http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2007.htm
Historical Materialism Conference 2007: SOAS, 9-11 November
Online Registration Now Available, Full Programme Available Soon
The fourth annual Historical Materialism Conference held in conjunction
with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize Committee and the Socialist
Register will take place between 9-11 November, 2007 at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, London.
The conference continues its interdisciplinary thread and allows the
participants to choose among a wide range of parallel workshops from
different disciplines and topics which include, among others:
Labour (Comparative Case Studies of Working Class and Trade Unions,
Theorerical Debates on Mobilisation and Labour Process Theories, Rural
Labour Relations, Social Movements)
History (Russian Revolution, Spanish Revolution, Absolutism and
Bourgeois State, Pre-capitalist Modes of Production)
Political Economy (Finance and Capital, Value Theory and Capital,
Grundrisse Anniversary, Contemporary Capitalism, Borders and Political
Economy of Development, Africa and Dispossession, World Economy,
Neoliberalism and Resistance, Commodity Chains)
Philosophy (Materialism and Philosophy, Modalities of Political Power,
Althusser, Re-reading Gramsci)
Culture (Marxism, Art and Institutions, Critical Film Studies, Debord
and Society of Spectacle, Ideology and Utopia, Art and Politics)
International Relations (Defining the International, Geopolitics, IR
and Gramsci, Israel-Palestine)
Marxism and.... (Marxism and Postcolonialism, Marxism and Law, Marxism
and Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Class and Education)
We are also delighted to host panels sponsored by Journal of Agrarian
Change, Revolutionary History and International Initiative for the
Promotion of Political Economy. Socialist Register and Historical
Materialism will also sponsor two plenaries on “Islam and the American
Empire” and on “Neoliberalism and Neo-imperialism” respectively.
A special room will be devoted to selected film screenings which will
take place during three days of the conference.
Confirmed speakers include:
Bashir Abu-Manneh, Gilbert Achcar, Christine Achinger, Edward Acton,
Aijaz Ahmad, Brian Alleyne, Sabah Alnasseri, Christopher J. Arthur, Sam
Ashman, Maurizio Atzeni, Sedat Aybar, Sarah Badcock, Giorgio Barratta,
Luca Basso, Asef Bayat, Jonathan Beller, Riccardo Bellofiore, Ana
Cecilia Bergene, Henry Bernstein, Rakesh Bhandari, Andreas Bieler,
Sophie Béroud, Jacques Bidet, Robin Blackburn, Chris Bolsmann, Paola
Bonifazio, Derek Boothman, Atilio Boron, Mark Bould, Stephen Bouquin,
Robert Brenner, Andrew Brown, Tom Bunyard, Ray Bush, Alex Callinicos,
Paul Cammack, Liam Campling, Gavin Capps, Giuseppe Caruso, John
Chalcraft, Lorenzo Chiesa, Andrew Chitty, Simon Clarke, Alex Colas,
Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson, Gail Day, Tim Dayton, Massimo de Angelis,
Radhika Desai, Ana Dinerstein, Paolo dos Santos, Antoni Domenech,
Albert Domingo, Fernando Duran, Andy Durgan, Steve Edwards, Tony Elger,
Gregory Elliott, Ferdan Ergut, Mauro Farnesi, Ben Fine, Donald Filtzer,
Roberto Fineschi, Carl Freedman, Alan Freeman, Gregor Gall, Heide
Gerstenberger, Melanie Gilligan, Andrew Glyn, Hugh Goodacre, Jonathan
Goodhand, Jamie Gough, Peter Gowan, Volker Gransow, Diego Guerrero,
Peter Hallward, Jane Hardy, Chris Harman, Graham Harrison, Barbara
Harriss-White, David Harvie, Owen Hatherley, Mike Haynes, Micheal Head,
Michael Heinrich, Renate Holub, Richard Hyman, Makoto Itoh, Peter Ives,
Donna Jones, Patrick Keiller, John Kelly, Mick Kennedy, Laleh Khalili,
Jim Kincaid, Jeff Kinkle, Gal Kirn, Sharon Kivland, Sam Knafo, Onur
Suzan Komurcu, Michael Kraetke, John Kraniauskas, Hannes Lacher, Rocco
Lacorte, Mark Laffey, Spiros Lapatsioras, Costas Lapavitsas, Ching Kwan
Lee, Esther Leslie, Norman Levine, William Lewis, Renzo Llorente, Dic
Lo, Domenico Losurdo, David Mandel, Giacomo Marramao, David McNally,
George Meramveliotakis, Alessandra Mezzadri, Keir Milburn, John Milios,
Owen Miller, Toby Miller, Dimitris Milonakis, Kim Moody, Fred Moseley,
Rastko Mocnik, Simon Mohun, Adam Morton, Kevin Murphy, Mike Neary,
Michael Neocosmos, Paolo Novak, Benjamin Noys, Carlos Oya, Bryan
Palmer, Silke Panse, Ilan Pappé, Simon Pirani, Anna Pollert, Moishe
Postone, Nina Power, Ozren Pupovac, Devi Sacchetto, Mőkkel Bol
Rasmussen, Mike Richards, Glenn Rikowski, Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Jyoti
Saraswati, Hajime Sato, Ben Selwyn, Helena Sheehan, Stuart Shields,
Subir Sinha, Bev Skeggs, John Smith, Tony Smith, Panagiotis Sotiris,
Gaspar Tamas, Benno Teschke, Adrien Thomas, Peter Thomas, Massimilano
Tomba, Alberto Toscano, Greg Tuck, Vanessa Ushie,Kees van der Pijl,
Elisa van Waeyenberge, Fabio Vighi, Mike Wayne, Tunde Zack Williams,
Paul Willis, Jane Wills, Frieder Otto Wolf, Tony Wood, Owen Worth, Leo
Zelig, Slavoj Zizek.
The conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an
annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of historical
materialist research by scholars, researchers, students and activists
from different continents.
Online registration is now available. Prices are suggested donations
but as the conference receives no other funding we encourage all -
including paper givers - to register NOW.
We are unable to provide accomodation but for all accommodation tips
and other details, please visit:
http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2007.htm
The Editors
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
The Editors
Historical Materialism
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG,
United Kingdom
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