Programme HMAthens2025

Session A: 11:00 – 12:45

A1: Uneven Development, Supply Chains and Labour

• Eylem Taylan – The Uneven Decline of Neoliberal Globalization: Privatization, Inter-imperial Rivalry and Labor Mobilizations at the Port of Piraeus

• Alice Niffoi – Super-Exploitation of Labour, Neo-Imperialism, and Resistance: An Analysis of the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosur and the European Union through the Lens of Marxist Dependency Theory

• Ashok Kumar – Global Labour Standards from Below: How Spatial Flexibility Determines Workers’ Structural Power
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

A2: Marxist Feminist Stream – The Gendered Labour of Survival

• Rosita Scerbo – Francia Márquez and Black Women’s Resistance to Extractivism in Colombia: A Marxist Feminist Analysis

• Naveen Minai – Strangers and Ghosts in the Postcolony

• Neelofer Qadir – Against Removal and Dispossession: Chagossian and Palestinian Freedom Dreams
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

A3: Socio-Environmental Stream – Marxist Perspectives on Urban Planning

• Marianna Charitonidou – Toward a Marxist Theory of Planning: Urban Spaces as Physical Manifestations of the Social Dynamics of Capitalist Production

• Henry Jennings – Transitional Spaces: Picturing a Socialist City in the USSR, 1928–1940
  Chair: George Souvlis

Session B: 14:45 – 16:30

A1: Marxist Theory of Value and Its Significance

• Tamara Caraus – Marx’s Global Law of Value

• Ege Çoban – Crisis: Anachronism of Value and Contemporaneity of the Globally Modern

• Mithra Lehnn – Barbarism Revisited: Capitalist Totality as Political Form
  Chair: Giannis Ninos

A2: How to Resist Imperialism Today?

• S. Anandha Krishna Raj – Imperialist Armed Humanitarian Intervention and the Abuse of the Principle of R2P

• Jack McGinn – Visual Archives and Revolutionary Dialectics: Documenting Repression and Resistance in Syria

• Michael Giesbrecht – Antinomies of Anti-Imperialism: Towards a Critique of Geopolitical Reason

• Alberto Martínez Delgado – The Great Confusion: Genocide, Tribal Imperialism and Postmodern Fiction
  Chair: Alkisti Prepi

A3: Academic Labour, Technology Workers and Struggle

• Anna Chiara Mezzasalma – From Hegemony to Precarity: The Transformation of Academic Labor in the Neoliberal Era

• Sofia Menemenlis – Science and the Commodification of Catastrophe
  Chair & Discussant: Alexandros Minotakis

Auditorium 2: Marxist Feminism Stream – Feminism and Law

• Sine Gençaslan – Far from Justice, Close to Class: Women’s Access to Justice in Poverty Alimony Cases in Turkey

• Jana Kujundzic – Investments in Punishment: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Carceral Capitalism

• Marianna Haug – Law and Gender Oppression in Capitalism
  Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

Auditorium 3: Socio-Environmental Stream – Food, Agroecology and Landscape

• Júlia Louzada – The Discontents of Hunger

• Brad Bauerly – The Politics of Food Inflation in an Era of Climate Breakdown

• Miqdad Fadhil Muhammad – Peatland Agroecology and Eco-Socialist Strategy

• Conor Smith – A Thessalian Plantationocene: Ecological Collapse and Race in the Draining of Lake Karla
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

Karagiorga II: Ideas and Debates from Italian Marxism(s)

• Giorgio Cesarale – Dialectics and Positivism in Italian Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s

• Emanuele Lepore – The Crucible of Freedom: The Marxism of Nicola Badaloni

• Matteo Mameli – On Timpanaro and Irretrievable Losses

• Umberto Novi – Antonio Banfi: Between Critique, Labor, and Science
  Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Session C: 17:00 – 18:45

A1: Marxist Feminist Stream – Caring Communities

• Rivka Saltiel & Anke Strüver – Shifting Caring Communities: Collective Forms of Care and Provision

• Anna Verwey – People’s Kitchens as Spaces of Resistance

• Evgenia Mavridi – Care Crisis: Social Reproduction and Care Fixes

• Kyriaki Lampropoulou – Care and Social Reproduction: Convergences, Differences and Prospects
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

A2: New-Exilic Mobilisations in the Capitalocene

• Latife Akyüz – Intellectual Resilience of New-Exile Academics in Germany

• Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ – Violent Accumulation and Exile Journalism

