<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); ">From: </span></b>Sébastien Budgen <<a href="mailto:sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr">sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr</a>><br><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); ">Date: </span></b>30 March 2010 12:48:06 PM<br><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); ">To: </span></b><a href="mailto:historicalmaterialism@yahoogroups.com">historicalmaterialism@yahoogroups.com</a><br><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); ">Subject: </span></b><b>[historicalmaterialism] CFP: 'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference 2010<br></b><b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); ">Reply-To: </span></b>historicalmaterialism-owner@yahoogroups.com<br><br>'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference <br>2010,<br><br>Central London, Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November*<br><br>Call for Papers<br><br>Submission and Abstract Deadline: 1 June 2010<br><br><br><br>Notwithstanding repeated invocations of the ‘green shoots of <br>recovery’, the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008 <br>continue to be felt around the world. While some central tenets of the <br>neoliberal project have been called into question, bank bailouts, cuts <br>to public services and attacks on working people's lives demonstrate <br>that the ruling order remains capable of imposing its agenda. Many <br>significant Marxist analyses have already been produced of the <br>origins, forms and prospects of the crisis, and we look forward to <br>furthering these debates at HM London 2010. We also aim to encourage <br>dialogue between the critique of political economy and other modes of <br>criticism – ideological, political, aesthetic, philosophical – central <br>to the Marxist tradition.<br><br><br><br>In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht projected a journal <br>to be called ‘Crisis and Critique’. In very different times, but in a <br>similar spirit, HM London 2010 aims to serve as a forum for dialogue, <br>interaction and debate between different strands of critical-Marxist <br>theory. Whether their focus is the study of the capitalist mode of <br>production's theoretical and practical foundations, the unmasking of <br>its ideological forms of legitimation or its political negation, we <br>are convinced that a renewed and politically effective Marxism will <br>need to rely on all the resources of critique in the years ahead. <br>Crises produce periods of ideological and political uncertainty. They <br>are moments that put into question established cognitive and <br>disciplinary compartmentalisations, and require a recomposition at the <br>level of both theory and practice. HM London 2010 hopes to contribute <br>to a broader dialogue on the Left aimed at such a recomposition, one <br>of whose prerequisites remains the young Marx’s call for the ‘ruthless <br>criticism of all that exists’.<br><br><br><br>We are seeking papers that respond to the current crisis from a range <br>of Marxist perspectives, but also submissions that try to think about <br>crisis and critique in their widest ramifications. HM will also <br>consider proposals on themes and topics of interest to critical- <br>Marxist theory not directly linked to the call for papers (we <br>particularly welcome contributions on non-Western Marxism and on <br>empirical enquiries employing Marxist methods).<br><br><br><br>While Historical Materialism is happy to receive proposals for panels, <br>the editorial board reserves the right to change the composition of <br>panels or to reject individual papers from panel proposals. We also <br>expect all participants to attend the whole conference and not simply <br>make ‘cameo’ appearances. We cannot accommodate special requests for <br>specific slots or days, except in highly exceptional circumstances.<br><br><br><br>*Please note that, in order to allow for expected demand, this year <br>the conference will be three and a half days’ long, starting on the <br>Thursday afternoon.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Please submit a title and abstract of between 200 and 300 words by <br>registering at http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual7/submit <br> by 1 June 2010<br><br><br><br>Possible themes include:<br><br> • Crisis and left recomposition<br><br> • Critique and crisis in the global south<br><br> • Anti-racist critique<br><br> • Marxist and non-Marxist theories of crisis<br><br> • Capitalist and anti-capitalist uses of the crisis<br><br> • Global dimensions of the crisis<br><br> • Comparative and historical accounts of capitalist crisis<br><br> • Ecological and economic crisis<br><br> • Critical theory today<br><br> • Finance and the crisis<br><br> • Neoliberalism and legitimation crisis<br><br> • Negation and negativity<br><br> • Feminism and critique<br><br> • Political imaginaries of crisis and catastrophe<br><br> • The critique of everyday life (Lefebvre, the <br>situationists etc.)<br><br> • The idea of critique in Marx, his predecessors and <br>contemporaries<br><br> • Art criticism, political critique and the critique of <br>political economy<br><br> • Geography and crisis, geography and the critique of <br>political economy<br><br> • Right-wing movements and crisis<br><br> • Critiques of the concept of crisis<br><br> • New forms of critique in the social and human sciences<br><br> • Aesthetic critique<br><br> • Marxist literary and cultural criticism<br><br> • Reports on recent evolution of former USSR countries <br>and China<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------------<br><br>Yahoo! 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