Early Marxism in Europe: Nikolay Ivanovich Sieber (1870s–1880s)
An International Conference
22 May 2019
ESSCA – School of Management, Paris Campus
Building B, room B606
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PROGRAMME
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Session one. Chaired by Matthieu BALLANDONNE (ESSCA – School of Management)
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9h00–9h05
Amanar AKHABBAR (ESSCA – School of Management) and François ALLISSON (University of Lausanne)
« Speech of Bienvenue »
9h05–9h30
François ALLISSON (University of Lausanne) and Danila RASKOV (Saint Petersburg State University)
« Presentation of the Sieber Project (2016–2919) and of its two forthcoming volumes:
— Политическая экономия Зибера. Антология / Political Economy of Nikolai Sieber. An Anthology
— Nikolay Ivanovich Sieber on Value and Capital »
9h30-10h10
Alessandro STANZIANI (Directeur de recherche CNRS, Directeur d’études EHESS, EHESS-CRH)
« Backwardness in Perspective, in Russian and Western Economic Thought »
10h10–10h50
Roberto SCAZZIERI (Professor, Università di Bologna)
« Late classical political economy: divergent paths and contexts »
10h50-11h10
Coffee break (Courtesy of the ESSCA – School of Management)
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Session two. Chaired by Amanar AKKHABAR (ESSCA – School of Management)
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11h10–11h50
Leonid SHIROKORAD (Professor, Saint Petersburg State University)
« Nikolai Sieber and Soviet Political Economy »
11h50–12h30
Paul ZAREMBKA (Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo)
« Engels’ Failure to Incorporate Marx’s Instructions from ’Capital’, French edition into 3rd and 4th German: Dismissal of Marx’s Work on Russia »
12h30-14h00
Lunch (Courtesy of the ESSCA – School of Management)
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Session three. Chaired by Jérôme LALLEMENT (University of Paris Descartes)
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14h00–14h40
Federico D’ONOFRIO (Teaching Fellow, LSE)
« Sieber and Statistics »
14h40–15h20
Alexander POGREBNYAK (Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg State University)
« Sieber as a Critic of Marginalism »
15h20-15h50
Coffee break (Courtesy of the ESSCA – School of Management)
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Session four. Chaired by Federico D’ONOFRIO (LSE)
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15h50–16h30
Amanar AKHABBAR (Professor, ESSCA – School of Management)
Presentation of his new book Leontief et la science économique (ENS Editions, 2019)
With comments by Jérôme Lallement, Matthieu Ballandone and François Allisson
16h30-17h10
Danila RASKOV (Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg State University)
« Intellectual Biography of Sieber in His Letters »
17h10-17h50
François ALLISSON (Senior Lecturer, Université de Lausanne)
« Writing and Reading Between the Lines: From Sieber to a Larger Take on Censorship »
17h50-18h00
Danila RASKOV (Saint-Petersburg State University)
« Farewell Speech »
19h00 – Aperitif (Courtesy of the Swiss National Science Foundation)
20h00 – Dinner (Courtesy of the Swiss National Science Foundation)
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INFORMATION
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This international conference aims at shedding light on early Marxism in Europe by promoting the work of the Swiss-Russian economist N.I. Sieber (1844–1888), who introduced Karl Marx in Russia and was the first translator of David Ricardo’s contributions into Russian. A Swiss citizen born in Crimea and educated in Kiev, Sieber had a very short academic career in Kiev before exiling himself in Switzerland. From there, he traveled to Paris and to London, where he met Marx. He was therefore a genuine European economist.
This one-day conference deals with Sieber’s approach to Marxism, to late classical political economy, to his links with European social and revolutionary movements. It also addresses these issues beyond Sieber’s case. Eventually, it presents the Joint Russian Switzerland Project on Sieber (2016-2019).
Organisers: Amanar AKHABBAR (ESSCA – School of Management) and François ALLISSON (Université de Lausanne)
Scientific committee: Amanar AKHABBAR (ESSCA – School of Management), François ALLISSON (Université de Lausanne), Matthieu BALLANDONNE (ESSCA), Federico D’ONOFRIO (LSE), Danila RASKOV (St. Petersburg State University).
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PRACTICALS
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Venue: ESSCA School of Management, 55 quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92513 – Boulogne-Billancourt
Métro: Ligne 10, station Boulogne – Pont de Saint-Cloud
FREE ATTENDANCE, but SUBJECT TO PRIOR REGISTRATION, due to limited places and security reasons.
Please contact francois.allisson@unil.ch in case of interest.
