Notice of the 2019 National Seminar on the Basic Principles of Marxism
The discipline of Basic Principles of Marxism is a "Priority Discipline" selected by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) (led by Professor Cheng Enfu and Research Fellow Yu Bin) and is also a Beijing Municipal Key Discipline of the School of Marxism at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) (approved in 2012). The "National Seminar on the Basic Principles of Marxism" series aims to facilitate exchange and the demonstration of research achievements among experts and scholars engaged in the study and teaching of the basic principles of Marxism, with the goal of promoting the classical inheritance, innovation, and development of these principles.
The 2019 National Seminar on the Basic Principles of Marxism will be jointly hosted by the Institute of Marxism Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Beijing Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (CUPL), and the School of Marxism at Inner Mongolia Normal University. The seminar is scheduled to be held from July 8–9, 2019. We sincerely invite colleagues from the national academic community to participate and engage in exchange.
The theme of this year's seminar is: "The 70th Anniversary of New China [1] and the Scientific Application of the Basic Principles of Marxism." Specific topics include: (1) Research on and application of the basic principles of Marxism over the 70 years of New China; (2) Seventy Glorious Years: Perspectives on New China through the lens of the basic principles of Marxism; (3) Looking Back a Century: The May Fourth Movement [2] and the Chinese People's Understanding and Acceptance of the Basic Principles of Marxism; (4) A Century of Turbulent Change: The Communist International [3] and the Global Dissemination of Marxism; (5) Frontier theoretical research and the scientific application of the basic principles of Marxism in contemporary China and abroad; and related topics.
The seminar follows a "participation by paper" policy. Experts and scholars intending to attend are requested to compose papers centered on the seminar's theme. The formatting of the papers should refer to the submission requirements of the journal Marxist Studies (Mǎkèsīzhǔyì Yánjiū). Following the conference, we will select outstanding papers for publication in a conference proceedings volume and recommend them to journals such as Marxist Studies and Studies on Political Economy (Zhèngzhì Jīngjìxué Yánjiū). The deadline for paper submissions is June 20, 2019.
Conference Paper Email: mksjbylcasscupl@163.com Conference Dates: July 8–9, 2019 Conference Venue: Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot Host Units: Institute of Marxism Studies, CASS; Beijing Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (CUPL); School of Marxism, Inner Mongolia Normal University.
April 17, 2019