Category: Requests/Calls
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Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE Conference
The Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics has released a call for papers for the 2026 SASE conference that will be held in Bordeaux, France. They will be accepting 500-word long abstracts (plus references) and the deadline to submit will be December 16 2025. Further information about the call…
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Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026
On the POLLEN2026 conference under the title ‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’ from June 29 to July 3 2026 in Barcelona, Dominique Aresenault from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Simon Tremblay-Pepin from the Saint Paul University will convene a panel on democratic economic planning. For this panel, they now…
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Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEA
Models, Experiences, and Debates to Rethink Self-Management in the 21st Century The Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences (ICEA), in preparation for its upcoming General Assembly, is organizing a series of online seminars to be held in the coming months (provisionally between 12 and 14 December 2025). These meetings aim to promote the exchange of…
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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…