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Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 1
Thursday, May 13 5:00pm – 7:00pmOpening Plenary: Global Crisis, Working ClassHouseholds and Migrant LabourSpeakers: Johanna Brenner, Aziz Choudry, David McNally Room 109
Friday, May 14 9:30am – 11:00amImperialism, Art and Language Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeAvatar and the Left: Goodfor Anti-Imperialism or Badfor Humanity?Naoman G. Ali
Imperialism and Language:Theoretical Challenges andOpportunitiesJeff Bale
American Exceptionalism,American Imperialism, andthe History of American ArtAlan Wallach
Edith Wharton and the Clashof CivilizationsTim Dayton
Salah Hassanpour - Chair Room TBA
Queer/Culture Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social ReproductionQueer Affect and the Limitsof Group Bonding inPalestine and IsraelDina Georgis
Becoming “Authentic” Ibanwithin “Contagious” IbanCulture: Young Women’sSame-Sex Relationship inSouth KoreaLayoung Shin
The Division of HouseholdLabour: Do Same-SexCouples Act like Different-Sex Couples?Alyssa Schneebaum
Jesook Song - Chair Room TBA
Land, Food and Imperialism Theme: Land, Food and Accumulation by DispossessionFinance and the Food Crisis:Shortcomings and WrongTurns in Recent CriticalAnalysisBrad Bauerly
Food Dispossession and theAgrarian QuestionA Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Development of Capital andCapitalist Development:Bringing Marx's Capital tothe Third WorldRaju Das
LETS and SocialistDevelopment in the GlobalSouth: A Case fromNortheast Thailand?Richard Westra
Hira Singh - Chair Room TBA
For (and Against) Althusser Theme: PhilosophyReading "Marx in his Limits":Althusser on ClassThomas Carmichael
Sophistical andUnsophisticated: Althusser'sLeninization Project inPhilosophy, 1967-1978, andits RefutationStefanos Kourkoulakos
Althusser Still Matters: APhilosophical Inquiry of anEpistemological CharacterHristos Verikukis
Peter Thomas - Chair Room TBA
Whose Risks, Whose Returns in an Era of Financialization Theme: Political EconomyWhere do Financial ProfitsCome From?Iren Levina
The Evolution of the USFinancial System Since the1980s: The IncreasingIneffectiveness of MonetaryPolicy, Rising Importance ofExpectations Channel andPro-CyclicalityHasan Comert
Labour, Crisis, and theCurious Resilience of Banksin MexicoThomas Marois
Hilferding's DasFinanzkapital and ModernFinanceMarcelo Milan
Sebastian Budgen - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 2
Friday, May 14 9:30am – 11:00amRed October: Left-indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceJeffery R.Webber, David McNally Lesley Gill
Book Launch
Working Class & Social Movements in the Age of Neoliberalism Theme: Working Class and Social MovementsCognitive Capitalism:Search for a Testing MethodGeorge Caffentzis
Activism in the Fast Lane:Social Movements and theAnnihilation of TimeKamilla Pietrzyk
Neoliberalism and ClassDisciplineXavier Lafrance
David Camfield - Chair Room TBA
Friday, May 14 11:15am – 12:45pmArt, Capital and Activism in Canadian Culture Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeCommunist Cultural Activismin the Early Cold War inCanadaScott Forsyth
Comparative Real EstateStrategies in GlobalHollywoodJohn McCullough
The 2009 PalestinianSolidarity Protest at theToronto International FilmFestivalJohn Greyson
Cynthia Wright - Chair Room TBA
Intelligence or Agency: Hardt, Negri and the Left Today Theme: Working Class and Social MovementsEmpire in Conversation withSchmitt: The Potential to ActPoliticallyMatthew Morgan, Matthew
The Audacity of theMultitudeGuio Jacinto
The Impossibility of theMultitudeJordy Cummings
Multitude, Commonwealth,Europe: Problems of thePost-PoliticalDavid Matijasevich
Room TBA
Struggles Over Land, Food and Development Theme: Land, Food and Accumulation by DispossessionBrazil's Movement ofLandless Workers: A NewSpectreBruce Gilbert, Bruce
Food Prices, Hunger andAccumulation in IndiaS. Karhik, and SandipanPaul