• Melehat Kutun – Displaced Women Politicians and Activists in Germany

• Hakan Altun – New-Exile Artists and Aesthetic Resistance
  Chair: Bediz Yılmaz

A3: Critical Infrastructure Studies

• Emine Esra Nalbant – Lighthouse Networks and Capital Circulation in the Ottoman Empire

• Julie Peruch – Digital Visual Production and Infrastructure

• Luis Cortés – Prolonged Obsolescence in the Global Automotive Industry
  Chair: Antonis Faras

A5: Islamic Capital

• Deniz Parlak – Islamic Capital and Cultural Hegemony

• Tarık İzibiyük – Vision 2030 in Saudi Arabia
  Chair: George Souvlis

Auditorium 2: Financialisation, Debt and Precarity

• Inka Hiltunen – Financialisation of the State

• Berkay Kabalay – Resisting Indebtedness

• Eleftheria Marmataki – Labour Share and Global Political Shifts
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

Auditorium 3: Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy

• Cecilia Escobar – Plato, Russell, and Marx

• David Bremner – Hegel, Marx, and Expressivist Attitudinalism

• Lucas Azevedo Maksud – Badiou’s Materialism

• Marianna Charitonidou – Freud, Marx and Deleuze
  Chair: Peter Bratsis

Karagiorga I: Green Capitalism and Technofixes

• Marko Mann – Carbon Capture and State Involvement

• Stefan Aleksić – Should the Left Support Nuclear Energy?
  Chair & Discussant: Dimitris Lenis

Karagiorga II: Book Launch

Book: Nation and Imperialism: On the Critique of Contemporary Capitalism
Speakers: John Milios, Panagiotis Sotiris, Giannis Maramathas
Chair & Discussant: Giorgos Kalampokas

Session D: 19:00 – 21:00 – PLENARY – Karagiorga II

Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Work

• Gavin Mueller – AI and the Automation of Everything

• Matteo Pasquinelli – Knowledge Automation and the Value Form

• Eugenia Siapera & Charis Papaevangelou – Platform Capitalism and Microsoft’s Data Centers in Greece 2.0
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Session E: FRIDAY, APRIL 25 / 10:00 – 11:45

A1: Technology, Automation and Resistance – From Datafication to Algorithmication

• Matthew Alexander – We Are Not Data: An Analysis of Representation, Production, and Resistance

• Paul Geyer – Subscription Subjects of the World (Pay and), Unite!

• Francesca Carta – AI and Psychometrics: Socio-classification in a Monopolized Digital Age
  Chair: Natalia Rozalia Avlona

A2: Marxism, Revolutionary Politics and Emancipation

• Shea Hennum – Notes Toward a Philosophy of Defeat and Victory

• Aimen Remida – Marx and Engels on the Three Criteria for Being a Communist

• Karlo Mikić – Real Movement Marxism vs. Political Movement Marxism
  Chair: Victor Strazzeri

A3: Youth Movements and Uprisings

• Myrto-Iris Spyridaki, Kyriakos Zacharakis – Where Defeat Becomes Persistence: Youth Mobilizations in Contemporary Greece

• Luis Meiners – Class Struggle in the 2019 Uprising in Chile

• Vasileios Rongas – 1999–2014: The Organizational Endurance of Greek Social Movements
  Chair: Costas Gousis

A4: Crisis, Civil Society and the State

• Thiago Canettieri – The Security Society of Administered Collapse

• Yasmin Afshar – Conflict Management and National Security in the Cold War Years

• Gökhan Demir – Beyond the State–Civil Society Dichotomy in Turkey

• Mohamed Bouzebra – The Eupatridae State and the Production of Scientific Space
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

A5: Critical Approaches to Political Economy

• Nikolaos Vrantsis – Reframing Labor in the Social Factory

• Bülent Hoca & Ferda Uzunyayla – Inflation Targeting in Turkey

• Guillaume Dreyer & François-Xavier Hutteau – Capital’s Network and Profit Equalization

• Hedvig Lärka Endgame – A Marxist Theory of International Tax Law
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Auditorium 2: Western Marxism and the Debates Around It

• Kaan Kangal – Friedrich Engels and the Origins of Western Marxism

• Leon Schlüter – Frantz Fanon’s Critique of Reification

• Ada Kus – The Retreats from Class and the Consequences for Theory

• Keti Chukhrov – On the Philosophic Utopia of the Use Value
  Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Auditorium 3: Socio-Environmental Stream – Looking Back

