Optimism of the intellect against the morbid symptoms of the interregnum
Call for papers and panels
Historical Materialism Athens 2027 brings together researchers, scholars, workers, and militants committed to engaging with and renewing the Marxist tradition.
The central problem is not the absence of resistance. It is the unresolved relationship between resistance, political organisation, and transformative strategy.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Themes we particularly welcome
- Antonio Gramsci: life, work, hegemony, and political strategy
- Contemporary fascisms, the far right, and authoritarian transformations of the state
- War, genocide, imperialism, and anti-imperialist resistance
- Colonialism, racial capitalism, migration and refugee struggles, borders, and anti-racist resistance
- Class composition, labour, unionism, and new forms of workers’ organising
- Political strategy, movements, parties, and contemporary struggles
- Technological transformations and their political and ideological implications
- Capitalist accumulation, crisis, financialisation, and social reproduction
- Value theory and critique of political economy
- Marxist feminisms, gender and sexuality, queer and trans struggles
- Ecological catastrophe, extractivism, and ecosocialist alternatives
- Marxism, disability and crip theory, madness, and the critique of ableism
- Marxist theories of culture, art, literature, aesthetics, ideology
We also welcome proposals on other subjects that contribute to critical Marxist theory, historical research, and political debate.
Stream calls
Stream calls for papers will be published here in the next few days.
Live updates
Announcements and programme changes will appear here.
In memory of Peter D. Thomas
The organising collective dedicates the conference to the loving memory of our comrade, friend, and leading Marxist and Gramscian theorist Peter D. Thomas, who tragically passed away in October. Historical Materialism Athens 2027 will hold a series of panels honouring Peter’s groundbreaking work.