Conscripts ofCompetitiveness: Culture,Institutions and Capital inContemporary DevelopmentMarcus Taylor
India's "Tryst with Destiny":The Choices we Make - aPolitical EconomyFramework for the Analysisof GrowthMritiunjoy Mohanty
Katharine Rankin - Chair Room TBA
Badiou, Lacan, Zizek Theme: PhilosophyFrom Money to . . .Materialism?Greg Flemming
Lessons from Badiou'sTheory of the Subject for21st CenturyRevolutionaries Using AlainBadiou to UnderstandRevolutionary PracticeRomandel, Michael
An Antagonistic Society:Imagining Bartleby in PowerCharles Wells
Matt Flisfeder - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 3
Friday, May 14 11:15am – 12:45pmFinance, Imagination and the Political Economy of Speculation Theme: Political EconomyFinance as Capital'sImagination? Value andImagination Amidst theSpectacle of "FictitiousValues"Max Haiven
Financial Crises and thePolitical Economy ofSpeculationSamuel Knafo
Sebastien Rioux - Chair Room TBA
Rethinking National Sovereignty Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceDangerous Discourses:Human Rights, the Rule ofLaw and Post-Socialist"Transition"Irina Ceric
Sovereignty in the GlobalSouth and the "SolidarityQuestion"Paul Kellogg
"Cosmopolitanism" andImperialist Common-Sense:Rethinking NationalSovereignty, Hegemony andCounter-Hegemony in aUnipolar WorldSedef Arat-Koc
An Uneven Scattering ofSovereignties: TheProduction of the Post-Yugoslav Transition and itsRole in the GlobalRedistribution of UnequalSovereigntiesTamara Vukov
Sara Carpenter- Chair Room TBA
World Economic Crisis of 2008 and its Impact on Latin America Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceThe Political Economy ofKnowledge forDevelopment: The Case ofSouth AmericaAlexander Borda-Rodriguez,
The New Military Paradigm:Changing US Political-Economic Policy andStrategies of the USSouthern Command in LatinAmericaNchamah Miller
World Economic Crisis of2008 and the CentrifugalTendencies of CapitalRichard Westra
Abigail Bakan - Chair Room TBA
International Law and Foreign Policy: A Marxist Critique Theme: State, Culture and IdeologyA Historical MaterialistCritique of International LawReecia Orzeck
The Constitutionalisation ofInternational Law: TheDifficult Relation BetweenInternational Law andPoliticsEva Hartmann
Anna Agathangelou – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Introduction to Marx’s Capital 1: The Dialectical DetectiveDavid McNally
Lori Turner - Chair Room TBA
Friday, May 14 2:00pm – 3:30pmDigital Media, Communication and Capital Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeThe prosumer as digitalprecariate: communicativecapacities, realsubsumption, and ubiquitousmediaVincent Manzerolle
Digital Media Piracy and theVelocity of CirculationAtle Mikkola Kjosen
Internet Addicts as a NewForm of Industrial ReserveArmy in a Computer-Mediated SocietySunyoung Yang
Scott Uzelman - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 4
Friday, May 14 2:00pm – 3:30pmFeminist Reconsiderations in Social and Economic Theory Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social ReproductionQuestioning Production,Questioning Value: Womenand Unwaged LabourChristina Rousseau
The Exchange of Women, or Women as Exchangers:Reconsidering theRelationship BetweenWomen and CommoditiesJulie Dowsett
Lord, Make Me Over’:Women, Ideology, and thePhantasmagorical Spectacleof Cosmetic SurgeryFiona Whittington-Walsh
Kiran Mirchandani - Chair Room TBA
Culture, Capital, City Theme: Marxism and Urban ExperienceCapitalism, Creativity, CitiesKanishka Goonewardena
City Marketing and thePolitical Economy of UrbanNeoliberalism: the Case ofSouth KoreaLaam Hae
Walter Benjamin andMunicipal PoliticsKen Hirschkop
On the Production of"Multicultural" Toronto:Neoliberal Creativity and thePolitics of Public SpaceParastou Saberi
K. Goonewardena - Chair Room TBA
Marx's Ontology and the Foundations of Science Theme: PhilosophyOn the OntologicalFoundations of Marx'sPolitical Economy and theCritique of NeoclassicalEconomicsDennis Badeen
Dialectics and PoliticalEconomyJohn Bell
