Centre for Political Thought Call for Papers: Workshop on the German Revolution and the Radical Democratic Imaginary The University of Exeter, 24 May 2018 In the wake of the First World War, workers and soldiers across Europe organised into democratic councils in order to challenge existing social hierarchies and strive towards self-government and workers’ control […]

Transnational Leftism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions Workshop There are three prevailing wisdoms about Communists and the Comintern and the National and Racial Questions. The first is that the Comintern was a monolithic organization, in which members were loyal to Moscow first and had no time for legitimate nationalist or anti-racist […]

Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Keynote speaker: Professor Winston James, University of California, Irvine. With special […]

Call for Papers Wars of Position: Marxism and Civil Society International Conference, Manchester, UK, 8-10 June 2017 Key-note speakers Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York. Author of books including Crowds and Party (2016), The Communist Horizon (2011), Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009) Stathis Kouvelakis, Reader in Political […]

Call for Papers: British Communism and Commitment Day-school, 9th June 2016. Manchester ‘I am not ready to join the party’, wrote the novelist Harold Heslop to leading CPGB party theoretician, Rajani Palme Dutt in 1936, recognising the forbidding level of activism expected. The mandatory Communist hyper-commitment repelled potential recruits and actual members alike, especially in […]

A Global party the French Communist Party in a Transnational Perspective (1917-1991)   Call for papers University of Burgundy, 25rd-27th May, 2016 This international conference is organized by the ANR PAPRIK@2F Research project (Agence nationale de la Recherche: Portail Archives Politiques Recherches Indexation Komintern et Fonds Français), supported by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme […]

Title: The International Echoes of the Commemorations of the October Revolution (1918-1990) Location: Switzerland, University of Lausanne, Géopolis (Room: 2227) Date: 14-16 September 2016 Organising Committee: J-F Fayet (Univ. of Lausanne) – Stéfanie Prezioso (Univ. of Lausanne) – Kevin Morgan (Univ. of Manchester) – Norman Laporte (Univ. of South Wales) Scientific Committee: Dr. Marco Albeltaro […]

Call for papers Conference: “Before ’68: The Left, activism & social movements in the long 1960s” 13-14 February 2016, School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Organised and hosted by UEA School of History in conjunction with Socialist History and the Institute of Working Class History, Chicago. The events of 1968, […]

CALL FOR PAPERS “Labour (dis)united. Disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement” Monday 4 April 2016, People’s History Museum, Manchester The conference, organised by the Centre for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW, Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University), is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and the Labour Movements […]