Date: September 25-26, 2025.

Time: 10 am – 5.30 pm

Location: Erasmus University College, PBL 19

The event is co-organized by Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gabriel Wollner (University of Bremen) as part of the BreRoC (Bremen-Rotterdam) Colloquium.

25 September

10.00 – 11.00 Pascal Brixel (Northwestern)

“Structural Unfreedom”

Chair: Caleb Althorpe

11.15 – 12.15 Vivek Chibber (NYU)

“Domination, Oppression, and Exploitation”

Chair: Jamie van der Klaauw

12.15 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Lillian Ciccerchia (Amsterdam)

“The Politics of Exploitation”

Chair: Paul Raekstad

15.15 – 16.15 Jan Kandiyali (Durham)

“Liberalism and Alienation”

Chair: Hannah McHugh

16.30 – 17.30 David Leopold (Oxford)

“Cooking with Cohen: Recipes for Socialism”

Chair: Juri Viehoff

26 September

10.00 – 11.00 Mirjam Muller (Humboldt)

“Life-making vs. capital: Social reproduction and oppression”

Chair: Katie Ebner-Landy

11.15 – 12.15 Gabriel Wollner (Bremen)

“Alienation, Reification, Fetishism”

Chair: Enzo Rossi

12.15 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Kate Vredenburgh (LSE)

“Anarchism and Workplace Hierarchy”

Chair: Ryan Kopaitich

15.15 – 16.15 Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary)

“Exploitation: theory and empirics”

Chair: Jens van ‘t Klooster

16.30 – 17.30 Nicholas Vrousalis (EUR)

“Exploitation, gendered and racialized”

Chair: Catarina Neves

For more information, contact info [at] inaf [dot] info