[Marxism] HM 2007 Conference - Online bookings deadline is Thursday!

[Sebastian Budgen]

Full Programme available at :
<http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2007.htm>

Online bookings deadline is 12.00 pm on Thursday, 8 November !

Fourth Historical Materialism Annual Conference 9–11 November 2007 at 
the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, WC1
In association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara 
Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee

The annual Historical Materialism conference is organised by the 
editorial board of Historical Materialism in association with the 
Deutscher Memorial Prize committee and the Socialist Register. The 
conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an 
annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of 
historical-materialist research and has attracted an increasingly high 
attendance over the past three years.

While there is no call for papers this year, the Editorial Board of 
Historical Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in 
discussion with panellists from new as well as prior participants with 
an interest in critical-Marxist thought.    One of the principle 
objectives of the conference has been to build bridges among the 
various Marxist communities, including the breaking down some of the 
linguistic and intellectual barriers which continue to hamper the 
circulation and expansion of critical-Marxist thought. The fourth 
annual Historical Materialism Conference promises to continue and take 
forward this objective.

The conference is organised around three plenary sessions (the 
Deutscher lecture, the launch of the Socialist Register 2008, and 
Historical Materialism’s plenaries) as well as workshops dedicated to 
specific themes. Some of the themes for the panels include: the labour 
process, neoliberalism and class, cinema (including film screenings), 
Gramsci, finance, utopia, Israel & Palestine, political economy, the 
90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, social movements, 
materialism & philosophy, world development, art & politics, slavery, 
Marx’s Grundrisse, postcolonialism, Islam and the American Empire, 
value theory, Debord and the society of the spectacle.

Confirmed speakers include:
Bashir Abu-Manneh, Gilbert Achcar, Christine Achinger, Brian Alleyne, 
Sabah Alnasseri, Christopher J. Arthur, Sam Ashman, Maurizio Atzeni, 
Sedat Aybar, Sarah Badcock, Giorgio Barratta, Luca Basso, Asef Bayat, 
Jonathan Beller, Riccardo Bellofiore, Ana Cecilia Bergene, Henry 
Bernstein, Andreas Bieler, Sophie Béroud, Jacques Bidet, Robin 
Blackburn, Chris Bolsmann, Paola Bonifazio, Derek Boothman, Atilio 
Boron, Mark Bould, Stephen Bouquin, Robert Brenner, Andrew Brown, Tom 
Bunyard, Ray Bush, Alex Callinicos, Paul Cammack, Liam Campling, Gavin 
Capps, Giuseppe Caruso, John Chalcraft, Lorenzo Chiesa, Andrew Chitty, 
Simon Clarke, Alex Colas, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson, Gail Day, Tim 
Dayton, Massimo de Angelis, Radhika Desai, Ana Dinerstein, Paolo dos 
Santos, Antoni Domenech, Albert Domingo, Fernando Duran, Andy Durgan, 
Steve Edwards, Tony Elger, Ferdan Ergut, Mauro Farnesi, Ben Fine, 
Roberto Fineschi, Carl Freedman, Alan Freeman, Gregor Gall, Heide 
Gerstenberger, Melanie Gilligan, Andrew Glyn, Hugh Goodacre, Jonathan 
Goodhand, Jamie Gough, Peter Gowan, Volker Gransow, Diego Guerrero, 
Peter Hallward, Jane Hardy, Chris Harman, Graham Harrison, Barbara 
Harriss-White, David Harvie, Owen Hatherley, Micheal Head, Michael 
Heinrich, Renate Holub, Richard Hyman, Makoto Itoh, Peter Ives, Donna 
Jones, Patrick Keiller, John Kelly, Mick Kennedy, Laleh Khalili, Jim 
Kincaid, Jeff Kinkle, Gal Kirn, Sharon Kivland, Sam Knafo, Onur Suzan 
Komurcu, Michael Kraetke, John Kraniauskas, Hannes Lacher, Rocco 
Lacorte, Mark Laffey, Spiros Lapatsioras, Costas Lapavitsas, Ching Kwan 
Lee, Esther Leslie, William Lewis, Renzo Llorente, Dic Lo, Giacomo 
Marramao, David McNally, George Meramveliotakis, Alessandra Mezzadri, 
Keir Milburn, John Milios, Owen Miller, Toby Miller, Dimitris 
Milonakis, Kim Moody, Fred Moseley, Rastko Mocnik, Simon Mohun, Adam 
Morton, Kevin Murphy, Mike Neary, Michael Neocosmos, Paolo Novak, 
Benjamin Noys, Carlos Oya, Bryan Palmer, Silke Panse, Ilan Pappé, Anna 
Pollert, Nina Power, Ozren Pupovac, Devi Sacchetto, Mõkkel Bol 
Rasmussen, Christopher Read, Mike Richards, Glenn Rikowski, Spyros 
Sakellaropoulos, Jyoti Saraswati, Hajime Sato, Ben Selwyn, Helena 
Sheehan, Stuart Shields, Subir Sinha, Bev Skeggs, John Smith, Tony 
Smith, Panagiotis Sotiris, Benno Teschke, Adrien Thomas, Peter Thomas, 
Massimilano Tomba, Alberto Toscano, Greg Tuck, Vanessa Ushie,Kees van 
der Pijl, Elisa van Waeyenberge, Fabio Vighi, Mike Wayne, Tunde Zack 
Williams, Paul Willis, Jane Wills, Frieder Otto Wolf, Tony Wood, Owen 
Worth, Leo Zelig, Slavoj Zizek.

Attendance is free. However, the conference is entirely self-financed 
and we will depend on voluntary donations by attendants and 
participants to support the event. The suggested advanced online 
donation is £30 for waged and £10 for unwaged 
<http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2007.htm>, and the suggested 
donation on the door is £40 for waged and £15 for unwaged.

Sincerely,

The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism