Dear URPE members, Thank you for your valuable feedback on the poll about participation in the URPE@ASSAs 2025. We write to you with information on recent developments and the efforts of the Steering Committee and Conference sub-committee with regard to URPE sessions. It has, unsurprisingly, been the overwhelming response of the membership that URPE should … Continued
The Union for Radical Political Economics is pleased to announce the 2025 David Gordon Memorial Lecture https://urpe.org/announcement/2020-david-gordon-memorial-lecture/ The 27th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture will be delivered via webinar, on Friday 31 January 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern US time/5:00 p.m. London time. Please register here: https://forms.gle/hrtGxyH7awXPF4QY8 Imperialism in Marx, the Marxist Tradition, and Today … Continued
The Union for Radical Political Economics is pleased to announce the Rescheduled 2025 David Gordon Memorial Lecture https://urpe.org/announcement/2020-david-gordon-memorial-lecture/ The 27th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture has been rescheduled and will be delivered via webinar, on Friday 28 March 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern US time/4:00 p.m. London time. Please register here: https://forms.gle/5Ybe9vAMoz37ReqW9 Imperialism in Marx, the … Continued
The URPE Steering Committee, in accordance with the wishes of the membership as determined by voting, endorses the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement. One can find information on the BDS movement generally here: https://bdsmovement.net/ and the academic boycott specifically here: https://bdsmovement.net/academic-boycott.
Happy new year! We are looking forward to seeing you this weekend at the ASSA Conference in Philadelphia. Below is the full program of URPE sessions. In addition, please join us for the AFEE / ASE / HES / IAFFE / LERA / URPE Social on Sunday, Jan. 4 from 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM. It will be held … Continued
The Union for Radical Political Economics is pleased to announce the 2026 David Gordon Memorial Lecture https://urpe.org/announcement/2020-david-gordon-memorial-lecture/ The 28th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture will be delivered via webinar, on Thursday 15 January 2026, at 8:30 p.m. India Standard time (10:00 a.m. Eastern US time/3:00 p.m. GMT) Colonies of Conquest and Metropoles: Conceptual Issues Relating to … Continued
This new conference is a collaborative initiative aimed at sustaining and strengthening critical political economy scholarship. While URPE has traditionally organized panels at the Eastern Economic Association’s annual conference (URPE@Easterns) alongside other organized streams in political economy, the EEA’s 2026 meeting—scheduled to take place in the Dominican Republic in May—presents a number of challenges to … Continued
The URPE Graduate Student Caucus will meet from 6pm - 8pm on Friday in Lecture hall: L2.84
The URPE Membership meeting will be held on February 28th from 6-8pm in Lecture hall: L2.84
Please join us in the first webinar in our new series, a talk by Dr. Helen Yaffe on the critical situation in Cuba. Webinars will be hosted over Zoom and streamed on YouTube. URPE members are encouraged to join via Zoom and participate in a Q&A with the speaker after her talk. We hope to see many … Continued