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The extreme magnitude of the pressures exerted by contemporary capitalism on the environment and populations could suggest that this mode of production has reached its limits. The depletion of natural resources, global warming and the increase in inequality within Western countries seem to threaten the minimum degree of social and political stability required for the extraction of profit. However, the accumulation of capital is not slowing: traditional sources of profit transform themselves and new ones emerge, taking advantage of these environmental and social disruptions in order to supply new centres of accumulation with capital.
What are the economic and political mechanisms that explain the contemporary transformations of capital accumulation and disposession centres? What are the contemporary characteristics of the social fabric of capitalist accumulation? This colloquium will highlight the new generation of works that cut across disciplinary boundaries to reflect on the political dimensions of the new forms of capital extraction and accumulation.
This colloquium is organised by Marlène Benquet (IRISSO), with Céline Bessière (IRISSO), Théo Bourgeron (Sciences Po), Cédric Durand (CEPN), Sabine Montagne (IRISSO), Paul Lagneau-Ymonet (IRISSO) and Antoine Roger (CED).
Its keynote speakers will include Christophe Bonneuil, Gérard Duménil, Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Jason Moore, Ozlem Onaran and Thomas Piketty.
The scientific committee is composed of Jérôme Bourdieu (PSE), Eve Chiapello (CEMS), Olivier Godechot (MaxPo), Dominique Méda (IRISSO), Thomas Piketty (PSE) and Andy Smith (CED).
If you have a question, please contact us at: accumulatingcapital@gmail.com
Thursday 6th June 2019
9:15 – breakfast, registration, welcoming talk
10:00 to 11:30 – plenary session « The political contradictions of accumulation» – Thomas Piketty and Nancy Fraser
11:45 to 13:15 – sessions
- What platforms do to accumulation
Chair: Sarah Abdelnour – Université Paris-Dauphine
Moritz Hütten Darmstadt – Business School
Nikola Short – York University
Cecilia Rikap – Université Paris Descarte - Digitalising accumulation
Chair: Thibault le Texier – Université de Nice
Matthieu Montalban, Bernard Jullien, Vincent Frigant – Université de Bordeaux
Olivier Alexandre – CNRS
Hannah Bensussan – Paris XIII - Institutionalising accumulation
Chair: Antoine Roger – Science Po Bordeaux
Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron – Université Paris-Dauphine, University of Edinburgh
Samuel Weeks – Thomas Jefferson University
Matthew Eagleton-Pierce – SOAS London
13:15 to 14:30 – lunch
14:30 to 16:00 – sessions
- Cultural approaches of accumulation
Chair: Nicolas Vieillescazes – éditions Amsterdam
Gordon Bigelow – Rhodes College
Stephen Shapiro – University of Warwick
Lauren Goodlad – Rutgers - Accumulation and illegality
Chair: Phil Mader – Institute of Development Studies
Silke ötsch – Universität Göttingen
Matti Ylönen – University of Helsinki
Sverre Flaatten – Norwegian Police University College - Territories of dispossession (1)
Chair: Paul Lagneau-Ymonet – Université Paris-Dauphine
Matthew Soener – Sciences Po
Maura Benegiamo – Collège d’études mondiales – FMSH
Razmig Keucheyan – Université de Bordeaux
16:00 to 17:30 – sessions
- Accumulation and globalisation of value chains
Chair: Cédric Durand – Université Paris 13
Guillaume Vadot – Paris I - Fabian T. Pfeffer – University of Michigan
Gustav Kalm – Columbia University - Territories of dispossession (2)
Chair: Sébastien Chailleux – Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
Adriana Blache – Université de Toulouse
Maryse Helbert – Erasmus University
John Szabo – Central European University - From capital accumulation to individual wealth
Chair: Jérôme Bourdieu – Paris School of Economics
Camille Herlin-Giret – Université de Lille
Céline Bessière – Université Paris-Dauphine
Benjamin Braun – Max Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
17:15 to 17:45 – break
17:45 to 19:00 – plenary session « The enigma of capital accumulation » – David Harvey
Friday 7th June 2019
9:00 to 9:30 – breakfast
9:30 to 11:00 – sessions
- Territories of accumulation
Chair: François Cusin – Université Paris-Dauphine
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel – University of Geneva
Magda Maaoui – Columbia University
F. T. C. Manning – CUNY - Measuring accumulation
Chair: Olivier Godechot – Sciences Po
Jacob Assa & Dirk Bezemer – New school for social research & university of Groningen
Hanna Kuusela – Tampere University
Joel Rabinovich – Paris XIII
11:00 to 12:30 – sessions
- Justifying accumulation
Chair: Eve Chiapello – EHESS
Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu – Centre Maurice Halbwachs-EHESS
Marie Langevin – Université du Québec
Saidatou Dicko – Université du Québec - Changing norms of investment
Chair: Sabine Montagne – Université Paris-Dauphine
Rex McKenzie & Rowland Atkinson – Kingston University & University of Sheffield
Sina Badiei – Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
PClément Barbier, Antonio Delfini, Fabien Desage – Université de Lille - Profiting from nature and poverty
Chair: Alexis Cukier – Université de Poitiers
Joshua Greene – University of Geneva
Pascale Moulévrier – Université de Nantes
Pranav Trigunayat – Jawaharlal Nehru University
12:30 to 13:30 – lunch
13:45 to 15:15 – plenary session « Directing accumulation » – Gérard Duménil and Ozlem Onaran
15:15 to 16:45 – sessions
- Financialisation of exploitation
Chair: Valérie Boussard – Université Paris Nanterre
Hadrien Saiag – CNRS
Fabien Foureault – Université de Lausanne
Rémi Brouté, Marnix Dressen-Vagne, Marion Duval & Ibrahim Muhammad – Groupe SNCF, UVSQ, UVSQ, Quaid I Azam University - Risks of accumulation
Chair: Marc-Olivier Deplaude – Université Paris-Dauphine
Marc-André Gagnon – Carleton University
Catherine Laurent – INRA
Jacobo Grajales – Université de Lille
16:45 to 17:15 – break
17:15 to 18:45 – plenary session « Primitive accumulations » – Jason Moore and Christophe Bonneuil