MLG-ICS 2026 // THEORY AND PRACTICE AT SQUARE ONE // JUNE 16–20

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

A more detailed program will be circulated to registered participants. All reading group materials are available here.

Tuesday, June 16th

9–10:30 // Reading Marx (Roundtable)

10:30–10:45 // Break

10:45–12:15 // “Forms Adequate to History”: Marxist Formalist Poetics in the Expanded Field (Roundtable)

12:15–1:15 // Lunch

1:15–2:45 // Reading Group: Capital III, Chapters 1–3
2:45–3:00 // Break

3:00–4:30 // Global ‘68

4:30–4:45 // Break

4:45–6:15 // East and South Asian Marxisms (Roundtable)

Wednesday, June 17th

9–10:30 // Culture, Crisis, and the Periodization of Capitalism (Roundtable)

10:30–10:45 // Break

10:45–12:15 // Beyond and Outside: Alternative Histories of Capitalism

12:15–1:15 // Lunch

1:15–2:45 // Reading Group: Imperialism and the TRPF’s “Counteracting Factors” (Capital III, chapters 13–15)

2:45–3:00 // Break

3:00–4:30 // Value Form and Actually Existing Socialism 

4:30–4:45 // Break

4:45–6:15 // Second World Marxisms (Roundtable)

Thursday, June 18th

9–10:30 // Afterlives of Third World Marxisms

10:30–10:45 // Break

10:45–12:15 // Social Reproduction Inside and Out

12:15–1:15 // Lunch

1:15–2:45 // Reading Group: Fictitious Capital (Capital III, chapter 29)

2:45–3:00 // Break

3:00–4:30 // Marxism on the Margins I

4:30–4:45 // Break 

4:45–6:15 // Marxism on the Margins II

Friday, June 19th

9–10:30 // Real Abstraction and Racial Form

10:30–10:45 // Break

10:45–12:15 // Global Maoisms

12:15–1:15 // Lunch

1:15–2:45 // Reading Group: Ground Rent (Capital III, part 6)

2:45–3:00 // Break

3:00–4:30 // Caution: Ideology at Work! Interpreting labor after deindustrialization

4:30–4:45 // Break

4:45–6:15 // Organizing (Roundtable)

Saturday, June 20th

9–10:30 // Sites of Inversion

10:30–10:45 // Break

10:45–12:15 // Form, Culture, and Politics

12:15–1:30 // Business Meeting Lunch

1:30-1:45 // Break

1:45–3:15 // Poetry & Practice

3:15–3:30// Break

3:30–5:00// World Literature, World Criticism: Roberto Schwarz and Alternative Models of Theory

5:00–5:15// Break

5:15–6:45 // “But is it capitalism?” Class Consciousness and Coercion at the Temporal Edges of Capitalism (Roundtable)

7:00–8:30 // BBQ