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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.
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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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