Images of Gramsci: Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations

24-25 October 2003, University of Nottingham, U.K.

DAY 1: Approaches to Gramsci

10:10 a.m. Welcome: Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton

1st Panel 10:20 a.m.

Anne Showstack Sassoon, ‘Gramsci and the Secret of Father Brown’

Joseph A. Buttigieg, ‘Revisiting Gramsci’s Concept of Civil Society’

Joseph V. Femia, ‘Gramsci, Machiavelli and Political Realism’

Discussant: Randall Germain

2nd Panel 1:30 p.m.

Bob Jessop, ‘Gramsci as a Spatial Theorist’

James Martin, ‘The Logics of Hegemony: Gramsci and Post-Marxism’

Adam David Morton, ‘The Age of Absolutism: Capitalism, the Modern States-System and International Relations’

Discussant: Joseph A. Buttigieg

3rd Panel 3:45 p.m.

Maurice A. Finocchiaro, ‘Gramsci, Wars and Cultural Struggle’

Randolph B. Persaud, ‘The Spatial Logic of Hegemonisation’

Randall Germain, ‘Gramsci and the Historical Mode of Thought in IPE’

Discussant: Mark Rupert

DAY 2: World Order in Question

10:10 a.m. Opening words for second day: Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton

1st Panel 10:20

Andrew Robinson, ‘Towards an Intellectual Reformation: The Critique of Common Sense and the Forgotten Revolutionary Project of Gramscian Theory’

A. Claire Cutler, ‘Gramsci, Law and the Culture of Global Capitalism’

Mustapha K. Pasha, ‘Islam, Orientalism and Empire: A Gramscian Re-Reading’

Discussant: Kees van der Pijl

2nd Panel 1:30

Mark Rupert, ‘Reading Gramsci in an Era of Globalising Capitalism’

Kees van der Pijl, ‘Gramsci and Left Managerialism’

Andreas Bieler, ‘The EU and Global Capitalism: A Historical Materialist Perspective on European Integration’

Discussant: Bob Jessop

3rd Panel 3:45 p.m.

Mark Neufeld, ‘Democratic Socialism in a Global(-ising) Context: Toward a Collective Research Programme’

Ngai-Ling Sum, ‘From “Integral State” to “Integral World Order”: Towards a neo-Gramscian Cultural IPE’

William I. Robinson, ‘Gramsci and Globalisation: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony’

Discussant: Adam David Morton

6:00 p.m. Farewell/End of workshop