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MarxismNL Conference 2026 "Pulling the Emergency Brake" - October 7-9

The conference will open on October 7 @ 20h00 at IIRE with the panel "Imperialism Today. Palestine, Iran and Beyond" with Joseph Daher, Kayhan Valadbaygi and Mikki Stelder.

Joseph Daher is an internationalist, anticapitalist and an academic. He is the author of several books, including Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016), Syria After the Uprising (Pluto Press, 2019), and Palestine and Marxism (Resistance Books, 2024). He has taught at several universities, including the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), University Paris Dauphine (France) and the University of Ghent (Belgium), and was an Associate Professor at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.

Kayhan Valadbaygi is a Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. His work examines global capitalism, state formation and geopolitics in Iran and the wider Middle East. He is the author of Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics (Manchester University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism (Bristol University Press, 2026). His recent journalistic writings on the US-Israeli war on Iran have appeared in Al Jazeera English, Phenomenal World and The New Arab.

Mikki Stelder is a researcher, educator, and writer whose work traverses oceans, anticolonial struggles, and queer transfeminist thought and praxis. Their forthcoming monograph, Contract Colonialism, examines the colonial-legal imaginary of early-modern legal scholar, Dutch East India Company spokesman, and so-called founding father of international law Hugo Grotius. They are an Assistant Professor of Global Arts and Politics at the University of Amsterdam.

The programme can be found here