Announcements
CfP: 11th International Post Keynesian Conference - Spetember 27-29, 2012, Kansas City, MO
The 11th International Post Keynesian Conference will address all the traditional areas of theoretical, applied, and policy research covered by Post Keynesian and other Heterodox approaches to economics. We encourage both individual and panel proposals. The paper and panel proposal deadline is June 15, 2012. Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words to Andy Felkerson at jfwc2@mail.umkc.edu. Selections will be made in early July.
Call for Submissions to the 2012 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize
The Singer Foundation invites submissions to its 2012 competition. The prize of $2,500 will be awarded for an original essay of not more than 5,000 words, which explores the question: 'From Tahrir and Syntagma Squares to the Indignados and the 99% movement, 2011 saw people in the streets challenging the monopoly of political, economic and financial power by elite minorities. What, if anything, is new about these movements and can they fundamentally change the status quo?' Essays may be submitted in English, Spanish or French, and will be judged by an international panel of distinguished scholars and activists. Submissions must be received by August 1, 2012. The winner will be announced in December 2012.
CfP: Ninth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London - deadline for abstracts extended to 1 June
Has Marx been reanimated once again? From mainstream media to academia, this question hangs in the air. The old ghosts of revolution appear to be shaking off their shackles and getting agitated. What is this spirit? Who are the militants haunting this ramshackle capitalism? Are these new spectres - stalking the streets of Syria, Tunisia and Egypt, Athens, Spain and Wall Street and beyond - direct descendants of socialist and communist ones? How does the past haunt the present? How might the present spook the future?
CfP: 1st International Conference: Labor Theory of Value and Social Change, Thursday 18 - Friday 19 October 2012 Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
We invite submissions that raise (or answer) questions on Marxian Labor Theory of Value and its role in Social Sciences. Papers are invited on the following topics: Labor Theory of Value and Crisis; Labor Theory of Value: actuality, problems, limits and outcomes. Please email paper in English, Portuguese or Spanish, MS Word format, of no more than 3.000 words to unb.gebt at gmail.com. Submission deadline of proposals: July 31, 2012.
Antipode Scholar-Activist Project Awards
The Antipode Foundation exists for the promotion and advancement of social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of radical geography. Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards are intended to support collaborations between academics, non-academics and activists (from NGOs, think tanks, social movements, or community grassroots organisations, among other places) which further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. They are aimed at promoting programmes of action-research, participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, and more publicly-focused forms of geographical investigation. We want to fund work that leads to the exchange of ideas across and beyond the borders of the academy, and builds meaningful relationships and productive partnerships. Applications due 30 June 2012
CfP: When Race and Class Still Matters, AHS Annual Meeting, November 7 - 11, 2012, Nashville, TN
We invite our members and all people of good will inclined toward peace and justice to join us for our 2012 meeting. We invite proposals for papers or sessions that feature scholarly work, reflections on teaching and activism for social change, book discussions, film screenings, music or other forms of creative expression. Papers should try to fit the conference theme. Proprosal submission deadline July 15, 2012
CfP: Workers, Despite Themselves
Special Issue of ephemera; deadline for submissions: November 30th, 2012. Workers' inquiry is an approach to and practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing composition of labor and its potential for revolutionary social transformation. It is the practice of turning the tools of the social sciences into weapons of class struggle. Workers' inquiry seeks to map the continuing imposition of the class relation, not as a disinterested investigation, but rather to deepen and intensify social and political antagonisms.
CfP: The "Critical" in "Critical Political Economy" 20-21 September 2012, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
To be 'critical' in one's work is a common rhetorical aspect of political economy research, especially in the post-2007 world. However, what 'critical' refers to, and the implications of being 'critical', are frequently neglected or left unclear. For example, does it entail: the promotion of normative commitments in one's work; the highlighting of previously ignored/neglected topics or aspects of the world; the unravelling of taken-for-granted assumptions in a text; the attempt to take inspiration from different social science disciplines; or the support for particular ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies? Or should we consider broader issues as well, such as: the changing nature and role of Higher Education in contemporary societies; the relationship between academia and wider society; participation in social and political movements, such as Occupy; and attempts to reform government policies in a more progressive direction?
CfP: Historical Materialism Ninth Annual Conference: Weighs Like a Nightmare, London, 8-11 November
Has Marx been reanimated once again? From mainstream media to academia, this question hangs in the air. The old ghosts of revolution appear to be shaking off their shackles and getting agitated. What is this spirit? Who are the militants haunting this ramshackle capitalism? Are these new spectres - stalking the streets of Syria, Tunisia and Egypt, Athens, Spain and Wall Street and beyond - or direct descendants of socialist and communist ones? How does the past haunt the present? How might the present haunt the future?
