Conference organizers:
Christian Neuhäuser (TU Dortmund University), Gabriel Wollner (University of Bayreuth), Lea Ypi (London School of Economics), Nicholas Vrousalis (Universiteit Leiden), Robin Celikates (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
In cooperation with Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
Academic Programme
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Wallotstr.14, 14193 Berlin
10th-11th of January 2019
Thursday, January 10th
08.45-09.00 Welcome and introduction
09.00-10.00 Camila Vergara (Columbia University, New York) - The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
10.15-11.15 Michael Brie (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin) - Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of the Russian revolution and her strategy during the German Revolution
11.30-12.30 Zsolt Kapelner (Central European University, Budapest) - Rosa Luxemburg and the value of self-emancipation
Chair: Gabriel Wollner
Lunch Break
13.30-14.30 Joshua Wavrant (Université Reims Champagne Ardenne) - The revolutionary praxis of education: Rosa Luxemburg’s critical pedagogy at the Party School,
1907-1914
14.45-15.45 Helen Scott (The University of Vermont, Burlington) - Capturing the ‘the spirit of struggle’: Rosa Luxemburg’s Literary Analysis
16.00-17.00 A.J. Julius (UCLA) - The ocean and the tumbler, the sediment and the wave
Chair: Hannah Schmidt-Glenewinkel
19:30 Panel Discussion with Lea Ypi, Ernst Piper, and Paul Mason
Chair: Johanna Bussemer
Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin
Friday, January 11th
09.30-10.30 Antonio Mota (State University of Campinas) - Reassessing Rosa Luxemburg's early writings on the national question
10.45-11.45 Ankica Cakardic (University of Zagreb) - The accumulation of capital and social reproduction theory
12.00-13.00 Peter Hudis (Oakton Community College) - Racism and the Logic of Capital: A ReAssessment of Luxemburg’s Thought in Light of Struggles Against Colonialism
Chair: Zeynep Kivilcim
Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Callum MacRae (City University of New York) - How Liberal is Luxemburg’s Socialism? A Comparison of Millian and Luxemburgian Defences of Civil Liberties
15.15-16.15 Mathijs van de Sande (Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Rosa Luxemburg’s Councilism: Bridging the Gap Between Direct Democracy and Popular Representation?
16.30-17.30 Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University & Aarhus University) – Luxemburg on the relationship between revolutionary means and ends
Chair: Christian Neuhäuser
Additional Events
Wednesday, January 9th
17:00-20:00 Panel Discussion „Rosa Luxemburgs Kampf um Gerechtigkeit“
With Annelies Laschitza and Eckhart Müller
Organized by “Internationale Rosa Luxemburg Gesellschaft”
At Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv, Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin Lichterfelde.
To register, please email Ottokar Luban: oluban@gmx.de
Saturday, January 12th
13:00-24:00 Various Luxemburg Events
Organized by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Sunday, January 13th
Memorial at Cemetery
Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Gudrunstraße 20, 10365 Berlin