Marx Now! 2019: Power — Conflicts and Contradictions

Forms of power pervades all spheres of life, including the university. Yet where there is power, there is also the possibility of subversion. To explore different concepts of power and subversion, the Danish Society for Marxist Studies would like to invite you to our annual conference, Marx Now! at the Danish School of Education (DPU) in Copenhagen, 4–5 October 2019. The purpose of the conference is in part to strengthen the critical research traditions at universities, to identify gaps and blind spots and to bring together researchers from disparate fields. We invite those inside and outside of the academy to join us in this endeavor and urge potential contributors to translate the broadly formulated theme into their own areas of research.

The overarching theme of the 2019 conference will be Power: Conflicts and Contradictions. Power is contradictory. It suppresses, directs, conducts, registers and standardise. The power of capital relies on and reproduces a wide array of social contradictions and antagonisms relating to class, gender, race, sexuality, body forms, culture, nationality, etc. That domination and exploitation historically have gone hand in hand seems beyond questioning, so instead we will ask how and through which mechanisms the two have been linked. How can we best understand the ways in which capital has produced or reshaped and utilized identity markers as class, race and gender? Continue reading “Call for Papers: Marx Now! 2019”

Marx Nu! 2019: Magt og Modsætning

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Magt findes i alle sfærer, også i universitetsverdenen. Men hvor der er magt, findes der modmagt. Derfor inviterer Selskab for Marxistiske Studier (SMS) endnu en gang til den årlige konference Marx Nu!, i år på Danmarks institut for Pædagogik og Uddannelse (DPU) i København den 4. og 5. oktober 2019. Formålet med konferencen er at fremme de kritiske forskningstraditioner på de danske universiteter og højere læreanstalter samt årligt at gøre status over den kritiske forskning i Danmark såvel som i udlandet.

Temaet for årets konference er Magt og modsætning, hvilket vi opfordrer til at tolke i bredest mulig forstand. Magt indeholder (altid) modsætninger. Magten har historisk skabt og benyttet sig af modsætninger – mellem klasser og køn, mellem folkeslag og i racialiserede hierarkier. Men modsætningsforhold kan komme til udtryk i såvel politiske som begrebslige spændinger, og de to sider kan spille sammen og spejle sig i hinanden. Med årets tema ønsker vi at udforske begge aspekter, både konkrete historiske og politiske spor samt teoretiske og abstrakte aspekter. Continue reading “Call for Papers: Marx Nu! 2019”