CfP: Spaces and Flows: Third International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies
The conference will be held at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA from 11-12 October 2012. This conference aims to critically engage the contemporary and ongoing spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transnational, global, and neoliberal world. In a process-oriented world of flows and movement, we posit, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverse in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs, and rural areas. This conference addresses the mapping of, the nature of, and the forces that propel these processural changes. Our 2012 conference will also address the Special Theme: Transforming Cities and Communities in Contemporary Times.
CfP: Governing the Metropolis: Powers and Territories
This conference is organized by the city of Paris, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Societes (LATTS, University Paris-Est) and Centre d'Etudes Europeennes (CEE, Sciences Po) to be held in Paris, November 28-30, 2012. Today, large metropolises face a governance challenge, since their political, social, economic and cultural fabrics are embedded in the two major trends of decentralization and globalization. Decentralization, beginning in Europe in the early 1980s and at later points in many other countries of the world, has given more legitimacy and access to local players, local authorities and urban residents, opening up access for actors from the bottom. Globalization has introduced new players such as international or supranational organizations and associations, global firms and multi-national companies, opening up access for actors from the top.
CfP: UNCG's 23rd Annual Conference on African American Culture and Experience, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 18-19 October 2012
The annual Conference on African American Culture and Experience (CACE) examines critical and timely African American-related issues and perspectives to engage students, faculty, staff, and members of the community in the exploration and discussion of these topics and ideas. CACE was initiated in 1990 by the UNCG Department of Religious Studies and seeks to promote a better understanding of the various facets of African American culture and experience.
CfP: Studies in Social and Political Thought Annual Conference: Power and Resistance, June 15-16, 2012, University of Sussex, Brighton
Power is one of the core concepts of social and political thought. Yet there is plenty of disagreement about what is, how it functions and how it should be contested. Our present conjuncture is witnessing many different manifestations of power and resistance. However, there is a lack of serious theoretical engagement with the current situation. We are seeking papers that engage theoretically with the current situation, and which emphasise the central roles of the concepts of power and resistance. Possible theoretical frameworks include, but are not limited to, theories of biopolitics, instrumental reason, critical theory, post-colonialism, discourse and democratic theory, structuralism and post-structuralism, recognition, soft-power, hegemony, world-systems, sovereignty, legality, and legitimacy.
CfP: The Historical Sociology of International Theory, One day workshop, Thursday 13th September 2012
We invite papers that analyze the emergence, development, change and implications of conceptions of international theory from a historical sociological perspective.
CfP: Historical Materialism Australasia, Sydney, Australia, 21 July 2012
There is a need to reestablish a living critique of political economy, to work towards the "determinate negation" of capitalism that Marx spoke of. Such a project requires raising questions about the meaning, the form and the very desirability of democracy in an era of growing technocratic rule. Similarly, as human rights provide a moral cover for wars it becomes necessary to interrogate the language of rights in contemporary political struggles. And, as revolution re-appears on the global stage, if in new forms hardly recognizable to revolutionaries of the past, it is clear that the categories of our political thought and practice must be subjected to renewed thought and debate.
CfP: Shifting the Geography of Reason IX: Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-, Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST. AUGUSTINE TRINIDAD, 19-21 July. For the Caribbean, global capitalism has always been a racial capitalism as Africans and Asians were incorporated into it as "negro workers" and "coolie laborers" in contrast to white workers, Middle Eastern retailers, and white capitalists. As the Great Recession of 2008 continues to change the inner workings of this racialized capitalist system, how have these changes affected its racial codes and hierarchies, and are the latter forcing changes in the creole discourses of the region, including our political economy? Caribbean creole discourses have emphasized the mixed and fluid nature of our cultural heritage, the importance of external economic dependence, emigration, and the influences of this growing diaspora.
Critical Sociology Panel at the Left Forum: Global Capitalism in Crisis--Flashpoints of Oppression and Shifting Nodes of Confrontation
The continuing capitalist crisis is stretching every thinner at the seams, providing the basis for simmering discontent, shifting political alignments. and popular upheavals. Amidst these processes, old alliances are broken, new bonds of solidarity form, and the matrix of possibilities for social change (both progressive and reactionary) have continued to multiply. This panel explores significant developments from a global perspective, focusing on cases in North America (Quebec), the Caribbean, Central America (Guatemala) and South America (Chile), each analyzing important interconnections that highlight different aspects of the current crisis.
Critical Sociology Panel at the Left Forum: To the Left, Right or Nowhere? Social Movements and Social Change
Certain years such as 1848, 1871 1917, 1939, 1968, times of mass mobilizations and transitions remain notable historic moments. So too will 2011 be remembered as a time in which there was an upsurge of democratic mobilizations from Arab Spring to Russian Winter, and in between, Israeli Summer, the Occupy Wall Street movements, the Indignados and Greek protests. But we should not think that this has been a time solely of progressive movements -we have also seen a variety of reactionary movements from the Tea Party to various Islamists (Salafis) and right wing, nationalist/xenophobic (anti Islamic) and indeed neo Nazi movements in Europe-even in places like Finland or the Netherlands. It is always easy for historians to look back and trace the origins, meanings and consequences of such mobilizations, but it is far more difficult to examine these movements as they are happening and surmise the implications-especially now given the dialectic of progressive and regressive mobilizations. In this panel, a number of eminent scholars will consider the nature of these movements, analyze their causes and implications.
