Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 Holme Building | University of Sydney Organised by the Sydney Environment Institute Call for papers In 1997, the University of Melbourne hosted a major international conference on ‘Environmental Justice: Global Ethics for the 21st Century’. In 2017, the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney will host…
Continue readingProfessor Stephen Castles Festschrift Recently, Professor Stephen Castles retired from his academic appointment at the University of Sydney. Stephen has been, and continues to be, a key international scholar in the field of migration and mobility. A number of events will take place in March 2017 to commemorate his retirement. We hope that in coming…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Nicola Piper and Matt Withers (University of Sydney), ‘Temporary Labour Migration in Asia: Protracted Precarity and Truncated Rights’ Date: Thursday 9 March 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom Abstract: Our work analyses the patterns and dynamics of intra-Asia temporary labour migration and the dominant global and regional migration governance…
Continue readingUnpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in the ten years to 2013/14. Albeit from a lower…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”International/Economy/Society: IPE Meets IPS” tagline=”Call for paper, panel and roundtable proposals for Section 23 / European International Studies Association 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona, 13–16 September 2017″] Section Chairs: Liam Stanley (University of Sheffield) Amin Samman (City University London) International Political Economy (IPE) and International Political Sociology (IPS) exist as largely separate fields, with different…
Continue readingPaul Mason Public Talk: Can Robots Kill Capitalism? Co-presented by the Department of Political Economy, the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Sydney Ideas and the Greens Political Education Trust “The British miners had to be smashed so that we could have Facebook”, so states Paul Mason in his latest best-selling book PostCapitalism: A…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Recovering the Middle East in/from International Relations” tagline=”Call for papers for a workshop to be organised as part of the 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 7–10 June 2017, Cardiff.”] Despite the manifest importance of the Middle East for global politics, the region has endured an uneven relationship with the discipline of International Relations (IR)….
Continue readingAlan Knight (Oxford University), ‘The great depression in Latin America, 1930-1940’ This is the eighth and final instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University. Date Monday 28 November 2016 (note different day…
Continue readingLuis Angosto-Ferrández (University of Sydney), ‘Modern accumulation’ This is the seventh instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date Thursday 3 November 2016 Time and location 4.00pm-5.30pm, Darlington Centre Boardroom Contact Gareth Bryant, gareth.bryant@sydney.edu.au Abstract The Marxian conceptualisation of primitive accumulation has been revitalised in…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South” tagline=”Book Launch”] DATE: Thursday 27 October TIME: 3:00pm to 6:00pm LOCATION: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd, University of Sydney, Camperdown The book editors (Luis F. Angosto-Ferrandez and Geir H. Presterudstuen) will be accompanied by two discussants: Neil Mclean (Anrhropology) and Prof Dick Bryan…
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