The Society for Socialist Studies General Assembly Membership Meeting (GAMM) for 2022 will take place at the following date and time: Day: June 17, 2022 Time: 12 noon-1:30 Pacific 1-2:30 pm Mountain 2-3:30 pm Central 3-4:30 pm Eastern 4-5:30 pm Atlantic 4:30-6:00 pm Newfoundland Format: Online, using Zoom software. Register Online Here Zoom Instructions Download […]
June 15, 2022 at 4 pm Pacific Register Now As carbon emissions push the earth system toward (and possibly already through) climate tipping points, the contradictions of fossil capitalism present an existential crisis, to which collective agencies must respond. Responses range from old-style denialism (in retreat but not without influence) and new denialism (i.e., accepting […]
This panel was organized by the International Manifesto Group and the Society for Socialist Studies. It took place Sunday, May 8, 2022 on Zoom and YouTube Live. You can watch the entire event here. The media sponsor for this panel is The Canada Files. The panel is sponsored by Canadian Dimension and Fire This Time […]
The first in a series of webinars on Canada’s “trucker” convoy, this panel explores the broad political character of the so-called “Freedom Convoy”. About this Event The ‘Freedom Convoy’ and the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act have at once raised fundamental questions about Canada as a polity. What are the social character and […]
With Elaine Coburn, Harry Glasbeek, Meg Holden and Charles Mills This symposium is a lively discussion about philosopher Frank Cunningham’s Ideas in Context: Essays in Social and Political Theory (2021). The writings draw from a conversation held on May 29, 2021 by the Society for Socialist Studies as part of its annual conference. Featuring Harry […]
Canadian Scholars is considering publishing an edited collection pertaining to Indigenous Sexualities that examines the Invasion of Sexual Boundaries as form of conquest and uplifts Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty through intersectional frameworks that includes Indigenous, feminist, and critical lenses. The book will consist of 13 chapters. The editor seeks chapter proposals that use decolonizing Indigenous […]
Register Here Every generation is confronted with the challenge of social transformation – the attempt to challenge oppression and exploitation in multiple forms. Today these include colonialism, climate change, capitalism and imperialism. This roundtable brings together authors whose research has examined both the issues which animate the need for social transformation, as well as the […]
Deadline: December 13 As a tribute to the robust scholarship undertaken by its members and to recognize their publication achievements, the Society for Socialist Studies awards an annual book prize for a significant contribution to socialist research in Canada. The award is named after the founder of Fernwood Books, Errol Sharpe, a leader in left […]
Register Here Please join the Society for Socialist Studies on October 27, 2021 from 6-8pm EST for this roundtable event, Writing Palestine. The roundtable will feature a panel of notable scholars discussing their writing on Palestine in the context of today’s political climate: Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan (co-authors of Israel, Palestine, and the […]
May 29 – June 4, 2021 14h00 – 15h30 Mountain Time (Edmonton, Alberta) All sessions on Zoom All Events are Free and Open to the Public Virtual hosting of events by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-British Columbia, the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG), the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, and the Society for […]