Capital as the "Scientific"Revelation of "Reason" as"the Rose in the Cross of thePresent"Edward Winslow
David Bedford - Chair Room TBA
Money, Crisis and the Dollar Theme: Political EconomyA Brief Investigation on theUS Economic Performancefrom 1929 to 2008 in Termsof the Marxian Theory ofCrisis, with Some Notes onthe Recent Financial CrisisAlexis Anastasiadis,George Economakis, andMania Markaki
Marx's Theory of Money andthe Nature of ContemporaryFinance in Light of theCurrent CrisisKarl Beitel
The US Dollar is No More aValue Reserve CurrencyJean-Guy Loranger
Sebastian Budgen - Chair Room TBA
The Practice of Capitalist Imperialism Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceThe New US Militarism:Imperial Overreach or "FullSpectrum Dominance"?Tariq Amin-Khan
Beyond Imperialism:Towards a HistoricalGeography of CapitalismEven Duzgun
Disabled Nation: Haiti, USImperialism, and the Futureof the Disability RightsMovementRachel Gorman
Capitalist Imperialism:Bringing Together HerbertMarcuse and Samir AminSarah Hornstein
Dina Georgis - Chair Room TBA
Marxism and the Construction of Race Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceWhiteness as a Form ofBourgeois Anthropology?Historical Materialism andPsychoanalysis in the Workof David Roediger, MaxHorkheimer and ErichFrommJohn Abromeit
The Wages of Germanness:The Nation, "Race" and theWorking Class in EastGermany after UnificationJuliane Edler
For a Non-EurocentricCritical MarxismStefan Gandler
Marxism, IndigenousStruggles and the Tragedyof “Stageism”: A Critique ofWiddowson and Howard’sDisrobing the AboriginalIndustryTom Keefer
TBA - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 5
Friday, May 14 2:00pm – 3:30pmDebates in Radical Aesthetics Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeThe Dialectical Image TodayAndrew K. Thompson
Musings of a Marxist Poet Sam Friedman
Art and Politics ReduxCory Jansson and Carmen Teeple Hopkins
Kitchens and Bathrooms . . .Tara Atluri
TBA - Chair Room TBA
Friday, May 14 3:45 – 5:15pmPeter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment Theme: Revolutionary Experiences Since 1848Roundtable on PeterThomas, The GramscianMomentMark Neufeld
Roundtable on PeterThomas, The GramscianMomentIan McKay
Roundtable on PeterThomas, The GramscianMomentPeter Ives
RespondentPeter Thomas
Peter Ives - Chair Room TBA
AIDS Activism and Emancipatory Politics Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social ReproductionDialectical Theory and theStudy of HIV/AIDS andOther EpidemicsSam Friedman and Diana Rossi
Post-Liberal Resistance andthe Emancipatory Struggleof People Living withHIV/AIDS in MexicoHector Eloy Rivas
Gary Kinsman – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Radical Urban Praxis Theme: Marxism and Urban ExperienceBut Where Will the New Manbe Born?: Venezuela'sCiudades Comunales andthe New UtopianismDonald V. Kingsbury.
Eccentric Planning:Architecture and theReproduction of DifferenceTheresa Enright
Graffiti as War of PositionMark Paschal
Peter Brogan- Chair Room TBA
Reconsiderations in Western Marxism: Lukács, Korsch, Adorno, Marcuse Theme: PhilosophyAdorno and Korsch onMarxism and PhilosophyChristopher Cutrone
Marcuse's ContinuingRelevance: The Criticality ofUtopian Thinking to CriticalThinkingBaolinh Dang
Defending HerbertMarcuse's Obsolescence:Psychoanalysis andBiopolitics RedefinedTyson E. Lewis
Shannon Bell - Chair Room TBA
Capital, Class and Resistance in Colombia and Venezuela Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceDynamics of Evolution ofParamilitarism in Colombia:Implications for Capital andClass Formation and theColombian LeftJasmin Hristov
The Making and Unmakingof the Urban Working Classin Barrancabermeja,ColombiaLesley Gill
Organizational Failures ofthe Chavista "BolivarianAlternative" and "21stCentury Socialist" ModelThomas W. O'Donnell
Jeffrey R. Webber – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 6
Friday, May 14 3:45pm – 5:15pmThe Latin American "Pink Tide." A Post-Neoliberal Patternof Accumulation?
