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IGS-Mexico Conference: 29 November - 1 December 2007
The conference program for the IV Conferencia Internacional Estudios Gramscianos ‘Gramsci a Setenta Años de la Muerte’ (Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de México) is available on the IGS website. Click here.

Posted: 10 October 2007.

Gramsci Symposium: Nov. 9-11 @ Michigan State University

The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University is pleased to host “Gramsci Now: Cultural and Political Theory,” an international symposium to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci. The symposium will be held Friday through Sunday, November 9-11, 2007 in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

This very special event is being hosted as part of the “Year of Arts and Culture” at Michigan State University.

The symposium is broadly interdisciplinary in scope, with panels on:
    • Gramsci and Post-Colonial Theory
    • Gramsci’s Relevance to Contemporary Economic and Political Theory
    • Gramsci and Cultural Studies

There will also be four plenary addresses on:
    • Reading Gramsci: Questions of Method
    • Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense
    • Gramsci’s Conception of Political Organization
    • Gramsci and ‘The New World Order’

Presenters are:
    Stanley Aronowitz
    Joseph A. Buttigieg
    Kate Crehan
    Roberto Dainotto
    Michael Denning
    Benedetto Fontana
    Stephen Gill
    Marcia Landy
    Guido Liguori
    Frank Rosengarten
    David Ruccio
    Epifanio San Juan, Jr.

Visit www.cal.msu.edu/Gramsci.php for more information.

Posted: 10 October 2007

July 1, 2007: Call for Papers > Gramsci Symposium in Tokyo - 1 & 2 December 2007

A Symposium commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci will be held at the Liberty Tower of Meiji University located at Surugadai, Tokyo on the 1st and 2nd of December 2007.

The initiative has been taken by a number of Japanese scholars, researchers and activists interested in researching and deepening the thoughts and theories of the Italian Marxist revolutionary, Antonio Gramsci. Since last June 2006, they have discussed how to celebrate this event of world historical importance.

It will also be an occasion to discuss and reflect on the world situation, characterized by deepening globalization, as well as on the critical situation in Japan as shown by the deterioration of various kinds of “differences or gaps” in the society and the rise of populism, new and old versions of nationalism, etc.

Proposals
Although we do not have the capacity to accommodate scholars from abroad to attend the symposium, we invite scholars to submit paper proposals for consideration in the symposium proceedings.

While all papers that address the following topics would be particularly welcomed, anyone from abroad wishing to make a contribution needs to submit a title and abstract of the proposed paper of no more than 200 words, no later than July 15, 2007 to the Secretariat of the symposium via e-mail (gramsci@m18.alpha-net.ne.jp).

Papers
All proposed papers, written in English or Italian language and no more than 5,000 words, should be sent to the Secretariat at latest by the end of August 2007. By the end of October the Special volume of papers will be translated and published to all Japanese participants in the symposium.

Provisional Main Topics of Symposium

1. The globalization and the Gramscian concept of hegemony.
2. The theoretical problems related to the deciphering of the Prison Notebooks. The last ten years of Gramscian study and now.
3. Japanese contemporary history and Gramscian study.
4. The functions of intellectuals and education in the 21st century.
5. The role of culture and media in the 21st century.
6. Movements and thoughts of autonomy, cooperation and democracy. Verifying the theories and practice of social movements.  
7. Gramsci and contemporary thinkers (Said/Foucault/Hall,etc).

For the organizing committee of the Symposium
Nobuaki Kurosawa (Nagano University)
Koichi Ohara (IGS-Japan)
E-mail:gramsci@m18.alpha-net.ne.jp

June 5, 2007: IV Conferencia Internacional de Estudios Gramscianos 2007, Buenos Aires, pospuesto

conferencia pospuesta al marzo de 2008

January 28, 2007: THIRD INTERNATIONAL GRAMSCI SOCIETY CONFERENCE - Call for Papers

“Antonio Gramsci: A Sardinian in the ‘Vast and Terrible World’”

SARDINIA: 2-5 MAY 2007

The third conference/convention of the International Gramsci Society will be held in Sardinia, Italia from the 2nd to the 5th of May 2007 in collaboration with Casa Museo Gramsci of Ghilarza, the Casa Natale Gramsci of Ales, and the Istituto Gramsci of Sardinia.

