[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: History and the Power of Capitalism, April 15-16, NYC

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Julia Cathleen Ott <ottj at newschool.edu>



Power and the History of Capitalism


The History Department of Lang College and the New School for Social
Research and the Culture of the Market Network of the University of
Manchester are pleased to announce a conference on Power and the
History of Capitalism, to be held April 15-16, 2011 at the New School
in New York City.

Purpose
This conference seeks to sharpen our long-term historical perspective
on relations of power, politics, and modern capitalism, with a special
emphasis on United States history from the eighteenth to the
twenty-first century.  We ask how capitalism and its periodic crises
have revised political rights and responsibilities, reconfigured
political practices and institutions, and redistributed wealth.
Conversely, we aim to analyze how power relations – whether organized
by state policy and laws, structured by social norms and institutions,
articulated in ideology, or embedded within racial, gender and class
relations -- have shaped economic outcomes.  The ongoing crises of
contemporary capitalism – as well as the heightened emphasis on
questions of power within the social sciences and humanities – invest
these questions with new urgency.

This event will be the third meeting of the Culture of the Market
Network, a two-year collaboration between the University of
Manchester, Oxford University, the New School, and Harvard University.
The Network brings together an international group of scholars from
the humanities and social sciences to investigate in four conferences
how economic ideas, institutions, practices and objects are embedded
in the wider culture. The project also aims to reinsert the study of
markets, finance and business into mainstream history.

Conference Themes and Topics
Organizers of the conference solicit papers that will examine the
mutual constitution of political and economic systems in the United
States.  Possible themes and topics may include:

The relation between capitalist development and political revolution
The socio-political origins and consequences of monetary standards and 
policy
The rise and fall of the Fordist political-economic paradigm
The recurring collapses and resurgences of financial capitalism
The distribution of power among the institutions of capitalism
The salience of racial, gender, and class relations for structuring
economic power
The ability of economic and financial globalization to challenge or to
sustain the economic boundaries and policies of nation-states
Concepts of economic citizenship
The relationship between economic crisis, popular insurgency, and social 
change
Hegemony of -- and competition between -- capitalist elites
The substitution of market relations for social policy
The capacity of economic theories to operate as political ideology and
to shape the reality they purport to describe
The institutions that incubate ideologies of the market
Finance as a mode of governmentality
The role of the economics discipline in policy-making
The role of policies, laws, and norms in structuring markets in ways
that produce particular distributional outcomes.
Forms of labor and their management
Theories and practice of corporate governance
Debates over the proper relationship between the financial markets,
the state, and the real economy

Submissions
Proposals for papers must include the following information:
Title
Maximum 250 word summary of proposed paper
1 page CV including author’s name, address, telephone, email, and
institutional affiliation

All proposals must be sent to powerandhistoryofcapitalism at gmail.com no
later than October 1, 2010.

Notification will be sent November 1, 2010.

Further Information
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cultureofthemarket/