Franke Lectures in the Humanities

The Value of Marx’s Capital

Stephanie Smallwood is Associate Professor of History and Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she is also a faculty associate of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Her research and teaching explore early modern histories of slavery, colonialism, and race, with particular emphasis on the transatlantic slave trade, racial capitalism, and African diasporas in the Americas. She is the author of Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (2007), winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Prize awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Her current project, “Africa in the Atlantic World: A Geopolitical History,” is concerned with the problematics of space in the intercontinental arena that scholars have come to call the “Atlantic world.” The project investigates the uneven spatial relations that shaped the Atlantic as a geopolitical domain and aims to produce a counternarrative of Atlantic history that puts the peoples of the African continent at its center.   
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The Value of Marx’s Capital

Karen Ng is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in nineteenth-century German philosophy and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. She is the author of Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (2020).
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The Value of Marx’s Capital

Lucia Pradella is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Naples Federico II and Paris 10 Nanterre. She collaborated on the historical-critical edition of Marx’s and Engels’s complete works at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and has written two books on Marx’s Capital. Her second book, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy (2014), traces the evolution of Marx’s understanding of capitalist globalization, colonialism, and anticolonial resistance in the light of his still partially unpublished notebooks on colonialism and the world market. Lucia has published extensively on labor, migration, imperialism, and alternatives to neoliberalism; she coedited the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism with Alex Callinicos and Stathis Kouvelakis.
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The Value of Marx’s Capital

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, and has published worldwide in more than twenty languages. He is the author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020). Among his most recent edited books are Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (2019), The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020), and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (2020).
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