2017 Political Economy Seminar Series
Nicola Piper and Matt Withers (University of Sydney), ‘Temporary Labour Migration in Asia: Protracted Precarity and Truncated Rights’Date: Thursday 9 March 2017
Time: 4pm-5.30pm
Location: Darlington Centre [...]
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Kean Birch (York University, Canada)
Title: Contract, Contract Law, and their Implications for Neoliberalism as a Concept
Abstract: Contractual relations underpin markets, although different analytical perspectives define contracts in very different ways: e.g. economists define [...]
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Paul Mason Public Talk: Can Robots Kill Capitalism?
Co-presented by the Department of Political Economy, the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Sydney Ideas and the Greens Political Education Trust
“The British miners had to be smashed so that we could have [...]
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The Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Jason W. Moore’s major new book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015). The book provided very fertile ground for lively and critical discussions on [...]
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Alan Knight (Oxford University), ‘The great depression in Latin America, 1930-1940’
This is the eighth and final instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, in association with the Institute of Latin American [...]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for presentation at this workshop that will bring together leading scholars working at the interface between GPN analysis and global labour issues to galvanize the debate on the social implications of GPN, and to gain strategic insights on what [...]
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Luis Angosto-Ferrández (University of Sydney), ‘Modern accumulation’
This is the seventh instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date
Thursday 3 November 2016
Time and [...]
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The Department of Political Economy, together with the Department of Anthropology, hosted an outstanding seminar by Professor Sujatha Fernandes to a packed audience at the University of Sydney on 13 October 2016.
Professor Fernandes spoke about her notion of the ‘political [...]
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