Theme: Political Economy
ALBA: The Dawn of a New SunJeremiah Gaster
Moving Towards Socialism?An Evaluation of theNational Development Planand the Plural Economy ofthe MAS Government inBoliviaSonja Killoran-McKibbin
Restructuring and Crisis inVenezuela: From Twenty-First Century Socialism toNeoliberalism?Adam Schachhuber, Adam
What Do We Talk AboutWhen We Talk About theReturn of the State? TheArgentinean State after theCrisis of Neoliberal ReformRuth Felder
Viviana Patroni – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
The Left and Mobilization: From the Past to the Future Theme: Working Class and Social MovementsBuilding a Left Public PhilosophyThom Workman
Australian Working ClassHistoriography: a CaseStudy in Left Commodo-Normativity, and its Lukácian SolutionBen Maddison
New Reflections on Marxismand Feminism: LookingBackward and Forwardsafter 36 YearsCharni Guettel
Alan Sears – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
(Re)production of Hegemony Theme: State, Culture and IdeologyPolitical Labour, NeoliberalCapitalism and theProduction, Reproductionand Management of HegemonyKendra Coulter, Kendra
The Japanese Sixties andthe Remaking of an EmpireKyoko Sato
Human Rights Revisionismand the CanadianParliamentary Coalition toCombat Anti-semitismJames Cairns and SusanFerguson
Ahmed Shawki - Chair Room TBA
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Evening Plenary: Is Marxism aTheodicy?Speaker: Terry Eagleton with responses by Crystal Bartolovich and Peter Thomas Room 109
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 7
Saturday, May 15 9:30am – 11:00amHollywood and Capitalist Crisis Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeCastrophe Cinema in an Age of CrisisEvan Calder Williams
xXx as New Imperial CultureTanner Mirrlees
Beyond Moral Outrage: TheLimits of Hollywood'sCinematic AltruismMitu Sengupta
Salah Hassanpour - Chair Room TBA
Social Reproduction and the State Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social ReproductionPolitical Economy of CrossBorder Marriage: EconomicDevelopment and SocialReproduction in S. KoreaHyunok Lee
The Production of Space asContinual Enclosure: SocialReproduction in the CityLia Frederiksen
Capitalism, Carcerality, andSocial ReproductionGeneviève LeBaron
Welfare Reform and Social Reproduction in New York City Simon Black
Susan Ferguson - Chair Room TBA
Finance and the Production of Space Theme: Marxism and Urban ExperienceSelling Off the Cards:Neoliberalism and the Endof Public PlanningHenry, Aaron and Ryan Katz-Rosene
Aboriginal Lands ThroughNeoliberal Eyes: Models ofReconciling AboriginalClaims in BCTyler McCreary
The European Struggle forPublic ServicesChristoph Hermann,
Inter-Corporate Ownershipand Canadian Finance CapitalBill Burgess
Karen Murray - Chair Room TBA
Democracy, Republicanism and the Left Theme: PhilosophyArchipelago Politics and theUnpolitical: Humanism andMyth in Late ModernityMauro Buccheri
Democracy and Materialismin Marx and EngelsVasilis Grollios
More Democracy, Less PovertyLarry Patriquin
George Comninel - Chair Room TBA
China and Accumulation by Dispossession Theme: Political EconomyAccumulation With orWithout Dispossession? TheRole of China in the NewScramble for AfricanResourcesJesse Ovadia
Mao's Solidarity Campaignis Long Over! China's Riseinto Mautitius Through theJinFei Economic Trade andCooperation ZoneCarmen Teeple Hopkins
Jesook Song – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
The Coup in Honduras Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceCanadian Imperialism andthe CoupTodd Gordon
Canada, Imperialism and the Coup in HondurasTyler Shipley
Popular Resistance inHonduras and the RegionalImplications of the CoupJeffery R.Webber
Ashley Smith - Chair Room TBA
Imperialism and the Social Question in Africa and theMiddle East: The Cases of South Africa, Iran and Turkey
Theme: Race, Empire and Resistance
Multiple Crises and Imperial RivalrySabah Alnasseri
Dissecting South AfricanSub-Imperialism at thePresent ConjunctureAlexander Caramento,
Turkey's Turn to East andIntra-Class Contradictions ofthe Bourgeoisie in TurkeyYasin Kaya
Late National Bourgeoisie,Imperialism and PopularClasses: The Case of IranNima Nakhaei and Hessam Daryani
Amir Hassanpour - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 8
Saturday, May 15 11:15am – 12:45pmCulture, Class and the Construction of Ethnicity Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeRematerializing CulturalProduction on the BalkansRade Zinaic
Do Primitives Accumulate?Colonial formations in earlymodern Spanish FilipinasMaita Sayo
