Re: [OPE] conference on 'crisis of financialization?'

From: Patrick Bond (pbond@mail.ngo.za)
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 05:47:27 EDT


Well there's an easy solution to Jurriaan's stingy travel budget  :-), 
comrade Costas: skype it.

We do this all the time (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). Just open up a 
skype conference call and stick your computer next to a speaker so 
people can dial in and hear the presentations. (I'd be a listener, for 
sure.)

Cheers,
Patrick
(on my way, this morning, to a UMass Amherst conference on 
financialisation in honour of the great applied economist Jane D'Arista)

Costas Lapavitsas wrote:
> Jurriaan's points are well-taken but there will only be 12 papers - not 16. Still, it will be a long-distance run, if not a marathon. The reason is that the topics that have to be covered are many, but funds are short. 
>
> There is no plan to bring out a collected volume at this stage. However, five of the presentations are due to appear as a special issue of Historical Materialism in January 2009.
>
> Costas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <adsl675281@telfort.nl>
> To: "Outline on Political Economy mailing list" <ope@lists.csuchico.edu>
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:32:31 +0200
> Subject: [OPE] conference on 'crisis of financialization?'
>
> It would be great to go - where else could you catch such a panel of very learned scholars on this important topic in one sitting - but then you have a marathon of about 16 speakers crammed in a day, talking only for half an hour or so each! Whew. What could they say in such a brief time? Traveling there and back in one day from here takes about 220 euro or so, and I can't find a flight here yet so I would arrive exactly on time. You can really only do this comfortably if you live in London area already and/or stayed longer with somebody there.  As I am interested in content, I'm better off getting their publications, I would say. Perhaps they would publish a symposium of papers?
>
> J.
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