Call
for papers for Conference titled "From the Thirty Years" Crisis
to Multi-Polarity: The Evolution of the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st
Century World', 25-27 September, 2015, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Canada. |
Please
note the deadline has been further extended to June 26, 2015.
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was marked in
Canada and around the world in 2014. 2014 also marked the centenary
of the opening of what noted historian, Arno Mayer, called the 'Thirty
Years' Crisis' of 1914-1945, spanning the First World War, the Great
Depression and the Second World War. This long crisis birthed a new
world. The old world of the nineteenth century expansion of the empires
of industrial capitalist countries, often mistakenly termed 'liberal',
met its end. It gave way to an inter-national one populated by a variety
of welfare, Communist and developmental orders in national economies
whose states had, moreover, greater legitimacy among newly enfranchised
women and men than the imperial and colonial regimes they replaced.
The Thirty Years crisis also radically redistributed economic, political,
military and cultural power within countries and among them. Critical
cultural and intellectual changes - new movements in art, new media,
and new paradigms of understanding, particularly in economics, inevitably
accompanied these historic shifts.
As we stand at the cusp of another wave of complex changes to the
world order, this time towards multi-polarity, our conference aims
to understand the major changes of the past century better than hitherto
dominant paradigms, such as neo-classical economics, globalization
and empire, have so far done and to bring that re-assessment to bear
on how best to understand problems of and prospects for the world
order of the 21st century.
We invite submissions for papers, panels
and steams of panels relevant to any aspect of the overarching conference
theme from scholars across the humanities, social sciences and in
inter-disciplinary studies based in Canada and around the world. Heterodox
and critical scholarship is particularly encouraged.
A preliminary and non-exhaustive list of themes includes:
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Science, Technology and Society
in War and Peace
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Production and Prosperity in
Capitalisms and 'Communisms'
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Continuity and Change in Economic
Thought: Keynes and beyond
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Gender: Economy, War, and Politics
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Colonization, Independence,
Sovereignty, Indigeneity.
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Multipolarities Old and New:
1914, 2014 and beyond
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World Monetary and Financial
(Dis) Orders: sterling standard, dollar standard and beyond
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The Matter of Nature: Extractive
Economies, Environmental Governance and Sustainability
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Canada: Nations, Identities
and Economies
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Art, Politics and Practices
of Power: Beyond Westernization
The conference will inaugurate
the Geopolitical
Economy Research Group at the University
of Manitoba and will bring together scholars connected with its
network of supporting research centres and academic departments the
world over.
Confirmed Keynote and Plenary Speakers
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Johanna Brenner, Portland
State University, Portland, USA
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Boris Kagarlitsky, Director
of The Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow
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Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Kari Polanyi Levitt, Polanyi
Institute, Montréal, Canada
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Paulo Drinot, University College
London, Institute of the Americas
Abstracts
should be 300 to 400 words. They should be single spaced and use 12
point Times New Roman font. They should include the author or authors'
full name, affiliation, a brief biography, and e-mail address. We ask
they be sent by June 26, 2015 to
contact@gergconference.ca
A limited number of bursaries for partial support
for travel and accommodation are available for this conference. The
application deadline will be announced after the acceptance of abstracts.
Click here for detail
http://gergconference.ca/
March 19, 2015.
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