Between the months of October and December 2024, professor Marcello Musto from York University, in Toronto, Canada, will be at UFMG as a guest of the FUNDEP/IEAT Chair program.

During his stay at the university, he will teach the mini-course New Faces of Marx and also the opening conference of the IEAT 2024 Annual Seminar, which will take place on December 10th in auditorium 1 of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at UFMG.

Starting on November 13th and ending on December 4th, the New Faces of Marx mini-course will take place in the Noble Hall of the UFMG Faculty of Law, from 6:30 pm to 9 pm. Interested parties must register using the electronic form.  If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ufmgnecons@gmail.com.

Check out the mini-course schedule and references below:

Class 1:  November 13th – Young Marx’s critique
Bibliography: Rethinking Marx and Marxisms, Boitempo, 2022, pp. 21-99.
Class 2:  November 19th – The genesis of Capital
Bibliography: Rethinking Marx and Marxisms, Boitempo, 2022, pp. 101-129; Karl Marx: intellectual and political biography, Expressão Popular, 2023, pp. 28-61, 85-124.
Class 3:  November 27th – Marx political activist of the First International
Bibliography: Workers, unite!, Boitempo, 2014, pp. 103-112, 139-164, 191-221, 291-324.
Class 4:  December 4th – The investigations of the last Marx
Bibliography: The old Marx, Boitempo, 2018.

The professor
Marcello Musto is widely recognized as one of the main experts in the reinterpretation of Marx studies in recent decades. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages, consolidating his global influence. In Brazil, his publications stand out: The old Marx: a biography of his last times (Boitempo, 2018), Repensar Marx and the Marxisms: Guide for new readings (Boitempo, 2022) and Karl Marx: intellectual and political biography (1857 -1883) (Expression Popular, 2023). Musto also organized important collections, such as Workers, unite! Political anthology of the First International (Boitempo, 2014), The rebirth of Marx: main concepts and new interpretations (Autonomia Literária, 2023) and The essential of Marx and Engels (Boitempo, 2024).