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>From: yahya madra <ymadra at ECONS.UMASS.EDU>
>Subject: RM06 Conference--Extended Deadline
>To: EPHEMERA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK



>CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>RETHINKING MARXISM 2006
>
>Please join with Ernesto Laclau, Ella Shohat, 
>Antonio Callari, Susan Buck-Morss, Kojin 
>Karatani, Stephen Cullenberg, Liza Featherstone, 
>Sut Jhally, Trebor Scholz, Julie Graham, Warren 
>Montag, Barbara Foley, Rick Wolff, Susan Jahoda, 
>Stephen Resnick, Paresh Chattopadhyay, Fawzia 
>Afzal-Khan, David F. Ruccio, Bread & Puppet 
>Theater, Bob Jessop, Carole Biewener, Robert 
>Albritton, Drucilla Barker, Doug Henwood, Julie 
>Matthaei, Mary-Louise Pratt, Bertell Ollman, 
>Paddy Quick, Bruce Roberts, Randy Martin, Susan 
>Feiner, George DeMartino, Deirdre McCloskey, 
>Suzanne Bergeron, Jonathan Nitzan, Todd McGowan, 
>Jack Amariglio, Fikret Adaman, Jonathan Diskin, 
>Ceren Ozselçuk, Clyde W. Barrow, Eiman 
>Zein-Elabdin, Mark Crispin Miller, Hasana Sharp, 
>Joel Kovel, Richard Lichtman, Ulla Grapard, 
>Yahya Mete Madra, Lynn Chancer, Beverly Best, 
>Ayreen Anastas, John Roche, Harriet Fraad, Gregg 
>Bordowitz, Jesal Kapadia, Lauren Langman, Masato 
>Aoki, Richard McIntyre, Cathy Mulder, Michael 
>Hillard, Vin Lyon-Callo, Ashley Hunt, Jenny 
>Perlin, Lin + Lam, Satya Gabriel, Serap 
>Kayatekin, and hundreds of others.
>
>*THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PAPER AND PANEL 
>PROPOSALS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 21*
>
>RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of economics, culture & society is pleased to
>announce its 6th major international conference, to be held at the University
>of Massachusetts, Amherst on 26-28 October, 2006.  The conference is entitled
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org>RETHINKING MARXISM 2006.
>
>
>RETHINKING MARXISM's 5 previous international conferences have each
>attracted between 750 and 1200 participants, and they have included keynote
>addresses and plenary sessions, formal papers, 
>workshops, art exhibitions, video
>presentations, activist sessions, and 
>performances.  Versions of all of these events 
>are planned for 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org>RETHINKING 
>MARXISM 2006.
>
>One exciting and prominent feature of Rethinking 
>Marxism 2006 will be the 3 plenary sessions, 
>which will highlight some of the most pressing 
>issues of our times. These plenary sessions will 
>also have as keynote speakers theorists and 
>activists who are among the best-known and most 
>insightful contributors to Marxian and left 
>thinking and practice on these topics. Here is 
>the lineup of the plenary sessions and the list 
>of confirmed speakers:
>
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/imperialism-fantasies.html>Imperialism 
>and the Fantasies of Democracy : Ernesto LACLAU 
>& Ella SHOHAT & Antonio CALLARI
>
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/rethinking-communism.html>Rethinking 
>Communism: Susan BUCK-MORSS & Kojin KARATANI & 
>Stephen CULLENBERG
>
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/power-left-media.html>The 
>Power of the Left Media : Liza FEATHERSTONE & 
>Sut JHALLY & Trebor SCHOLZ
>
>These plenary sessions will be supplemented by a 
>"platform" of related panels and papers. Each 
>plenary topic will be investigated in full, not 
>only by the plenary speakers, but also by other 
>paper givers, performers, and activists who will 
>be clustered in panels that will reflect upon 
>and elaborate in different directions the 
>plenary themes (Please click on the names of the 
>plenary topics listed above for more details 
>about each of the plenary sessions).
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>In addition to three plenary sessions and 
>performance art, there will be concurrent panels 
>and art/cultural events. We invite the 
>submission of individual papers and 
>pre-organized sessions that follow traditional 
>or non-traditional formats (such as workshops, 
>roundtables, and dialogue among and between 
>presenters and audience). Since contemporary 
>Marxism covers fields from literature to physics 
>and forms of political practice from 
>environmental organizing to opposing global 
>inequality, anyone engaging with Marxism in any 
>discipline or form of activism is encouraged to 
>submit paper and panel proposals. We encourage 
>those working in areas that intersect with 
>Marxism, such as feminism, political economy, 
>cultural and literary studies, queer theory, 
>working-class and labor studies, postcolonial 
>studies, geography and urban studies, 
>psychoanalysis, social and natural sciences, 
>philosophy, and around issues of class, race, 
>ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, and 
>disability, to submit paper and panel proposals. 
>We welcome video, poetry, performance, and all 
>other modes of presentation and cultural 
>expression. We encourage paper or panel 
>submissions from those working on any and all 
>subjects that take an interest in a world 
>without exploitation and oppression.
> 
>                                                                           
>Submission of Proposals
>For guidelines regarding paper and panel 
>submissions please follow this link to the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/submission.html>Proposal 
>Submission page of the conference website.
>Note that the deadline for submissions has been extended till September 21.
>
>Preregistration
>You may preregister online (at a discounted 
>rate) by visiting the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/registration.html>Registration
>page or download 
>a <http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/MarxismRegForm.pdf>Preregistration 
>Form. (Low-income rate available)
>
>Logistics
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org>RETHINKING 
>MARXISM 2006 will be held on the campus of the 
>University of Massachusetts Amherst. Housing 
>options for conference participants--some at 
>special rates for conference attendees--can be 
>found by visiting the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/lodging.html>Lodging page 
>of the UMass website. Travel directions to 
>Amherst can be found at the
><http://umass.edu/umhome/visit_campus/directions.html>Directions 
>page. Information on childcare is available at 
>the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/childcare.html>Childcare page 
>of the conference website.
>
>Publications
>Selected papers, poems, art, and other forms of 
>presentation from the conference will be 
>published in
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org>Rethinking 
>Marxism and/or in a separate edited volume of 
>contributions.
>
>Exhibitors and Advertisers
>Literature tables and display areas are 
>available to groups, vendors, and publishers at 
>reasonable rates. Ad space in the conference 
>program is also available at reasonable rates. 
>All ads must be camera-ready. Please see the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/vendors.html>Information 
>on Exhibits and Program Ads page.
>
>SPECIAL CONFERENCE RATE FOR RM SUBSCRIPTION
>Registrants for RM06 can receive a special 
>conference rate of $45 on individual 
>subscriptions to 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org>Rethinking 
>Marxism. Please see our 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/registration.html>Registration 
>page (or alternatively use the 
><http://www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org/MarxismRegForm.pdf>mail-in 
>form to preregister).
>