CFP | Confronting Crisis: Left Praxis in the Face of Austerity, War and Revolution

Historical Materialism Conference

York Uni­ver­sity, Toronto, Canada; May 8-11th, 2014, Dead­line Janu­ary 10, 2014.

Con­fron­ted with a glo­bal con­text of aus­te­rity, exploi­ta­tion, impe­ria­list aggres­sion, ongo­ing colo­nia­lism, and eco­lo­gi­cal cri­ses, the world has been wit­ness to gro­wing social and poli­ti­cal strugg­les over the past decade. A wide range of rural– and urban-based labour and social move­ments have fought back against the cur­rent ‘Age of Aus­te­rity,’ while new modes and geo­gra­phies of resis­tance against dis­pos­ses­sion and tyranny con­ti­nue to inspire social change in the Glo­bal South. Against this back­drop, the 2014 His­to­ri­cal Mate­ria­lism con­fe­rence at Toronto’s York Uni­ver­sity invi­tes pro­po­sals for papers, panels, and other kinds of con­fe­rence par­ti­ci­pa­tion that can con­tri­bute to a collec­tive dis­cus­sion on how to extend and revi­ta­lize Left cri­ti­que and pra­xis in the cur­rent conjuncture.

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CFP | 20th Anniversary Critical Geography Conference

Extended CfP: December 15th

20th Annual Cri­ti­cal Geo­gra­phy Con­fe­rence Uni­ver­sity of Colo­rado, Boul­der Febru­ary 21–23, 2014

http://www.cucriticalgeography.org

criticalgeography@colorado.edu

»Dif­fe­rence, Diver­sity, Cri­ti­que: A Peo­p­les‹ Geo­gra­phy for the Future«

Three deca­des ago, David Har­vey cal­led upon geo­graph­ers to »build a popu­lar geo­gra­phy, free from pre­ju­dice but reflec­tive of real con­flicts and con­tra­dic­tions, capable also of opening new chan­nels for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and com­mon under­stan­ding.«  Harvey’s call cap­tures the sen­ti­ment and approach of much of the work done under the ban­ner of »cri­ti­cal geo­gra­phy« in the inter­ve­ning years.  That work has cer­tainly trans­for­med the disci­pline, dri­ving efforts to expand the range of topics and methods employed by geo­graph­ers.  And yet there remains, unde­nia­bly, con­side­ra­ble work to do.

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