Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge
Sidney Street Cambridge CB2 3HU

Wednesday 4 November 2026

Times are UTC (London)

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09.30	Coffee, tea & registration
10.00	Welcome/intro by Boris Groisman and Corinna Lotz
10.20	The Struggle Over the Ideal in the Technofeudal Age: A Counterfactual Dialogue Between Gramsci and Ilyenkov Andrzej W Nowak
11.05	Break
11.20	Objects, Subjects and Artificial Consciousness Tom McClelland
12.05	On Quantum Mechanics as a shortcut to Consciousness: a social‑materialist critique Boris Groisman
12.50	Greetings from Elena Illesh and Andrey Maidansky, Russia and Zhang Yongli, China
1.00	Lunch
14.00	Ilyenkov’s Ideal and the State Crisis over AI Corinna Lotz and Paul Feldman
14.45	Critique of Systemic Reason: Ilyenkov on Artificial Intelligence Isa Jacobs
15.30	Break
15.45	Thinking Machines, Petrified Ideals: Ilyenkov and the Problem of AI Kyrill Potapov
16.30	Round-table discussion; future plans
17.30	Close