“Lukacs and the World: Rethinking Global Circuits of Cultural Production”

From special editions of journals, new translation projects, to monographs and edited collections, the last few years have seen a scholarly renaissance in the study of the Marxist theorist Georg Lukács. And yet, there has been no major conference in the last decades to take account of the transnational, interdisciplinary reception of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. Bringing together prominent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines with diverse national and international foci, “Lukács and the World” will articulate a new geopolitical framework for examining the history of twentieth-century cultural production.  This project is a recipient of a Fall 2017 Carsey-Wolf Center Faculty Research Support Grant.