Arcadia University's London Center is proud to announce its Marx and the City symposium celebrating the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth on Friday, November 2nd 2018. This one-day symposium examines Marx's approach to the city, how he envisaged its revolutionary transformation, as well as the relevance and resonances of his approach.
There are three interlocking aims behind Marx & the City, the first symposium to be held at Arcadia University’s London study abroad centre in Holborn. The first point is to mark the life and work of Karl Marx: we do so both in the two hundredth year since his birth and in a building a mere ten-minute walk from his first proper London home.
Second, we wish to stress ‘the city’ as an object of study that makes a mock of and does away with rigid disciplinary boundaries. As such, we encourage abstracts from anyone and everyone, most certainly including those outside the academy.
Finally, this symposium will seek to involve Arcadia students at all levels of decision-making. All too rarely do students get to see their teachers’ ideas challenged publicly: by contrast, Marx and the City will invite some of Arcadia’s fall 2018 intake to actively participate through chairing and attending panels, reviewing abstract submissions, and so on.
Karl Marx found in the industrializing cities of the nineteenth century both the epitome of modern capitalist exploitation and the revolutionary agents of capitalism’s demise. Marx himself has extensive contact with the city; he spent most of his life living as a revolutionary exile in London, the city at the heart of the British Empire. This symposium examines Marx’s approach to the city, how he envisaged its revolutionary transformation as well as the relevance and resonances of his approach.
This event will have sixteen international presenters and keynotes from Professor Donald Sassoon - Queen Mary, University of London and Dr Lindsey German - University of Hertfordshire.
Further Details and Registration: bit.do/marxandthecity