Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific)

Events - 2006

6 October 2006: Our Working-Class Lives
University of Newcastle, England

Call for Abstracts
In seeking to reinvigorate class analysis in the UK it is vital to tap into ‘new’ voices, alongside those of more established academics. ‘Our working-class lives’ will explore the ways that new researchers are, in their own right, creating new analyses and theories, even as they deploy, utilise and contend established and emerging frameworks. This conference will provide a space for new researchers, including junior academics and postgraduates, to hear about and respond to research produced across disciplines, and to begin to forge contacts and foster collaborations – in other words to fully claim a presence within this moment of developing interest around class.

6th October 2006, Research Beehive 2.20, University of Newcastle (see: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/workingclasslives/)

Abstracts would be welcomed in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Meanings of class – ‘their’ theories, our responses?
• Class and the younger/junior academic
• Class in Higher Education
• Classed landscapes (physical and emotional) Classed lives,
  transitions and im/mobilities
• Narratives of class Interconnections between class, sexuality,
  gender and ethnicity

Please submit abstracts of 150 words, title and contact details to Yvette Taylor at: Yvette.Taylor@newcastle.ac.uk no later than 10th August 2006. There will be no charge for this event and refreshments will be provided. Funding will be available for a limited number of non-funded students. Please email to confirm your anticipated attendance.

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26-28 October 2006
Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

The International Gramsci Society is organizing a number of panels for the Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA on 26-28 October 2006.

As part of the Rethinking Marxism Conference, the IGS plans to sponsor four panels related to Gramsian studies and topics.

We invite members of the IGS community to submit paper proposals on topics related to Gramscian studies and to the application of Gramsci's ideas.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals for papers should include:
1 Paper title
2 Presenter's name and contact information (address, email, phone, fax)
3 Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)

Please send proposals to Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green.

Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 June 2006.

For more information on the Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference, see http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org

To submit a non-IGS paper proposal, go to http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/submission.html

Rethinking Marxism is a journal of economics, culture & society. For more information on the journal, see http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/

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3-5 November 2006
New Racisms: New Anti-Racisms, University of Sydney

The Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, along with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission invite your participation in New Racisms: New Anti-Racisms on 3 - 5 November 2006 at the University of Sydney.

While ‘racism’ as an ideological belief in a hierarchy of biological races has lost its coherence and has very few adherents today, the word is still used to denote the multitude of ways in which human beings are inferiorised, marginalised, demeaned, threatened, excluded and de-humanised on the basis of the way they look or on the basis of a devalorisation of their group identity. As the philosopher Etienne Balibar has put it: on one hand ‘racism’ no longer really exists and on the other, never has there been more racism. The multiplicity of forms that this ‘neo-racism’ takes today makes it more difficult than ever to formulate anti-racist strategies that are capable of countering its slippery nature.

There are many people in the media, public servants, academics, activists and others working at local municipal levels, with community organizations, within political parties, or with national or international human right organizations, who are actively engaged in looking for or in conceiving new and innovative forms of understanding and countering these new racisms. This conference aims to bring such people together to share insights and strategies in an open, critical and constructive environment.

You are encouraged to submit a paper or a presentation of any kind, if you are working practically or conceptually on innovative or critical forms of anti-racism that you feel are helpful in dealing with existing racial or neo-racial discrimination in the media, at work, in policing, in the judicial system, in education, in everyday life, or in any other domain. Presentations that deal with strengths and weaknesses of existing government-sponsored initiatives, strategies and policies are also welcome.

If you are interested please submit a title and a two hundred word abstract of your paper or presentation to Ghassan Hage, the convenor, by 18 August. State briefly and as clearly as possible what the innovative dimension of your approach involves. Email: ghassan.hage@arts.usyd.edu.au