The conference held in Turkey/Kocaeli (nearby İstanbul) is the first annual conference of the series of conferences to be organised under the general heading of *International Congress of Political Economy*. Next year's conference might be on Keynes, Marx and crisis. This is not definit yet. (please see: www.asconit.org)
Unfortunately Michael Lebowitz will not be able to attend the conference due to his other commitments (publications, conferences etc). He may come to our next year's conference. Neither Samir Amin will probabily be able to attend the Conference. We have not heart from him for quite a while. So we do not know exactly whether he is going to attend or not. Most probabily not. Michael Perelman is asked to make the opening speech of the Conference on the challenges for political economy of the 21st century. He will be followed by Tülin Öngen (University of Ankara) who will be talking about 'Wich Political Economy?', and Vivienne Brown (International Adam Smith Society/Open University) on Adam Smith. Besides invited speakers, there are around 80 papers to be presented to the Conference. If anyone interested: together with Ismail Siriner I will be presenting a paper on *Adam Smith's Understanding of Human Conditions in the age of "Commercial Society" and UTOPİA*. With regard to publications: selections of the papers presented to the Conference will probabliy be published in Research in Political Economy (English), in Turkish Journal of Political Economy (English and Turkish) and in Adam Smith Review. The whole Conference papers will be published in a volume in Turkey/Ankara by Dipnot Kitapevi. There are also some international publishers interested in publishing a selection of papers. This stil need to be figured out. Anybody on the list is very welcome to attend the Conference. ------------ Dogan Göcmen (http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/) Author of The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, I. B. Tauris, London&New York 2007 ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
