2025 IIPPE Annual Conference

The Changing World Economy, and Today’s Imperialism
September 4-7, 2024, Istanbul Bilgi University, Santral Campus, Türkiye

Report back on the 2024 IIPPE Annual Conference, September 4-7, Istanbul

This year’s Annual Conference, The Changing World Economy, and Today’s Imperialism, was similar in size, nature, and spirit to our last two live “post-Covid” Annual Conferences in Bologna in 2022 and Madrid in 2023. What had previously been a pre-conference day of Workshops whose number had been slightly increasing each year was transformed into the first day of this year’s four-day conference. The Young Scholars International sponsored a day long workshop on States and/or Markets in Capitalism, and there were 4 half-day Workshops: Teaching Political Economy sponsored by the Teaching Political Economy Working Group, The Rise of China and Its Implications to the World sponsored by the Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group, and 2 sponsored by IIPPE, Navigating the Publishing Landscape: An Editor’s Perspective and this year’s TIPE (Topics in Political Economy) Workshop, Value and Price. At the end of the afternoon there was a plenary workshop, Palestine. According to all feedback all workshops were very successful and well attended.

In the following three days of panel presentations we had approximately 94 panels with approximately 385 presenters, and we had 30 to 40 auditors. Accepted submissions came from 60 countries.

The opening plenary on the second day and the one on the third day had a slightly irregular structure, in that there were 3 speakers on the 2 panels. Each presented for 40 minutes, with Trevor Ngwane from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa splitting his time between two 20-minute presentations. Prabhat Patnaik from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India presented The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism and Trevor Ngwane presented The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Perspectives from the Global South in the opening plenary The Changing World Economy. Trevor Ngwane presented BRICS, today and tomorrow and Utsa Patnaik from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India presented The New Imperialism, and its creation of a New World of Hunger in the second plenary Today’s Imperialism on the third day. The closing plenary on the last day was Perspectives on the Political Economy of Turkey in the Context if the Poly-Crisis, with Turkey’s Experience with the Poly-Crises of the Global Economy presented by Alp Erinç Yeldan, Social Policy in Turkey between Two Economic Crises: From 2002 to 2024 presented by Ayşe Buğra, The Neoliberal Conundrum of the Crisis Management: The Turkish Experience presented by Galip Yalman, and The Geopolitical Economy of Turkey’s Militarisation and the Poly-Crisis of the Global Order presented by Can Cemgil. Links to all three plenaries are below.

Plenary 1

• Introduction and Prabhat Patnaik, The Crisis of Neo-liberal Capitalism
• Trevor Ngwane, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Perspectives from the Global South
• Q & A

Plenary 2

• Introduction and Trevor Ngwane, BRICS, today and tomorrow
• Utsa Patnaik, The New Imperialism, and its creation of a New World of Hunger
• Q & A

Plenary 3

• Introduction and Alp Erinç Yeldan, Turkey’s Experience with the Poly-Crises of the Global Economy
• Ayşe Buğra, Social Policy in Turkey between Two Economic Crises: From 2002 to 2024
• Galip Yalman, The Neoliberal Conundrum of the Crisis Management: The Turkish Experience
• Can Cemgil, The geopolitical economy of Turkey’s militarisation and the poly-crisis of the global order
• Q & A

Report back on the 2023 IIPPE Annual Conference, September 5-8, Madrid

This year’s Annual Conference, The Chronicles of Multiple Crisis Foretold, was very similar in size, nature, and spirit to our first live “post-Covid” Annual Conference in Bologna in 2022. The workshop first day began our process of expansion from our traditional single Theoretical Issues in Political Economy (TIPE) workshop to two parallel all day workshops. This year’s TIPE Workshop was The Labor Theory of Value, with a morning workshop Two Versions of the Labor Theory of Value and an afternoon workshop The Empirical Relation Between Labor Values and Prices of Production. This year this was joined by a workshop organized by IIPPE’s The Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group, with a morning workshop Reflecting on the Political Economy of Coping with the Pandemic Crisis: China in Comparative Perspectives, and two afternoon workshops Brazil and China Relations and Notes on the Global South followed by a workshop China, a Contender in the Middle East – Drivers and Implications.

In the three days of panel presentations approximately 340 presenters gave approximately 300 academic presentations and 40 activist presentations.

The plenary on the first day was Surviving Today’s Multiple Crises with two presentations, Macroeconomic policies in a multiple crises era by Ignacio Álvaez, the Spanish Secretary of State for Social Rights, and Demanding power: what energy protests tell us about the limits of global capitalism in the climate crisis by Noami Hossain, from SOAS University of London. The plenary on the second day was Divisions Among the Oppressed, an Integral Component of Today’s Multiple Crises, with two presentations The entanglement of racism and capitalism in the age of absolutism by Satnam Virdee of the University of Glasgow, and Beyond boundaries: migration, race, and class in a world of multiple crises by Rafeef Ziadah from Kings College London. The third plenary on the closing day was Inequalities in a World in Crisis, with three presentations Intersectonal inequlaities in a digital world: vulnerability and resistance by Paula Rodríguez Modroño from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, How to politicize time? by Pedro Rey Araujo from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and Tracing the links between inequality and the rise of the far right by Luis Buendía from the University of León. Links to all three plenaries are below.

ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ASSOCIATIONS

IIPPE 2024 Annual Conference
September 4-7, 2024, Istanbul
www.iippe.org
Contact: iippe@iippe.org

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Contact: info@economiapolitica.pt

Association for Institutional Thought
April 2-5, 2025, Seattle
Contact: Mila Malyshava

Association for Heterodox Economics
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Contact: Armagan Gezici

Asociación de Economía Crítica
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