15 December 2022 Convention/Conference Rosa Luxemburg and International Law

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Event location

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A
10243 Berlin

Date

15.12.2022, 09:30 - 16.12.2022, 18:30 Hr

Themes

Rosa Luxemburg, Social Theory

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Rosa Luxemburg and International Law

2021 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg: a revolutionary theorist and political activist, whose work has provided important political economy critiques of imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, and advocated for the collective commitment to social justice. Rosa Luxemburg’s work and influence spans many topics relevant to the critique of international law: political economy, militarism, capitalism, democracy, imperialism, self-determination, revolution, and feminism. While recent events and books have celebrated her life and intellectual and political legacy, engagement with her work in international law, with some notable exceptions, has been largely marginal. In this workshop, we bring together an international group of scholars, who engage with Rosa Luxemburg’s work in relation to a broad variety of international legal topics. Four broad themes will be discussed, anti-militarism, imperialism and primitive accumulation, self-determination, and reparations, ruptures and revolution.

Workshop Programme (provisional)

15 December 2022 | Humbolt University
Juristische Fakulät, Bebelplatz, Room E47

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  • 9.30-10.00 Introduction
    Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Serena Natile
  • 10.00-12.30 Anti-Militarism
    Chair: Christine Schwöbel-Patel, University of Warwick
    Discussant: Tor Krever, University of Warwick

    Marnie Lloydd (Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka), “A few
    not too troublesome restrictions”, Restraints on Violence, Solidarity, Antimilitarism,
    Peace
    Chloe Truong-Jones (New York University), Accumulation and
    Jurisdiction
    Attila Antal (Eötvös Loránd University), The New Form of Capitalist
    Militarism: The Permanent State of Exception
  • 12.30-13.30 Lunch
  • 13.30-16.00 Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
    Chair: Tbc
    Discussant: Latha Varadarajan, San Diego State University

    Kanad Bagchi (Max Plank Institute for International and Comparative
    Law, Heidelberg), Rosa Luxemburg and the Imperialism of Money
    Santosh Anand (City University London), Foreclosed Temporalities:
    Imperialism and International Criminal Law
    Michele Tedeschini (Freie Universität, Berlin) Emptying the Bottom of
    the Sea: Capital Accumulation in the Cavities of International Law
  • 16.00-16.30 Break
  • 16.30-17.30 Rosa Lecture
  • 19.00 Dinner at the Weltwirtschaft, Haus der Kulturen der Welt

16 December 2022 | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A

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  • 9.30-12.30 Rosa walking tour
  • 12.30-13.30 Welcome to the Stiftung
  • 13.30-16.00 Self-determination
    Chair: Serena Natile, University of Warwick
    Discussant: Reut Yael Paz, Universität Gießen

    Marcel Garbos (Columbia University), ‘National Nihilism’
    Reconsidered: Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Industrialisation, and the
    Possibilities of Post-Imperial Polity
    Paola Zichi (Queen Mary University London), Rosa Luxemburg’s Self-
    Determination and Feminist Legal Thought: On Imperialism,
    Capitalist Expansion, and International Law
    Eric Loefflad (Kent Law School), Domination is more than Conquest:
    Rosa Luxemburg’s View from Partitioned Poland
  • 16.00-16.15 Break
  • 16:15-18.00 Reparations, Ruptures and Revolutions
    Chair: Tbc
    Discussant: Susan Marks, LSE

    Mia Swart (Edge Hill University), ‘Pushed into the burning desert’:
    German ‘Reparations’ to the Herero through a Luxemburgian Lens
    Serena Natile (University of Warwick), The Revolutionary Potential
    of Transnational Social Security Law: Lessons from Rosa Luxemurg
    Christine Schwöbel-Patel (University of Warwick), The
    Luxemburgian Trial of Rupture
  • 18:00-18.30 Closing and Future Plans

Organiser

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, University of Warwick
Serena Natile, University of Warwick


Due to limited space, we can now only accommodate for online participation.

Location

Contact

Dr. Uwe Sonnenberg

Unit Head, History, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Phone: +49 30 44310 425