The inaugural conference of the IGS was held in Naples ten years ago and the second one took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2001. To mark the 70th anniversary of Gramsci’s death, the IGS will hold its next international conference in Sardinia, Gramsci’s birthplace. It will be an occasion to discuss and reflect on his legacy in the places—Cagliari, Ghilarza, and Ales—where he spent the earliest formative years of his life.

The conference program will consist of four plenary sessions as well as three concurrent sessions. Every plenary session will open with two talks of 30 minutes each; they will be followed by a series of shorter papers (20 minutes each). Each of the concurrent sessions will have one 30-minute opening presentation that will be followed by a number of 20-minute papers. Participants may wish to write longer papers with a view to subsequent publication—in which case their presentations at the conference will consist in a partial reading or a summary of the longer version of their work. The relative brevity of the presentations is necessary to ensure that as many active participants as possible can be included in the conference program.

Anyone wishing to participate in the conference needs to submit a title and an abstract of the proposed paper and indicate in which of the sessions (listed below) she or he would like to be included. All proposals should be sent via e-mail before February 15th to the following address: igs2007 @ victoryiscertain.com

 The proposals will be reviewed by the conference program committee that will make the final decision on which papers will be included in the official program. The decisions of the committee will be communicated to all prospective participants on March 15th.

Conference participants are expected to be current members of the IGS or IGS-Italia. To become an IGS member or renew one’s membership please go to:
http://www.victoryiscertain.com/gramsci/igs-membership/

(Participants from Italy: please check the Italian version of this message for information on applying for or renewing membership in IGS-Italia.)

The IGS does not have the financial resources to defray the participants’ travel expenses to and from Sardinia. Efforts are under way to secure funds to provide all participants included in the program with hotel accommodation in Sardinia for the duration of the conference. Modest grants may also become available to partially defray the travel expenses of young scholars. (Applications for these grants should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae.)

OUTLINE OF CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

1. Plenary session: The National-International nexus
The nation state and globalization; the processes of national and international hegemonies; the relation between state and market; the national-popular and globalization; a new internationalism; the role of supra-national institutions; imperialism today; civil society today.

2.  Plenary session: From Sardinia to the World
Autonomy as self-government; the southern question past and present; folklore and subalternity; geopolitics and planetary culture.

3.  Plenary session: Intellectuals and Mass Society
New forms of relationship between the intellectuals and the masses; the new processes of forging common sense; the mass media versus the “intellectual advancement of the masses”; writing, orality, and non-verbal languages in the processes of hegemony; literature/literatures; intellectuals and the formation of common sense; music as “the most universal language of our time”; schooling and formation; continuing education

4. Plenary session: Passive Revolution and the Struggle for Hegemony
The modalities of bourgeois hegemony at the present time;  striving for an alternative hegemony; globalization as passive revolution; the political party today; non-statal political formations (movements); parliamentary democracy and new forms of democracy; religion and politics.

5. Concurrent sessions:

1. How well is Gramsci known in the world today? Translations, editions, translatability; discourses
2. Marxism as “philosophy of praxis”
3. Gramsci in the schools

July 30, 2006: Call for papers: IV Conferencia Internacional de Estudios Gramscianos 2007

IV International Conference on Gramscian Studies 2007

La Fondazione Istituto Gramsci y la IGS (Mexico) organizan la IV Conferencia Internacional de Estudios Gramscianos 2007, “La Presencia de Antonio Gramsci en la Cultura Latinoamericana 1937–2007,” en la ciudad de Buenos Aires los días 2 a 4 de noviembre de 2007. {Pospuesto al marzo de 2008}.

El comité científico del evento es presidido por Juan Carlos Portantiero, Alberto Filippi (Argentina), Giuseppe Vacca (Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Roma) y Dora Kanoussi (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla).

