Post-Graduate and Research Department of
English
“Marx Today”
Call for Papers
The Post-Graduate and Research Department
of English, S B College, Changanacherry, Kerala, is organizing a two-day International
Seminar on 3rd and 4th of September 2018 on the Topic: “Marx Today”.
The conference on Marx is organised
around the life and works of Karl Marx in the context of the two hundredth year
of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Das Kapital.
Political thought and philosophy are
incomplete without a Marxian dimension. Marx’s 1859 Preface to A Contribution
to the Critique of Political Economy posits a notion of politics that sets
subjective agency in relation to its objective determinants. Marx here contends
that human society “inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to
solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises
only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at
least in the course of formation.” The problem of politics, in other words, is
how to correlate specific sites of struggle to the deeper structures that
condition them.
However, the enduring relevance of Marxist
intellectual thought remains a point of spirited debate in the ideological
history of the late twentieth century. With the collapse of socialism in the
Soviet Union, the emergent currency of postmodern concepts, and the rise of new
social protest movements in the spheres of race, gender, and sexual
orientation, Marxism came to appear the ‘signifier par excellence of
theoretical hubris, redundancy and
error’ (Pendakis and Szeman 2014).
In the twenty-first century however,
propelled by the succession of economic and ecological crisis scenarios,
Marxist criticism has experienced a critical resurgence. Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, and Alex
Callinicos have provided new formal readings of Marx’s seemingly
‘inexhaustible’ text (Jameson 2011).
Accompanying the apparent epistemological exhaustion
of post-structuralist approaches, what palpably remains are the visible signs
of an underlying crisis – secular stagnation, intensification of racism, sexism
and xenophobia, militarised state repression, ecological collapse, deepening
inequality and general human suffering for vast segments of the population.
In the face of what some have argued is
capital’s terminal crisis, our political world seems singularly unable to
tackle the problems it has created and desperately needs to solve.
But times of crisis are also times of
possibility and the conference seeks to posit both questions and answers that
address the matter of “The relevance of Marxism Today”.
Proposals on all topics of relevance to
Marxist theory and practice are welcome, including but not limited to:
Subalterninty
Postcoloniality
Economic Thought
Cultural studies
Marxian Literary Criticism
Political Thought
Marxism and aesthetics
Protests, Political Movements, Manifestos
Literature as praxis and theory
Marxism, ecology, and the Anthropocene
Papers from teachers, research scholars
and students of Universities and Colleges in India are invited.
Dates to Remember
1. Deadline for the submission of
Abstracts : 14/08/2018
2. Intimation of the acceptance of the
Abstract : 16/08/2018
3. Deadline for the submission of full
papers : 31/08/2018
4. Seminar at SB : 03, 04/ 09/2018
About the Abstract
The abstract should be in 300 words and
should be sent to any of the email addresses given
below. The abstracts will be assessed by
a peer review committee and the acceptance will be intimated. The abstract
should include the following
1. Name of the Presenter
2. Designation
3. Address of the Institution
4. Email and Mobile Number
5. Topic/ Title of the paper
About the Full Paper
1. Papers should be between 3000-5000
words in length.
2. The MLA 8 th edition format should be
followed
3. The text must be in Times New Roman,
size 12, and double spaced.
Other details of the seminar will be conveyed
to the participants through email and seminar brochure.
Thank You,
Yours Sincerely,
Dr Sabu Joseph Mr Thomas P J
(Head of the Department) (Co-ordinator)
Please Note
1. The Seminar Participation and Duty
Certificates will be issued to the participants, provided they attend the
seminar on both the days from 10am - 4pm.
2. Send your abstracts to :
nithinvettu23@gmail.com or
vimalmohanjohn@yahoo.co.in
3. For inquiries please contact: Mr
Thomas P J - +91 9447806302
Mr Anish K Joseph - +91 9846702410
Mr Nithin Varghese - +91 9497669286
Mr Amal Toms - +91 8089678867
Mr Jerin B Sebastian - +91 9496379293
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