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What’s New – 18th December 2023 - Historical Materialism
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What’s New – 18th December 2023

18th Dec 2023

– Now online: preprint edition of the double-volume ‘Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism’ special issue of Historical Materialism. Issue 32, 1&2:

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/special-issue/issue-32-12-marxism-and-critique-antisemitism

The special issue consists of two volumes: ‘Contemporary Critiques of Antisemitism’ and ‘Revisiting the Marxist Critique of Antisemitism’.

– Sexuality in Times of Imperial War: with Sita Balani and Nivi Manchanda, Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT, Hybrid: Zoom | Queen Mary Universit. Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sexuality-in-times-of-imperial-war-with-sita-balani-and-nivi-manchanda-tickets-761227350497

– 100th Anniversary of ‘The General Theory of Law’

https://legalform.blog/pashukanis-100th-anniversary/

– New Artist’s Bookwork: “Subject to Change”. Subject to Change is available through Mare et Martin Publishers (Paris). To purchase a copy, go to:

https://www.mareetmartin.com/livre/subject-to-change    

– Notice of Publication: Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate (Palgrave, 2023), edited by Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian, and Eva Nanopoulos:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36167-8

– Theory in Crisis online talk –  Gavin Walker, ‘Outside in the Critique of Political Economy’, Friday 15 December 16h-18h online. Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theory-in-crisis-outside-in-the-critique-of-political-economy-tickets-751571128477

– Larisa Reisner: A Biography – Decolonizing the Captive Mind, by Cathy Porter. Buy from Haymarket Books directly at a 40% discount:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2124-larisa-reisner-a-biography

– Call for papers: special edition of Research in Political Economy on “Money, Value and Marx’s Circuit of Capital”. Proposal deadline (1000 words abstract): June 1, 2024. Email:

Alan.Freeman@umanitoba.ca

– Now online: The Left and COVID: A response to Mike Haynes, by Sam Friedman and Mary Jirmanus Saba

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/node/2036

– The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922, Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports. Edited by Daria Dyakonova and Mike Taber. Buy from Haymarket Books directly at a 40% discount:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2125-the-communist-women-s-movement-1920-1922

– CfP: Lenin International Conference “100 years after Lenin: Self-determination, Technique and Power” – Barcelona, June 2024

https://leninconference.cat/en/

– What Was Neoliberalism? Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008, by Neil Davidson. Buy from Haymarket Books directly at a 40% discount: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2056-what-was-neoliberalism

– CfP: Historical Materialism Istanbul 2024, Rethinking Rationalities and Irrationalities within the Times of Crises and Radical Transformations, April 5th-7th 2024

https://historicalmaterialismistanbul2024.net/

Upcoming HM Broadcasts:

Book launch for The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920–1922: Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports, Edited by Mike Taber and Darya Dyakonova, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 – 7:30 pm (GMT)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-communist-womens-movement-1920-1922-proceedings-resolutions-reports-tickets-776227105167?aff=oddtdtcreator

Book Launch: State, Society and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

Stephen Miller, Wednesday January 10th – 23.00 GMT

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-state-society-and-revolution-in-eighteenth-century-france–tickets-776251899327?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science, Sven-Eric Liedman (Edited and translated by J. N. Skinner), 17.30pm GMT Wednesday 11th January

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-game-of-contradictions-tickets-777627062477?aff=oddtdtcreator

For Nonconformism: Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock: History and Critique of the Social Movement in the World Market, by Nicola Emery (Translated by Karen Whittle), 20.30pm GMT Wednesday 11th January

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-for-nonconformism-max-horkheimer-and-friedrich-pollock-tickets-777662337987?aff=oddtdtcreator