MARX

AND THE CRITIQUE

OF HUMANISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
7-8 NOVEMBER 2022
SCHOOL OF ART AND HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON
ROOMS: B112C, B112B, B112E (LIBRARY BUIDLING)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ETIENNE BALIBAR (KINGSTON UNIVERSITY)
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)
CAROL GOULD (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)
KAREN NG (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY)
JASON READ (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE)

This work is funded by Portuguese research funds through FCT ‑ Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.,
within the project UIDB/FIL/00310/2020
 PROGRAMME
DAY 1, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
8.45 –
9.15 Registration

9. 15 –
9. 30 Welcome: Opening Remarks

9. 30 – Keynote Lecture 1
10.45 Room B112 C
Carol Gould (City University of New York)
"Nothing Human is Alien to Me":
Revisiting and Revising Marx's Critical and Constructivist Humanism

10.45 –
11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – Parallel Session 1: Room B112.C: Marx & the humanism/anti-humanism divide
12.30 Kieran Durkin (University of York), Re-appraising the Marxist Humanist Tradition: A Humanism Made to the Measure of the
World
Paul Reynolds (Open University, UK), Rethinking the Humanist/Anti-Humanist Dichotomy as Dialectical
Thomas McGlone (Villanova University), Humanism, Antihumanism, and the Trembling Line

Parallel Session 2: Room B112.B: Nature & life-process

Rebecca Carson (Royal College of Art&Goldsmiths University), Marx’s Two Concepts of Life: The role of anthropology in
ecological and social reproduction
Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon), Marx’s Ethical Naturalism: From the Human Life-form to a Human Form-of-life
Paolo Murrone (University of Pisa), Freedom and Necessity through the Prism of Stoffwechsel. Notes on Marx’s Ecology and the
Philosophy of Nature

12.30 –
13.30 LUNCH

13.30 – Keynote Lecture 2

14.45 Room B112 C
Etienne Balibar (Kingston University)
The Marxian concept of Gattungswesen (generic being):
A Critical Genealogy and Reformulation
(by zoom)

14.45 –
15.00 Coffee Break

15.00 – Parallel Session 3: Room B112.C: Alienation

16.30 Mario Aguiriano Benéitez (University of Oxford), Marx, Alienation, and The Negativity of The Human
Lutti Mira (University of São Paulo), Alienation, History, and Human Nature in ‘Forms which precede capitalist production’
Magnus Møller Ziegler (University of Copenhagen), On the wider Young Hegelian origins of Marx’s concept of alienation

Parallel Session 4: Room B112.B: Food, Vampire, Necropolitics

Siobhan Watters (Simon Fraser University), The Edible Marx: De-Essentializing The Human Through Food
Gabriele Schimmenti (University of Rome III), Neither Human, nor Non-human. The Capital as a Vampire
Carina Brand (De Montfort University), Are Mothers Human? Necropolitical Reproduction in Capitalism
16.30- Coffee Break
16.45
16.45-
18.00 Keynote Lecture 3
Room 112 C
Jason Read (University of Southern Maine)
Abstract Humanity/Concrete Worker:
Labor and the Constitution and Destitution of the Human

19.00 Conference Dinner

DAY 2, TUESDAY, 8 NOVEMBER

9. 15 – Parallel Session 5: Room B112.C: Marx & post-Hegelian Humanism
10.45 Jacob Blumenfeld (University of Oldenburg), The Redemption of Saint Max: Stirner’s Critique of Marx
Manuel Disegni (University of Turin), “‘Man’ Is Actually ‘The German’”. Humanism and Intolerance In German Ideology
Gregor Schäfer (Universität Basel), "... der völlige Verlust des Menschen...": On the Conception of the Proletariat

Parallel Session 6: Room B112.B: Labor & Revolt

Elisa Purschke (Princeton University), Proletkul’t Organizational Theory, Or Labour and Anthropology
Frida Sandström (University of Copenhagen), A Sensuous Reversal of Consciousness: Rivolta Femminile’s Deculturation
Sukriti Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Marx contra Schmitt: From Revolutionary to Counterrevolutionary
Reading of the Category of the “Human”
10.45 –
11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – Parallel Session 7: Room B112.C: Labour, value & the abstract human
12.30 Aaron Berman (New School for Social Research), Who Is The 'Human' Of Abstract Socially Necessary Human Labour?
Jan Overwijk (University of Utrecht), The Humanist Remainder in Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s ‘Real Abstraction’
Philip Farah (NOVA University Lisbon), Abstract Subjectivity in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

Parallel Session 8: Room B112.B: Marx, Sartre & Foucault

Matteo Polleri (Université Paris Nanterre - Sophiapol), Foucault and Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: toward a cross-reading
Yari Lanci (Goldsmiths, University of London), Time and the Political Synthesis of Labour Power: on the Limits of Foucault’s
Critique of Marx’s Anthropology
Christos Kalpakidis (University of Bonn), Sartre and Marx on the Indeterminacy of Being Human

12.30 –
13.30 LUNCH

13.30 – Keynote Lecture 4

14.45 Room B112.C
John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon),
Marx and the Critique of Enlightenment Humanism:
A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective
(by zoom)

14.45 –
15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – Parallel Session 9: Room B112.C: Marx’s ‘breaks’: beyond Althusser
16.30 Duncan Stuart (New School for Social Research), From Althusser’s Marx to Kant’s Faculty of Judgement
Vernon Shukriu (Università degli Studi di Torino), Reiner Schürmann’s Conception of Marx’s Break
Silvestre Gristina (University of Padua), “Real Humanism” as Practical Concept and Anti-Ideological Device

Parallel Session 10: Room B112.B: Humanism & Subjectivity

Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Less Subjectivity, More Substance – Marx and Modal Individuation
Jacob Roundtree (Harvard University), Between Complexity Thinking and Rational Humanism: A Dialectical Interpretation of
Marxism
Rui Manuel de Matos Filipe (University of Lisbon), A Humanity that does not fit our Heads – From Old to New Humanism

16.30 –
16.45 Coffee Break

16.45 – Parallel Session 11: Room B112.C: Totality & Critique

18.00 Simon Skempton (University of York), Totality as the ‘Absolute Movement of Becoming’: Marx’s Aporetic Conception of the
Human
Maximilian Huschke (University of Jena), Critique of Totality – Totality of Critique. On Humanism and Political Economy
Tamara Caraus (University of Lisbon), Shaking the Roots: Marx’s Critique of the Human

Parallel Session 12: Room B112.B: Legal forms & Human rights
Hugo Lundberg (Gothenburg University), Legal Forms and Ontologies of the ‘More-Than-Human’
Anna Piekarska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Between the Legal Subject and the Legal Relation: Transindividuality and the
Marxian Critique of Rights
Sangwon Han (Chungbuk National University), ‘Ideological’ Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen? - Marx, Arendt
and Balibar

18.00 –- Coffee Break

18.15

18.15 – Keynote Lecture 5

19.30 Room B112.C
Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University)
Metabolism and Natural Limits: Rethinking Species-Being in Hegel and Marx

19.30 – Concluding Remarks

19.45