For some of you this might be a quite interesting conference to attend.

Fred Lee


Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the Study 
of Social Movements, June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher 
Education, England, 
<<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/AJconfTimetable.htm>>

Colin Barker (Manchester Metropolitan University)
A Modern Moral Economy: Edward Thompson and Valentin Volosinov Meet 
in a North Manchester Protest
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Barker-modernmoraleconomy.pdf>

David Seddon (University of East Anglia)
Food Riots, Past and Present: Globalisation and Contemporary Popular Protest
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/food_riots_paper-David_Seddon.pdf>

Mark Boden (London School of Economics)
British Marxist Historiography and the Question of 'Absent' 
Bourgeoisie: A Critique
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/BritishMarxistHistoriography-MarkBoden.pdf>

Dorothy Thompson (Author: The Chartists)
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Dorothy%20Thompson.pdf>

Paul Blackledge (Leeds Metropolitan University)
All That Moves Is the Market: Perry Anderson's Historical Pessimism
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Andersonshistoricalpessimism-PaulBlackledge.pdf>

Sean Scalmer (Macquarie University, Australia)
The Problem of Decline: Demobilisation and the Fracturing of Working 
Class Politics
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/TheProblemDecline-Sean_Scalmer.pdf>

Neil Davidson (The Open University)
Regional Peasant Revolt and Religious Radicalism during the Scottish 
Bourgeois Revolution
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/PEASANT_REVOLT-Davidson.pdf>

Edwin Roberts (California State University, Long Beach)
 From the History of Science to the Science of History: The Role of 
Scientists and Historians in the Shaping of British Marxist Theory
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/EdwinRoberts-Historyofscience.pdf>

Bollette M. Christensen (University of Copenhagen)
Constructing a Social Movement (Attac in Denmark)
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/B-Christensen-Constructing_a_Social_Movement.pdf>

Sigrid McCausland (The Australian National University)
Movement and Class: the Anti-Uranium Movement in Australia
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/SigridMcCausland-AntiUraniumMovement.pdf>

James Holstun (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Brian Manning and the Dialectics of Revolt
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Holstun%20-%20Manning%20and%20Dialectics.pdf>

Geoff Kennedy (York University, Toronto)
Digger Radicalism and Agrarian Capitalism
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/DiggerRadicalismAgrarianCapitalism-GeoffKennedy.pdf>

Ulrich Oslender (University of Glasgow)
The Return of the "primitive rebel"? Reflections on the Colombian 
Conflict Today
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/UlrichOslender-primitiverebel.pdf>

Philip Shasko (University of Wisconsin)
 From Primitive Rebels to Conscious Revolutionaries: The Macedonian 
Struggle as a Social Movement, 1878-1912
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Shashko-PrimativeRebel.pdf>

Henrique Espada Lima (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Historical Microanalysis and Social History: Historiographical 
Exchanges between British Marxist History and the Italian 
Microhistory Debate
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/EspadaLima-HistoricalMicroanalysisandsocialhistory.pdf>

Keith Flett (London Socialist Historians Group)
"Whistling into a Typhoon": A Moral Economy of Anti-Privatisation
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Whistlingtyphoon-KeithFlett.pdf>

Trevor Bark
Crime Becomes Custom -- Custom Becomes Crime
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Trevor%20Bark%20-%20Crime%20becomes%20custom.pdf>

Mi Park (London School of Economics)
Ideology and Lived Experience: A Case Study of Revolutionary 
Movements in South Korea, 1980-1995
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Mi%20Park%20-%20Ideology%20and%20Lived%20Experience.pdf>

Sara Motta  (London School of Economics)
Argentinian Popular Protest in the 21st Century: The Making of a 
Subject of History or a Reaction of an Angry Crowd?
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/ArgentinaMotta.pdf>

Alan Johnson (Edge Hill College)
Christopher Hill and the Study of Social Movements Leadership
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Johnson%20-%20Leadership%20as%20Capacity.pdf>

Wade Matthews  (University of Strathclyde)
The Poverty of Strategy: Socialism and the British Marxists
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/ThePovertyofStrategy-WadeMatthews.pdf>

Antonio Negro (Universidade Federal de Bahia)
A Limited Number of Ideas for an Unlimited Social History. Notes on 
Brazilian Trends
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/A_limited_number_of_ideas-Antonio_Negro.pdf>

Hira Singh (York University, England)
Anti-Fuedal, Anti-Colonial Protests in Princely India: Structure, 
Tradition, Ideology
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Singh-antifeudalpaper.pdf>

Dave Renton (University of Sunderland)
English Experiences: The Problem of Nationalism in the Work of the 
British Marxist Historians
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/EnglishExperiences-DaveRenton.pdf>

Jonathan Blundell
The Invention of a Radical tradition: The Case of the Levellers and 
"The Business at Berford"
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/JonathonBlundell-Levellers.pdf>

Jason Hribal (University of Toledo)
Animals and the Working Class: The British Marxist Tradition and Its 
Influence upon Environmental History
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/Animals_and_the_Working_Class-JasonHribal.pdf>

Alf Nilsen (Bergen University, Norway)
Marxism, Movements and Dialectics: Some Propositions for the 
Construction of a Dialectical Optic for the Study of Social Movements
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/MARXISM_MOVEMENTS_AND_DIALECTICS-Alf_Nilsen.pdf>

Jess Rigelhaupt (University of Michigan)
"Education for Peace and Democracy": The California Labor School and 
the Post-World War II Popular Front
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/california_labor_school-JessRigelhaupt_paper.pdf>

Sue Branford (author, Cutting the Wire: The Story of Brazil's 
Landless Peasant Movement, with Jan Rocha, Latin American Bureau, 
2002)
Brazil's Landless Movement (MST): From Peasant Revolt to the Politics 
of Anti-Globalisation
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/SueBranford-MST.pdf>

Viv Mackay (University of Southampton)
Labour Disputes as Contentious Politics: Refiguring the 1928 Garment 
Workers Strike at the London "Rego" Factory
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/1928_Garment_Workers_Strike-Viv_Mackay.pdf>

Brian Roper (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Exploitation, Class Struggle and Democracy in History: The Continuing 
Heuristic and Political Vitality of Marxism
<http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/pdf%20-%20Conference/BrianRoper_Exploitation_Class_StruggleDemocracy.pdf>
-- 
Yoshie

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