Second notice of a conference of possible interest. Abstract deadline: April, 29.

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Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder about the approaching abstract submission deadline for the Second International Conference on CPE on 25 and 26 August 2016 at the University of Bristol.

We look forward to hosting you in our beautiful city.

The conference organization team

Conference Theme: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy

Hosted by the Centre for Globalization, Education and Social Futures

Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol

The second international conference on Cultural Political Economy will be hosted by the Centre for Globalization, Education and Social Futures at Bristol University and build on the highly successful event held at the University of Lancaster in 2015 hosted by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum in partnership with Lancaster’s Cultural Political Economy Research Centre (CPERC). The conference is an important part of the ongoing development of a theoretical and empirical engagement with Cultural Political Economy.

Key dates for your diary:

– abstract submission deadline: 29 April 2016

– notification of abstract acceptance: 27 May 201

– registration opens: 27 May 2016

– registration closes: 27 July 2016

– full paper submission (of selected abstracts): 27 July 2016

– conference: 25-26 August 2016

Call for Papers

The organizers welcome proposals for papers and panels on the following, illustrative topics (other themes are also welcome):

· What does it mean to be critical?

· Cultural turns in different fields of inquiry

· Critical Discourse Analysis and Political Economy

· Critical cultural political economy

· Marx, Gramsci and Foucault

· Intersectionalism and Political Economy

· Social Relations, Everyday Life and Subjectivities

· State, Governance and Governmentality

· Reimagining civil society

· Rethinking civilizational paradigms

· Aesthetics and performance of political economy

· Spatial imaginaries, geoeconomics and geopolitics

· Spatialities and temporalities of borders and migration

· Neoliberalism and crisis dynamics

· Global capitalism, crises and imagined recoveries

· Globalization of production, commerce and finance

· Finance, austerity and debt

· Work, employment, body and embodiment

· Competition, competitiveness and resilience

· Globalization, education and societies

· Sustainability and green capitalism

· Inequalities of wealth and income

· Subalternity, social movements and resistance

To send the abstracts please visit:

http://cpe2016.com/portfolio/call-for- papers/

For more information please visit:

http://cpe2016.com

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Best wishes,

Janja Komljenovic

Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow, Research Assistant

Centre for Globalisation, Education and Social Futures

University of Bristol

35 Berkeley Square, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS81JA UK

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