upcoming talks and lectures

Marx, Aristotle and Human Flourishing
Class Struggle in Ancient Greek Democracy Project, School of History, Classics and Archaeology,University of Edinburgh (UK). April 28

Book discussion on Absolute Ethical Life, with Fernando Arturo Quintana Carreño
Centre for the Critique of Law and Society, Queen Mary (UK). April 30, 4:00-5:30pm at Mile End Campus, Room 313, School of Law

Hegel and Marx, with Karen Ng and Jensen Suther. Red May, online event. May 05, 12:00pm (PDT)

Form and Fetishism: Capital and Misrecognition
Humboldt University of Berlin (GER). May 28

The Demos vs the People Workshop
University of Sussex. June 03

past

Ethics and the Critique of Capitalism: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx
Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi (IND). January 30, 2026

Value and Misrecognition: Michael Lazarus's Absolute Ethical Life with Alyssa Battistoni, Patrick Murray and Tatiana Llaguno. Historical Materialism Conference London, SOAS (UK). November 07, 2025

In discussion about Marxist politics and ethics with Mathew Abbott. August 24, 5:00pm at Red Flag Books, 83 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056

In conversation with Miguel Vatter on Absolute Ethical Life. August 19, 7:30pm at The Alderman, 134 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057, co-presented by NIBS

Ethics and Karl Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
Agora Lecture, University of Wollongong (AUS). August 14, 2025

Sydney Launch: In conversation with Jean-Philippe Deranty. August 12, 6:00pm at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037

Marx's Aristotelianism
Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series, University of Sydney (AUS). August 11, 2025

Capital and Ethics
Queensland School of Continental Philosophy, Griffith University (AUS). August 05, 2025

Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue. Michael Lazarus in discussion with Jensen Suther.
Marxist Education Project, 29 June, 2025

Michael Lazarus in discussion with Emma Fajgenbaum (Phenomenal World) on Absolute Ethical Life,
Unnameable Books, June 3, 2025

Michael Lazarus in conversation with Jensen Suther and J.M. Bernstein to launch Absolute Ethical Life,192 Books, New York (USA), May 22, 2025

Marx and Misrecognition: Aristotle and Hegel in Capital's Beginning.
New York German Idealism Workshop, New School for Social Research (USA). April 18, 2025

Value, Normativity and Misrecognition. Kenefick Lecture Series, Reconceiving Social Theory: Toward a More Integral Humanism. Creighton University (USA). April 8, 2025

Marx's Capital and Ethical Life
Yale University (USA). March 27, 2025

Ethical Life and the Life of Capital
Fordham University (USA). March 25, 2025

The Individual, Capitalism and Empire: Robinson Crusoe in Social and Political Thought
Saint Francis Xavier University (CAN). February 27, 2025

Marx as an Ethical Thinker
Elm Institute (USA). February 22, 2025

Symposium on Absolute Ethical Life, Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities, Mahindra Humanities Center
Harvard University (USA). February 11, 2025