Marx @ 200 Spring Events

Karl Marx remains one of the most influential and controversial thinkers since the Enlightenment. On the occasion of his bicentennial, the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University is offering a variety of perspectives on Marx’s ideas and impact. Through lectures, performances and an art exhibit, this programming will explore Marx’s critique of inequality and capitalism as well as his influence on political movements and political regimes, including totalitarianism.

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Panel Discussion: Marx and the Global South

Tuesday, January 30th
4:30 PM
Steinberg Auditorium (A53), Baker Hall, CMU

Sabine Hake: The 19th Century Socialist Messiah, Ferdinand Lassalle

Friday, February 2nd
3:30 pm
255B Baker Hall, CMU

Jessie Ramey: Gender and Inequality in the Age of Neoliberalism

Tuesday, February 6th
4:30 pm
Steinberg Auditorium (A53), Baker Hall, CMU

Where in the World is Marx Today?

Thursday, February 15th
4:30 PM
Porter Hall 100, CMU

Dread Scott: Imagine a World Without America

Tuesday, February 27th
6:30 PM
Kresge Theater and Lecture Hall, College of Fine Arts, CMU

Holly Lewis: The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection

Thursday, March 22nd
4:30 PM
Porter Hall 100, CMU

Panel Discussion: Marx and the Totalitarian Temptation

Thursday, March 29th
4:30 pm
The Swank Room, Baker Hall 255-B, CMU

Jodi Dean: Theory of the Comrade

Thursday, April 5th
7:00 pm
Steinberg Auditorium (A53), Baker Hall, CMU

Opening of Art Exhibit, Marx@200

Friday, April 6th
SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Avenue, downtown Pittsburgh

Izabel Galliera
Socially Engaged Art After Socialism:
Art and Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe

Thursday, April 12th
4:00 pm
Room 202 Frick Fine Arts Building on the Pitt campus, 650 Schenley Drive

Claire Fontaine: Artist Talk

Tuesday, April 24th
6:30 pm
Giant Eagle Auditorium (A51), Baker Hall, CMU

Marx@200 Program and Reception

Saturday May 5th
6:00 pm
SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh

Manufacturing Mischief

May 10-13th

Symposium on Marx and the Humanities on the CMU campus

Wednesday, May 30

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