• Meindert Boersma – Hegemony in a World of Fire: A Gramscian Climate Perspective

• Fran Radonić Mayr – Moishe Postone and Ecology

• Pola Melonowska – Romantic Environmentalism and Polish Socialism (1890–1914)
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

Karagiorga I: Critical Pedagogy

• Gianna Katsiampoura – Workers’ History of Science and Criticality

• Labrina Gioti – Ideology Critique in Adult Education

• Aristotelis Gkiolmas – Critical Pedagogy and the Economic Crisis

• Kostas Skordoulis – Critical Consciousness: Vygotsky and Lenin
  Chair: Kostas Skordoulis

Karagiorga II: BOOK PRE-LAUNCH

Roundtable on Matteo Pasquinelli’s The Eye of the Master (Greek edition preview)
Speakers: Matteo Pasquinelli, Telis Tympas, Dimitris Lenis, Giannis Ninos, Eugenia Siapera
Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

F: FRIDAY, APRIL 25 / 12:00 – 13:45

A1: Migration and Refugee Stream – Racial Capitalism and Labour

• Hessa Aianumi – The Racial Politics of Policing in the Gulf

• Abdul Vajid Punakkath – Migrants as Revolutionary Subjects

• Sibyl Italia Pineda Salazar – The Migration Industry and Exploitation

• Andrea Girometti – State, Migrants and Radical Democracy in Abdelmalek Sayad
  Chair: Costas Gousis

A2: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Labour Process Theory

• Alec Israeli – Real Subsumption and Intellectual Activity in the US Iron Industry

• Murilo Amadio – The Subject of Law and Information Technologies

• Alexandros Minotakis – Control, Consent, Coercion in Platform Labour
  Chair: Roberto Mozzachiodi

A3: The New Rise of the Far-Right

• Irene Perperidou – Democracy, Polarization, and the Far-Right

• Nátaly Guilmo – Social Participation and Lula’s Third Government

• Alexandros Oikonomidis – The Rise of the Far-Right in Greece

• Melek Zorlu – Comparing AKP and AfD Discourses
  Chair: George Souvlis

A4: Socio-Environmental Stream – Strategy and Tactics

• Başak Koşanay – Political Ecology of Degrowth

• Joost Wijffels – Stages of Eco-Socialism

• Alistair Bernal Holmes – Temporal Dimensions of Climate Crisis

• Paris Selinas – Aesthetic Materialist Praxis
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

A5: Technology, Utopia and Resistance

• Megi Popova – The Return of Utopias

• Alexandra Petrus & Rüdiger Brandis – Resisting Capitalist Realism in Digital Games
  Chair: Antonis Faras

Auditorium 2: Racial Slavery and Social Reproduction

• Leah Kaplan – The Impossibility of Reproductive Labor

• Tapji Garba – Blackness and Real Subsumption

• Sara-Maria Sorentino – Infanticide, Real Abstraction, and Sovereignty

• Morgan Slade – The Labor of the Negative and Guilt
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

Auditorium 3: Socio-Environmental Stream – American Empire and Climate Breakdown

• Brad Bauerly – Panitch & Gindin’s Theory in Today’s Crisis

• Sear Starrs – US Remaking Global Capitalism

• Ingar Solty – High-Tech Rivalry and Imperial Limits
  Chair: Ashok Kumar

Karagiorga I: The Political Ecology of Technology

• Dylan Murphy & Patrick Brodie – Data Centre Contestation in Ireland

• Lukas Geiszler – Lighting the World: Oil, Whale Oil, and Technology

• Burç Köstem – Techniques of Limitation and Eco-technical Struggles

• Dimitris Lenis – Climate Crisis as Conspiracy Theory
  Chair: Alkisti Prepi

Karagiorga II: Althusser, Spinoza, Hobbes

• Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop – Reading Hobbes with Althusser via Spinoza

• David McInerney – Signs, Marks, and the Social Contract

• Panagiotis Sotiris – The Many Spinozas of Althusser
  Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

J: SATURDAY, APRIL 26 / 10:00 – 11:45

A1: Borders, Camps and Cities: Geographies of Dispossession, Containment and Struggle (I)

• Salim Nabi – Camps: The Architecture of Bordering and Refusals

• Lorenzo Vianelli – Extractive Containment on the Greek Islands

• Charalampos Tsavdaroglou & Maria Kaika – Biopolitics of Energy Infrastructure in Thessaloniki Refugee Camps
  Chair: Olga Lafazani

