Historical Materialism Research Group

University of California, Santa Barbara

(HMRG-UCSB)

Welcome to UCSB-HMRG, a research/reading group for students, faculty and others to discuss works of or with connection to historical materialism.   Two weeks prior to the research group meeting the presenter will send out a paper/journal article/chapter (that is either in the works or soon to be published) for participants to read and critique.  The exact meeting time/location will be specified then. During the meeting the author/presenter will give a brief introduction of his/her work and then the group can critically engage with/ debate the material which they have already read.  If you would like to be added to the list of participants for the UCSB-HMRG or give a paper send an email to jhsprague[at]umail.ucsb.edu

READINGS/TALKS:

May 29, 2009: Kevin Anderson. "Chapter 3: Race, Class, and Slavery: The Civil War as a Second American Revolution" from his soon to be published book Marx at the Margins: On Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Non-Western Societies. Download table of contents here. (Professor of Sociology, UCSB).

October 30, 2009: Jason Struna. "Toward a Theory of Global Proletarian Fractions" (Graduate Student, UC Riverside, Sociology Department). Meet at 12 noon at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. 1007 Robertson Gym, MS 7068, University of California

July 22, 2010: Georgina Murray. Topic: Transnational Capitalist Class in Australia (Professor of Sociologyand Political Economy, Griffith University, Australia)

MISC VIDEOS:

Jerry Harris, DeVery University Professor. Globalization of Capitalism talk at Brecht Forum. 2008.

Kevin Anderson. Marx and the U.S. Civil. UCSB-HMRG. 2009.

William I. Robinson. The Crisis of Global Capitalism. 2009.

William I. Robinson. Al Adwa Conference on Palestine/Israel/Academic Freedom,etc. 2009.

William I. Robinson, Mike Davis and Gary Dymski. Financial Crisis and Globalization. 2009

William I. Robinson. Understanding Global Capitalism. 2008

Mike Davis. Demise of California. 2009.

Bill Tabb. Market Meltdown. 2008.

Jeb Sprague. Inter Press Service Report on G20. 2009.