LENINIST DAYS / JORNADAS LENINISTAS
100 YEARS WITHOUT LENIN, 100 YEARS WITH HIM
Online and in-person events
27 January – 25 May 2024
ANTIGONISH (NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA), ATHENS, BARCELONA, BERLIN, BOLOGNA, BUDAPEST, BUENOS AIRES, CARACAS, CARDIFF, COVENTRY, DALLAS, DUBLIN, DUNDEE, HAVANA, HELSINKI, HUDDINGE (SWEEDEN), LISBON, LONDON, MADRID, MANILA, MELBOURNE, MONTREAL, NEW YORK, PARIS, PITTSBURGH, PRAGUE, PRETORIA, PRINCETON, QUITO, SANTA BARBARA (CA), SAN JOSÉ (COSTA RICA), SANTIAGO (CHILE), SANTIAGO DE CUBA, SAO PAULO, SOFIA, STOCKHOLM, TBILISI, TORONTO, VALENCIA, WARSAW, YONGIN (SOUTH KOREA), YORK.
PROGRAM / PROGRAMA
Inaugural session
Saturday 27 January 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Inaugural address
Paul Le Blanc Socialism and revolutionary democracy: Lenin’s legacy for our time of catastrophe
Chair: Sebastian Budgen
Written translation and consecutive interpretation: Rolando Prats
Venue(s): London, New York, Pittsburgh.
Week 1
Thursday 1 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 1 What was socialism for Lenin?
Tamás Krausz Lenin on socialism: Past and present
Paul Le Blanc Lenin’s socialism: Labels and realities
Chair and discussant: Thomas Marshall Twiss
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Barcelona, Budapest, Pittsburgh.
Saturday 3 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 1
Valerio Arcary Lenin’s legacies and the fight against the extreme-right
Chair: Rolando Prats
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Luke Stobart
Venue(s): Barcelona, Buenos Aires, New York, São Paulo.
Week 2
Thursday 8 February 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 2 Lenin and Leninism in Latin America
Bruno Bosteels The crisis and critique of Leninism in Latin America, between Roque Dalton’s Un libro rojo para Lenin (1973), via Oscar del Barco’s Esbozo de una crítica a la teoría y la práctica leninistas (1980), to Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s ¡A desordenar! (1999)
Marcos del Roio Lenin in Brazil: a discontinuous history
Chris Gilbert There is no Leninist theory (today) without Latin America’s revolutionary practice
Chair: Paul Le Blanc
In English, Portuguese, and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell, Leandro Moura, Rolando Prats.
Venue(s): Barcelona, Caracas, New York, Pittsburgh, São Paulo.
Saturday 10 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 2
Michael Löwy From Hegel’s Logic to Finland Station in Petrograd
Chair: Kevin B. Anderson
Simultáneous interpretation: Margarida Coelho de Assis
Venue(s): New York, Santa Barbara (CA), Paris.
Week 3
Thursday 15 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Conversation 1: Book Launch (Co-sponsored by Verso Books)
V. I. Lenin’s Imperialism and the National Question (Verso, 2024)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore “The Soviets and Abolition” in conversation with Alberto Toscano
Simultaenous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid.
Saturday 17 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 3
Montserrat Galceran The question of the soviets: economic democracy vs. political democracy
Chair: Brais Fernández
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Luke Stobart
Venue(s): Barcelona, Madrid.
Week 4
Thursday 22 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 AM (EST) — Panel 3 The last Lenin
Dinorah Hernández Is the last Lenin the truest Lenin?
Fernando Rojas Better fewer, but better: Reflections from Cuba one hundred years after Lenin’s death
Frank Josué Solar Cabrales Lenin and democracy: Debunking a myth
Chair: Luis Emilio Aybar
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, Santiago de Cuba.
Saturday 24 February 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 4
Camila Vergara Lenin and the law
Chair and discussant: Igor Shoikhedbrod Revisiting Lenin and the law: A response to Vergara
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, London, Nova Scotia (Canada).
Week 5
Thursday 29 February 2024
9:30 AM — 11:15 AM (EST) — Conversation 2 Lenin and the national question
Étienne Balibar Lenin’s “liberal” turn on the national question, the foundation of the Soviet Union, and the origins of the current post-soviet conflicts
Jaime Pastor The evolution of Lenin’s thought on the national question: self-determination, secession and federalism
Chair and discussant: Gal Kirn
In English and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Paris.
12:30 PM — 2:15 PM (EST) — Panel 4 Lenin in times of climate change, war, and global disorder
Jodi Dean Climate Leninism and Palestinian liberation
Kai Heron From the ruins, revolution?
Paul Le Blanc Notes on climate Leninism
Chair and discussant: Diana O’Dwyer
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Brighton (UK), Dublin, Geneva (NY), Havana, Pittsburgh.
Saturday 2 March 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 5
Jodi Dean “The Desire Question”— Lenin and Women
Chair and discussant: Sarah Raymundo
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Geneva (NY), Havana, Manila.
