Coming Soon: Historical Materialism Toronto May 13-16, 2010

Second Call for Papers

Join with Terry Eagleton, Andrea Smith, Vijay Prashad, Dorothy Smith, Bertell Ollman, David Roediger, Himani Bannerji, Leo Panitch, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Shahrzad Mojab, David McNally, Anna Agathagelou, Nick Dyer-Witheford and many other radical scholars from Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Greece, Mexico, the United States and beyond at the Historical Materialism Toronto conference at York University, Toronto.

The conference will take place against the backdrop of a profound destabilization of global capitalism alongside significant challenges for labour and social movements. Imperialist wars abound and culture, including religion, has been drawn into the service of empire. Robust theorizations and critical innovations are needed.

In this context it is vital to develop the resources of historical materialism in addressing the pressing problems of the day and informing all forms of activism, including the intellectual. The conference seeks to combine rich development of historical materialist analysis with critical innovations in areas where such analysis has lagged. The organizers welcome presentations from scholars and activists that reflect the current state of theoretical work and activist mobilization. Themes include:

* Marxism and Philosophy
* Political Economy of Capitalism and the Global Crisis
* Gender, Sexuality and Social Reproduction
* Race, Empire and Resistance
* Ecology and the Environment
* Working Class and Social Movements
* Labour Processes and Class Relations
* Art, Marxism, and Everyday Life
* Revolutionary Experiences
* Fascism, Militarism, Fundamentalism
* State, Culture and Ideology
* Land, Food and Accumulation by Dispossession
* Marxism and the Urban Experience
* Theorizing Crises in Historical and Comparative Perspective

We welcome individual submissions as well as panel proposals. For individual papers, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words; for panel proposals. Please note, the extended deadline for proposals is January 29, 2010. Proposals can be sent to torontohm@gmail.com.

Coming in February, detailed information on registration, accommodation, speakers and sessions will be available at http://www.arts.yorku.ca/conferences/HMToronto/