Conference May 17-20 | Program | Panelists | Registration
Montreal May 17-20 2018 | 120 sessions | 300 speakers from 12 countries
Keynote conferences
HOW DOES THE ECONOMY DOMINATE OUR LIVES?
Thursday 17 May 7PM
From the cradle to our grave, our lives are subject to economic constraints. We are constantly being asked to act as a small business every day. Why has the economy taken such a central place in our lives? What are the forces that dominate the course of our survival?
Kari Polanyi
Levitt
Johanna
Bockman
Alain
Deneault
CRITICAL PHILOSOPHIES AND ANTICAPITALIST STRUGGLES
Friday 18 May 4 PM
While critical philosophy faces many challenges today, the questions which animate it remain of extreme importance: how should we think of emancipation in our days? What theory of contemporary society makes it possible to better identify and understand its contradictions, its limits and the avenues for going beyond? Because it is not enough to simply interpret the world, it is also a question of transforming it.
Bruno
Bosteels
David
McNally
Franck
Fischbach
FEMINISM, ANTIRACISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE
Friday, May 18th 7:30 PM
The anticapitalist left has historically tended to place feminist and anti-racist issues on the side. How do we put forward an emancipatory perspective that fully takes into account gender relations and systemic racism and which does not reduce all social problems to capitalism? What are the conditions for a genuine popular solidarity?
Himani
Bannerji
Diane
Lamoureux
Dalie
Giroux
ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION: REFORM OR REVOLUTION?
Saturday 19 May 4 PM
Our natural habitat is in crisis. Industrial pollution and climate upheavals are already killing thousands and will destabilize human life for decades to come. How do we get out of this dire situation? How should we act in order to move towards an ecological society?
Jason W.
Moore
Maristella
Svampa
Anne-Céline
Guyon
STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Saturday 19 May 7:30 PM
Although the 2008 economic crisis has shaken the neoliberal order, the left is struggling to gain ground. Instead, it is the populist right which seems to have profited from this instability/crises. How can progressive movements resume the offensive? How should we think about the articulation between popular mobilizations, immediate demands/goals and the global transformation of society?
Bhaskar
Sunkara
Jane
McAlevey
Ethan
Miller
THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD AFTER CAPITALISM
Sunday May 20th 2 PM
It is no longer enough to criticize contemporary society. We must articulate and demonstrate the new society we are all fighting for. In order to restore a militant momentum, what ideas and utopias can we use as guides? What are the liberating and achievable models to which we should strive towards? What will happen tomorrow?
Maude
Prud’homme
Julia
Posca
Christian
Laval
Pierre
Dardot
More than 300 speakers, including:
Panels by themes
Capitalism
Precarious Accumulation I – Value, Finance and Capitalism
Capitalism and Health: Hegemony and Counter-hegemony
Critical sociology of capitalism
Precarious Accumulation II – Intersectional Historical Materialism
Capital as Power : Creordering Capitalized Power
From the origins to neoliberal globalization : a history of capitalism
Feminism
Intersectional and Materialist Feminist Perspectives on Housing Rights
Women, Social Reproduction and Resistance
Feminism, Sexuality, Class and Differences
Philosophy of Social Reproduction
Marxism and the Fight to Liberate the Oppressed
Feminism, Identity Politics and Class Struggle
Resistance and Gender: The Kurdish Women’s Social Transformation Beyond State
History
Consolidation of Capitalism in the 19th century
Origins and History of Capitalism
Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Book Launch)
Femmes, travail et reproduction sociale
État, propriété et colonialisme
Contestations et aspirations anticapitalistes au XXe siècle
De l’économie morale à l’immoralité néolibérale
What changed on October 25, 1917: lessons from workers’ control in the beginning of the Soviet Union
Re-examining the Political and Philosophic Legacies of the Russian Revolution
Emancipatory economy
Reframing and Reclaiming Monetary and Financial Practices
Social economy then and now : from socialism to anarchism ?
Radically Democratic Companies and Organizations
Economic Resurgence in Indigenous Communities
Reflecting on Agricultural and Food Transitions
Feminist perspectives on economic alternatives : an intergenerational dialogue
Economic Justice By and For Racialized Communities
Large scale reappropriation: Showcasing Building 7 and the youth-led arcade Press Start
Community Land Trusts as Post-Capitalism’s Secret Weapon
Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid: Toward Dual Power and Beyond
Culture
Subjectification, alienation and class consciousness
Imagination, Social Critique and Melancholia
Red Wedge Panel I: Counterculture and Social Reproduction
Red Wedge Panel II: Cognitive Mapping, Affect and the Aesthetic Experience
Resisting the Real: The Struggle over Contemporary Global Culture
Education and Critical Pedagogy
Red Wedge Panel III The Purpose of Art and Culture: Exploring the Popular Avant-Garde
Neoliberalism, finance and globalization
Debt: between growth and crisis
Youth, Neoliberalism and Emancipation
L’altermondialisme et le Forum social mondial
Financialization and Classes in Advanced Capitalism
Precarious Accumulation III – 21st Century Neoliberalism
Globalisation, Factories, Free Trade Zone
Financialization, Financial Crisis, Debt
Social movements’ political action against 2.0 neoliberalism
State and political parties
Racism and colonialism
Canada’s Colonial State and Indigenous Resistance
It’s Not a Question of Salvation: Materialist Analysis and the Actuality of the Black Panther Party
Race, Colonial Reification and Capitalism
Islamophobia, Secularism, and the Left
Internationalisme et nationalisme
Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia: The Radical Left and the Struggle for National Self-Determination
Conjuncture
The Trump Moment: Perspectives for the Radical Left
Independence and socialism in Quebec and Catalonia
Understanding and Facing the Populist Right in Quebec and Canada
Conjunture and Socialist Strategy in Contemporary Latin America
Universal Income : Tool for Liberation or Poverty Trap?
Resistance, Strategy and Autonomy in Brazil, Argentina and Chile
Before Post-Capitalism: Waging the Defensive Struggle with a United Front
Utopia
How economy dominates our lives
Critical Philosophies and Anticapitalist Struggles
Feminism, Antiracism and Class struggle
Saving the Planet from Capitalism
