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April 23, 2025
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LAST MINUTE CHANGES
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
B | 14:45-16:30
- B1: “Academic labour, technology workers, and struggle” – panel canceled
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
H | 16:30-18:15
- A1: “Nationalisms, fascisms and antifascism” – panel modification:
| Tom Cowin, Tanja Weis | Black shirts, pink triangles: Historicising the emergence of contemporary queer fascism |
| Isabela Alline Oliveira | Racism, patriarchy, and capitalism: A symbiotic history |
| Ewa Majewska | Careless whispers: Queer public and artistic archives in the state of exception |
| Alvaro Bianchi | Fascism and neo-fascism in Brazil |
| Chair: Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni |
- A2: “Capitalism and environmental movements in the ecological crisis era” – panel modification:
| Tania Gomez | Anticolonial resistance for the Earth we share and the many worlds we inhabit |
| Kurt Semm | Primitive accumulation and genocide: Settler-colonialism, water rights, and dispossession in the cases of American Indians and Palestinians |
| Yakup Atamer Aykaç | Earth, capital, and the metabolism debate: A synthesis |
| Tamara Zambiasi | Financialisation and water governance: Lessons from São Paulo’s 2014-2015 water crisis |
| Chair: Dimitris Lenis |
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
M | 16:30-18:15
- A4: “Marxism and the city: Urban movements and city struggles” – panel modification:
| Selma Değirmenci, Ayla Ezgi Akyol Giagtzoglou | The climate crisis and the struggle against industrial agri-food system in the city: The case of Istanbul |
| Elia Apostolopoulou, Danai Liodaki | Austerity infrastructure, gentrification, and spatial violence:
A ceaseless battle over urban space in Exarcheia neighbourhood |
| Chair: Kanishka Goonewardena |
- AUDITORIUM 2: “The many faces of contemporary fascism” – panel modification:
| Jamil Kowcun | The use and abuse of calling things fascist: How well do existing theoretical accounts of ‘fascism’ help to understand Hindutva? |
| Luca Micaloni | Liberalism, state capitalism, authoritarian state. The Frankfurt School’s quest for a critical theory of fascism (1931-1947) |
| Yunus Yücel and Berkay Kabalay | Fascisation of politics: Transformation of state-class relations and reframing antagonism |
| Chair: George Souvlis |
SUNDAY, APRIL 27
Q | 15:00-16:45
- AUDITORIUM 2: “Securitisation, disasters, and development: Critical perspectives” – panel modification:
| Ghada Waked | Urbicide and creative destruction – Destruction as opportunity for urban planning |
| Sofia Menemenlis | Science and the commodification of catastrophe |
| Alkisti Prepi | How I learned to stop worrying and love disaster: A critical inquiry into adaptation and urban development |
| Angeliki Paidakaki | Democratising planning and implementation processes in New Orleans |
| Chair: Costas Gousis |
LAST MINUTE CANCELATIONS
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
A | 12:45-14:30
- AUDITORIUM 3: “Platform labour I”
| Barış Yentür | Precarious employment and labour unrest in China’s platform economy |
B | 14:45-16:30
- A1: “Marxist theory of value and its significance”
| Mithra Lehn | Barbarism revisited: Capitalist totality as political form |
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
E | 10:00-11:45
- A4: “Crisis, civil society, and the state”
| Mohamed Bouzebra | The eupatridae state and the production of scientific space: Intellectuals’ dressage or amorfati? |
- B1: “Youth movements and uprisings”
| Luis Meiners | Class struggle in the 2019 uprising in Chile |
- B5: “Critical approaches to political economy”
| Nikolaos Vrantsis | Reframing labour in the social factory: Value appropriation in rentier urbanism |
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
J | 10:00-11:45
- AUDITORIUM 2: “Critical theory of technology”
| Tony Iantosca | Artificial intelligence, the corporate university and the capture of the general intellect |
- AUDITORIUM 3: “Labour, commodities, and the Anthropocene: Marxist perspectives”
| Richard Hames | Towards a Marxist collapsology |
K | 12:00-13:45
- B5: “Resistances, solidarity, defeats”
| Dogukan Dere | Viomet and Kazova: Two cases of recovered factories in Greece and Turkey |
L | 14:30-16:15
- B3: “Histories of Zionism”
| Jana Tsoneva | The Zionist antisemitism synthesis: A return to the repressed |
M | 16:30-18:15
- B3: “Energy, value, nature, and thermodynamics: Marxist perspectives”
| Jan Overwijk | Thermodynamic Marx: The conservation of energy and value |
SUNDAY, APRIL 27
P | 12:30-14:15
- B1: “Class politics, climate change, and eco-socialist perspectives”
| Altan Alaybeyoğlu | A critique of degrowth from an econophysics perspective |
- B5: “Revolutionary conjunctures”
| Olia Sosnovskaya | Exhaustion, interruption and rethinking revolutionary time through the 2020-21 uprising in Belarus |
- AUDITORIUM 2: “Resistance Paradigms”
| Eleanor Careless | Women speak out against Zionism’: Anti-imperialism in the archives of 1980s British feminism |