Studies in Critical Social Science, Haymarket Paperbacks at Student Discounts
Paperback versions of the Brill Series are available, with new titles appearing regularly. Flyers for course adoption and information about student discount pricing of these titles can be found on the Association for Critical Sociology web site.
Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy, interpreted broadly as regards both 'Marxism' and 'philosophy'.
Graduate Student Funding Opportunities, Loughborough University
Graduate School Studentships and Glendonbrook Doctoral Fellowships: Loughborough University Graduate School is delighted to offer up to 50 fully funded Graduate School studentships to students across all of the University's schools. In addition, we are offering two Glendonbrook Doctoral Fellowships for outstanding candidates. These awards, funded through the generosity of Lord Glendonbrook, will be made on the same basis as the Graduate School studentships, and may be held in any of the University's schools.
CfP: PREOCCUPIED: The Words, Wounds and Workings of Occupations, Past and Present. Berlin 28-29 June 2012
Pairing the interdisciplinary nature of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral
Programs with the innovation of multimedia storytelling, the PREOCCUPIED 2012 conference offers a platform for academics, activists and artists to challenge the confines of their disciplines: provoking thought, debate, and action on issues that have accelerated to global predominance in light of the recent occupations.
CfP: The Anomie of the Earth, 3-5 May 2012, Chapel Hill, NC
This conference is a follow-up to the Post/autonomy conference held in Amsterdam in May 2011. While the Post/autonomy meeting focused on the European dissemination of autonomist thought, the second conference will build on its American location and explore a plurality of notions and practices of cultural-political autonomy. Though privileging the context of North and South America, the conference will also address European, African and Asian perspectives.
CfP: 4th Critical Finance Studies Conference, August 2012, United Kingdom
Studying finance critically is playing with / being played by the normative forces of financial apparatuses; risking one's self in the course of producing radically novel ways of thinking and comprehending finance and, ultimately, of creating new possibilities of life. With this in mind the Fourth Annual Critical Finance Studies conference will be held this year at the University of Essex, Essex Business School, August 15th-17th. With a conference gap in 2011 and with a financial crisis that is still on the agenda, and perhaps even stronger than ever, even compared with 2008, we have decided to devote this year's conference to the ongoing financial crisis.
CfP: II International "Worlds of Labor" Conference, November 27-30, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The members of the Workgroup "Worlds of Labor" Brazilian History Association (GT "Mundos do Trabalho" ANPUH) invite researchers to submit presentation proposals for the VI Labor History Workshop, to be held jointly with the II International "Worlds of Labor" Conference, at Center for Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History, Getulio Vargas Foundation (CPDOC/FGV), Rio de Janeiro. Presentation proposals must be based on empirical research, theoretical and methodological debates and assessments of the academic production that enable the dialogue with others interested in similar themes.
Reading Marx's Capital Volume II with David Harvey; Class 1, Introduction
This is the first class of a free semester-long open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume II (plus parts of Volume III) in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey
Reading Marx's Capital Volume I with David Harvey
A close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Check out links to the lectures
CfP: 5th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome
John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago May 7-9, 2012. The conference will examine the importance and the developments of the Frankfurt School by addressing both the philosophical tradition of the early stages of Critical Theory, and in particular the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, as well as the application of their theories to our contemporary society.
CfP: The London Conference in Critical Thought
Birkbeck College, London June 29th and 30th, 2012. In collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) is designed to create a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with "critical" traditions and concerns. We welcome work from the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to papers drawing upon continental philosophy, critical legal theory, critical geography and the Frankfurt School. The LCCT aims to provide an opportunity for those who frequently find themselves at the margins of their department or discipline to engage with other scholars who share theoretical approaches and interests. Interdisciplinary and inter-institutional, the conference hopes to foster emergent critical thought and provide new avenues for critically orientated scholarship and collaboration.
CfP: The Food Crisis: Implications for Decent Work in Rural and Urban Areas
University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, July 4-6. The general themes to be discussed -- Assessing the Scope of the Food Crisis: Is there a rural/urban divide? What is the impact on workers and small landholders? What are the implications for the Decent Work agenda? Origins of the Food Crisis: Financialization, land grabbing, climate change and soil degradation, agribusiness, agro-fuels, EU trade policies, demography, productivity obstacles, and other relevant topics. Remedies for the Food Crisis: Increasing agricultural productivity, improving logistics, empowering agricultural workers, food sovereignty, and other relevant topics. We encourage potential contributors to include a gender-sensitive analysis whenever possible.
If you would like to present a paper in one of these areas, please send a brief abstract (less than half a page) by April 1, 2012
