John Bellamy Foster in Victoria, BC

[Amandeep Sandhu <sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrades,

John B Foster is visiting Victoria, BC this month. I have attached the
details below. Also, there is going to be a session about Monthly Review.
Prof. Foster will discuss the future orientation of the publication. This
session is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 21 at the SUB building. It would
be in the room B028, from 10 to 12. All lectures are on campus at the
University of Victoria.

Amandeep

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Below is the schedule of Lectures of our Lansdowne Guest Speaker, PROFESSOR
JOHN B. FOSTER, who will be visiting the Sociology Department Oct. 20 - 22,
1999.

Professor Foster is one of the leading scholars in the world working in the
interdisciplinary fields of environmental sociology, political economy and
political ecology.

He is active and has been active on the boards of several key journals that
feature work of this kind: Organization & Environment (of which he is
editor), Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and Monthly Review.  His work with
these scholarly journals adds up to a major professional contribution to
the making of a cutting-edge field that criss-crosses social science (and
natural science) disciplines.  A related observation can be made about the
various books that Professor Foster has edited and co-edited, which in
bringing the work of various scholars together have helped shape the
development of political ecology, political economy, and environmental
sociology.

        Professor Foster's academic achievements are especially noteworthy.  His
writings (including books) have been translated into Spanish, Korean,
German, and Japanese.  His work comparing Schumpeter and Marx, published in
the early 1980s as several refereed articles, was well received and
influential in showing the relevance of Schumpeter's thought to
contemporary political economy.  In the mid-to-late1980s he published
several works on the theory of monopoly capital, including an article in
the Journal of Economic Issues and a 280-page book.  In the 1990s,
Professor Foster has turned his attention to environmental issues, and
produced a series of incisive articles and books, drawing on sociology,
political economy and ecology.  His book The Vulnerable Planet, published
in 1994, has been extensively reviewed and discussed; he has a long article
that will appear later this month in American Journal of Sociology,
arguably the leading sociology journal in the world; his book Marx's
Ecology: Materialism and Nature will be published this fall.  All this adds
up to a remarkably impressive record of scholarship.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, October 20

3.30 p.m.               -       Lecture "Was Marx an Ecological
         Thinker?"
                                Room HSD A240

Thursday, October 21

10.00 - noon            -       "Open Discussion on the Socialist Magazine, 
Monthly
                                Review", sponsored by the Monthly Review,
                                Room SUB B028.

7:30 p.m.               -       Lansdowne Public Lecture
                                "How Are We To Understand Our Contemporary
                 Ecological Crisis?"
                                F. Murray Fraser Auditorium (Begbie 159)

Friday, October 22

2:30 p.m.               -       Lecture "Wither Political Economy?",
                                Classroom Building, C116