Forwarded from IEPS-L by Ross B. Emmett 
 
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Rethinking MARXISM announces an International Conference .... 
 
            POLITICS AND LANGUAGES OF CONTEMPORARY MARXISM 
 
                 December 5-8 (Thursday-Sunday), 1996 
                 University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
 
 
 
                CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS 
 
 
PURPOSE: The editors of Rethinking MARXISM announce the third in its series 
of international conferences. The first two conferences, each attended by 
over 
one thousand persons, 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 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 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 installations, 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 expression. 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 accomodations 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. 
 
Deadline for submission of proposals is August 15, 1996. 
 
 
 
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