A Scholarly Conference
November 2-4, 2007 in Montpelier, Vermont

(Proposals Due on or before September 1, 2007)

The eighth edition of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference, sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, once again aims to provide a participatory and scholarly space in which to reexamine, reinvigorate, and make relevant the social and political tradition of anarchism. (For more details, see the "Projects" section on this Web site.)

We are once again accepting proposals for a limited number of presentations. In addition, we will be curating a series of panels that build on previous conversations and provoke even more dynamic debate than at past conferences.

If you are interested in presenting, please take a look at the RAT archive (currently at http://www.homemadejam.org/renew) to get a sense of the topics that have been explored in the past. If you feel alienated when you look at this list, or think that important issues that should be considered through an anarchist lens have been left out, do not panic or decide not to attend. Please send us a proposal. We particularly encourage non-academics, working people, women, indigenous people, people of color, queer and trans people, and others frequently marginalized in scholarly life to submit proposals.

Each proposal should include: a succinct presentation title; a maximum 150-word description of your presentation and the question or topic you wish to address; a maximum 50-word description of yourself; and your full name and e-mail.

You can submit multiple proposals, and proposals for panels are also welcome. Please note, however, that we will be choosing from the proposals by September 15, and not every proposal will be selected.

If your proposal is accepted, you are automatically registered. All presenters must pay the registration fee, since RAT has no funding other than all of us contributing to make this space possible.

Send your proposal(s), by or before September 1, to:
rat-presentations@anarchiststudies.org.