IPE Student Conference-Radical Hope & Alternative Futures: Combatting Defeatism Through Revolutionary Imagination
Friday, March 27, 2026 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- In-person event
- 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Our contemporary world faces a multitude of complex, interconnected, and compounding crises. With the collapse of liberal institutions, militarization, and violent destruction that is spreading across the globe today, another reality might be hard to imagine. Yet humanity’s future remains undetermined. The possibility for profound transformation depends on our collective capacity to imagine and enact alternatives beyond the present order. History is not one-sided; oppression has always been met with resistance. This conference is inspired by radical hope; a philosophy that invites us to see beyond despair as we work towards determining humanity’s collective future.
Submit An Abstract
The Institute of Political Economy’s annual student-led conference is seeking abstract submissions for their 26th annual conference on March 27th in Dunton Tower!
Centering around the theme of “Radical Hope & Alternative Futures: Combatting Defeatism Through Revolutionary Imagination”, we encourage submissions nourishing political imagination, informing alternative world-building, and energizing the spirit of resistance.
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
- Post-growth, post-petrol, Landback, radical democracy, alternative political economies, Afro-Indigenous futurism, new ontologies
- Neoliberalism, imperialism/neo-colonialism, petro-capitalism, extractivism
- Decay of democracy, rise of fascism, slave labour, violence, ecological/climate crisis, technofeudalism
- Resistance, internationalism, degrowth, plurinationalism, abolitionism, solidarity
Please submit your 200-word abstract by January 31st at: https://forms.gle/qc94dimtGtt1VnfF8
For any questions, comments, or concerns, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the organizers at ipegradconf@gmail.com.
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