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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Roundtable: Marx Matters – What can we learn from Marx in 
 2018?
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the CIDRAL 2017/18 programme\, Constrai
 nts of Creativity\n\nA Roundtable hosted by CIDRAL\, Economic Humanities
  Research Group\, History @UoM and AMBS\n\nParticipants \n\nProfessor Mi
 chael North (Professor in Early Modern History\, University of Greifswal
 d and Beijing Normal University)\nDr Cath Feely (Senior Lecturer\, Histo
 ry\, University of Derby)\nDr Ed Granter (Lecturer\, Sociology\, AMBS)\n
 Chair: Dr Phil Rössner (Senior Lecturer\, Early Modern History UoM\n\nMa
 rx has been the founding figure in the modern social sciences. He revolu
 tionized the horizon of thinking and methods of social and historical an
 alysis. His works continue to shape historical and social science enquir
 y and real-time policy and politics. Marx shaped the twentieth century –
  with the globalization of war\, ideology and social matters\, class str
 uggle and inequality. Yet\, others would argue that Marx was very much a
  nineteenth century man. Much of his work would have been misappropriate
 d by later times and purposes. Francis Fukuyama even pronounced the End 
 of History when the USSR collapsed\, the Iron Curtain fell\, and the ser
 ies of political and economic revolutions that swept Europe and the worl
 d in the aftermath of 1990/1991 finally paved the way for neoliberalism.
  Yet\, the global crashes\, cracks and crises in the global economy afte
 r 2007 brought the analysis of capitalism back on to the agenda. As the 
 2014 blockbuster of Piketty shows\, economists and other social scientis
 ts have turned back to a less politicized Marx and his work\, not only i
 n historical context but also in the light of what answers his work prov
 ides to current problems of inequality and uneven global development. Bu
 t Marx can also be read as an historian of the relationship between emot
 ions and technological change. Tracing the history of the relationship b
 etween man and machine in Capital\, current work on Marxist historians a
 nd their difficulties in dealing with ‘emotion’ suggests that we need to
  revise our picture\, especially given the context of overly determinist
 ic and rigid readings of Marx in the mid-twentieth century. Marx and his
  legacy also speak to modern debates around capitalist production and th
 e end of work – debates played out\, once again\, in the media around au
 tomation and artificial intelligence. One can look at the ways language 
 and culture are operationalized to mystify the exploitation inherent in 
 capitalism\, for instance the apparent parallels between neoliberal capi
 talism and the behaviour of organized crime groups.\n\nHas Marx been reh
 abilitated? Has he never been away? We would like to take stock and disc
 uss where we\, as historians and social scientists are left with Marx an
 d his legacy in the bicentenary of 1818/2018: in terms of method\, readi
 ng\, interpreting and applying Marxist readings to the analysis of capit
 alism\, and current matters of inequality\, freedom and democracy. In an
  age when the core achievements of the enlightenment – freedom\, humanit
 y\, equality\, democracy and free trade – appear more fragile than ever\
 , perhaps there is something to be learnt from Marx?\n\nThe present roun
 dtable\, co-organised by the Economic Humanities Research Group at UoM\,
  the History Division (SALC)\, CIDRAL\, as well as the Hallsworth Fund a
 t UoM brings together experts from across SALC and AMBS as well as emine
 nt external scholars. Prof Michael North is a world-leading economic and
  social historian and authority on early modern Europe and global trade.
  Dr Ed Granter (UoM\, AMBS) has studied\, amongst other things\, how the
  work of the Frankfurt School Critical Theorists represents a form of Ma
 rxism applicable to twenty-first century organizations and societies. Dr
  Cath Feely (University of Derby) has worked extensively on the publicat
 ion and reception of Marx's work in late nineteenth and twentieth centur
 y Britain. \n\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A116\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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