud to announce this year's second keynote: Professor Peter Osborne, Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London!
NB: We are currently culling the list of attendees and removing redundant double bookings - if you want to come, do check in over the next day or two to see if any available spots have opened up 💕
@cacrisalves
@magnusz
@sorenmau
Thank you so much for coming, Carolina ❤️ It was a treat having you at the conference, and we look forward to a smashing paper on the intricacies of Volume 3 next year 😉
Further to her research, Dr Alves is also engaged in reforming economics as co-founder and member of the steering group for the Diversifying and Decolonising Economics initiative and in Rebuilding Macroeconomics where she serves on the advisory board.
Her work has been published in The Review of International Studies, The Socialist Register, Theory and Event, Antipode, Society and Space, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Jacobin and can be found on her website:
ONLY👏FOUR👏DAYS👏LEFT
Subit your abstract before 15 June and join us, as well as keynote speakers Cristina Alves and Benno Teschke, in Odense this October!
We look forward to hearing from you 🤗
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨
We have already received many great abstracts, but since we have a werewolf-like hunger for great critical scholarship, we have opted to extend the deadline to 15 JUNE 🐺
💌 Submit your abstract here: