Conference Details
Empire and Beyond Conference
University of Leeds, UK
7-9 April 2006
The conference venue is Bodington Hall.
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Organised by The Conference of Socialist Economists, publishers of the journal Capital and Class
To help continue and facilitate critical, pluralist debates the Conference of Socialist Economists is holding a two-day conference at Leeds University around the theme of Empire and Beyond. Issues to be discussed include:
- Empire and beyond: new imperialism for old?
- The restructuring of the state
- The state debate revisited
- New modes of governance and discipline
- Economic crises
- The political economy of neo-liberalism
- The relevance of post-structuralism for Marxist theory
- Anti-capitalist movements & networks of global resistance
- Human rights, democracy and the West
- Technology, environmentalism and globalisation
- Uneven and combined development: the South and globalisation
- The changing nature of the labour movement and class politics
- Globalisation and its impact upon (popular) culture
- The nature of socialism today
Prices:
- Two nights full board and one year's subscription to Capital and Class: £150 (waged) £75 ( unwaged)
- Two nights as above without one year's subscription: £130 (waged) £65 (unwaged)
- One night ( waged) £80, (unwaged) £40
- Day rate ( waged) £30, (unwaged) £15
Pay by cheque:
Please make cheques payable to
CSE Ltd,
Unit 5,
25 Horsell Road,
London,
N5 1XL.