Dear colleagues,

The History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 2023–24 academic year. We invite submissions from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members using historical and/or theoretical lenses to advance our understanding of capitalism, broadly defined. We welcome submissions from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and especially encourage those applying interdisciplinary methods and insights. Workshop papers may be drafts of dissertation chapters, journal articles, book chapters, and dissertation proposals.

 

Nuclear I, CH (1945) by László Moholy-Nagy

 

If you are interested in presenting, please email Dominiquo Santistevan (niquo@uchicago.edu) and Eduardo Romero (eterraromero@uchicago.edu) with the subject line [HTC Presentation Proposal] as well as the following details:

• A title
• An abstract of 300 words or less
• An indication of the nature of your paper (article, dissertation chapter, etc.)
• Which quarter(s) you would prefer to, and/or cannot present

We encourage interested presenters to get in touch as soon as possible and request that proposals be received no later than August 15th.

Workshop papers should be works in progress ideally between 20–40 pages in length, double-spaced. Accepted presenters are asked to submit their paper at least one week before their workshop date for pre-circulation. The workshop strives to build a durable community so we ask that presenters regularly attend the workshop for at least the quarter in which they present.

Possible paper topics may include:

• The history of capitalism as a world system
• Gender and capitalism
• Art, literature, and poetics
• Cultural and literary theory/criticism
• Economic history
• Postwork imaginaries, automation, unemployment, precarious labor, social death, and poverty
• Empire, settler colonialism, and the global history of capitalism
• Slavery, race, and racialization in capitalist development
• Critiques of capitalist political economy
• Marx, Marxists, and Marxisms
• The history of capitalist ideas
• Climate change, the anthropocene, nonhuman life, and natural disasters
• Art, taste, and judgment in capitalist societies
• Digital labor, Silicon Valley, big data, and financial speculation
• The juridical life of capital
• Human rights and humanitarian discourse under capitalist rule
• Affect, trauma, identity, and capitalist domination
• Migration, expropriation, deportation, and industrial disintegration
• Capitalism, class warfare, and the carceral sphere
• Futures without capitalism

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Best wishes,

Niquo and Eduardo