Conferences
Please select one of the London Conferences sub-menu for info on each conference since 2012. Displayed below are the new HM logo and posters for each conference. All work by – and very special thanks to – David Mabb
Annotations on Historical Materialism Posters can be seen at https://foldedlife.johannjacobs.com/caroline-arscott/contextual-material/text-mabb/. David Mabb is an artist and works at Goldsmiths, University of London https://www.gold.ac.uk/art/research/staff/dm/01/.
Twenty-First Annual Conference
Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them
Countering the Plague:
Twentieth Annual Conference
The Cost of Life Oppression, Exploitation and Struggle in the Time of Monsters
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.
Nineteenth Annual Conference
Facing the Abyss: An Epoch of Permanent War and Counterrevolution
Draft Programme
Historical Materialism Seventeenth Annual Conference
Survival Pending Revolution: Historical Materialism in a Pandemic Age
Deadline for abstracts: 15th June 2020
Sixteenth Annual Conference.
Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow
Fifteenth Annual Conference
Taking on the Right
***The CFP is now closed.*** See below for programme and registration info.
Thirteenth Annual Conference, London 10-13 November 2016
Limits, Barriers and Borders
Organised in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Committee and Socialist Register.
