2023 Annual IIPPE Conference in Political Economy

Call for Papers and Activist Proposals
2023 Annual IIPPE Conference in Political Economy
Theme: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold
Date and Place: September 6-8, 2023, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Following the Global Financial Crisis and the ongoing covid pandemic, alongside the chronic, if intensifying, impacts of environmental degradation and global conflicts, burdens of adjustment are increasingly being consolidated and/or shifted upon those who are already worst placed to live let alone survive the volatilities that have derived from the unprecedentedly inegalitarian tendencies attached to contemporary capitalism. Such developments have been complemented by corresponding vulnerabilities and oppressions, especially where deriving from authoritarian populism, in political and cultural spheres, the severities of which have been disproportionately experienced on the basis of nationality, race, gender, disability and sexual orientation. 

How are we to understand these unprecedented trajectories in contemporary capitalism, both in broad analytical and historical terms, and in the details of specific crises, contexts and struggles? How are these crises being interpreted by mainstream scholarship and policymakers, and what are the alternatives grounded in alternative framings with the motivation of building movements to bring about both short-term mitigation and secure long-term responses to neoliberalism’s multiple dysfunctions, inequities and iniquities? 

This is the preliminary Call for proposals for presentations at the conference on any aspects of political economy. Submissions may be made as (a) proposals for individual papers (which IIPPE will group into panels), (b) proposals for panels, (c) proposals for streams of panels, or (d) proposals on activism. Like last year, proposals will be made to an electronic platform. We expect to open the platform about February 15 with a deadline for proposal of March 15, 2023.

A second Call will go out in early January, and a third when the submissions platform is opened about February 15. That Call will contain detailed instructions for submitting a proposal of any of the four types.

The IIPPE Conference Committee