Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities PhD Summer School, January 2019

Dear all,

After much success in 2018, we are excited to announce our ‘Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities’ PhD Summer School will be back again in January 2019! We are now accepting Expressions of Interest. Full details of the course and how to apply can be found below.

Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
PhD Short Course
Sydney, Australia
16-18, 21-23 January 2019
Followed by One Day Conference on 24 January 2019

J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Healy
and
Members of the Community Economies Research Network
Community Economies Strategic Initiative
Institute for Culture and Society
Western Sydney University

What role can the humanities and social sciences play in making other worlds possible?
What capacities do we have as scholars to shape the world?
What ethical responsibilities and earthly cares come with this work?

These are difficult questions. The answers we might give benefit from collective thinking and learning. Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities is a short course that offers PhD students and early career researchers (ECRS) the opportunity to explore these questions with scholar members of the Community Economies Collective who have been thinking outside or beyond capitalist relations since the publication of J.K. Gibson-Graham’s The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy in 1996.

When: 16-18, 21-23 January 2019
Where: Parramatta Square Campus of Western Sydney University, Sydney
Duration: 6 days
Cost: Au$1,400/€900 (early bird price Au$1,200/€770)
This includes registration for the One Day Conference that follows the Summer School

Course Overview
The first three days of the course will explore the conceptual foundations of feminist post-capitalist thinking. The second three days will focus on how to imagine and enact post-capitalist possibilities through research practice. Prior reading preparation will be required. In addition to key works by J.K. Gibson-Graham and CEC scholars on the Diverse Economy and Community Economies, readings and lectures will engage with other contemporary approaches that are working at the frontiers of socio-political thought including: material semiotics, post-development, ecological humanities, resilience theory, psychoanalytic theory, assemblage politics and commoning.

How to Apply
Applications are open to currently enrolled PhD candidates and early career researchers (no more than 5 years out of PhD). Expressions of Interest in attending this Summer School should be registered through the following Google Form by September 30th, 2018: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmbqm1V8ER5JJz2PaqtWhAUoafoMzSUaig6L8_xG-TZOsOJg/viewform?usp=sf_link

For more Information
For all the details about the PhD Summer School and One Day Conference, please visit https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/researching_post-capitalist_possibilities_2019. For any questions or enquiries, please contact Stephen Healy at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

Kind regards,

Elise

Elise Blight | Administrative Assistant - Business Development
Institute for Culture and Society
P: 9685 9602



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