AHE 2025 Conference: Call for Streams

18-20 June 2025

at King’s College London (Waterloo Campus)

We invite submissions of streams for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London

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 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. 

The streams will typically involve one or more sessions that are based around 3-4 papers, optionally with a discussant(s). As stream coordinator, 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. 

To reiterate, the call for streams is not a call for a set of closed panels. Rather, it is a call for themes to which others will submit abstracts during the Call for Papers. 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 29 Nov 2024. Decisions about stream proposals will be made by the AHE Conference Organising Committee and communicated to all proposing stream organisers by 9 December in time for the opening of the call for papers in mid-December. The Call for Papers deadline will be 14 February 2025. 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

Deadline is November 29th 2024

Recordings from the 2024 AHE Conference Plenaries

Recordings from the 2024 AHE Conference Plenaries

10-12 July 2024 in Bristol, UK

In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics, the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society

Keynote 1: Ecological and Environmental Justice in Heterodox Economics

D’Maris Coffman (University College London)

Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)

Bengi Akbulut (University of Concordia, Canada)

Chair: Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University; AHE)

Keynote 2: The Political Economy of Conflicts and Migration

Rafeef Ziadah (Department of International Development, King’s College London)

Artjoms Ivlevs (UWE Bristol)

Chair: Andrew Mearman (AHE, University of Leeds)

Keynote 3: Heterodox Economics in Policy

Gary Dymski (University of Leeds)

Lekha Chakraborty (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India)

Natalia Bracarense (OECD and Sciences Po, Toulouse)

Chair: Susan Newman (AHE, Open University)

Registrations Open for the AHE 2024 Conference

26th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics

10-12 July 2024 in Bristol, UK

In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics, the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society

Registrations for presenters have closed on 21 June 2024, but you can still register as an attendee:

Registrations are now open for the 26th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on 10-12 July 2024 at the University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus) in Bristol (UK) and online. Registrations for presenters are open until 21 June 2024. Registrations for attendees will remain open until the start of the conference. Registration fees include the conference dinner on 11 July.

We are proud to see more than 170 individual submissions and 11 panel proposals, coming to a total of 214 scholars expressing interest in presenting at the AHE conference. The numbers demonstrate a renewed interest in the UK’s heterodox community.

What to expect

The conference is a hybrid event with both in-person and online attendees and speakers. Please make sure to book the correct ticket on our website.

The conference will run for three days and sessions will typically start at 9am with the final sessions closing by 6pm.

Partner associations include: Cambridge Political Economy Society (CPES), INET Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), History of Economics Society (HES), Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG), and the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).

Each day we will have a keynote plenary where no parallel sessions will run. Themes of the keynote addresses will range from ecological and environmental justice to the political economy of conflict and migration, to heterodoxy and policy.

On Thursday 11th July the conference dinner will take place at 7pm at Bocabar restaurant in Bristol. The address is: Fermentation, 1 Hawkins Ln, Bristol BS1 6JQ [click here to view Bocabar on Google Maps]. This Bocabar branch is located in Finzels Reach, close to Castle Park.

Confirmed speakers:

D’Maris Coffman (University College London)

Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)

Bengi Akbulut (University of Concordia, Canada)

Rafeef Ziadah (Department of International Development, King’s College London)

Bruna Boscaini (Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization – IRMO)

Artjoms Ivlevs (UWE Bristol)

Gary Dymski (University of Leeds)

Lekha Chakraborty (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India)

Natalia Bracarense (OECD and Sciences Po, Toulouse)

Fred Lee prize

Send your full paper by June 1st, 2024 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.

Conference location

The conference will take place at the Bristol Business School (X block), University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus) in Bristol (UK) and online. For online participants a Zoom link will be shared closer to the date of the conference. The address for in-person attendees is: UWE Bristol Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY.

Click here for the Google Maps link to the conference venue.

Click here for a high-resolution map of the university campus.

