Call for Streams for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
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Call for Streams for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
1-3 July 2026
University of Coimbra, Portugal
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We invite submissions of streams for the 28th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place from 1st to 3rd July 2026 at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, activism, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
What is a stream?
A stream is a session or series of sessions held at the conference organised on a specific theme. The stream coordinator(s) will propose a theme for their stream and be responsible for selecting which papers and panels should be included in their stream from the regular call for papers (which may include roundtable and panel proposals too), organising the papers into sessions, and ensuring that there is a chair for each session. The AHE Academic Officers will be responsible for final decisions on paper selections, sending out acceptance letters, visa letters, and finalising the programme schedule. Do please note that stream coordinators are expected to attend the conference and engage with the session(s) of their streams. AHE does not cover travel expenses or conference fees. Should there be multiple similar stream proposals, we reserve the right to merge streams.
The streams will typically involve one or more sessions that are based around 3-4 papers, optionally with a discussant(s). As stream coordinator(s), you may encourage your presenters to submit full papers in advance and/or agree on a post-conference publication plan, but this is optional. In the interest of encouraging discussions across theoretical traditions or schools of thought, we especially encourage streams organised by theme or topic rather than by discipline/theoretical tradition. However, streams organised by theoretical tradition will also be considered. We expect stream coordinators to especially encourage women, people of colour, early career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South when they advertise their stream for potential submitters. The AHE Conference Organising Committee may advise the stream coordinators on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity.
The call for streams is a call for themes to which others will submit abstracts during the Call for Papers, rather than a call for the submission of closed panels. However, we do encourage coordinators to give examples of papers they foresee will be included in their stream, if possible. Possible stream topics could include (but are certainly not limited to): Climate change, labour, money, finance, innovation, gender, race, economic development, economic and social policy, imperialism, economic history, history of economic thought, economics education, philosophy and methodology in economics. We encourage each stream proposal to list a minimum of two stream coordinators.
Timings
The Call for Streams is open until 21 November 2025. Decisions about stream proposals will be made by the AHE Conference Organising Committee and communicated to all proposing stream organisers by 1 December in time for the opening of the call for papers in mid-December. The Call for Papers deadline will be 14 February 2026. It will also be possible to submit individual panels and roundtables to the CfP to be considered for stream coordinators. Once the CfP has closed, stream organisers will be contacted with the submissions to their stream. Thereafter, they will have three weeks to evaluate the submissions and communicate their recommendations to the AHE Conference Organising Committee. This schedule will allow us to send out acceptances to presenters by early April 2025.
The conference will be in-person only.
The deadline for stream proposals is 21 November 2025.
If you need ideas or a template, you can view the streams approved for the 2025 AHE Conference at King’s College London here.
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