YSI @ Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) Inaugural Conference

Join us for the inauguration of the new Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The CHE focuses on exploring revolutionary ideas that advance heterodox economics and challenge mainstream economic thinking. This inaugural conference will gather leading scholars, organisers, and students to delve into the study of capitalism with its pressing global issues. Speakers include: Clara Mattei, James Galbraith and Branko Milanovic among others.

The Center focuses on three main guiding themes:

1. Critical Political Economy– advancing the study of capitalism as a class-based society by focusing on its structural features and distributional outcomes.

2. Critical History of Capitalism and Economic Thought— fostering approaches to the history of our economic system and the evolution of our discipline that enrich the current debate with innovative conceptual frameworks, offering guidance for contemporary challenges.

3. Praxis—  Theory becomes bourgeois abstraction if not informed by concrete struggles, while collective action is strengthened by revolutionary theory. Therefore, the CHE recognizes the contributions of organizers and the tangible material struggles of citizens as integral to economic theory. We also aim to create an environment that promotes mutual learning and collaboration among scholars, organizers, and citizens at large.

We invite applications from graduate students interested in exploring the question: How does your work embody heterodoxy? to present their work at the YSI @ CHE Pre-Conference workshop. We particularly encourage submissions that engage with one or more of the three outlined themes.

Format: The YSI @CHE Pre-Conference workshop will take place on 5 February 2025, where the selected participants will present their work and receive feedback during the morning sessions, this will be followed by a workshop on heterodoxy with senior scholars in the afternoon. Thereafter, from 6 February – 8 February the selected participants will attend the main conference, the program for the main conference can be found here.

Funding: Partial travel stipends and shared accommodation will be provided for the selected participants for the duration of the pre-conference and main conference from 5 February – 8 February.

How to Apply: Submit a 200 word abstract and your curriculum vitae by 28 November 2024.

For more information contact: christina@youngscholarsinitiative.org