13 September – 15 September 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities
1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4., Faculty Council Hall (Building A, ground floor 039)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of History and Class Consciousness the conference addresses the topicality and relevance of Hungary’s most influential philosopher anew. The keynotes and panels explore the historical context, the theoretical dimensions, and the actuality of Lukács’ masterpiece.
A collaboration of:
Rüdiger Dannemann, Internationale Georg Lukács Gesellschaft
Ágnes Erdélyi, Lukács Archive International Foundation
Samir Gandesha, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Johan Hartle, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Tyrus Miller, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine
Csaba Olay, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Society of Philosophy
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS:
WEDNESDAY, 13 September 2023
9.00 – 9.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.30 – 11.00
Keynote
Esther Leslie, Vienna, Christmas, 1922 – Budapest, March 1967: Between the Land of Milk and Honey and the Sun not Rising
Moderator: Samir Gandesha
11.15 – 13.15
Panel 1 Topic/ Theme: On the way to “History and Class Consciousness” (The Troubled history of a philosophical classic)
Rüdiger Dannemann, Detours to the new edition of History and Class Consciousness (Georg Lukács’ difficult relationship to his philosophical masterpiece)
Éva Karádi, The reception of Lukacs’ Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein in Heidelberg and in his own circle
Moderator: Anna Wessely
13.15 – 14.30
Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00
Keynote
Karl Lauschke, Die Architektur von Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein – eine historisch-philologische Analyse (The Architecture of “History and Class Consciousness” - a Historical-Philological Analysis)
Moderator: Rüdiger Dannemann
16.30 – 18.30
Panel 2 Topic/ Theme: History and Class Consciousness - an unfinished project (Lukács’ “orthodox” Marxism and its relationship to Hegel)
Christian Lotz, Lukacs’ Concepts of Category and Wechselwirkung, Considered with Cassirer and Kant
Zhang Shuangli, Rethinking Georg Lukacs’ Hegelian Marxism
Tyrus Miller, Objective Possibility in Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness
Moderator: Rogelio Regalado
19.00
MEETING IN THE ARCHIVE with Mihály Vajda, at the Lukács Archive, Belgrád rkp. 2, 1056 Hungary
THURSDAY, 14 September 2023
9.00 – 11.00
Panel 3 Topic/ Theme: Revolutionary Thought (The Infinite Dialectic of Theory and Praxis)
Tivadar Vervoort, Critical Theory and Partisanship: The Lukácsian Paradigm
Miklós Mesterházi, Über Sekten. Eine Randbemerkung zu Lukács’ “Methodisches zur Organisationsfrage” (About sects. A marginal note on Lukács’s “Towards a methodology of the problem of organisation”)
Frank Engster, Lukács as the Turning Point between Classical Newtonian Time and Einstein’s Relativist Space-Time
Moderator: Serafina Bytyqi
11.30 – 13.00
Keynote
Konstantinos Kavoulakos, Reification, Crisis, and Praxis in Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness
Moderator: Johan Hartle
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00
Panel 4 Theme/ Topic: Reification, Art(s), Nature and New Technologies
Károly Kókai, Verdinglichung und Sachlichkeit in der Literatur der 1920er Jahre (Reification and Objectivity in the Literature of the 1920s)
Mario Wenning, Reification and the Machine Heart（jixin機心）
Moderator: László Gergely Szücs
16.30 – 18.00
Keynote
Anita Chari, On Theory and Haptics: Exploring Embodiment in History and Class Consciousness
Moderator: Tyrus Miller
FRIDAY, 15 September 23
10.00 – 12.00
Panel 5 Topic/ Theme: Lukács and … (The Reception and Impact of History and Class Consciousness)
Samir Gandesha, Standpoint Theory from Class Consciousness to Intersectionality and Back?
János Weiss, Die Reformulierungen der Verdinglichungstheorie in der Frankfurter Schule
Francisco García Chicote, Siegfried Kracauer’s reception of History and Class Consciousness
Moderator: Levente Hollós
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch break
13.00 – 15.00
Panel 6 Topic/ Theme: Lukács in the 21st century – The problem of identity
Mariana Teixeira, Feminist Standpoint Theory and the relevance of Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness on its 100th anniversary
Titus Stahl, Grounding Epistemic Privilege: A Reconstruction of Lukács’s Standpoint Theory
Richard Westerman, The Problem of the Standpoint
Moderator: Ágnes Erdélyi
15.30 – 17.00
Keynote
Rahel Jaeggi, Der Standpunkt der Kritischen Theorie: Klassenbewusstsein, revolutionäre Subjekte und epistemische Überlegenheit
Moderator: Csaba Olay
17.00
Closing Remarks