Poulantzas Today

Conference in the honour of Nicos Poulantzas

Friday 18, Saturday 19 December 2009

Goethe Institute, Athens (Omirou14-16)

The board of Nicos Poulantzas Institute invites you to the  3^rd   annual lecture

 in memory of Nicos Poulantzas      

Performative Politics and the Critique of State Violence

Judith Butler

Maxine Elliott professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley

The speaker and her work will be presented by Sissy Velissariou,

Professor at the University of Athens

Wednesday, December 16^th 2009,

6.30 p.m

Nicos Petralias

 President of the board of Nicos Poulantzas Institute

With the kind support of GOETHE  Institute

INVITATION

The Managing Board of the NICOS POULANTZAS INSTITUTE invites you to

THE SECOND "NICOS POULANTZAS" MEMORIAL LECTURE

on:
"The state in the current capitalist crisis and the strategy of the Left in the 21st century"

Speaker:
Leo Panitch
Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto -  Editor of the Journal "Socialist Register"
 
Monday 15 September 2008
18.30
GSEE Lecture Hall (Patision Str. 69, Athens)

e-mail: info@poulantzas.gr

The Nicos Poulantzas Institute celebrates the 10th anniversary of its founding and invites you to the following events that will take place at the

Lecture Hall, GSEE Offices (General Confederation of Workers in Greece),

63 Patision Str., Athens

The programme of the events is the following:

Friday 14 December 2007

17.00 - 19.00: The European Left and the struggle of ideas

Speakers: Elizabeth Gautier, Haris Golemis, Walter Bayer, Aristidis Baltas, Cornelia Hildebrandt

Chair: Stelios Babas

19.30 - 21.15: The European Left and its confrontation with neoliberalism

Speakers: Giannis Dragasakis, Xavier Navascues, Marika Fragaki, Georg Hufschmitt

Chair: George Ioannidis

Saturday 15 December 2007

18.30 - 20.30: The European Left towards the Reform Treaty

Speakers: Alekos Alavanos, Antonis Manitakis, Chantal Delmas

Chair: Natassa Theodorakopoulou

The Nicos Poulantzas Institute is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its founding and would like to invite you to the following public event,

on Friday, 7 December 2007

18.30 - 20.00

at the Panteion University (Sakis Karagiorgas Lecture Hall), 136 Syggrou Ave., Athens:

First Annual "Nicos Poulantzas" Memorial Lecture

with Professor Bob Jessop (Lancaster University)

on the topic of: "Political economy, political ecology and democratic socialism".

You are also invited to attend the reception that will follow the Lecture, between 20.00 and 21.00.

Nicos Poulantzas Institute and the Italian Group for the Left "Bella Ciao" invite you to a public discussion on:

"Parties, movements, institutions: The case of Italy"

When? Monday, 22 October 2007, 6.30 p.m.

Where? Lecture Hall, The Association of Workers at the Bank of Greece, 16 Sina str.

A discussion over the relationship between social movements, political parties and representative institutions, the crisis of representation, pre-electoral programmatic agreements, the action of movements when the Left is in the government, and changes inside the Italian Left.

Panel:

Giulietto Chiesa

journalist, author and Member of the European Parliament

Lidia Menapace

memeber of the feminist and peace movements, Senator

Serafeim Seferiades

University scholar, Panteion University

Three new items have been added to our website:

1) Category "Nicos Poulantzas", where you can find a short biographical note of the Greek philosopher Nicos Poulantzas.

2) Category "Publications", where you can browse the titles of the Institute's publications.

3) Fill-in form in the category "Contact", through which you can easily and swiftly communicate with the Institute.

Nicos Poulantzas Institute is organising a series of seminars (in Greek) on the topic:

SOCIALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY

Dates: 22 & 31 May 2007 - 5 & 11 June 2007, at 18.30.

Location: Nicos Poulantzas Institute Hall, Sarri 14, 2nd floor, Athens

Programme:

22 May 2007: A crisis of capitalism?

Speakers: Thanasis Maniatis, Stelios Babas

31 May 2007: Processes of overthrow and change

Speakers: Vasilis Kotoulas, Eleni Portaliou

5 June 2007: The demand of socialism

Speakers: Thanasis Vakalios, Christos Laskos

11 June 2007: On communism

Speakers: Aristidis Baltas, Alexandros Chrisis

The General Assembly of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute will take place on Wednesday, 25 April 2007, at 17.30, at the Hall of the ESIEA in Athens (20 Academias Street, 1st floor).

The topics of the agenda are:

1) Review of activities by the outgoing Managing Board

2) The future development of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute

3) The election of a new Managing Board

With this year's Memorandum, the Group of the European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe (Euromemorandum Group) signals its opposition to the accelerating neoliberal transformation of the European Union and to what this transformation entails: unemployment, poverty, growing inequality, environmental degradation, as well as increasing financial crises and tensions.

As it has been doing every year since its inception in the mid-1990s, the Euromemorandum presents in detail the tendencies that were documented in the economic and social life of the EU member states during 2006. Euromemorandum 2006 is critical towards the prevailing policy in the EU on the basis of the policy's negative effects and erroneous conceptual basis, and provides a set of alternative proposals for a sustainable, democratic and social Europe.

Several economists from around Europe have signed in support of the Euromemorandum 2006, underlining the fact that the 'one-way street' of neoliberalism is not universally accepted. On the contrary, neoliberalism is based on theoretical and political choices that serve particular class interests, rather than society as a whole.

The Nicos Poulantzas Institute and the "Themelio" Editions are presenting the following books - previously out of print - by the late Greek philosopher Nicos Poulantzas.

Both books are in Greek.

1) Nicos Poulantzas, The Crisis of the Dictatorships: Portugal - Greece - Spain (Athens: NPI and Themelio; 2006), p. 125.

2) Nicos Poulantzas, Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism (Athens: NPI & Themelio; 2006), p. 463.

The following publications by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute can be acquired from the Institute's offices (Sarri 14, Athens, Tel: 210-3217745, Email: eppnp@eppnp.gr, golemis@eppnp.gr )

All publications are in Greek.

Series "Interventions"

1) David Harvey, Neoliberalism and the restoration of class dominance.

2) Eleni Varika, The feminist utopia and the definition of the political.

3) Stathis Gourgouris, Edward Said's Orientalism: A critical praxis with a view to the future.

4) Aldo Tortorela, The timeliness of Gramsci in the new millennium.

5) Hakan Yilmaz, Turkish conservatism and the idea of Europe.

6) Maria Karamesini, Youth unemployment.

7) Charalambos Protopapas, The democratic socialist movement in Greece.

8) Ifighenia Kamtsidou, Stavros Moudopoulos and Giorgos Stathakis, The targeting of the public university by private enterpreneurship. 

Series "Horizons"

1) Giovanni Allegretti - Carsten Herzberg, Participatory Budgets in Europe.

2) Uri Avnery, Truth against Truth: 101 points on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.