Category: Requests/Calls
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic Planning
Emancipations, a four-year-old academic journal of critical social analysis published by Mississippi State University with an editorial board composed of prestigious scholars in the critical social sciences, has launched a call for papers for a special issue on Economic Planning. Larry Alan Busk, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and…
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Call for papers: Resurgent Reaction – Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order
Historical Materialism London is opening its call for papers for its November 6th—9th conference at SOAS. This year’s theme is Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order. There is no specific postcapitalist stream, but in the past, papers and panels about postcapitalism were welcome at Historical Materialism. The deadline to submit…
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IDA now has an office in Berlin + call for donations
Starting March 1st, the IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung / “Initiative democratic labor time calculation”) has rented an office in the publishing building of the left wing newspaper “nd (Neues Deutschland)” in Berlin. The monthly costs of the rent are about 400€ and the IDA put out a call for donations to help support them to…
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CfP extended until March 3rd – Conference by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory with Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic
(This is a revised version of a previously published news item because the deadline for submissions has been extended.) The European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+) is organizing a conference on “Knowledge in the Age of Digital Re-/Production: Responsible Epistemologies?” on the 4th and 5th June in Darmstadt, Germany. The CfP can be found…
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Call for Papers: Marxism and Systems Science
The academic journal Marxism & Sciences is circulating a call for papers about Marxism and Systems Science – The Technosphere: Systems, Things, and Infrastructures From Tektology, Cybernetics and Computational Planning to the Complexity Paradigm and Platform Capitalism. The call for papers mentions “Cybernetics in socialist planning in view of computation (e.g. in Chile, DDR, USSR,…
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Call for Abstracts for Conference on the Transformation towards a Socially and Ecologically just Future
(copied from the document on the conference mailed to INDEP): Conference: Transformation to a (more) socially and ecologically just futureThe path to more democracy – anti-authoritarian and power-critical approaches Location: Vienna & HybridTime: October 3-5, 2025Organizers & Editors: Josef Mühlbauer, Thomas Stölner, Utta Isop, Michael Wissgott, Uwe BittlingmayerLanguages: German and EnglishHosting Institutions: Community College Vienna,…
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Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias
The CRITS, a research center on social innovation and transformation and one of INDEP’s partner organizations, is announcing a colloquium in Ottawa on November 6-7, 2025. The title is “Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias.” They have posted a call for proposals that mentions “Post-capitalist societies” as a potential theme for…
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John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
At this year’s Graduate Conference in Political Theory of the LSE Department of Government John O’Neill of the University of Manchester will be giving a keynote. O’Neill is a well known and long-time contributor to the debate around democratic economic planning with publications such as “Who won the socialist calculation debate? (1996)“, “Knowledge, planning, and…
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Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic in Call for Papers for a Conference by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory
The European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+) is organizing a conference on “Knowledge in the Age of Digital Re-/Production: Responsible Epistemologies?” on the 4th and 5th June in Darmstadt, Germany. The CfP can be found in full below, but it also includes questions of digital technologies’ potential to enable economic planning and systemic alternatives…
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Democratic Planning included in question of Call for abstracts of the ISEE Degrowth conference 2025
Democratic economic planning is included in a question of the call for abstracts of a session of this year’s ISEE Degrowth conference with the theme “Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action”. The session is “Social-ecological work: shifting from productivist and destructive to sufficient, just and democratic work“. The conference will take…
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Call for Papers – Global Degrowth (Special Issue)
The journal New Global Studies is inviting “authors from all disciplines, career stages, and backgrounds to contribute to a Special Issue exploring the global dimensions of degrowth!”. This special issue might be of interest to those who wish to make the connection between degrowth and postcapitalist institutional transformations. Publication/Title:New Global Studies. Global Degrowth: (Inter)dependencies, power,…
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GoFundMe for Postcapitalist Documentary Series
Documentary filmaker Zachary Marlow has launched a GoFundMe campaign seeking support for the final leg of a global documentary series on alternatives to capitalism. He has already shot three feature films and this will be the fourth. In this leg, Marlow aims to capture groundbreaking initiatives in Asia, sharing powerful stories of people coming together…