Los temas de la conferencia son

1. Momentos importantes de la difusión de la obra de Gramsci en América Latina, 1947 – 1992.
2. Interpretaciones sobresalientes del pensamiento gramsciano en América Latina del 1992 a 2007.
3. Los ‘usos’ de Gramsci en la cultura política latinoamericana

Invitamos a los estudiosos interesados a enviar sus propuestas de ponencia a más tardar el 30 diciembre 2006, a dorakanoussi @ yahoo.com con:

1. Titulo de la ponencia
2. Nombre del autor y datos (dirección electrónica, teléfonos etc).
3. Breve resumen de no más de 300 palabras

April 13, 2006: “Antonio Gramsci e i subalterni” Seminar in Rome, Italy

Giorgio Baratta has organized a seminar on Gramsci and the subaltern to be held in Rome between April 18 and May 23, 2006. For more information, see the Libreria della Fondra website or the PDF of the flyer.

January 17, 2006: IGS Call for Papers: Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference

Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
26-28 October 2006

The International Gramsci Society is organizing a number of panels for the Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA on 26-28 October 2006.

As part of the Rethinking Marxism Conference, the IGS plans to sponsor four panels related to Gramsian studies and topics.

We invite members of the IGS community to submit paper proposals on topics related to Gramscian studies and to the application of Gramsci's ideas.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Proposals for papers should include:

1. Paper title
2. Presenter's name and contact information (address, email, phone, fax)
3. Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)

Please send proposals to Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green .

Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 June 2006.

For more information on the Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference, see
http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org

To submit a non-IGS paper proposal, go to
http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/submission.html

Rethinking Marxism is a journal of economics, culture & society. For more
information on the journal, see http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/

May 23, 2005: Call for Papers: “Gramsci: Materialism and Culture”
An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Toronto, October 14-15, 2005. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars interested in revisiting the relationship between materialism and culture in the thought of Antonio Gramsci.

Papers can be in, but need not be restricted to, the following general areas:

(i) Materialism and culture in Gramsci's sources
(ii) The intellectual context of Gramsci's thought
(iii) The conceptual dynamics of materialism and culture in Gramsci's works
(iv) The legacy of Gramsci

Papers should be approximately 30 minutes in length and may be either in Italian or in English.

Send proposals (200 words) to Domenico Pietropaolo at domenico.pietropaolo@utoronto.ca by August 1, 2005.

All proposals should include the authors's affiliation and full contact information. Acceptances will be notified by August 15, 2005.

May 14, 2005: “The Gramsci Discourse” Conference at UC Santa Cruz
An interdisciplinary conference held on May 20 & 21, 2005, sponsored by Cowell College and Stevenson College, with special thanks to the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment.

Participants include: Margaret Brose (UCSC) • Joseph Buttigieg (U Notre Dame) • Giulia Centineo (UCSC) • James Clifford (UCSC) • Chris Connery (UCSC) • Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC) • Kate Crehan (College of Staten Island/Graduate Center CUNY) • Angela Davis (UCSC) • Guillermo Delgado-P. (UCSC) • Dana Frank (UCSC) • Susan Gillman (UCSC) • Jason Jacobs (UCSC) • George Lipsitz (UCSC) • Dennis Looney (U Pittsburgh) •(UCSC) • Robert Meister (UCSC) • Tyrus Miller (UCSC) • Nelson Moe (Barnard College) • Eleonora Pasotti (UCSC) • Marguerite Waller (UC Riverside).

All events will be held at the Page Smith Library, Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz and are free and open to the public.

A PDF conference poster with schedule is available.

January 21, 2005: "Hegemony: Explorations into Consensus, Coercion & Culture"
The University of Wollongong (Australia) is hosting a conference entitled "HEGEMONY: Explorations into Consensus, Coercion and Culture" that will take place on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th February 2005. Some of the conference papers have been made available for download on the conference web site.

The conference guests include: Joseph Buttigieg (USA), Derek Boothman (Italy), Koichi Ohara (Japan), Scott Poynting (UWS), Boris Frankel (Melb), Peter Beilharz (Latrobe), Alastair Davidson (UOW).

