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- Journal "Historical Materialism"
| Dates: | November 08-11, 2012 |
| Description: | Ninth Annual Historical Materialism Conference 'Weighs Like a Nightmare' HM 2012 |
| Location: | London, SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom |
| Subject: | The ninth HM annual conference focuses on the returns and the persistence of political forms and theoretical problems, on the uses and abuses of the history of Marxism in this turbulent present and on the ways and forms in which an inheritance of various Marxist traditions can help us to organise and to act in this turbulent present. We invite proposals for presentations or panels (with two or three suggested participants) on topics such as: the echoes of the past in the present; learning or not learning from the past; the reanimation of revolution; history as farce, history as tragedy; historiography and Marxism; cycles; circulation; anti-memory as a political stance; new histories of capital and the labour movement; Marxism and deep history; theory as history; the role of archival sources in history and the place of theory; rhythms of historical development, combined, uneven or otherwise; concepts of pre-capitalism; the question of successive modes of production; historical or other materialisms; the return of radical politics in Eastern Europe and elsewhere; post-communism; the endless afterlives of Classical Marxists and Western Marxist theorists and others who refuse to go away; the reruns of crisis; the role of memory and the revisioning of history; forgotten figures suddenly blasted into contemporary relevance; perma-war; imperial ghosts and their legacies, racisms haunting returns; old and new world orders; old and new cultures; avant-gardes and rearguards; the re-reading of classic texts; the question of Marxisms relation to tradition; ideas of inheritance (Bloch) and selective tradition (Raymond Williams); recovery; recuperation; periodisation; continuities and discontinuities; narratives of new and old beginnings (of history, of culture, of the Left, of Marxism). [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] |
| JEL Code: | B |
| URL: | http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual9 |