A2: Capitalist Biopolitics

• Dimosthenis Papadatos-Anagnostopoulos – Health Under Capitalism and the Marxist Legacy

• Angeliki Papathanasiou – Rüstow, Foucault, and Neoliberal Biopolitics

• Pier-Luc Turcotte – Assisted Dying and Biocapitalism
  Chair: Giannis Ninos

A3: Marxism, Coloniality and the Nation

• Malav Kanuga – Anticolonial Marxism and the Problem of Common Sense

• Komal Mohite – Caste and Capitalist Transition in India

• Reetu Raj Kashyap – Progressive Cultural Movements and Alternative Internationalism

• Gregorio Demarchi – Despotism of Capital and Wage Slavery
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

A4: Socio-Environmental Stream – Political Ecology of Design

• Sean Tyler – Colonial Improvement in 1830s Noongar Country

• Karina Vabson – Urban Governance and the Spectacle in Tallinn

• Maroš Krivý – Urban Catalyst Group in Neoliberal Berlin

• Mira Samonig – Far-Right Ecologies and the Paradox of Vulnerability
  Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki

A5: Philosophy, Materialism and Emancipation

• Adolfo Lizárraga-Gómez – Multitude and War in Negri’s Materialism

• Florian Geisler – Marx or Spinoza? A Dialogue with Speculative Materialism

• Kimonas Gasteratos – Radical vs. Reactionary Phantasies

• Kanishka Goonewardena – Fredric Jameson and Totality
  Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

A6: Marxist Archaeology in the Capitalocene I

• Ianir Milevski, Savas Michael-Matsas, Vicente Lull – Introduction: Marxist Archaeology Today

• Pablo Jaruf – Chalcolithic Period Critique

• Eni Soriano – Metal Use-Wear and Historical Materialism
  Chair: Savas Michael-Matsas

Auditorium 2: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Critical Theory of Technology

• Joel Hänninen – AI and Critical Theory of Technology

• Peter Bratsis & Kristin Lawler – Big Babies: Infantilization of Everyday Life

• Tony Iantosca – Corporate Universities and the General Intellect

• Shaun Terry – Crisis and Capitalist Media
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Auditorium 3: Socio-Environmental Stream – Labour, Commodities, and the Anthropocene

• Ekinsu Devrim Danış & Irmak Ertör – Shipbreaking Yards in Turkey

• Nikos Markogiannakis – Ecology of Separation and Global Labour

• Richard Hames – Towards a Marxist Collapsology

• Chris Krol – Capitalocene, Anthropocene and the Discount Rate
  Chair: Katharina Hunfeld

Karagiorga I: Histories of War, Resistance and Genocide

• Vassilis Georgakis – Food Scarcity and Women’s Collective Action (1915–1916)

• Kumru Toktamis – War and Gendered Memory

• Pandu Sujiwo Kusumo & Dianto Bachriadi – Genocide in the Padang Halaban Plantation

• Amy Tait Westwell – Historical Materialist Pedagogy in Dundee
  Chair: Ewa Majewska

Karagiorga II: Digital Labor and AI – The Era of Heteromation

• Iraklis Vogiatzis – AI as Human-Machinic Assemblage

• Christos Krystallis – Digital Work as Manual Work

• Diego Rivera – More-than-Human Interdependencies in AI

• Eleni Tsatsaroni – Programmer Skills and Collective Coding
  Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

O: SUNDAY, APRIL 26 / 10:30 – 12:15

A1: Frankfurt School Revisited

• Isabelle Le Bourdais – Reification Revisited: The Frankfurt School’s Theoretical Impasse

• Daniel Rogers – Adorno, Reification, and Anti-Nationalism

• Giorgos Papafragkou – Dialectic of Enlightenment at 80

• Alkis Nikolakeas – Adorno on Education and Genocide
  Chair: Giannis Maramathas

A2: Capitalism, Labour and Exploitation

• Nikos Folinas – Destructive Forces, Exploitation and Revolution in Marx

• Luis Cortes & Gabriel Rivas – Genocide and Surplus Populations

• Dionysios Perdikis – Subjective Labour and Capitalist Subsumption
  Chair: Costas Gousis

A3: Capitalism, Technology and Education

• Kalliopi Rigopouli, Dimitrios Kotsifakos & Yannis Psaromiligkos – Vygotsky and Creativity in Learning Design

• Anastasia Themeli, Dimitrios Kotsifakos & Yannis Psaromiligkos – Technology-Enhanced Educational Scenarios