January 20, 2005: The Death of Nicola Badaloni
Nicola Badaloni, the renowned Italian philosopher and political theorist, has died at the age of 80. Badaloni wrote many important books and scholarly essays on Marx, Labriola and Gramsci, as well as on Bruno, Campanella, and Vico. Born in Livorno, Badaloni was a prominent member of the Italian Communist Party and served for many years as President of Istituto Gramsci in Rome. His book, Il marxismo di Gramsci (Turin: Einaudi, 1975) has been extremely influential and widely cited; among other things, it highlights the influence of Sorel and Labriola on Gramsci. Badaloni's other monograph on Gramsci was published in 1988: Il problema dell'immanenza nella filosofia politica di Antonio Gramsci (Venice: Arsenale Ed.).

May 6, 2004: Giuseppe Sormani International Prize
The Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci, with the sponsorship of the city of Torino, announces The Giuseppe Sormani International Prize for a Work about Antonio Gramsci.

Instructions available in English, Italiano, español, and Deutsch at The Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci.

January 22, 2004: Call for papers: MLA 2004 Conference in Philadelphia, USA
The journal Italian Culture and the American Association for Italian Studies will sponsor two sessions at the 2004 Meeting of the Modern Language Association, to be held in Philadelphia in late December, 2004. For those interested, session titles and organizers are:

1. “Gramsci, Rhetoric, and Philology”
Organizer: Roberto Dainotto

2. “Violence, Ethics, and Literature”
Organizer: Joseph Francese

October 16, 2003: ‘Images of Gramsci’ Conference Program
‘Images of Gramsci: Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations.’ Organized by Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton. University of Nottingham, U.K. 24-25 October 2003. Click here for program.

September 12, 2003: IGS-Mexico Conference Program
The conference program for the III. International Conference on Gramscian Studies (Puebla, Mexico) is available on the IGS web site. Click here.

May 12, 2003: IGS-Mexico Conference Update
The Antonio Gramsci Center at the Autonomous University of Puebla (Mexico) and La Fondazione Istituto Gramsci di Roma (Italia) are pleased to announce the participants for the 3rd International Conference on Gramscian Studies at the University of Puebla held on 7-10 October 2003:

Jorge Acanda · Manuel Almeida · Ursula Apitzsch · Giorgio Baratta · F. Beigel · Derek Boothman · Francisco Fernandez Buey · Joseph Buttigieg · Giuseppe Cospito · Carlos Nelson Coutinho · Chiara Daniele · Alastair Davidson · Donatella Di Benedetto · Carl Dyke · Roberto Finelli · Maurice Finocchiaro · Benedetto Fontana · Fabio Frosini · Francesco Giasi · R. Graf · Peter Gran · Marcus Green · Luiz Sergio Henriques · Rafael Hernandez · Manuel Herrera · F. Hidalgo · John Holst · Renate Holub · Peter Ives · Francesca Izzo · Sabine Kebir · Néstor Kohan · Guido Liguori · Rafael Quintero Lopez · Fernando Martinez · Rita Medici · Adam Morton · Marco Nogueira · Koichi Ohara · Pablo Pacheco · Silvio Pons · Andrea Texeira · Giuseppe Vacca · Yannis Voulgaris · Immanuel Wallerstein · Yichng Wu.

The main objective of the conference is the gathering of researchers from all levels and all kinds of institutions in order to further mutual understanding and to discuss each other’s work. Work reflecting the state of the art and the advances in Gramscian studies across the world is particularly welcome. In addition, work not directly linked to Gramscian studies is also welcome, if it concerns issues from international politics and is carried out from the perspective of political science. The second part of the Conference is dedicated to these important issues. The conference will include presentations and keynote addresses by eminent colleagues. In addition, time for discussion will be included.

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by 31 March 2003. Submissions by electronic mail are encouraged in order to facilitate the review process. Send abstracts to Dora Kanoussi of the IGS-Mexico Coordinating Committee.

Abstracts will be reviewed and those selected will be notified by 30 April 2003. The preliminary Conference program will be issued on 30 April 2003.

In addition to the abstract, the following information is required:
Name, title, organization, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail.