Events

On behalf of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism, a warm welcome to HM’s conference in Cluj. We applaud the initiative of our Cluj comrades in developing a very strong conference, the first we have held in Eastern Europe, but hopefully not the last. We value all those who take part in our conferences and activities, encourage you to subscribe to the journal and look at our book series, and hope to see you again at one of our conferences, whether London in November or coming soon Athens in April 2025.

Whether the discussion is about reforming pension systems, overhauling health care or the sources of inflation, we are constantly reminded that life has a cost, a price to pay, a burden to bear. At the same time, we are also periodically reminded that not all lives are valued or priced in the same manner; some lives are cheaper and more expendable than others: from over-work and deteriorating living conditions for billions of ‘essential workers’ to police violence and incarceration; from sexual abuse and the denial of bodily autonomy to the socially determined vulnerability and ‘susceptibility’ during the pandemic; from the persistence of racialised exploitation and oppression to the many faces of neocolonialism; from militarised borders turned into kill zones to the ongoing climate disaster.

Draft Programme

Available here

Deadline for abstracts: 15th June 2020

***The CFP is now closed.*** See below for programme and registration info.

***RECORDINGS OF HM LONDON 2017 AVAILABLE HERE: https://wearemany.org/event/2017/11/historical-materialism-2017-london***

Organised in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Committee and Socialist Register.