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                                 Conference call 
   
            Rethinking MARXISM announces an International Conference 
   
                 POLITICS AND LANGUAGES OF CONTEMPORARY MARXISM 
   
                      December 5-8 (Thursday-Sunday), 1996 
                     University of Massachusetts at Amherst 
   
 Call for Papers and Session Proposals 
   
 PURPOSE: The editors of Rethinking MARXISM announce the third in the series 
 of international conferences. The first two conferences, attended by over 
 one thousand persons each, brought together under a common tent many 
 different voices of the Left from around the world. "Marxism Now: 
 Traditions and Difference," held in 1989, created a forum where new, 
 heterogeneous directions in Marxism and the Left could be debated after the 
 end of orthodox uniformity.  In 1992, the conference "Marxism in the New 
 World Order: Crises and Possibilities" confronted directly the challenges  
 -- theoretical, organizational, and spiritual -- which face the Left and  
 Marxism as the millennium nears. 
   
 The editors of Rethinking MARXISM intend this third conference on the 
 "Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism" to open new and creative 
 spaces for political, cultural and scholarly interventions.  The global 
 restructuring of social relations now taking place (which some call a new 
 offensive of "capital"), and the accompanying new crises and forms of 
 resistance that, in a more or less systemic way, affect the lives of people 
 the world over, require a strategy of cooperative dialogue between and 
 among diverse Marxian and other communities of struggle.  It is in the 
 dialectics of these varied notions and forms of community, and in the 
 struggles to wrestle them from the hegemony of bourgeois discourse, that 
 the future of Marxism lies.  The purpose of "Politics and Languages of 
 Contemporary Marxism" is both to continue the ongoing dialogue among all 
 already existing Marxisms and to nurture the development of new visions of 
 community that will serve our shared hopes for a more ethical and 
 uncompromisingly humane world. 
   
 STRUCTURE:  The conference will be held over four days, beginning  at noon 
 on Thursday, December 5 and ending in early afternoon on Sunday, December 
 8.  There will be concurrent sessions, art/cultural events, and plenaries 
 throughout the conference.  We invite the submission of sessions that 
 follow non traditional formats and are open to dialogue among and between 
 presenters and audience, such as workshops and roundtables. We encourage 
 those working in areas which intersect with Marxism such as feminism, 
 cultural and literary studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and 
 around the issues of race and ethnicity, to submit proposals.  We also 
 encourage the submission of sessions with all forms of artistic and 
 literary modes of meaning. The plenary sessions will be interspersed 
 throughout the conference and each plenary session will be limited to no 
 more than two speakers. 
   
 SPONSORSHIP:    The conference is sponsored by Rethinking MARXISM: a 
 journal of economics, culture, and society. 
   
 LOGISTICS:  The Conference will be held on the campus of the University of 
 Massachusetts at Amherst. Detailed information on hotel accommodations and 
 travel directions will be provided to all conference registrants. 
   
 PUBLICATIONS: Selected papers, poems, and other forms of presentation from 
 the conference will be published in Rethinking MARXISM and/or in a separate 
 edited volume of contributions. 
   
 REGISTRATION:  Registration fees will be as follows.  All conference 
 participants will be required to register. 
   
                         Preregistration         On Site 
                         regular/low-income              regular/low-income 
   
 Full conference $50/$30                 $60/$40 
 two days                $40/$25                 $45/$30 
 one day         $25/$15                 $30/$15 
  
   
 SUBMISSION PROPOSALS:  Send submission proposals to:  Stephen Cullenberg, 
 Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, CA  92521, 
 USA. 
 Fax:  (909) 787-5685. 
   
 The deadline for submission proposals is August 15, 1996. 
   
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 Stephen Cullenberg                              tel:  (909) 787-5037  x1573 
 Department of  Economics                        fax:  (909) 787-5685 
 University of California                        [log in to unmask] 
 Riverside, CA 92521 
   
 
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