<rmm> CFP: 'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference 2010

[Jan Teurlings]

>> From: Sébastien Budgen <sebastien.budgen at wanadoo.fr>
>> Date: 30 March 2010 12:48:06 PM
>> To: historicalmaterialism at yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [historicalmaterialism] CFP: 'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference 2010
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>> 
>> 'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference  
>> 2010,
>> 
>> Central London, Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November*
>> 
>> Call for Papers
>> 
>> Submission and Abstract Deadline: 1 June 2010
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Notwithstanding repeated invocations of the ‘green shoots of  
>> recovery’, the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008  
>> continue to be felt around the world. While some central tenets of the  
>> neoliberal project have been called into question, bank bailouts, cuts  
>> to public services and attacks on working people's lives demonstrate  
>> that the ruling order remains capable of imposing its agenda. Many  
>> significant Marxist analyses have already been produced of the  
>> origins, forms and prospects of the crisis, and we look forward to  
>> furthering these debates at HM London 2010. We also aim to encourage  
>> dialogue between the critique of political economy and other modes of  
>> criticism – ideological, political, aesthetic, philosophical – central  
>> to the Marxist tradition.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht projected a journal  
>> to be called ‘Crisis and Critique’. In very different times, but in a  
>> similar spirit, HM London 2010 aims to serve as a forum for dialogue,  
>> interaction and debate between different strands of critical-Marxist  
>> theory. Whether their focus is the study of the capitalist mode of  
>> production's theoretical and practical foundations, the unmasking of  
>> its ideological forms of legitimation or its political negation, we  
>> are convinced that a renewed and politically effective Marxism will  
>> need to rely on all the resources of critique in the years ahead.  
>> Crises produce periods of ideological and political uncertainty. They  
>> are moments that put into question established cognitive and  
>> disciplinary compartmentalisations, and require a recomposition at the  
>> level of both theory and practice. HM London 2010 hopes to contribute  
>> to a broader dialogue on the Left aimed at such a recomposition, one  
>> of whose prerequisites remains the young Marx’s call for the ‘ruthless  
>> criticism of all that exists’.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We are seeking papers that respond to the current crisis from a range  
>> of Marxist perspectives, but also submissions that try to think about  
>> crisis and critique in their widest ramifications. HM will also  
>> consider proposals on themes and topics of interest to critical- 
>> Marxist theory not directly linked to the call for papers (we  
>> particularly welcome contributions on non-Western Marxism and on  
>> empirical enquiries employing Marxist methods).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> While Historical Materialism is happy to receive proposals for panels,  
>> the editorial board reserves the right to change the composition of  
>> panels or to reject individual papers from panel proposals. We also  
>> expect all participants to attend the whole conference and not simply  
>> make ‘cameo’ appearances. We cannot accommodate special requests for  
>> specific slots or days, except in highly exceptional circumstances.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *Please note that, in order to allow for expected demand, this year  
>> the conference will be three and a half days’ long, starting on the  
>> Thursday afternoon.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Please submit a title and abstract of between 200 and 300 words by  
>> registering at http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual7/submit 
>>   by 1 June 2010
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Possible themes include:
>> 
>>         •       Crisis and left recomposition
>> 
>>         •       Critique and crisis in the global south
>> 
>>         •       Anti-racist critique
>> 
>>         •       Marxist and non-Marxist theories of crisis
>> 
>>         •       Capitalist and anti-capitalist uses of the crisis
>> 
>>         •       Global dimensions of the crisis
>> 
>>         •       Comparative and historical accounts of capitalist crisis
>> 
>>         •       Ecological and economic crisis
>> 
>>         •       Critical theory today
>> 
>>         •       Finance and the crisis
>> 
>>         •       Neoliberalism and legitimation crisis
>> 
>>         •       Negation and negativity
>> 
>>         •       Feminism and critique
>> 
>>         •       Political imaginaries of crisis and catastrophe
>> 
>>         •       The critique of everyday life (Lefebvre, the 
>> situationists etc.)
>> 
>> • The idea of critique in Marx, his predecessors and 
>> contemporaries
>> 
>> • Art criticism, political critique and the critique of 
>> political economy
>> 
>> • Geography and crisis, geography and the critique of 
>> political economy
>> 
>> • Right-wing movements and crisis
>> 
>> • Critiques of the concept of crisis
>> 
>> • New forms of critique in the social and human sciences
>> 
>> • Aesthetic critique
>> 
>> • Marxist literary and cultural criticism
>> 
>> • Reports on recent evolution of former USSR countries 
>> and China
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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