I received the following announcement in an email from Vittorio Morfino this morning:
International Conference
RE-READING CAPITAL: THE LESSON OF LOUIS ALTHUSSER
The conference will be held in Venice at the department of historical studies from the 9th to the 11th of November, 2006. The conference is organised in the context of an intervarsity research project of considerable international interest. The research group, headed by the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice (Maria Turchetto), has published the Italian edition of the collective work Reading Capital (on the basis of the edition published by PUF, Paris, 1996), the result of seminars held by Louis Althusser and his students at the Ecole Normale in Paris in 1965. The conference has the goal, on the one hand, of evaluating the importance of the turn represented by this reading of Capital in the context of interpretations of Marx; on the other hand, of deepening other aspects of Althusser’s thought and the traditions of his reception. The conference will be articulated in four workshops dedicated to specific arguments, each of which will be organised by a prominent Althusserian scholar, to be held on the days of the 9th and the 10th of November, and in a plenary session to be held on the 11th of November, dedicated to a discussion on Reading Capital.
The following themes will be treated in the workshops on the 9th and the 10th of November
Thursday 9th November (morning):
Althusser and Epistemology (Maria Turchetto);
Thursday 9th November (afternoon):
Althusser: Archive, Chronology, Bibliography (Gregory Elliott);
Friday 10th (morning):
Althusser and the Philosophical Tradition (Vittorio Morfino);
Friday 10th (afternoon):
Althusser and his Contemporaries (Warren Montag).
You can also see this announcement in Italian or French.
Certainly this is an event which I hope to attend.
I heard that a new book by (or of)Althusser had been published, whose title is ‘Penser Louis Althusser’. Do you get any information of it? if you do, Could you tell me the content of the book? thanks alot.
Comment by Zhao Wen — April 29, 2006 @ 11:36 am +10.30
Cheers for the comment, but I’m not aware of any book by this name. Geoff Goshgarian (translator of Althusser into English) has never mentioned a book by this name, so I presume it is not a collection of Althusser’s writings. Perhaps it was the title of a conference (although nothing comes up in Google for that name) or of a forthcoming edited volume or special journal issue on Althusser in French? Sorry but that’s all I can tell you on that one. Next time I write to Geoff I will try to remember to ask him for you, he would know.
Comment by Administrator — April 29, 2006 @ 6:03 pm +10.30
I believe the first commentor may be referring to this volume, a collection of LA’s pieces for La Pensée:
Penser Althusser
Les Dossiers de la Pensée
Essai – Philosophie
De 1961 à 1975, Louis Althusser a livré douze articles à La Pensée. Ce volume permet de retrouver ou de découvrir ces textes, pour certains devenus introuvables et pour d’autres jamais réédités en volume.
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Cet ouvrage réunit cent onze récits, fruits d’un travail de collectage réalisé d […]
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Comment by ernst mach — May 15, 2006 @ 3:32 pm +10.30
I have asked Geoff Goshgarian about this new volume and he does not know the exact contents, but suggests that “most will have appeared in English-language collections of LA’s work, except the piece on Michel Verret on 1968 and maybe one or two more.” Hopefully the remaining essays will eventually appear in English translations.
Comment by Administrator — May 16, 2006 @ 10:44 pm +10.30
Any idea or guesstimate what portion of this conference will be in English, or perhaps French, as I would like to go very much, especially since i worked on Reading Capital this spring, but I don’t speak or comprehend Italian at all…?
Also, thanks for pointing out the RM conference in Amherst too, I may very well attempt to head out there for that.
Comment by Kieran — June 16, 2006 @ 10:52 pm +10.30
Kieran, I guess I can ask some of my friends who are involved/going about this for you. Warren Montag might be presenting his paper in English, and I think Gregory Elliott might do the same. Vittorio’s English is quite good, but I’m guessing that he and Maria Turchetto will present their papers in Italian, given that it is in Italy. More problematic will be the question time! Expect questions to be asked and/or answered in English, French and Italian! But I will ask about the presentations. But there will be plenty of people there who can speak English, although French is likely to be more useful. I’m in the same boat as you …
Comment by Administrator — June 17, 2006 @ 12:28 am +10.30