Historical Materialism Conference: New York City http://www.hm2010nyc.org 2nd North American Conference, January 14th to 16th 2010 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Coming Soon: Historical Materialism Toronto May 13-16, 2010 http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/11/historical-materialism-toronto/ http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/11/historical-materialism-toronto/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:17:03 +0000 admin http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/11/36/ 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/

]]> http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/11/historical-materialism-toronto/feed/ 0 http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/08/hello-world/ http://www.hm2010nyc.org/2009/08/hello-world/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:32:18 +0000 admin http://www.hm2010nyc.org/?p=1 Historical Materialism (HM) is one the foremost journals of Marxian theory. Every year HM holds its major conference in London, drawing hundreds of scholars from around the world. Based on the success of last year's HM conference in Toronto, and the growing demand for critical theory of contemporary capitalism, we are organizing an HM conference in New York, the first of its kind to be held in the US, from January 14th to 16th, 2010 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It will be free and open to registered attendees, although donations towards the running of the conference will be solicited. Now is without a doubt a marxist renaissance, borne of a need to understand capital and its movement through the world, and the Historical Materialism conference, with its rich tradition of critical, boundary-pushing marxist theory, provides a place where the critique of capital and the possibilities of communism can be explored— with a critical eye to the traditions of the past, while aiming to engage with the crucial crises facing us today. Historical Materialism (HM) is one the foremost journals of Marxian theory, known both for the breadth of the articles it publishes as well as for their intellectual rigor. Every year HM holds its major conference in London, drawing hundreds of scholars from around the world. Beginning last year, a group in Toronto held the first ever HM conference in North America. Based on the success of that event and the growing demand for critical Marxist understanding of this moment, another Historical Materialism conference, the first in the United States, will be held in New York in January, 2010. The New York conference will be held from January 14th to 16th at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It will be free and open to registered attendees, although donations towards the running of the conference will be solicited. All conference participants are encouraged to stay for the whole duration of the conference. The organizers will attempt to arrange panels according to broad threads running through the conference – e.g. crisis, land/ labor, communism – allowing for an extended exploration of particular themes. The deadline for abstracts is November 2009. The conference will be held from January 14th to 16th at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It will be free and open to registered attendees, although donations towards the running of the conference will be solicited. All conference participants are encouraged to stay for the whole duration of the conference. The organizers will attempt to arrange panels according to broad threads running through the conference – e.g. crisis, land/labor, communism – allowing for an extended exploration of particular themes. The deadline for abstracts is November 2009. hm2010@gmail.com Historical Materialism, New York 2010 Organizing Group Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work Graduate Center City University of New York 365 5th Ave New York, NY 10016]]>

The organizers would like to thank all participants and attendees for their contribution to a successful conference. We have received much positive feedback and we look forward to organizing more conferences in the future.

Many thanks to all our speakers:

Anna M. Agathangelou, Stanley Aronowitz, Gopal Balakrishnan, Banu Bargu, Deepankar Basu, Karl Beitel, Riccardo Bellofiore, Aaron Benanav, Jasper Bernes, Paul Blackledge, George Caffentzis, Chris Chitty, Dana Cloud, Patricia Clough, Hamid Dabashi, Gérard Duménil, Hester Eisenstein, Sara Farris, Silvia Federici, Duncan Foley, Benedetto Fontana, Valerie Francisco, Maya Gonzalez, Paul Heideman, Nancy Holmstrom, Mathew Huber, Dhruv Jain, Jeffrey Kinkle, Andrew Kliman, Sabu Kohso, Joel Kovel, Deepa Kumar, David Laibman, Neil Larsen, Paul LeBlanc, William Lewis, Geoff Mann, Paul Mattick, Michael McCarthy, Geoffrey McDonald, Alan Milchman, Simon Mohun, Gary Mongiovi, Fred Moseley, Justin Myers, August Nimtz, Bertell Ollman, Melda Ozturk, Ozgur Ozturk, Mi Park, Charles Post, Nina Power, Nagesh Rao, Jason Read, Jan Rehmann, John Riddell, William Clare Roberts, Heather Rogers, Sander, Anwar Shaikh, Hasana Sharp, Ahmed Shawki, Tony Smith, Jason E. Smith, Richard Smith, Yves Smith, Gayatri Spivak, Keeanga Taylor, Peter Thomas, Massimiliano Tomba, Aylin Topal, Alberto Toscano, Ben Trott, Ramaa Vasudevan, Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, Chris Vials, Marina Vishmidt, Joel Wainwright, Victor Wallis, Paul Warren, Evan Calder Williams, Ted Winslow, Christopher Wright

All enquiries:
hm2010.nyc@gmail.com

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