Events
To hear about and buy the book, signed if you wish, and to speak with the authors, come to one of our events. Also contact us to arrange an event or for more details. Contributors to the book are located in the USA, UK, Spain/Italy and Australia. Also, co-editor Anitra Nelson will be in the USA March to May 2012, based in New York as a Visting Scholar in the Economics Department of the New School for Social Research (The New School) Here is a YouTube video of segments from our first event, a book launch-discussion in our home town (see Varuna event details below).
EVENTS TO COME
30 May 2012, Wednesday, 7.30 pm
Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies is a newly published Pluto Press book. Join Derek Wall (Green Party councillor, former Principal Speaker for the Green Party and author of Babylon and Beyond, The Rise of the Green Left) in conversation with visiting editor of Life Without Money, Associate Professor Anitra Nelson (RMIT University, Australia) and contributor Adam Buick (regularly published in the Socialist Standard) at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL. Come and participate in a stimulating discussion on why we, as a society, need to go money-free and how we might do it.
6 June, Wednesday, 12 noon to 2pm
Hear Claudio Cattaneo and Anitra Nelson on their contributions to Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies and discuss future research agendas at the Sala de Grauss II, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Valles) — Barcelona.
2 to 11 July
Anitra Nelson will contribute to the ICTA UAB 3rd Summer School and Workshop on Environmental Conflicts and Justice.
20 to 21 July, Friday and Saturday
Money or socialism? panel with Frans Timmerman and Anitra Nelson at the two-day Australasian Historical Materialism conference. This session will focus on leftist controversies surrounding key points in the first four chapters of Life Without Money: i.e. the revolutionary significance of consciously thinking and acting on the basis of use values rather than exchange values; problems caused by retaining money in a transition to socialism; the revolutionary potential of an autonomist Marxist position of refusing to work; and, acknowledging money as a tool of power (rather than efficiency) and organising principle of capitalism.
PAST EVENTS
16 May 2012, Wednesday, 2 pm to 5.30 pm
'Degrowth and Money: Future Scenarios Symposium' led by Anitra Nelson at the International Degrowth in the Americas Conference in Monteal, Quebec, Canada (Université de Montréal, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant B3265 — see symposium brief, R011). An opportunity for participants to learn about the ideas in the book and create scenarios for degrowth in non-monetary and monetary ways (employing mainstream money and/or alternative currencies/monies).
15 May 2012, Tuesday, 4 pm to 5.30 pm (Parrallel session 5 on Relating)
'Degrowth equals regrowth: A discussion of Eduardo Galeano's work' paper by Anitra Nelson at the International Degrowth in the Americas Conference in Monteal, Quebec, Canada (HEC Montréal, L’Oréal Canada — see paper, R043). This paper discusses the nature of degrowth in the context of the missing chapter in Life Without Money — a chapter based on numerous extracts from Eduardo Galeano's voluminous work was to be included but withdrawn from proposed publication due to copyright issues.
7 May 2012, Monday, 7.15 pm
Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies discussion at Twin Oaks (Virginia, USA) in the Bijou room, introduced by Anitra Nelson.
17 April 2012, Tuesday 1 to 2 pm
Brown bag discussion on Life Without Money with Anitra Nelson and The New School staff, organised by Associate Professor Cameron Tonkinwise, Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Centre, in the Uris Library Conference Room 72 5th Ave (7th Floor), New York City.
14 April 2012, Saturday 3 pm to 4.30 pm
'A Life Without Money?' workshop on the ideas in Life Without Money, engaging with participants on their experiences and ideas and collecting information through a survey on sharing practices. You can find more details at the Trade School and sign up for the workshop, which will be held at the GeneralAssembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York.
15 April 2012, Sunday 4 pm to 5.30 pm
'A Life Without Money?' workshop on the ideas in Life Without Money, engaging with participants on their experiences and ideas and collecting information through a survey on sharing practices. You can find more details at the Trade School and sign up for the workshop, which will be held at Grand Opening, 139 Norfolk Street, New York.
