Justin Rosenburg / Monique Chemillier-Gendreau / Jacques Derrida / Marcel Drach / Susan Neiman/ Jacques Bidet / David Wood / Jean-Jacques Lecercle / Robin Blackburn / Gérard Duménil / Alex Callinicos / Daniel Bensaïd

Thursday 27 – Friday 28 February 2003
Amphithéâtre Poincaré, Collège international de philosophie, 1 rue Descartes 75005 Paris

Thursday 27 February, 2pm
Session One: The Fate of the Sovereign State
Justin Rosenburg, University of Sussex; “Globalisation, Sovereignty Marx”, with Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, University of Paris-VII and Fréderic Neyrat, Collège international de philosophie

Thursday 27 February, 5pm
Session Two: Round table
Jacques Derrida, EHESS (Paris) and Marcel Drach, Collège international de philosophie

Friday 28 February, 9am
Session Three: Cosmopolitism and University
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, “Universality and the Future in Kant and Marx” and Jacques Bidet, University of Paris-X

Friday 28 February, 11am
Session Four: Empires and Imperialism
Alex Callinicos, University of York, “Imperialism”, and Daniel Bensaïd , University of Paris VIII

Friday 28 February, 2pm
Session Five: The Globalisation of Culture
David Wood, Vanderbilt University, “Returns to Marcuse”, and Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Université de Paris-X

Friday 28 February, 5pm
Session Six: Capitalism
Robin Blackburn, University of Essex “Pension Fund Collectivism and the Shareholding Proletariat”, with Gérard Duménil, CNRS, Marcel Drach, Collège international de philosophie and Égidius Berns, University of Brabant

This two-day Anglo-French Conference, organised in Paris in association with the Collège international de philosophie and the Journal Actuel Marx, is a sequel to an Anglo-French conference on ‘Returns to Marx’ held in London in June 2002. The purpose is to revisit certain strands of the Marxist tradition in the light of the phenomenon of globalisation and the various ‘anti-capitalist’ movements that have grown up in opposition to it. A particular aim will be to encourage dialogue between Anglophone and Francophone readers of Marx. The recent work of Jacques Derrida, especially Spectators of Marx and Marx & Sons, will be a central focus of discussion.