Symposium on Cornelius Castoriadis and Marxism

Sydney University’s Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Department is organising a Symposium about Greek scholar and thinker, Cornelius Castoriadis.

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The Symposium will take place on  Friday, December 15^th, 2017 at CCANESA Board Room, Madsen Building, The University of Sydney, from 11.00am-3.30pm. The event is open to the public. More about the emphasis of this year's Symposium and the speakers, in this interview that Professor Karalis gave to Themi Kallos.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

10.30: Morning Tea

11.00-11.45: Professor Peter Beilharz: How Did Pierre Chaulieu Become Cornelius Castoriadis ? Looking Back from Autonomy to Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Detroit Moment

11.45-12.30 Professor Peter Murphy: Two Pods in a Pea: James Burnham and Cornelius Castoriadis and their divergent critiques of bureaucratic collectivism

12.30-1.15 Dr Craig Browne: Cornelius Castoriadis and the Concept of the Dialectic of Control.

1.15-1.45:  Lunch Break:

1.45- 2.30 Alonso Casanueva Baptista:  Considerations of the relation between politics and pedagogy in Castoriadis' project of autonomy".

2.30-3.15 Professor Vrasidas Karalis: Cornelius Castoriadis and Thucydides

3.15-3.30 Discussion