Basic Income is an audacious idea – a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. Yet, growing numbers of people have come to support it, believing not only that welfare systems around the world are too stingy but also that they’re based on an entirely wrong approach. Join Karl Widerquist, whom…
Continue reading2017 10th Anniversary E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture Manufacturing the Future: Cultures of Production for the Anthropocene Speaker: Professor Katherine Gibson, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Date and time: Thursday October 26th, 5.15-7.30pm (Lecture begins at 6pm) Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium, The University of Sydney Registration: https://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/2017-wheelwright-lecture-manufacturing-the-future-cultures-of-production-for-the-anthropocene Abstract Debates about the future of manufacturing in…
Continue readingThe 36th International Labour Process Conference, 2018 ‘CLASS AND THE LABOUR PROCESS’ Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018 Call for Streams The International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) is broadly focused on work and employment relations in the context of the broader political economy, with an emphasis on workers perspectives and…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Jamie Martin (University of Sydney) ‘Governing Global Capitalism in the Era of Total War’ Date: Thursday 1 June 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney About the speaker: Jamie Martin is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney….
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Terrence McDonough (National University of Ireland Galway) ‘Trumpism, Critical Elections and Stages of Capitalism‘ Date: Wednesday 31 May 2017 Time: 1.30-2.30pm Location: Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) Boardroom, Madsen Building, University of Sydney Abstract: Since the global financial crisis, elites have responded by doubling down on…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Kurt Iveson (University of Sydney) ‘Crowds, clouds, and digital labour: Further adventures in the commodification of everyday urban life’ Date: Thursday 11 May 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney About the speaker: Kurt Iveson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney. His…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Rune Møller Stahl (University of Copenhagen), ‘Ruling the Interregnum: Economic Ideas and Authority in Non-Hegemonic Times’ Date: Thursday 27 April 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney Abstract: With Brexit, the election of Trump and the rise of anti-establishment parties to the left and right, the neoliberal ideas…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Elizabeth Hill (University of Sydney), ‘Women, Work and Care in the Asia Pacific: work/care regimes in a context of extreme inequality’ Date: Thursday 13 April 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney Abstract: This paper will develop a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics…
Continue readingUNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations University of Nottingham, 15th June 2017 Clive Granger Building, University Park The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled the conventional politics of stability, consensus and peace. Faced with increasing complexity, unpredictability and chaos, the fields of politics and…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Bill Dunn (University of Sydney), ‘Marx, Keynes, and the classics: Towards a theory of unemployment that is both general and specific’ Date: Thursday 23 March 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom Abstract: The paper argues that Marxism lacks an adequate theory of unemployment and can move closer to this through…
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