Historical Materialism Sydney 2017 – Capital and the Revolt AgainstCapitalism
The sixth annualHistorical Materialism Sydneyconference on new Marxist research will be held atThe University of SydneyNew Law Building onThursday 7th and Friday 8th December, 2017.
This year the conference will feature a keynote byJason W. Moore, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, and Coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. In 2015 Jason published the widely praised and debatedCapitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. His research fields include political ecology, agro-food studies, historical geography, social and spatial theory, environmental history, environmental humanities, political economy, world history, and neoliberalism.
CALL FOR PAPERS
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Marx’sCapitaland the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Both anniversaries raise vital questions for Marxist theory and practice today. How can value theory inform an analysis of modern capitalism? What can we learn from history and how do we understand theory and politics in the changed conditions of the 21st century in Australia and around the world? What do contemporary debates around social reproduction mean for the Marxist tradition? And how should Marxist theory and practice inform an understanding of and resistance to today’s ecological crisis?
HM Sydney welcomes papers addressing the questions ofCapital, capitalism and anti-capitalist politics. We continue to welcome papers on all general topics of interest to the Marxist tradition but particularly encourage papers on the following themes:
–Capitaland value 150 years on
– Socialism and ecology
– Social reproduction and oppression
–Capitaland critical receptions ofCapital
– Revolutionary history and politics since 1917
– Art and culture in and after the Russian revolution
– Socialism and populism today
Please send proposals for papers and panels to hmaustralasia@gmail.com by 4 August 2017. Proposals should be no more than 250 words. Papers should be 20 minutes long, and panels may include three speakers.
