Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific)
Events - 2007
Il 27 aprile 2007, alle ore 9.30 presso la Facolta di lettere e filosofia della Università di Roma Tre, si è svolta l'assemblea annuale della Igs Italia, presenti 18 soci.
L'assemblea è stata introdotta dalla relazione del presidente uscente Giorgio Baratta, che ha ricordato il lavoro svolto nell'ultimo anno: il seminario sul lessico gramsciano, quello per un nuovo dizionario del Gramsci del carcere, il lavoro per un “atlante dei Quaderni”, i libri editi o in via di pubblicazione nella collana "Per Gramsci", i convegni e seminari svolti in città diverse.
Baratta ha poi avanzato la proposta di una edizione elettronica dei Quaderni e ha ragguagliato sui preparativi in corso per la ricorrenza del 70° anniversario gramsciano, sottolineando a tal proposito l'importanza dei contatti allacciati o rinnovati con numerose associazioni, istituzioni, singoli studiosi della Sardegna.
Il presidente della Igs, infine, ha ricordato che essendo giunto a scadenza il Direttivo, occorreva eleggerne uno nuovo per il triennio 2006-2008.
Liguori, a nome del direttivo uscente, ha avanzato la proposta di nuovo direttivo: più ristretto e più operativo, ma al contempo aperto a tutti coloro che vogliano partecipare attivamente e dare il proprio contributo alla Igs, in primo luogo al presidente del Centro interuniversitario per gli studi gramsciani Voza, ai componenti del direttivo uscente, a una rappresentanza delle organizzazioni sarde con cui si lavora in vista dell’anno gramsciano 2007.
Si è aperta la discussione, nella quale sono intervenuti i soci Jervolino, Prestipino, Pillai, Voza, Baratta, Palladini, Frosini, Boothman, Durante, Ausilio, Del Roio, Caputo, Liguori, Jervolino. Sono state approvati gli orientamenti espressi nella relazione del presidente uscente. L'assemblea ha infine approvato all'unanimità (tranne una astensione) il nuovo direttivo, composto da Baratta, Durante, Frosini, Liguori, Paladini. Riunitosi a fine assemblea, il direttivo ha confermato Giorgio Baratta presidente e Guido Liguori vice-presidente. Durante l'Assemblea è stato premiato Michele Filippini, vincitore del Premio Gerratana 2005, bandito dalla Igs Italia con il sostegno della Provincia di Roma.
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May 2-5, 2007, Sardinia
Third International Gramsci Society Conference
“Antonio Gramsci: A Sardinian in the ‘Vast and Terrible World’”
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:
- 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.
- Plenary session: From Sardinia to the World Autonomy as self-government; the southern question past and present; folklore and subalternity; geopolitics and planetary culture.
- 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.
- 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.
- Concurrent sessions:
a. How well is Gramsci known in the world today? Translations, editions, translatability; discourses
b. Marxism as “philosophy of praxis”
c. Gramsci in the schools
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June 14-17, 2007
Class Matters: Working-Class Culture and Counter-culture
Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Dormitory housing available
Next year’s conference will explore working-class culture in all its forms – activism, pop culture, the arts, storytelling, and more.
Working-class culture can be a source of unity as well as division, that is constructed in the workplace as well as in the realms of "leisure" and popular culture. At this conference, we hope to explore the relationships between "cultural workers" and their audiences, control over the means of cultural production (publishers, music producers, universities, etc.), and the commodification of working-class culture, among other issues. How has working-class culture changed over time? Is there is a diasporic, transnational, and/or global working-class culture? How do working-class people use representations, organizations, and everyday life to resist the dominant culture? How does working-class culture reflect divisions among working-class people?
We invite proposals for presentations, panels, roundtables, and performances. Submit 1-page abstracts with a brief biographical statement January 15, 2007 to:
Peter Rachleff
History Department
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
Or by email to rachleff@macalester.edu
For more information, contact Peter Rachleff, rachleff@macalester.edu, or by phone at 651-696-6371.
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2-4 November 2007, Buenos Aires
La Presencia de Antonio Gramsci en la Cultura LatinoAmericana 1937-2007
Fourth International Conference on Gramscian Studies
International Gramsci Society (Mexico)/Fondazione Istituto Gramsci (Mexico)
Call for Papers
2 a 4 Noviembre 2007, Ciudad de Buenes Aires la Presencia de Antonio Gramsci en la Cultura LatinoAmericana 1937-2007
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.
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
- Momentos importantes de la difusión de la obra de Gramsci en
América Latina, 1947 a 1992.
- Interpretaciones sobresalientes del pensamiento gramsciano en América Latina del 1992 a 2007.
- Los Œusos 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:
- Titulo de la ponencia
- Nombre del autor y datos (dirección electrónica, teléfonos etc).
- Breve resumen de no más de 300 palabras.
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