Call for Papers: The 4th International Forum on the Communist Movement

Call for Papers "The 4th International Communist Movement Forum: Contemporary World Socialism and Social Development"

Since entering a new historical period ^[1], contemporary world socialism has exhibited many new circumstances, transformations, and characteristics. These have exerted a significant influence on the economic, political, and cultural lives of people in the contemporary era, drawing extensive attention from academic circles both at home and abroad. To conduct an in-depth study of the current development status and prospects of the international communist movement and world socialism within a contemporary socialist context, the "4th International Communist Movement Forum: Contemporary World Socialism and Social Development"—hosted by the Institute of Marxism Studies (马克思主义研究院) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Huaqiao University (华侨大学)—is scheduled to be held from September 23–25, 2016, at Huaqiao University in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. The conference will be organized by the Department of International Communist Movement of the CASS Institute of Marxism Studies and the School of Political Science and Public Administration of Huaqiao University, with co-sponsorship from the editorial department of the journal Marxist Studies (《马克思主义研究》) and the Guangxi Normal University Press Group (广西师范大学出版集团), among others. We are now soliciting papers from experts and scholars nationwide engaged in research in this field.

The scope of topics for the call for papers is as follows:

1. Development trends of the contemporary international communist movement and world socialist movement;
2. Developmental dynamics of contemporary foreign communist parties;
3. Current development status and prospects of major contemporary foreign socialist schools of thought;
4. Contemporary global Left-wing ideological trends and Left-wing movements;
5. Contemporary world socialism and social development;
6. New developments in socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The deadline for paper submissions is July 1, 2016. Please send an electronic version of your paper (hard copies are not accepted) to the conference email address: gjgylt2016@sina.com (the acronym formed by the pinyin initials of "International Communist Movement Forum 2016"). Please also attach an author biography, abstract, and keywords. A volume of conference proceedings will be published following the event.

After all submissions have been reviewed by relevant experts, invitations to the conference will be sent to the authors of selected papers.

Contact Persons: Tang Zhaoyun 0595-22693526 (Quanzhou: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Huaqiao University) Sun Yingshuai 18518262905 (Beijing: Institute of Marxism Studies, CASS)

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Marxism Studies Huaqiao University February 2016