Week 6
Thursday 7 March 2024
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM (EST) — Conversation 3: Comrades in arms: Lenin and women
Liza Featherstone (“Comrades: Lenin and Kollontai on Sex, Work and Women’s Liberation“) in conversation with Kristen R. Ghodsee (“Lenin’s Red Valkyries: Krupskaya, Armand, and Kollontai: Shaping Early Soviet Social Policy”)
Chair and discussant: Jodi Dean
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Brooklyn (NY), Geneva (NY), Sofia (Bulgaria).
Saturday 9 March 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 6
Alla Ivanchikova Surveillance and Conspiracy, Lenin and Sci Fi: Tactics for the 21st Century
Chair: Rolando Prats
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Geneva (NY), Havana, New York.
Week 7
Thursday 14 March 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 5 Lenin beyond the centers, Lenin beyond the paradigms
Julio César Guanche Lenin: A Latin American debate between Mella, Haya de la Torre and Mariátegui (In Spanish)
Michael Neocosmos Lenin and the politics of the “agrarian question”: Thinking the present in the light of becoming
Mauricio Sandoval Black Leninism in Red Africa: One Hundred Years after Amilcar Cabral (In Spanish)
Chair: Rolando Prats
In English and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, New York, Pretoria, Quito, San José (Costa Rica).
Saturday 16 March 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 7
Jana Ndiaye Berankova “All power to truth!” Alain Badiou, the subject, and the infinite
Chair and discussant: Reza Naderi
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, Prague, Toronto.
2:00 PM — 3:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 8
Adrián Piva From Lenin’s State and Revolution to Pashukanis’s The General Theory of Law and Marxism
Chair: Martín Mosquera
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Havana.
Week 8
Thursday 21 March 2024
9:30 AM – 11:45 PM (EST) — Panel 6 Revolution and the people: Leninism, aesthetics, and politics
Jason Barker Does Leninism exist? On Andreas Malm’s ecopolitics
Tora Lane Songs about the Revolution and Lenin being one
David Payne From one revolution to another: the dramaturgy of the people in the Russian and French revolutions
Chair: Alexander Stagnell
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell, Ernesto Teuma.
Venue(s): Barcelona, Havana, Södertörn University (Huddinge, Sweeden), Yongin (South Korea).
Saturday 23 March 2024
02:30 PM – 04:15 PM (EST) — Keynote 9
Darren Roso Bensaïd, Lenin, and philosophy.
Chair: Paul Le Blanc
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, Melbourne, Pittsburgh.
Week 9
Thursday 28 March 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 7 Towards a radical socialist democracy: Is a self-abolishing State possible?
Eric Blanc Taking the Right Lessons from Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Panagiotis Sotiris Dual power revisited
Chair and discussant: Paul Le Blanc
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Athens, Havana, New York, Pittsburgh.
Saturday 30 March 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 10
Lars T. Lih 1917: Lenin and the Bolshevik Adjustment
Chair and discussant: Paul Le Blanc
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, Montreal, Pittsburgh.
Week 10
Saturday 6 April 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 11
Bruno Bosteels The Art of Insurrection
Discussant: Luciana Cadahia
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, Santiago (Chile), Valencia.
Week 11
Thursday 11 April 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 12 (In-person and online event)
Natasha Gómez Velázquez Lenin 100 years later: To be or not to be (Leninist)
Chair: Luis Emilio Aybar
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, New York.
Saturday 13 April 2024
9:30 AM – 11:15 PM (EST) — Keynote 13
Tora Lane Lenin’s cosmic gesture – The revolution according to Platonov
Chair: Rolando Prats
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, New York, Södertörn University (Huddinge, Sweeden).
Week 12
Tuesday 16 April 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 8 Lenin, Power, and the People (A zoom broadcast of an in-person event recorded on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at Pluriversidad Patria Grande, Comuna El Panal, 23 de Enero, Caracas)
Simone Magalhães Lenin and the MST: his actuality and relevance for our political practice
Robert Longa Lenin, the Bolshevik Party and the Soviets
Chris Gilbert Lenin and practice according to Mariátegui
Chair: Cira Pascual Marquina
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Caracas, Havana, New York.
Thursday 18 April 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 9 Lenin and Leninism today: What can Lenin do for us? What can we do for Lenin?
Lara Douds The developing Soviet State in Lenin’s time
Daniel Orlovsky Lenin as an analyst of the agrarian question in 1917
Christopher Read Lenin: from myth to history.
James Ryan Lenin’s legacy
Chair: Jonathan Davis
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell, Ernesto Teuma.
Venue(s): Barcelona, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Dallas, Havana, New York, York.
Saturday 20 April 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 14
Panagiotis Sotiris Lenin, philosophy and politics: Revisiting Lenin’s philosophical contributions in light of his strategic considerations
Chair: Paul Le Blanc
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Athens, Havana, New York, Pittsburgh.
