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Revised Call for Submissions

***Revised call for submissions for the forthcoming issue of Radichal Teacher on Teaching About Socialism***

Deadline: December 12, 2022

The editors of this issue are interested in articles on teaching (in or out of school and college) that try to dispel the ignorance in the U.S. about socialism domestically and internationally, renewing its vital presence in political vision and resistance. For instance:

—How have you and your students and colleagues explored current understandings and misunderstandings of socialism? Hostile misrepresentations?

—What texts—treatises, analyses, stories, poems, dramas—have you found most engaging for students?  What do you do with them?  

—How have you or would you structure a class in Socialism 101?

—How have you connected ideas of socialism now to past ideas and practices of socialism? To “actually existing socialism” in other societies? 

—Have you found ways to put students in touch with socialist organizing? With young people who have worked in the Sanders or AOC campaigns, for instance? With anti-capitalist organizers in Black Lives Matter? 

—How might teaching about socialism connect to movements grounded in race or gender? To the ongoing concern with intersectionality? To environmental activism and the political analysis that climate change cannot be adequately addressed within the confines of capitalism?

 —Can teaching about socialism be disinterested and neutral? Should it be? Or should radicals teach as advocates of socialism? 

 —In the current political atmosphere, will openly socialist teachers put their careers at risk?  How can leftists who do have job security defend those who do not against repression? Can they turn repressive attacks by administrators, trustees, and politicians into political lessons? 

 —Does teaching socialism call for progressive pedagogies? Democratic classrooms? Student-initiated learning projects? Ways of moving from individual to collaborative forms of learning?

 —What kinds of resistance from students have you encountered in teaching (about) socialism?  How, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, have you tried to deal with them?

CfP: JWCS Seeking Contributions for Special Mini-Issue on Upcoming US Elections

The Journal of Working-Class Studies is seeking contributions to a special mini-issue focused on the upcoming US elections. We are looking for scholarly or commentary-style pieces that consider the potential impact of the election on working-class people across the US.

Please send submissions to editorial@workingclassstudiesjournal.com. The deadline for submissions is September 14th.

Call for Papers for WCSA’s 2020 Conference at Youngstown State University

We are excited to announce the WCSA2020CFP with dates for the 2020 Working-Class Studies Association Conference to be held at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH May 20-23, 2020.

Re-Placing Class: Community, Politics, Work, and Labor in a Changing World

Twenty-five years ago, the academic discipline of Working-Class Studies in the US was born in Youngstown, Ohio, as a group of scholars, activists, artists, workers, and practitioners converged around common goals of celebrating the working class in its diversity and complexity, and to advocate for a politics of social justice and equity. This year the Working-Class Studies Association returns to the place the discipline began for the 2020 conference at Youngstown State University, at a time of rising social tribalism, class conflict, and politically calculated populisms. As WCSA re-convenes in a place synonymous with working-class life, we hope to explore the following:

How can Working-Class Studies offer models for understanding the ways in which myriad local and global working classes intersect, cooperate, compete or are co-opted by other interests? What is the place of class as an instrument of either division or unification, both historically and now?  How do global, national, and local politics and policies exploit, ignore, or alternately, empower and enable workers? What potentials exist for solidarity amongst and within migrant, global, regional and local working classes?  How is diversity within the working class essentialized, fragmented, or, alternately, harnessed and maximized for social and political agendas? How can we reposition, or “re-Place” class in our current global politics as a site for effective action?

Further, what is the role of “Place” as geographical, social, psychic, and economic formation? How does “Place” defined by social, political and economic attributes, define community, which is underpinned by identity, ethnicity, status and power relationships? How does “Place” in these broad definitions provoke ways of thinking about the locations, spaces and places of the working class and Working-Class studies today?

We welcome proposals from multiple disciplines and perspectives: pedagogical, theoretical, creative, and professional. Themes and topics for papers, panels and presentations might include—but are not limited to:

  • Populisms, Diasporas, and Nationalisms
  • Intersectionality
  • Race, Capitalism, and Empire
  • Environmental Justice
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Policies and Politics
  • De-Industrialization
  • Global, Regional or Migrant Working Classes
  • Urban/Rural Working-Class life
  • The Cultural Politics of Class
  • Place and/or displacement of working-class communities
  • Labor now—Locally, Regionally and/or Globally
  • Class, Education, and Equity
  • Resilience, Resistance, and “Class Warfare”

The CWCS at Youngstown State welcomes proposals from academics and practitioners across disciplines, community activists and organizers, and public scholars. Proposal abstracts for papers, creative works/exhibitions, and roundtables of no more approximately 350 words are due by Feb.20, 2020.  Please email submissions to wcsaconference2020@gmail.com

 

The Texas Center for Working-Class Studies 3rd Annual Conference – CfP due Dec. 1st

Consider submitting a proposal for The Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Third Annual Conference. The 2017 keynote speaker will be Dr. David Roediger of the University of Kansas. The deadline for proposal is December 1. Please follow the link for the Call for Papers and more information.

For more information, please visit http://iws.collin.edu/lkirby/

 

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