Socialist Studies 2019
Circuits of Capital, Circles of Solidarity
4-7 June, Vancouver
Society for Socialist Studies Congress 2019, June 4-7, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people at the University of British Columbia.
The circuits of financialised capitalism birthed by neoliberal capitalism have brought us to today’s historical moment of radical domestic and international inequality and with the existential threat of global warming. Much of the world is experiencing war and ongoing conflict, including genocide and apartheid, as new powers challenge the historic dominance of the West. Unnatural disasters threaten human and other life on planet Earth. A very small proportion of humanity holds most of the wealth and the world’s resources while others live in misery. There are new, bold expressions of old hatreds.
Socialisms in all their variety matter today because they seek justice and peace for humanity, which is only possible through sustainable relationships with the natural world of which we are all a part. These struggles demand critical analyses of the unequal and ecologically destructive world we have inherited, as well as practices that prefigure a more just world to come in new circles of solidarity.
For more than 50 years, the Society for Socialist Studies has endeavored to open and maintain spaces for socialist and allied critical analyses and reflection, among both scholars and activists. In so doing, the Society draws on the strengths, however constrained and challenged, of both historical and contemporary struggles against capitalism and injustice around the globe. Despite often violent, sometimes murderous repression, socialist and allied movements mobilize in sometimes extraordinary, sometimes everyday struggles. Together, working people, Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, those with disabilities, the poor, sexual and gender minorities struggle for sustainable relations with the natural world, for social(ist) justice, and for peace, for each and all.
Given the magnitude of the challenges, socialism is strongest as a richly diverse tradition of critique and struggle, open to critical engagement with a wide range of liberatory theorizing and praxis, both historical and contemporary. These include but are not limited to:
- socialist feminisms
- critical race feminisms
- ecological socialisms
- gay, lesbian and queer socialisms
- socialisms from the global South
- “crip” or disability socialisms
- anarchist socialisms
- critical Indigenous theorizing and resurgence.
Such analyses, which in recent decades have targeted liberal capitalisms, must now also confront alliances of wealth with popular hatreds. Everyday struggles face new/old challenges, as they seek to carve out spaces where more equitable and ecological relationships may be nurtured.
From June 4-7, 2019, the Society of Socialist Studies meets on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people at the University of British Columbia. We invite session proposals, theoretical, empirical and/or praxis-oriented, that critically analyze the world-as-it-is and engage with struggles that prefigure a more just, equitable and sustainable world-that-may-be.
Queries: rosa1919@uvic.ca
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Deadline for panel submissions: November 30, 2018.
To submit a panel, click here
We will require the following information:
- Organizer(s) (Title, First Name, Last Name, Affiliation):
- Organizer contact information (email or address):
- Type of Proposed Session: (Regular, Roundtable, Workshop, Interdisciplinary –see below for descriptions of each*):
- Title of Proposed Session:
- Description of Proposed Session (250 words maximum):
- For Closed Sessions only: Please provide a list of participants and titles for each presenter, if known (or provide these by our deadline for individual paper submissions on January 31, 2019)
Questions? Contact rosa1919@uvic.ca
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* Regular sessions
Between 3 and 5 paper presentations can be accommodated
Presentation time for each paper and for the discussant is limited
20 minutes each for a session with three presentations and a discussant
15 minutes each for a session with four presentations and a discussant
20 minutes each for a session with four presentations and no discussant
15 minutes each for a session with five presentations and no discussant
AV (computer, projector, screen, and internet) will be available for presentations
These sessions are held in a classroom type setting with a capacity of between 25 – 50 people (participants and observers combined)
Roundtable Sessions
One or two separate roundtable sessions will be scheduled concurrently in one large room
Each table can only accommodate 10 people (participants and observers combined)
Recommended for presentations based on research in progress or more general thematic discussions of work in a particular area
AV will not be available for presentations
Participants must distribute printed papers and/or handouts
Workshop Sessions
May include facilitators and participants
Sessions are typically on a clearly-defined topic and involve 3-4 presenters, with a chair.
Roundtable sessions, involving
You may submit a closed session with panelists; or a session that opens up the panel to submissions (deadline for individual submissions is January 28, 2019).
Interdisciplinary Sessions (involving another association besides Socialist Studies)
Joint Sessions
Co-sponsored by two or more associations
Session will be listed in the programs of co-sponsors
Session will be hosted and scheduled by one of the associations as mutually agreed upon
At least one session organizer and one additional participant in a joint or co-sponsored session hosted by the Society for Socialist Studies must be members and registered delegates of our association
Participants must be a member and registered congress delegate of the association through which he or she submits an abstract
Administrators will consult organizers to validate memberships
Abstract submissions accepted by co-sponsor associations
Any applications for Congress funding with the Society for Socialist Studies listed as co-organizers are required to be pre-approved by our association
The allocation of funds must also be mutually agreed upon
Co-sponsored Sessions
One primary association works with another association or group to organize a plenary or panel
Session will be listed in the programs of co-sponsoring associations
Session will be hosted and scheduled by the primary association with details communicated to the co-sponsors
Participants must be members and registered congress delegates of at least one of the co-sponsoring associations
Congress delegates from all associations are welcome to attend as observers
Members of co-sponsoring groups (i.e. as opposed to congress associations) must comply with congress attendance policies the exception being a session or panel open to the community
Any applications for Congress funding with the Society for Socialist Studies listed as co-organizers are required to be pre-approved by our association
The allocation of funds must also be mutually agreed upon