Engels in Manchester – International Conference, University of Salford – 30 November to 1 December

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Engels in Manchester – International Conference

University of Salford

30 November – 1 December 2024 – Manchester/Salford

Co-hosters: 

–    The International Association of Marx-Engels Humanities Exchange and Studies (MEIA)

–    University of Salford

–    Canterbury Christ Church University

–    The Marxism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (PSA)

Call for Papers – 

Manchester and Salford were the world’s first industrialized factory-cities of the railway age. They were surely what Marx and Engels had in mind when they wrote in the Communist Manifesto of ‘whole populations conjured out of the ground’. Engels knew the twin cities from the age of seventeen, taken there by his father on a business trip. And it was to Manchester that he took Marx – on his very first trip abroad – in the summer of 1845. After that their personal and epistolary – and indeed pecuniary – relationship was more to do with Manchester than anywhere else, till Engels retired the two of them to London in 1869.  Manchester and Salford were the world’s first industrialized factory-cities of the railway age. They were surely what Marx and Engels had in mind when they wrote in the Communist Manifesto of ‘whole populations conjured out of the ground’. Engels knew the twin cities from the age of seventeen, taken there by his father on a business trip. And it was to Manchester that he took Marx – on his very first trip abroad – in the summer of 1845. After that their personal and epistolary – and indeed pecuniary – relationship was more to do with Manchester than anywhere else, till Engels retired the two of them to London in 1869.

We invite paper-proposals on these themes below, though other ideas will certainly be considered:

  • Class/gender/race conflict and urban politics in the industrializing world
  • Modernization, colonialism, empire, wage/slavery, global political economy, primary products and luxuries, consumption and addiction, ‘free’ and forced markets
  • International and intra-national politics of revolution, war and counter-revolutionary reactions
  • Ecology, built environment, environmental change, climate change, pollution, public health
  • Social reproduction, kinship and domesticity, women and gender-oppression, sexualities and socialisms/communisms
  • Philosophy and politics, philosophy and science, dialectic and logic, materialism and idealism, industrial technologies and capital accumulation
  • Political organization and action, coalitions and strategies, constitutional liberalism and social democracy, parties and networks, agitators and activists, resistance and progress
  • Consent and obligation, compulsion and freedom
  • Marx and Engels, associates and collaborators, opponents and enemies, wives and partners, servants and family members
  • Museums and memorials, memory and recovery, publicity and propaganda, visuality and meaning-making, culture and communication
  • Practical materialism, utopian thinking, pasts and futures, histories and knowledge
  • Geographies, sociologies, human sciences, physical sciences, hermeneutics, positivism, spaces, places

Requirements:

  1. Proposals should include name(s), affiliations, title, abstract (up to 200 words) in Word or PDF format by email to info@themeia.org.
  2. Proposals can be for individual papers or full panels (up to 3 papers, 1 discussant, 1 chair).
  3. The organisers particularly encourage proposals from postgraduate students, early career scholars and scholar-activists.
  4. There are plans for selected papers to appear in a special issue in an academic journal and/or an edited volume with a major publisher.

Schedules:

  • Deadline for paper and panel proposals – 1 October 2024
  • Acceptances posted – 15 October 2024
  • Programme announced – 25 October 2024

Registration for Participation:

Please send your application to this email: info@themeia.org including your name, organization, position, and the dates you will attend.

 

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