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List members may be interested in this event at Queen Mary on November 13th. Best wishes, Adrian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Centre Annual Lecture - 'The Making of Global Capitalism' Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:51:38 -0000 *Centre Annual Lecture; ‘The Making of Global Capitalism’* *Queen Mary, University of London* *November 13 2012, 6-7.30pm* The Centre for the Study of Global Security & Development welcomes Professor Leo Panitch of York University, Toronto, to present the Centre’s Annual Lecture ‘The embrace of capitalism around the world by the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalisation had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t straightforwardly opposing forces. Thus, and in contrast to much of the prevailing literature on globalisation, there is an intimate relationship between modern capitalism and states and the American state in particular, including its role as an ‘informal empire’ promoting free trade and capital movements. Historically, this can be seen through the way in which the Unites States has played a superintending role in co-ordinating the management of increasingly frequent financial crises and in its facilitation of the restructuring of other states in favour of competitive markets. Central to this argument is the need to re-emphasise the role of economic crises and social conflict within states – rather than between them – to expose the key fault lines that provide the possibility for the development of new political movements that can transform nation-states and transcend global markets.’ *Date:*November 13, 2012 *Time:*6-7.30pm *Venue:*Fogg Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Campus; http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/index.html *To book;*http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4362071072 --- We will also be holding an academic seminar entitled ‘The Making of Global Capitalism’**with Leo Panitch and his colleague Sam Gindin. Theseminar will be held at 2.30pm in FB 3.22. LEO PANITCH is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Editor of the Socialist Register since 1985, his books include /Working Class Politics in Crisis/; /The End of Parliamentary Socialism/; and /Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination/. SAM GINDIN is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University. Among his many publications, he is the author (with Greg Albo and Leo Panitch) of /In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives/. We really hope you are able to join us.