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From: David McInerney <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:42:27 +0930
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Subject: [Foucault-L] CFP Rethinking Marxism 2006

Call For Papers

Rethinking Marxism 2006

http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org

RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of economics, culture & society is 
pleased to announce its 6th major international conference, to be held 
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on 26-28 October, 2006.  
The conference is entitled Rethinking Marxism 2006.

RETHINKING MARXISM's 5 previous international conferences have each 
attracted between 750 and 1200 participants, and they have included 
keynote addresses and plenary sessions, formal papers, workshops, art 
exhibitions, video presentations, activist sessions, and performances. 
Versions of all of these events are planned for Rethinking Marxism 
2006.

In keeping with the title, the conference is dedicated to the state of 
contemporary Marxism and its many current correlates and derivatives. 
The past few years have been fascinating and momentous for the fortunes 
of contemporary Marxism, as can be seen in the many theoretical 
traditions and activist movements that remain, in some way, inspired by 
and indebted to a wide range of Marxian ideas and strategies.  The 
renewed and continued vitality of Marxian, left, and socialist concepts 
and practices in current-day Latin America (and elsewhere) is just one 
indication of the ways in which Marxism remains a source of 
international inspiration and struggle.  In addition, the continued, 
growing reactions-in the form of diverse anti-globalization 
movements-to capitalist globalization and its consistent denial of or 
aversion to economic justice; to the persistence of class exploitation; 
to worsening labor and environmental conditions; to the continued 
precarious global position of women; to the economic, social, and 
personal endangerment and abuse of children; and to the ever-widening 
gap between the rich and the poor, draw partly, as well, from rich 
traditions and current new thinking stemming from Marxism.  The loud 
and uniform international opposition to the U.S. (and its "allies") 
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-growing in both anger and outrage at the 
human and economic costs of the new imperialism-have also been sources 
for, and have taken from, a plethora of Marxian ideas and strategies.  
Indeed, the increased tendency to call these wars "imperialist" is an 
indication that Marxism is proving indispensable for popular thinking 
and reacting to these international events.

Of course, international events have also presented new challenges and 
causes for the never-ending rethinking of old and new Marxian concepts. 
  For example, the increasing calls for "democracy" revive older dreams 
of economic and political justice and rights for all.  However, they 
also bring into relief the great distance between the present 
aggressive imposition of such ideas, burdened with the realities of 
continued economic exploitation and social oppression, and the dreams 
and desires of many who wish for economic and political enfranchisement 
in all nations.  Additionally, many new and old Marxian traditions need 
to take heed of and think through, as a major "conjunctural" event, the 
turning away from liberal secularity and its many broken promises and 
contradictions and the turning toward religious and ethnic ideals and 
movements.  These ideals and movements, at times, promise more "just" 
and communal forms of living.  Yet, at other moments, they are avatars 
of intolerance and internal-sometimes violent-repression and reaction. 
And, as another salient concern, the notable dynamic growth of China 
and India needs to be reviewed in light of these nations' long and deep 
historical engagements with communism, socialism, and Marxism.  What, 
if anything, have these engagements contributed to, or, alternatively, 
obstructed in, the recent forms of growth and the distribution (or not) 
of their benefits?
We invite-indeed, enthusiastically welcome-any and all who are 
interested in these and other pressing questions to send in proposals 
for papers and panels for Rethinking Marxism 2006 (a.k.a. RM06).

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
Rethinking Marxism 2006 will be held over three days, beginning on 
Thursday morning 26 October 2006 and ending on Saturday night 28 
October 2006.  In addition to three plenary sessions and performance 
art, there will be concurrent panels and art/cultural events.  We 
invite the submission of pre-organized sessions that follow traditional 
or non-traditional formats (such as workshops, roundtables, and 
dialogue among and between presenters and audience).  Since 
contemporary Marxism covers fields from literature to physics and forms 
of political practice from environmental organizing to opposing global 
inequality, anyone engaging with Marxism in any discipline or form of 
activism is encouraged to submit paper and panel proposals.  We 
encourage those working in areas that intersect with Marxism, such as 
feminism, political economy, cultural and literary studies, queer 
theory, working-class and labor studies, postcolonial studies, 
geography and urban studies, psychoanalysis, social and natural 
sciences, philosophy, and around issues of class, race, ethnicity, 
nationality, gender, sexuality, and disability, to submit paper and 
panel proposals.  We welcome video, poetry, performance, and all other 
modes of presentation and cultural expression.  We encourage paper or 
panel submissions from those working on any and all subjects that take 
an interest in a world without exploitation and oppression.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals for papers should include:
* Paper title
* Presenter's name and contact information (mail, email, phone, fax)
* Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)

Proposals for panels should include:
* Panel title
* Name, contact information, and paper title for each presenter
* Brief abstract (no more than 200 words) explaining the panel's focus
* Names and contact information for any discussant(s) or respondent(s)
* Title, contact, and address for any sponsoring organization or journal

The appropriate registration fee must accompany all proposal 
submissions.  Unfortunately, any submitted proposal not accompanied by 
the appropriate preregistration fee cannot be considered.  Proposals 
which are not accepted will have their preregistration fees returned in 
full.  If you are submitting a proposal for an entire panel, please 
make sure you include the preregistration fee for all members of the 
panel.

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2006.

The best way to submit a proposal and to pay the preregistration fee is 
to follow the instructions on the conference website: 
http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/submission.html.

If you prefer to submit your proposal and pay the preregistration fee 
by regular mail, please fill out the "mail-in preregistration form" 
posted on the conference website and send it to:

Vincent Lyon-Callo
Department of Anthropology
Moore Hall
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Please make sure that if you pay the preregistration rate by check, the 
check is made out to AESA and drawn on a U.S. bank in U.S. dollars.

PREREGISTRATION RATES

Full Regular Rate $90 (at Conference $100)
Full Low-Income Rate $40 (at Conference $45)
Two-day Regular Rate $70 (at Conference $80)
Two-day Low-Income Rate $30 (at Conference $35)
One-day Regular Rate $50 (at Conference $60)
One-day Low-Income Rate $20 (at Conference $25)

You may preregister online at 
http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/registration.html, or download a 
preregistration form at 
http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/MarxismRegForm.pdf.

LOGISTICS
RM06 will be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts 
Amherst.  Detailed information on lodging, travel directions, and 
childcare will be provided to all conference registrants on the 
conference website.

PUBLICATIONS
Selected papers, poems, art, and other forms of presentation from RM06 
will be published in RETHINKING MARXISM and/or in a separate edited 
volume of contributions. Read more about the journal at: 
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
All information pertaining to RM06, including paper and panel 
submission instructions, preregistration and on-site rates, lodging 
suggestions, travel directions, possible childcare arrangements, 
cultural events, the conference program, and much else will be posted 
on the conference website when details become available.  The web 
address is: http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org.

VENDORS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Literature tables and display areas are available to groups, vendors, 
and publishers at reasonable rates.  Ad space in the conference program 
is also available at reasonable rates.  All ads must be camera-ready.

SPECIAL CONFERENCE RATE FOR RM SUBSCRIPTION
Registrants for RM06 can receive a special conference rate of $45 on 
individual subscriptions to RETHINKING MARXISM.  Non-registrants may 
subscribe online at: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08935696.asp


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