Historical Materialism Research Group
The historical materialism research group is an open forum for both staff and students interested in historical materialism. Whether your work draws upon, or is critical of, Marxian writing - all are welcome to participate.
Research group activities include:
- The Conference of Socialist Economists Trans-Pennine Working Group. Meetings of the group are held monthly at alternate locations (Leeds, Manchester, York) organised around discussion of a pre-circulated paper, and are open to all interested. The CSE is an international, democratic membership organisation committed to developing a materialist critique of capitalism, unconstrained by conventional academic divisions between subjects. Advance copies of the paper and details of meetings are available here.
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A weekly reading group - recently we have discussed writings on the capitalist state by the likes of Marx, Gramsci, Poulantzas, Jessop, and the Amsterdam School.
- An informal forum for the constructive discussion of our own research.
- An annual workshop based around a specific theme. This year's workshop was based around the issue of global restructuring and held in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.
- In 2009 the HMRG has focused its efforts on the monthly meetings of the CSE Trans-Pennine Working Group - full details here.
Please email Greig Charnock or Stuart Shields if you are interested in getting involved.