New PM Meeting on Thursday the 21st of September from 13h00 to 15h00 in the Freeman Center, room 39 (campus map). Brad Bauerly will be presenting a paper entitled ‘The Superintending State: Situating Resistance and its Abatement in the American Transition to Capitalism‘. Everybody is welcome!
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2016 Autumn Program for the Sussex PM Group
Thursday, 20th of October (13h-15h): Pedro Lucas Dutra Salgado (Sussex), ‘International Historical Sociology and the Problem of Geopolitical Agency – The Case of Brazilian State Formation’. Venue: Freeman Center – F39 (University of Sussex). Thursday 24th of November (13h-15h): Workshop on ‘International Historical Method’. Readings and venue to be determined. Thursday, 8th of December: Michael McIntyre…
2016 Spring Program for the Sussex PM Group
Fri, 11 March: Frido Wenten (SOAS), ‘Workingman’s Death? Workers’ Agency and the Convergence/Divergence Debate’. Fri, 15 April: Book-Discussion: Alex Anievas & Kerem Nisancioglu (2015), How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto Press) Fri, 6 May: Adrienne Roberts (University of Manchester), jointly organised with CGPE, Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist…
Symposium on the work of Ellen Meiksins Wood
November 04, 2015 Birkbeck, London Symposium on the work of Ellen Meiksins Wood featuring Robert Brenner, Samuel Knafo, David McNally, Maia Pal, Charles Post and Benno Teschke To mark Verso’s republication of Ellen Meiksins Wood‘s The Pristine Culture of Capitalism and Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Birkbeck Politics Department, the Sussex PM group and Verso are hosting a symposium to celebrate the work of…
Economic Equality and Direct Democracy in Ancient Athens
With the most sincere of apologies from the website administrators for a slight delay in posting––we are happy to present the newest monograph from our colleague Larry Patriquin at Nipissing University: Economic Equality and Direct Democracy in Ancient Athens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). This new volume examines social property relations and democracy in Ancient Athens, marking a…
Sussex PM Meeting: Steffan Wyn-Jones on ‘Rethinking Early Cold War United States Foreign Policy’
New PM Meeting on Friday the 21st of November from 13h30 to 15h in Arts C 333 Steffan Wyn-Jones will be presenting his Ph.d thesis entitled ‘Rethinking Early Cold War United States Foreign Policy: The Road to Militarisation’ This thesis rethinks the foundations of US foreign policy in the early Cold War period. In opposition to…
Sussex PM meeting: Michael Andrew Žmolek on ‘Rethinking the Industrial Revolution’
New PM meeting on Thursday, 6th of November 10h00-12h00 (ARTS C 333). Michael Andrew Žmolek will be presenting his book Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England (Brill, 2013 / Haymarket, 2014). The book offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal…
Sussex PM meeting: Knafo and Teschke on Radical Historicism and the methodology of PM
New PM meeting on Friday, 10th of October, 13.00-15.00 pm. Room TBC. Samuel Knafo and Benno Teschke will discuss a paper entitled The Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique. Marxism has often been associated with two different legacies. The first rests on a strong exposition and critique of the logic of capitalism, which…
Sussex PM meeting: Spencer Dimmock on ‘The origins of capitalism in England, 1400-1600’
New PM meeting on Friday, 23 May, 12.30-2.30 pm. Spencer Dimmock will discuss his book The origins of capitalism in England, 1400-1600. Spencer was awarded his PhD in History from the University of Kent at Canterbury and has since held a number of research posts, including consultancies for BBC Timewatch and a two-year project for the…
New PM meeting: Stefano Sgambati on ‘The Significance of Money’
New PM meeting on Thursday, 6 March, 3-5pm. Stefano Sgambati will present on ‘The Significance of Money: A Critique of Ingham’s Sociology’. The meeting will be in Silverstone building room 309 (campus map). Stefano has recently completed his PhD in Sociology at Università Federico II, Naples (Italy). His research focuses on the semiotics of money and…
Political Marxism and the Social Sciences 