------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Axel Kicillof" <ak@aper.net> Dear colleague: We are pleased to invite you to participate in the updating and development of critical social theory through an international call for the First Electronic Congress on the Updating of Das Kapital. The Congress will be initiated with the submission of papers inspired on the the following questions: 1. Which is, at present, the most important theoretical problem of the social science? 2. Has capitalism changed since the death of Karl Marx? 3. Which are, at present, the outlooks of socialism? Contributions may refer to the above three subjects or to one of them and should not exceed 5000 words. Contributions may be written in any of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and English. The abstracts should not exceed 250 words in the original language or in English. Schedule · First registration: until November 15 of 2000: mailing of the curriculum vitae indicating category of participation according to the followig classification: 1) expositor; b) commentator and c) attendant . For categories b) and c) registration will be opened during the whole Congress. · Submission of contributions: until November 30 of 2000. · Opening of Congress: December 15 of 2000. Contributions considered appropriate by the Organizing Committee will be published in the corresponding WEB page. · Admission of the first round of comments: until December 26 of 2000. · Answers: until January 10 of 2001. · Selection of 5 contributions to be examined by referees for their future publication in the Journal "Updating of Das Kapital" Nr. I. Invitations are issued by: Pablo Levín (UBA-Argentina) Alejandro Valle Baeza (UNAM-Méjico). Jorge Marchini (UBA-Argentina) Rolando Ruiz Valiente (Universidad de La Habana-Cuba) Frank Thompson (Universidad de Michigan-E.E.U.U.) Editors Ingrid Bleynat (UBA-Argentina) Eduardo Crespo (UBA-Argentina) Guido Cataife (UBA-Argentina) Axel Kicillof (UBA-Argentina) Beatriz Valeiras (UBA-Argentina) Contact: plevin@econ.uba.ar, ak@aper.net
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