Zaal Andronikashvili, current committee member, is co-hosting an international conference on Evald Ilyenkov’s (1924–1979) intellectual legacy. The conference focuses on a central concern of Ilyenkov’s work: the concept of the ideal. What are ideals? What is the relation of the ideal to images and imagination? What are the radical and utopian potentialities of the ideal today? And what place does the ideal hold in materialist dialectics? The conference, co-organised with Matthias Schwartz, Isabel Jacobs and Martin Küpper, will take place on 15-17 May 2024 at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin.

More information about the conference and the full programme can be found HERE.