Professor Stephen Castles Festschrift

Professor Stephen Castles Festschrift

Recently, Professor Stephen Castles retired from his academic appointment at the University of Sydney. Stephen has been, and continues to be, a key international scholar in the field of migration and mobility. A number of events will take place in March 2017 to commemorate his retirement. We hope that in coming together to recognise his long contribution, these events will act as a strategic site for new critical thinking about the future of human mobility.

These events are open to all scholars and the public, but places are limited and registration is required.

Public Lecture – Social Transformation and Human Mobility: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Migration (16 March 2017)

When: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Where: Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney
RSVP: Please register by 15 March

More information on this public lecture, and registration details, are available at: https://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/social-transformation-and-human-mobility-reflections-on-the-past,-present-and-future

Social Transformation, Turbulence and Human Mobility: A Future Oriented Symposium on the Work of Stephen Castles (17 March 2017).

When: 8.30am – 5.30pm
Where: Darlington Centre Conference Room, University of Sydney
RSVP: Please register by 15 March

More information on this symposium, and registration details, are available at: https://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/social-transformation,-turbulence-and-human-mobility-a-future-oriented-celebration-of-the-work-of-stephen-castles2

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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