• Rodrigo Roncato Marques Anes – Dialectical Materialism and Teaching Regulations
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

A4: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Political Economy of Technology

• Erkin Güney & Yiğit Yiğitsoy – Tech-Bourgeoisie and Digital Neofascism

• Diego Ramírez Reinoso & Carlos Alberto Duque García – Technical Change in Colombia (2001–2022)

• Marianna Haug & Débora Araújo Costa – Big Tech and the Class Struggle

• Lorenzo De Lellis – Human Functions, Abstraction, and Labour
  Chair: Peter Bratsis

A5: Socio-Environmental Stream – State, Infrastructure and the Environment

• Kendall Gardner – Climate-Related Land Loss and Critical Theory

• Antonis Petras – State Abandonment Amidst Flooding

• Christos Avramidis – Environmental Impact Assessment and Entrepreneurialism
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

A6: Art and Literature

• Myrto Sarma & Dimitra Trousa – Performing Arts and Sociopolitical Imaginaries

• Blake Stimson – Art and Politics After the Cultural Turn

• Elise Archias – Materialist vs. Managerial Aesthetics

• Patryk Szaj – Eco-Marxist Poetry in Poland
  Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki

Auditorium 2: Populism and Political Strategy

• William S. Lewis – Is Populism Compatible with Marxism?

• Vangelis Papadimitropoulos – Post-Hegemony and Left Revisioning

• Ali Behran Ozcelik – Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Economism

• Louis Kontos – Blind Spots in Bourgeois Criminology
  Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

Auditorium 3: Reassessing the State of Emergency in Greece

• George Souvlis – Metaxas Regime and the Legal State of Exception

• Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez – States of Exception in Early 20th Century Europe

• Fotis Koutsopoulos – Military Occupation and Greek Intellectuals

• Sissy Tsavdara – Declarations of Repentance as Surveillance
  Chair: Eleftheria Papastefanaki

Karagiorga I: Socio-Environmental Stream – Nature in the Capitalocene

• Łukasz Moll – Runaway Ecologies and Capitalocentrism

• Joseph Rodriguez – Epistemic Injustice and the Rights of Nature

• Jaskiran Dhillon – Climate Change and Future-Making Epistemes

• Dimitra Papadopoulou – Capitalistic Roots of Environmental Disasters
  Chair: Alkisti Prepi

Karagiorga II: Reading Marx Today

• Giannis Ninos – Dialectics of Circulation and Methodological Immanence

• Tom Ladendorf – Freedom and Unfreedom in Marx

• Kaan Kangal – Young Marx and the Wood Theft Debates
  Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

P: SUNDAY, APRIL 27 / 12:30 – 14:15

A1: Political Economy of Socialism II

• Bogdan Ovcharuk & Olena Lyubchenko – Soviet Political Accumulation and Reproduction

• Max Hancock – Self-Ownership and Socialist Strategy
  Chair & Discussant: Roberto Mozzachiodi

A2: Labour, Nature and the State – Gotha Program II

• Eden Young – Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Marx and Lenin

• Emanuela Conversano – From Village Communities to Communist Society

• Victor Strazzeri – The Political Marx and Critique of the Political
  Chair: Costas Gousis

A3: Class Politics, Climate Change, and Ecosocialist Perspectives

• George Sotiropoulos – Historical Logic of Ecosocialism

• Altan Alaybeyoğlu – Critique of Degrowth from Econophysics

• Ciarán Ó Briain – (No) Climate Borders

• Murat Arsel & Fikret Adaman – Climate Adaptation and Class Politics in Jakarta
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

A4: Roundtable – Citizen Marx by Bruno Leipold

Participants: Bruno Leipold, Kaan Kangal, Cailean Gallagher
Chair & Discussant: Panagiotis Sotiris

A5: Revolutionary Conjunctures

• Olia Sosnovskaya – Revolutionary Time in Belarus

• Gianni Del Panta – Revolutionary Situations in the 21st Century

• Liam Cook – State vs. Individual Terrorism Today
  Chair: Olga Lafazani

Auditorium 2: Marxist Feminist Stream – Resistance Paradigms

• Christos Marneros – Rote Zora and Outlawed Resistance

• Eleftheria Papastefanaki – Socialist Women’s Group in Interwar Greece

• Eleanor Careless – 1980s British Feminism and Anti-Zionism
  Chair: Angela Dimitrakaki

Auditorium 3: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Reading Althusser Today II

