About

The Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE) provides a platform for rigorous scholarly research, cultural work, and organizing that stands up for peace, international solidarity, and environmental sustainability. It encourages innovative work that has real use-value for collective struggles and contributes to developing collaborative intellectual, artistic, and activist communities across Turtle Island and around the world. Rather than being restricted to particular fields or limited to those working in academic institutions, SPINE is resolutely transdisciplinary and encourages extra-academic scholarship, as well as contributions from artists and activists.SPINE does not take a neutral stance on global struggles or pretend to be value-free. Instead, it explicitly upholds and defends the values of international solidarity and environmental justice. It rejects all forms of social chauvinism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other types of oppression, while simultaneously recognizing that they cannot be fully overcome without going to their class and colonial roots. It thereby provides a space for materialist research, cultural production, and organizing that contributes to the goals of substantive social transformation in the direction of a more egalitarian, peaceful, and sustainable world.SPINE hosts an annual conference and supports other activities through the course of the year. Its founding co-sponsors are the Critical Theory Workshop, Iskra Books, and the World Marxist Review.

Membership

Membership information will be posted in due time. SPINE is currently being run collectively by co-chairs and an advisory committee.

Founding Co-ChairsGabriel Rockhill (Villanova University)
Jennifer Ponce de León (University of Pennsylvania)
Taylor R. Genovese (Dutchess Community College)
Timour Kamran (Villanova University)
Colin Bodayle (Villanova University)

Advisory CommitteeBenjamin Stahnke (Central State University)
David Peat (Independent Scholar)
Róisín Dubh (Independent Scholar)
Creighton Ward (Independent Scholar)

Inaugural Conference
The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology
October 18, 2025

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION COMING SOON!

Conference Date: October 18th, 2025Conference Venue: Villanova University, Villanova, PennsylvaniaConference Focus: Recent decades have brought brutal imperialist wars, the massive displacement of large segments of the world’s population, the rise of far-right political movements, escalating nuclear tensions, and the increased threat of irreversible climate disaster. Despite these catastrophic circumstances, we have also seen the most oppressed and exploited people bind together to fight for peace, recognition, and dignity. In the past decade, the “wretched of the earth” have taken this struggle for equality to new terrain. Unprecedented alliances suggest a shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world, and continuing experiments in ecological sustainability, socialism, and economic sovereignty seem to indicate that a better world is not only possible, but imminent.Keynote Speaker:
John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon)Featured Panel:
Iskra Books and World Marxist Review: “Radical Publishing as Global Contradictions Sharpen."