Seminars & Lectures

Mahdi Amel Conference: What Does it Mean to Be a Marxist Here and Now?

From May 5 to May 7, 2015
6:30pm -> 8:30pm
American University of Beirut (AUB)

The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature, the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, the Mahdi Amel Cultural Center, and the Red Oak Club (The Mahdi Amel Series) have the pleasure to invite you to a three-day conference under the title “What does it mean to be a Marxist here and now?”

– Prospects for a Marxist Movement in America and the World by Rober Gallagher
– Mahdi on the Confessional State by Kamal Hamdan
– Marx’s ethical and Social Thought by Edward Alam
– Hussein Mroueh: a Marxist reading of Arab Philosophical Legacy by Elias Shaker
– On Marx and Shakespear by Joseph Yacoub
– Mahdi on the Lebanese National Liberation Movement and the Colonial Mode of Production by Alexandre Ammar
– Continuity of the resistance by Talal Atrissi
– All the colors of resistance. Student representatives of the Red Oak Club: Iyad Raya and Ali Mokahal

Location: West Hall – Bathish