May 15-16, 2020 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada
Conference keywords: debt; extractivism; migrants; surveillance; carceral cultures; cultures of resistance; resurgence; solidarity; neo-liberal state governance; surplus populations; environmentalism
CAPPE (University of Brighton) and SSPT (University of Sussex)
Critical Theory in (a Time of) Crisis
A two-day postgraduate and early career conference, organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (University of Brighton) and the Research Centre for Studies in Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex)
Sponsored by the Mind Association
On 30 October we launched our new catalogue of JD Bernal's peace collection. Thanks to sponsorship from the late Beryl Huffingly and the hard work of Project Archivist Joseph Dance, this internationally significant archive on the world peace movement can now be searched on our online catalogue here. At the launch event daughter Jane Bernal paid tribute to her brilliant, endlessly curious father whose commitment to the peace movement knew no bounds.
Visualising Class
Class and the Visual Arts Today (1980-2019)
The University of Manchester, November 15, 10am-18.30pm
Room G7, Bridgeford Street Building.
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered.
Mostra “Meccanica e passione. Giuseppe De Vecchi e le origini dell’industria dell’auto a Milano”
12 novembre/12 dicembre 2019 | Sesto San Giovanni
The conference 'Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland' aims to determine the actual Jewish engagement in leftist movements in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries from the point of view of their individual ideological choices.
Personal histories, family fortunes, and forming political identities will be analyzed using a biographical method. Thus, they will help answer the question of what drove Polish Jews to join leftist organizations.
The present call of paper sollicits chapter proposals to complete a peer-reviewed collection of original research papers on the topic “Western Hegemonies and their Contestations”. This collection is inspired from the international and multidisciplinary conference “The End of Western Hegemonies ?” held in Jyväskylä, Finland, in June 2019, organized by The West Network. The proposed chapters must fall within one of the following categories:
Le parcours et l'œuvre de Friedrich Engels demeurent encore souvent dans l'ombre de Karl Marx. L'ambition de ce colloque pluridisciplinaire, organisé les 30 novembre et 1er décembre 2020 à l'université de Strasbourg à l'occasion du bicentenaire de sa naissance, est de rompre avec les idées reçues sur Engels en mobilisant les acquis de la recherche récente en sciences humaines et sociales, afin de projeter sur sa vie et ses travaux une lumière nouvelle.
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