Week 13
Thursday 25 April 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 15
Martín Mosquera Lenin and Poulantzas: What is to be done… about the State?
Chair: Jorge Orovitz Sanmartino
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Barcelona, Buenos Aires, New York.
02:15 PM – 4:00 PM (EST) — Keynote 16
Jorge Orovitz Sanmartino Revisiting Lenin’s theory of the State after Gramsci and Poulantzas
Chair: Martín Mosquera
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Humberto T. Fernández
Venue(s): Buenos Aires, Miami, New York.
Week 14
Thursday 2 May 2024
9:30 AM – 11:15 PM (EST) — Conversation 4: Book presentation Lenin: The Heritage We (Don’t) Renounce (Daraja Press, 2024)
Bermet Borubaeva (on behalf of KYRGSOC) and Kaveh Boveiri / Co-sponsored by Daraja Press
Chair: Rolando Prats
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell and Humberto T. Fernández
Venue(s): Montreal, New York, Tbilisi.
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM (EST) — Conversation 5: Book presentation Eikhenbaum, Kazansky et al, Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language (Helsinki, Rab-Rab Press, 2018), and Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lénine et l’arme du langage (Paris, La fabrique, 2024).
Sezgin Boynik in conversation with Jean-Jacques Lecercle / Co-sponsored by Rab-Rab Press and La fabrique
Chair: Rolando Prats
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma and Humberto T. Fernández
Venue(s): Helsinki, New York, Paris.
Saturday 4 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 17
Kevin B. Anderson Lenin and Hegel—or Dialectics, National Liberation, and Revolution
Chair and discussant: Paul Le Blanc
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, New York, Pittsburgh, Santa Barbara (CA).
Week 15
Tuesday 7 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 18
Carlos Delgado Lenin: Epistemology and Politics (In-person and online event)
Chair and discussant: Natasha Gómez Velázquez
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, New York.
Thursday 9 May 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 10 New Economic Policy: New Cultural Policy? New Politics? (In-person and online event)
Carlos Delgado Four theses on Lenin and the New Economic Policy
Montserrat Galceran The New Economic Policy: reversal or turnaround?
Fernando Luis Rojas López Lenin: Culture, economy, and politics in times of the New Economic Policy
Chair: Luis Emilio Aybar
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell
Venue(s): Madrid, Havana, New York.
4:00 PM — 5:45 PM (EST) — Panel 11 Lenin: imperialism and the national question
Rolando Astarita Lenin’s theory of monopoly capital and imperialism: A critical examination
Claudio Katz Current controversies on Lenin in the fight against war and imperialism
Chair: Rolando Prats
In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation: Humberto T. Fernández
Venue(s): Buenos Aires, Havana, New York.
Saturday 11 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 19
Peter Hallward Lenin and Mass Sovereignty
Chair and discussant: Bruno Bosteels
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, London, New York.
Week 16
Tuesday 14 May 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 20
Josep María Antentas Thinking strategy today. Alternative powers, State, and revolution
Chair and discussant: Panagiotis Sotiris
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Barcelona, Havana, TBA.
Thursday 16 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 11 Insurrection as Art / The Art of Insurrection
Andrew Cole The Poiesis of the Present
Rebecca Comay Slogan Time — Leningrad to Palestine
Frank Ruda De l’audace, de l’audace, et encore de l’audace !
Heather H. Yeung A Poetological Abacus (Morgan’s Lenin’s Marx)
Chair and discussant: Peter Hallward
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Dundee, Havana, London, Princeton, Toronto.
Week 17
Tuesday 21 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Keynote 21
Gigi Roggero The Matter of Capitalist Development in its Relationship with Struggles, Subjectivity, and Organization
Chair: TBA
Simultaneous interpretation: TBA
Venue(s): Punto Input (DeriveApprodi) in Bologna, TBA.
Thursday 23 May 2024
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM (EST) — Panel 12 Lenin and his (dissenting) contemporaries, Lenin and his (unorthodox) heirs: from Kautsky to Luxemburg, from Gramsci to Bensaïd
Josep María Antentas Bensaïd’s Melancholic Leninism. The wager for revolution
Michal Kozlowsky True Lenin will never be found
Santiago Roggerone Uncompromising realism and slow impatience: On Perry Anderson’s and Daniel Bensaïd’s peculiar Leninisms
Darren Roso The Wager of a Profane Lenin
Chair and discussant: Michael Löwy Convergences and divergences between Rosa Luxemburg and Gramsci
Simultaneous interpretation: Andreu Coll Blackwell, Ernesto Teuma.
Venue(s): Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Havana, Melbourne, Warsaw.
Saturday 25 May 2024
11:00 AM — 12:45 PM (EST) — Closing address
Peter D. Thomas Lenin’s Alternative: A Politics of Another Type
Chair: Sebastian Budgen
Simultaneous interpretation: Ernesto Teuma
Venue(s): Havana, London.