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Historical Materialism – First North American Conference
April 24-26, 2008, York University, Toronto
Dear friends,
It is with great excitement that we announce plans for the first ever
North American conference sponsored by Historical Materialism: A
Journal of Critical Marxist Research. While HM’s annual conference in
London has become a major rallying point for hundreds of people working
within the traditions of historical materialism, thus far the journal
has not had a comparable presence on this side of the Atlantic. That is
about to change with this major conference at York University in
Toronto, April 24-26, 2008, sponsored by the Department of Political
Science and Founders College.
We are now busy organizing panels and themes and attending to all the
logistical details involved in hosting a large, dynamic conference of
critical scholars and activists. Over the next few weeks, a conference
website will be set up and announcements will go out concerning details
with respect to agenda, accommodation and travel .
To give you a taste of what we have in store, here is a list of just
some of the more than 100 people who have accepted our invitation to
present papers at the conference:
Rosemary Hennessey, Bertell Ollman, Johanna Brenner, Aijaz Ahmad, Peter
Linebaugh, Joel Kovel, Deborah Cook, Giovanni Arrighi, Leo Panitch,
Crystal Bartolovich, Moishe Postone, Barbara Epstein, Ato Sekyi-Otu,
Bryan Palmer, Anna Agathangelou, Henry Veltmeyer, Isabella Bakker,
Peter McLaren, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greg Albo, Patrick Murray, Nancy
Holmstrom, Bill Carroll, Rick Wolff, Radhika Desai, Stephen Gill,
Alfredo Saad-Filho, John Saul, Christopher Phelps . . .
For further information, feel free to email [log in to unmask] Or
watch for HM mailings in the coming weeks. We hope to see you in
Toronto in April.
Yours for the Conference Organizing Committee,
David McNally
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
York University
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