From: GERALD LEVY (gerald_a_levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 14:16:28 EDT
>From: Sébastien Budgen <sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr> >Subject: Historical Materialism 2007 Provisional Conference Timetable >(revised) -- PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY >Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:52:38 +0100 > > >>Fourth Historical Materialism Annual Conference >>9–11 November 2007 >>at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, WC1 >>In association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher >>Memorial Prize Committee >> >>The annual Historical Materialism conference is organised by the editorial >>board of Historical Materialism in association with the Deutscher Memorial >>Prize committee and the Socialist Register. 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 and has >>attracted an increasingly high attendance over the past three years. While >>there is no call for papers this year, the Editorial Board of Historical >>Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in discussion with >>panellists from new as well as prior participants with an interest in >>critical-Marxist thought. >> >> >> >>One of the principle objectives of the conference has been to build >>bridges among the various Marxist communities, including the breaking down >>some of the linguistic and intellectual barriers which continue to hamper >>the circulation and expansion of critical-Marxist thought. The fourth >>annual Historical Materialism Conference promises to continue and take >>forward this objective. >> >> >> >>The conference is organised around three plenary sessions (the Deutscher >>lecture, the launch of the Socialist Register 2008, and Historical >>Materialism’s plenaries) as well as workshops dedicated to specific >>themes. Some of the themes for the panels include: the labour process, >>neoliberalism and class, cinema (including film screenings), Gramsci, >>finance, utopia, Israel & Palestine, political economy, the 90th >>anniversary of the Russian Revolution, social movements, materialism & >>philosophy, world development, art & politics, slavery, Marx’s Grundrisse, >>postcolonialism, Islam and the American Empire, value theory, Debord and >>the society of the spectacle. >> >> >> >>Attendance is free. However, the conference is entirely self-financed and >>we will depend on voluntary donations by attendants and participants to >>support the event. The suggested advanced online donation is £30 for waged >>and £10 for unwaged < http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2007.htm>, >>and the suggested donation on the door is £40 for waged and £15 for >>unwaged. >> >> >>Sincerely, >> >> >> >>The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism
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