• Michalis Bartsidis – Althusser and the Shifted Negation

• Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop – Philosophy as Topography

• Giorgos Fourtounis – Authorless Theatre and Structuralism

• Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni – Bodily Performativity and Imaginaries
  Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

Karagiorga I: Marxism and (Pop) Culture

• Nikos Filippaios – Mediterranean Pop Music and Cultural Hegemony

• Gavin Mueller – Memes, Stalin, and Cultural Memory

• Christos Krystallis – Labour Research to Autofiction

• Konstantinos Savvopoulos – Rap, Masculinity, and Class Consciousness
  Chair: Maria Georgouli-Loupi

Karagiorga II: Left Strategy Beyond Platform- and AI-Capitalism

• Dionysios Skliris – Contradictions of Platform Capitalism

• Robert Latham – AI, Workers, and the Left

• Georgios Marias – Left Accelerationism Today?

• Gianni Fraioli – Digital Data and Communitarianism
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Q: SUNDAY, APRIL 27 / 15:00 – 16:45

A1: Marxist Feminist Stream – Gender, Materialism, and the Symbolic Order

• Kostas Pinnikas – Judith Butler and the Phantasmatic Dimension of Gender

• Grietje (River) Baars – Sexual Subject, Colonialism, and Recommoning

• Júlia Lull – Materialism, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism

• Tasos Travasaros – Marxist Critique of Social Constructionism
  Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni

A2: Solidarity to Palestine – Strategies and Tactics

• Helena Zohdi – Free Palestine Movement in Germany

• Zouhair Hammana – Solidarity Practices in the Radical Left
  Chair: Panagiotis Sotiris

A3: Socio-Environmental Stream – Global Economy and Green Growth

• Çağın Erbek – Green Growth and Capital Accumulation in Türkiye

• Viktoriya Vinik – Monopolized Earth and Class Politics

• Adam Benjamin – Brazil–China Soy Complex: A World-Ecological View
  Chair: Giorgos Velegrakis

A4: Socio-Environmental Stream – How To Break an Addiction (Book Roundtable)

Participants: Annie Spencer, Maro Pantazidou, Ivar Festers, Eleni Ploumidi, Themistoklis Pellas
Chair: Malav Kanuga

A5: Aspects of Labour, Technology and Subjectivity

• Koulos Dimitris – Labour Subjectivity in the Age of Imperialism

• Nicole Sarla – Platform Capitalism and Fragmented Subjectivity

• Dimitris Kilakos – Trans/Post-Humanism and Marxism

• Nikos Christodoulakis – Soviet Psychology vs. Bourgeois Paradigms
  Chair: Giannis Ninos

Auditorium 2: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Securitisation, Disasters, Development

• Ghada Waked – Urbicide and Destruction in Urban Planning

• Alkisti Prepi – Loving Disaster: A Critical Inquiry into Adaptation

• Angeliki Paidakaki – Democratizing Planning in New Orleans
  Chair: Costas Gousis

Auditorium 3: Technology, Automation and Resistance – Historical & Critical Perspectives

• Aristotle Tympas – Who Owns the History of AI?

• Débora de Araújo Costa & Marianna Haug – Critique of Technological Determinism

• Vasilis Mitanis – Marxist Theory of Machines and Proletarian Negativity

• Zachos Christodoulopoulos – Conceptual Disruption in AI Times
  Chair: Antonis Faras

Karagiorga I: Socio-Environmental Stream – Labour, Class Power, Environment

• Konstantinos Loizos – Lukács–Veblen and Institutional Change

• Katharina Hunfeld – Rewilding as Ecosocialist Strategy

• Cagri Idiman – The ‘Other Transition’ and the Capitalocene
  Chair: Alexandros Minotakis

Karagiorga II: Marxism, Imperialism and the Nation

• Anna Koumandaraki – Nationalism and Class Exploitation

• Kanishka Goonewardena – Revisiting Imperialism and Fascism

• John Milios – Imperialism and the “Natural Boundaries of Nations”
  Chair: Giorgos Kalampokas

R: SUNDAY, APRIL 27 / 17:00 – 19:00 – PLENARY

Karagiorga II: Palestine, Internationalism, and the Left

• Adam Hanieh – Disrupting the Fossil Order

• Robert Knox – Liberatory Legality and Legal Form in Palestine

• Rafeef Ziadah – From Gaza to the Shop Floor

• Riya Al’Sanah – Settler Colonialism and the Justice Struggle
  Chair: Alkisti Prepi