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The Dialectics of Liberation in the Era of Neoliberalism
October 26, 2017 to October 28, 2017
In the summer of 1967 Herbert Marcuse gave a talk titled 'Liberation from the Affluent Society' at a London conference called The Dialectics of Liberation. The conference brought together a wide range of left and counter-cultural activists, thinkers, artists and poets - Herbert Marcuse, R.D Laing, Paul Sweezy, Stokley Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Goldman, among others. It is in the spirit of that event, and to mark its 50th anniversary, that the International Herbert Marcuse Society is holding its 2017 biennial conference at York University in Toronto, Canada, Oct. 26-28, 2017. The theme is: "The Dialectics of Liberation in an Era of Neoliberalism".
For this year's conference, we invited papers and panels that look at Marcuse's work through multi-dimensional lenses. How is Marcuse's (and other critical theorist's) work relevant to today's struggles against neoliberal capitalism? How can it help build the capacity for new sensibilities, critical pedagogies and new ways of thinking and organizing on the left today? And what are the dialectics of liberation in a context marked by crises, deepening authoritarianism, economic distress, social disintegration, and forms of oppression that mark neoliberal societies today? How have recent movements - Black Lives Matter, Indigenous/Idle No More, ecological, anti-austerity and others - sought to theorize, understand, refuse and go beyond neoliberalism? How do radical critiques today echo and/or build on those that came
Venue: Founders College, York University
Location: Toronto, ON
Website: http://marcuseconference.wordpress.com/program
For information contact: maley@yorku.ca
Categories: Politics & Political Organizations
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