Marx’s Critique of Ideology: its uses and abuses The Keynote Address for the Society of Socialist Studies will be given by Himani Bannerji, a poet, writer of children’s literature, and Marxist scholar. Her work is the stuff of doctoral dissertations, academic and Left activist seminars and workshops, nationally and internationally. She writes, teaches and theorizes […]
As a tribute to the robust scholarship undertaken by its members and to recognize their publication achievements, the Society for Socialist Studies is inaugurating an annual book prize for a significant contribution to socialist research in Canada. The prize includes an award of $500 and will first be presented at the annual meeting of the […]
The theme of the 2015 CFHSS Congress is ‘Capital Ideas.’ The theme of the 2015 Society for Socialist Studies Conference is Kapital Ideas: analysis, critique, praxis. Join us for four days of wideranging and engaged analysis and dialogue. June 2-5, at the University of Ottawa. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM HERE (PDF format). Limited travel grant funding is available. Please […]
I am pleased to announce the final issue of Socialist Studies under my editorship. Titled “Feminism and New Socialisms,” it is now available online at: http://socialiststudies.com/ Socialist Studies is in excellent shape, with over 9,000 online visitors last year from over 70 countries. Harvard University libraries, hardly known for their socialist sympathies, favourably reviewed the […]
Below is the recently-posted review of Socialist Studies by Harvard University research librarian Cheryl LaGuardia. Thank you to all whose contributions are making the journal an increasingly visible and important part of scholarly conversations. Reviewed by Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University Socialist Studies/Études socialistes (SSES) is an interdisciplinary journal whose focus is […]
The Winter Issue of Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes is now out at www.socialiststudies.com. The special issue is ”On Pacification,” guest edited by Mark Neocleous and George Rigakos. Articles describe, analyse and critique the rise of security discourses and practices, arguing that these are better understood as the pacification of unruly, potentially rebellious subaltern and working classes […]
In attendance: Debbie Dergousoff; David Huxtable; Ben Levy; Bill Pelz; Jean Chapman; Robert McGray; Thom Workman; Greg Albo; Errol Sharpe; Wayne Antony; Elaine Coburn; Ingo Schmidt; Bill Carroll; Danny Goldstick; Kanchan Sarkar; Garry Potter; Murray Cooke Kanchan called the meeting to order. Approval of agenda and minutes from 2012 AGM – moved – Danny Goldstick/Gary […]
Shortly after the 2013 General Meeting in Victoria, the Executive began a discussion on the decline in annual memberships. It appears that memberships are very closely attached to participation in our annual conferences held at Congress, when people participate, they pay their membership fee, when they do not, they often allow it to laps for […]
Dear friends, Once again, I am asking people to make a donation to the Society and its Ryerson Fund. One of the most important contributions of the Society for Socialist Studies to critical and radical research is the support it offers to young academics and others of limited financial means to participate in presenting their […]
The Society for Socialist Studies is renewing, rebuilding and reaching out! It’s time for the many scholars and activists who have affinities for Socialist Studies but who do not belong, to become members (and for lapsed members to renew). Our membership drive, our newsletter and much-improved website and Facebook all fit into an outreach that […]