7 April 2012, Saturday at 4.30 pm
Visting co-editor Anitra Nelson introduces the ideas in Life Without Money for discussion with participants on their experiences and ideas at the Everything Goes Book Cafe Neighbourhood Stage, three blocks (on the left as you come out) from the ferry to Manhatten at 208 Bay Street, near Victory Boulevard. More on the cafe, here.
25 March 2012, Sunday 7 pm
In Conversation event at Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington) New York, with co-editors Anitra Nelson (Visiting Scholar at the New School) and Frans Timmerman and contributor Ariel Salleh (University of Sydney) on Life Without Money.
16 to 18 March 2012, Friday to Sunday
Capitalism Nature Socialism sponsored panel, 'Occupy the World', at Left Forum, Pace University (New York) discussing ideas in Life Without Money. Panel chaired by Joel Kovel with Paul Mattick (Adelphi University), Caroline Woolard (Our Goods, NY), Mary Mellor (Northumbria University), Ariel Salleh (University of Sydney, and contributor to Life Without Money) and co-editors Anitra Nelson (Visiting Scholar at the New School) and Frans Timmerman. (The photo shows police preparing for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators adjacent to Zuccotti Park, late in the afternoon of 24 March.)
'Capitalism, Sustainability and Economic Democracy' panel at Left Forum, Pace University (New York) Costas Panayotakis, Radhika Balakrishnan and Anitra Nelson in conversation on themes in their three new books. Sponsored by Palgrave-McMillan in association with the 'Future of World Capitalism' book series and 'Rethinking Marxism'.
21 March 2012, Wednesday 7 pm
Co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman talk with Ganas community, 139 Corson Avenue, Staten Island, NYC about the ideas in Life Without Money.
12 March 2012, Monday 1.30 pm
Co-editor Anitra Nelson talks at University of Wisconsin-Madison economic sociology CPE seminar organised by Erik Olin Wright and Robert (Bob) Freeland, 8112D Sewell (Social Sciences) Bldg, about the ideas and arguments in Life Without Money.
15 February 2012, Wednesday 6.30 pm
Associate Professor John Minns (ANU School of Politics and International Relations) will launch Life Without Money with co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman at Smiths Alternative Bookshop, 76 Alinga Street (in the Melbourne Building), Canberra City, ACT, Australia.
10 February 2012, Friday 6 pm
Green Ban and Australian Greens activist Jack Mundey will launch Life Without Money, with co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman and contributors Ariel Salleh and Terry Leahy, at Gleebooks at Dulwich Hill, 536 Marrickville Rd, Dulwich Hill, NSW Australia. Take a 426 bus from Sydney Central station or walk 10 to 15 mins from the Dulwich Hill station. Please RSVP at the Gleebooks events page or by ringing the Dulwich Hill branch 02 8080 0098.
3 February 2012, Friday 6.30pm
Jeff Sparrow, editor of Overland literary journal, will launch Life Without Money at the Carlton Readings book store, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton (Victoria, Australia), with co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman.
4 February 2012, Saturday 3pm
Moss Cass (Minister for the Environment and Conservation in the Whitlam government and Patron of the Sustainable Living Foundation) and climate activist Julia Dehm in conversation with co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman at the New International Book Shop (NIBS) Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South (Victoria, Australia). The photo below shows Julia and Anitra responding to questions and the NIBS event.
29 January 2012, Sunday 1 to 4pm
SEARCH Foundation event: How do we count what really matters? Monetary and non-monetary matters. Steve Keen, Graham Larcombe, Anitra Nelson, Frans Timmerman and Ariel Salleh speaking at the foundation's first roundtable for 2012, at NCOSS, 66 Albion Street, Surry Hills, NSW Australia. RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 25 January.
28 January 2012, Saturday 4pm
Lis Bastian (CEO, Varuna) in conversation with co-editors Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman at Varuna, the Writers' House, 141 Cascade Street, Katoomba, NSW Australia. Please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 4782 5674. The photo below is from the Varuna event.
1 December 2011, Thursday 11am to 12.30pm
Workshop on Life Without Money with co-editor Anitra Nelson and contributors Ariel Salleh and Terry Leahy at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) 2011 conference organised by the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, NSW Australia.
