The attached and enclosed conference may be of interest, late offers of papers will be considered. Please circulate as appropriate,
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paul
Excavations and Dialogues:
Radical Theory and Politics at the Millennium
Edge Hill College, Lancashire, UK - 9th and 10th September 2002
A Conference of : The Political Studies Association Marxism Specialist Group - The Political Studies Association Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Specialist Group - What's Left Group - Social Movements Research Group of Edge Hill College
Plenary Speakers: Terrell Carver and Christopher Norris
Papers include (some are provisionally titled and this list is incomplete):
Preserving the Tension: Radical Theory as an Expression of Political Reimagining - Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis University of Kent, UK ~~ The Becoming-Other Of Politics: A Post-Liberal Archipelago - Benjamin Arditi UNAM, Mexico ~~ Intellectual Labour and Proletarian Self-Emancipation -David Bates University of Kent at Canterbury, UK ~~ UK Workplace Democracy: the lost movement of the Left? Robert Bray, University of Central Lancashire ~~ The Problem With Marx's Justification Of His Ethics Stephen A Brown University of Sussex, U K ~~ Reconsidering Praxis Gideon Calder University of Cardiff, UK ~~ Imperialism or Empire: Competing Paradigms in the Contemporary World Disorder - Matthew Caygill Leeds Metropolitan University, UK ~~ The last social division: taking sedentarism / anti-noamdism seriously" Colin Clark University of Newcastle, UK ~~ Marxism, Postmodernism and Criminological Theory - Mark Cowling,University of Teesside ~~ Fredric Jameson: Between Marxism and Post-Modernism? Neil Curry, St Martins College, UK ~~ Marxist-Feminist Ideas in the 'post-feminist' contemporary context Filio Diamanti, UK ~~ Is Animal Liberation a Bourgeois Diversion? Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist Marxism Renzo Llorente Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain ~~ Creating the wor(l)ds of theory. - Susan McManus Nottingham University, UK ~~ The Unknown Marx - Reflections Takahisa Oishi Takushoku University, Japan ~~ After Lyotard: Towards an Anti-reductionist Sociology Tim Owen Liverpool John Moores Univ, UK ~~ The Intelligibility of History? Contemporary Applications of Sartre's Marxism Kalle Philanen University of Turku Finland ~~ Global Commerce; Local Idioms: the McDonaldization of the Falafel - Uri Ram NSU, NY, USA ~~ Laclau & Mouffe and the Problem of Inclusion and Exclusion. Lasse A Thomassen University of Essex, UK ~~ "Marxism after "Post-Marxism": Zizek and the future of transformational politics' Simon Tormey, University of Nottingham ~~ Equality of Opportunity and the 'New Individualism' - a Third Way to a Fairer Society? Paul Wetherley Leeds Metropolitan University ~~ Standing round candles: diversity and co-operation in the Aberdeen anti-war coalition. Chris Yuill Robert Gordon Univ, Aberdeen ~~ Jules Townsend, Jim Martin and Paul Reynolds on Post-Marxism
How can radical political theory help us analyse the present conjuncture? What resources does it have to understand contemporary democratic struggles and conflicts? Increasingly, the theoretical oppositions, rejections and intellectual 'turf wars' of the 1980s and 1990s are giving way to a common desire on the Left for a constructive re-engagement between proponents of radical ideas, between Marxism, Post-Marxism, Queer theory and Feminism, Postmodernism and Poststructuralism. Whilst there remains profound disagreement amongst these positions, there is a growing sense that constructive debate over the problems and prospects of radical theory and politics can be more effective than fragmentation, dispersion and mutual denunciation. Given the collapse of radical thinking amongst mainstream parties of the left, the triumph of market liberalism and containment of dissent either by policing strategies, legal and legislative concessions or strategies of depoliticisation, the need for a vibrant theoretical culture of the Left is now more than ever an imperative. This conference will explore two distinct dimensions of this theoretical re-engagement: the critical excavation of existing theory and politics through new thinking and critical perspectives, and the engagement in critical dialogues between contrasting positions in order to enrich contemporary theory and politics. Both dimensions offer the possibility of developing critical conceptual tools, theoretical perspectives and political strategies for the new Millennium.
Papers are invited that will assist this exploration from any radical theoretical or political position. It is anticipated that at least one publication will issue from the conference. All enquiries/papers to: Paul Reynolds CSSS, Edge Hill College St Helens Road Ormskirk, Lancs L39 4QP Tel: 01695 584370 [log in to unmask]
Conference Co-ordinating Committee: Gideon Calder (Cardiff University), James Martin (Goldsmiths College), Mark Cowling (University of Teesside), Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill College)
EXCAVATIONS AND DIALOGUES
ABSOLUTE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION - August 29th 2002
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Paul Reynolds
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Centre for Studies in nthe Social Sciences
Edge Hill College
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancs L394QP
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