Getting to Bristol

Via plane

Bristol airport  is the closest airport to Bristol. The Airport Flyer bus service connects Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Airport, with the journey taking approximately 25 minutes. It takes another 30-40 minutes from Bristol Temple Meads to reach the UWE Business School.

London Heathrow airport for transatlantic and longer flights. It takes about 2.5 hours from Heathrow to UWE Business School using public transport (train and bus), with busses generally being the more affordable option.

From London Heathrow airport to Bristol by train: Take the Elizabeth line or Heathrow Express to Paddington. From there, take the train towards Cardiff or Swansea. Get off at Bristol Parkway. You can take a bus (e.g. 19 or metrobus m4 or m3 towards the city centre) from here to the Business School (Frenchay Campus).

From London Heathrow airport to Bristol by bus: Long distance coaches and coaches from London airports: Megabus and National Express provide a very cost-effective service direct to Frenchay Campus from many UK cities and some overseas destinations including London (city, e.g. Victoria, and airports), Cardiff, Birmingham, Exeter, Manchester and Leeds.

Direct trains go to Bristol Temple Meads from Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and London (Paddington).

Getting to UWE Bristol Business School once in Bristol

Via train

Bristol Temple Meads is the main train station and is located close to Bristol city centre.

The nearest train stations from UWE Bristol are: Bristol Parkway (approx. 20-25 minutes walking), or Filton Abbey Wood (approx. 10 minutes walking). From Bristol Parkway it is also possible to take a bus (19, m3, m4 towards the city centre) to the campus.

It will take about 40 minutes to reach the UWE Business School from Bristol Temple Meads (train ride of approx. 15 minutes, plus walking). Tickets can be bought at the station or online.

Via bus

From Bristol Temple Meads, buses operate 24 hours a day and at peak times, leave up to every 8 minutes.

Buses 72 and 74 will take you from the train station (Temple Meads) to the Business School campus.

From Bristol Parkway, it is also possible to take a bus (19, m3, m4 towards the city centre) to the campus.

From the city centre, Metrobus services m1, m3 and m4 are the best way to get to UWE, with buses up to every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday daytime). Bus routes, ticket prices and where to buy the tickets can be found HERE.

The First Bus app includes a journey planner and offers live bus times so you can check when your bus is due in real time.

Accommodation

Accommodation on campus is now available for booking:

1 night – 1 Night Stay- School of Economics Conference – 09/07 to 13/07 – Room Booking – Frenchay Campus, UWE | University of West of England

2 nights – 2 Night Stay- School of Economics Conference – 09/07 to 13/07 – Room Booking – Frenchay Campus, UWE | University of West of England

3 nights –  3 Night Stay- School of Economics Conference – 09/07 to 13/07 – Room Booking – Frenchay Campus, UWE | University of West of England

4 nights – 4 Night Stay- School of Economics Conference – 09/07 to 13/07 – Room Booking – Frenchay Campus, UWE | University of West of England

Participants can book up to 4 nights, at the cost of £54 per person per night.

Participants are expected to include their arrival time when proceeding with the booking, so that keys can be arranged for collection.

Hotels

The following websites provide useful information and contact details to help you find the right accommodation during your stay in Bristol:

  1. Visit Bristol
  2. Late Rooms
  3. Holiday Lettings
  4. Trip Advisor

You can also use Google maps to find accommodation near UWE Bristol campuses, or in the city centre.

For options in the city centre, some hotel chains offer well-located hotels:

  1. Premier Inn Lewins Mead
  2. Premier Inn Finzels Reach
  3. Ibis Temple Meads
  4. Ibis Bristol Centre
Call for Papers – AHE 2024 Conference

Call for Papers

26th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics

10-12 July 2024 in Bristol, UK

In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics and

The College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol

We invite submissions for the 26th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on July 10-12, 2024 at the University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus), in Bristol (UK) and online. This is an event organised in collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics at UWE College of Business and Law.  

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