12/2/02
The details below may be of interest to soem of you.
Elisabeth
Study Group Convenor
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>Conference
>Second Call for Papers
>
>Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of
>Social Movements
>June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England
>
>Conference Sponsors
>The Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill College of Higher
>Education, The London Socialist Historians Group, The Socialist History
>Society, Historical Materialism
>
>Confirmed Plenary Speakers
>Dorothy Thompson
>Brian Manning
>Bryan D Palmer
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>Confirmed Speakers
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>Colin Barker
>A modern moral economy: Edward Thompson and Valentin Volosinov meet in a
>North Manchester protest'
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>Trevor Bark
>Crime Becomes Custom - Custom Becomes Crime
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>David Camfield, York University, Toronto
>"Thompsonian" Theory, the Working Class and Modern Social Movements
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>Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland,
>Maynooth Thinking "the social movement"
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>Neil Davidson
>Regional Peasant Revolt and Religious Radicalism during the Scottish
>Bourgeois Revolution
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>James Green, Professor of History and Labor Studies, University of
>Massachusetts
>The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements
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>Lesley Hardy
>History, Politics and Tradition
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>James Holstun, SUNY, Buffalo
>Brian Manning and the Dialectics of Revolt
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>Philip Hunter
>Class, Agency and Struggle in British Marxist Historiography: Some Lessons
>for the study of Social Movements
>
>
>Alan Johnson, Edge Hill College, England
>Christopher Hill and the study of social movement leadership
>
>Geoff Kennedy, York University, Toronto
>Digger Radicalism and Agrarian Capitalism
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>Wade Matthews, University of Strathclyde
>The Poverty of Strategy: Socialism and the British Marxists
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>Professor John Mcilroy and Professor Alan Campbell, University of Manchester
>The Communist Party Historians Group and Problems in Communist Party
>historiography
>
>Viv Mackay, University of Southampton
>Labour Disputes as Contentious Politics: Refiguring the 1928 Garment
>Workers Strike at the London "Rego" Factory
>
>Antonio Negro, State University of Campinas, Brasil
>A Limited Number of Ideas for an Unlimited Social History. Notes on
>Brazilian Trends
>
>Alf Nilsen, University of Bergen, Norway
>Marxist and Postmodern Perspectives on Social Movements
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>Mi Park, London School of Economics
>Ideology and Lived Experience: A case study of Revolutionary Movements in
>South Korea, 1980-1995'
>
>Dave Renton, TUC Education
>English Experiences: The problem of Nationalism in the Work of the British
>Marxist Historians
>
>Anneke Ribberink, History Dept, Free University, Amsterdam
>Leading Ladies and Cause Minders: The Silent Generation and the Second
>Feminist Movements
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>Jess Rigelhaupt, University of Michigan
>"The Paradox of a Jim Crow Navy": The Post Chicago Mutiny, The Communist
>Party, and the California Civil Rights Movement
>
>Richard Romain and Edur Valasco, Associate Professor, University of
>Toronto and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
>Continental Integration, Neoliberalism and the Mexican Working Class
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>Sean Scalmer, Macquarie University, Australia
>The Problem of Decline: Demobilisation and Fracturing of Working Class
>Politics
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>Hira Singh, Department of Sociology, York University
>Anti-Fuedal, Anti-Colonial Protests in India: Structure, Tradition, Ideology
>
>Roger Spalding, Edge Hill College of Higher Education
>EP Thompson and the Popular Front
>
>Frehiwot Tesfaye
>The Relevance of the Contributions of E.P. Thompson and Rodney Hilton in
>Understanding Ethiopian Society and History
>
>Stephen Woodhams, Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College
>New wine in old bottles: the transformation of a generation
>
>Conference Themes
>How might the extraordinary body of historical writing produced by the
>'British Marxist historians' - Edward Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney
>Hilton, Eric Hobsbawm, Victor Kiernan, Dona Torr, John Saville, Dorothy
>Thompson, George Rudé and others - enable scholars and activists to better
>understand the making of social movements? This is a timely moment to
>examine their legacy. Many social movement scholars are pushing beyond the
>static 'models' drawn from rational-choice theory and the crude and
>reductive 'new movement'/'old movement' dichotomies developed by European
>social theory. What can social movement scholars and activists learn from
>a critical engagement with the historiography of movement and protest in
>the writings of the British Marxist historians? And from the theoretical
>and conceptual innovations developed through their history writing? What
>might be learnt from the sensibility and style of the British Marxist
>historians, from their 'committed' social and political relation to their
>subject, to their writing of history 'from the bottom up'? And what can
>social movement studies - now in an exciting period of sustained growth,
>connected to the rebirth of popular protest, and a locus for fruitful
>academic-activist dialogue - bring to this exchange?
>
>We invite proposals for papers, which explore any aspect of the legacy of
>the British Marxist historians for the study of popular protest and social
>movements. Themes include:
>
>Theorising social movements
>Class, gender, 'race' and social movement
>The cultural and moral mediation of protest and movement,
>Agency and the individual-in-the-movement,
>Ideology, discourse and the study of social movements
>'The People' and protest
>Protest as ethic
>The leadership of social movements
>Revolutions and social movements
>The 'primitive rebel'
>Using sources to study social movements
>Literature and the study of protest
>Gramsci and the British Marxist Historians
>
>Offers of Papers
>
>FINAL DEADLINE FOR 400 WORD PROPOSALS: MARCH 1 2002
>
>Email offers of papers to the conference organiser [log in to unmask]
>or write to Alan Johnson, Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill
>College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L394QP.
>Offers of papers should not be more than 400 words long and should be
>submitted by 1 March 2002. Full papers, maximum length 8,000 words, must
>be submitted by 6 May 2002 to enable their advance distribution to
>conference participants. The conference organiser will actively pursue
>publication of a selection of conference papers.
>
>Conference Arrangements
>
>Edge Hill College of Higher Education is situated just outside the market
>town of Ormskirk, 30 miles from Liverpool and Manchester, and twenty
>minutes from the seaside resort of Southport. From Manchester Airport, a
>train can be taken to Ormskirk Station, changing at Preston Station.
>
>The cost of the full conference package will be £130 (en suite room) or
>£100 (standard room), which will include accommodation, conference fees,
>conference papers, refreshments, lunches, evening meals. Further details
>of costs are listed on the attached downloadable booking form. Please
>return the booking form and payment to Marcy McNally, Secretary to the
>Social Movements Research Group, Centre for the Study of the Social
>Sciences, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk,
>Lancashire, England L39 4QP.
>
>
>On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee:
>
>Matthew Beaumont
>Pembroke College, Oxford University and Historical Materialism Journal
>
>Keith Flett
>London Socialist Historians Group
>
>Alan Johnson
>Edge Hill College of Higher Education Social Movements Research Group and
>Historical Materialism Journal (conference organiser)
>
>Stephen Woodhams
>Socialist History Society
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Dr Elisabeth Arweck
Research Fellow, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU),
Institute of Education, University of
Warwick (2001-2002)
Co-Editor, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Convenor, BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group (2000-2003)
Research Associate, King's College London
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