Hello . . . We're the WorkingClass! Ethnicities Unite inthe Tekel StrikeAhmewt Oncu and Anita Ogurlu
Deborah Simmons – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Left Histories: The Radical Left, Cultural Struggles andWorking Class Movements
Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday Life
Fiction-Making, Sense-Making: On Performancesand Performativity in aFeminist CareerYukyung Kim-Cho
Workers’ Autonomy in 1970sCanada: From the Struggleagainst Work to Wages forHouseworkGary Kinsman
Radical Politics andReproductive Rights:Gender, Class and thePolitics of Abortion inWeimar GermanyRob Heynen
Donna Schatz - Chair Room TBA
Materialism and Subjectivity Theme: PhilosophyCapitalism, Subjectivity andthe Reproduction ofDominationLauren Langman, Lauren
Rereading Althusser onIdeology and SubjectivityLarry M. Miller
Escape from Empire: TheContemporary Relevance ofFromm's HistoricalSociology of EmotionsNeal McLaughlin
Deconstructing Marx'sCommodity FetishRoger Salerno
Mark Thomas – Chair Room TBA
Dialectics, Ontology, Science Theme: PhilosophyTowards a MarxistPhilosophy of ScienceDavid Bedford
Dialectics and Society:Michel Freitag's DialecticalSociologyEric Martin
Late Lukács and MarxismJohn Clendaniel
Towards a Post-HumanMarx: RethinkingConsciousness, Labour, andHuman Difference usingFeminist Science Studies Sean Gill
Tom Carmichael - Chair Room TBA
Neoliberalism and Internationalization of Capital in Turkey Theme: Political EconomyPublic-Private Partnership(PPP) Projects in PublicServices: The Case of TurkeySelime Guzelsari
New Areas for Valorizationfor Capital: The Case ofLocal Government Reform inTurkeyHulya Kendir Ozdinc
Public-Private PartnershipProjects in Education inTurkeyFuat Ercan and Ferda Uzunyayla
Hannes Lacher – Chair Room TBA
Knowledge Production and Liberation Politics in Africa Theme: Race, Empire and Resistance"What I did on my SummerVacation": Liberation,Recolonization andResistance, South Africa, 2009John Saul
Knowledge Production andthe Civil War in Sierra LeoneZuba Wai
Social Sciences andElections in Africa: TheCase of the EthiopianElections in 2005 Elleni Centime Zeleke
Pablo Idahosa, Pablo – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 9
Saturday, May 15 11:15am – 12:45pmThe Jewish Question:Reconsiderations of Race,Class and ColonialismAbigail Bakan
Defining the Conflict:Indigeneity and SettlerColonialismMazen Masri
The New Anti-ApartheidMovement: Growth of aCounter-HegemonicNarrative and thePalestinian-led Boycotts,Divestment and Sanctions(BDS) Campaign Rafeef Ziadah
The Palestine Test: LeftResponses to the SilencingCampaignMary Jo Nadeau and Alan Sears
Amir Hassanpour - Chair Room TBA
Historical Perspectives on Mobilization Theme: Working Class and Social MovementsThe Nineteenth CenturyLabour Press in the PoliticalCommunication CircuitMatt Jones
Whither the Proletariat!"Anti-Proletarian" StrugglesAgainst EnclosureScott Uzelman
"Write While You Fight"Young Worker and EarlyCanadian CommunismChristina D'Amico
Archaic Forms of LabourInternationalism? TheSubaltern People’sMovement in the AtlanticWorld, 1700-1850Thierry Drapeau
Charlie Post - Chair Room TBA
Introduction to Marx’s Capital, 2: Labour, Exploitation andSurplus ValueRaju Das
TBA – Chair Room TBA
LUNCH – Meet the Historical Materialism editors, with Sebastian Budgen and Peter Thomas
Saturday, May 15 2:00pm – 3:30pmPhotography, Design and Politics Theme: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeVisual Culture Out of the FireBrian Donnelly
Processing Photographs:Challenging the Legible ImageKris Erickson
Atget, Labour andModernizationMarcos Fabris
James Cairns - Chair Room TBA
Social Reproduction, Feminism and Intersectionality Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social ReproductionRethinking ReproductiveWork: Towards a FeministPerspective on the CapitalistCrisis and the Production ofthe Common/sSilvia Federici
Intersectionality, Articulationand Foundationalism:Toward a Unified Theory ofOppressionAnna Carastathis
Punam Khosla – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Gramsci Studies Theme: PhilosophyThe Subaltern andCensorshipPeter Ives
Why Would the AmericanWhite Working Class Votefor Sarah Palin?Janet Routledge
Lenin, Bukharin andGramsci: Democratizing theRevolutionMark McNally
Peter Ives – Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 10
Saturday, May 15 2:00pm – 3:30pmMarx, Foucault and The Prince Theme: PhilosophyMarx's MachiavellianMomentScott Ritner, Scott
Italian Materialist ThoughtXavier Scott
Profanation and Autonomy:Foucault's HistoricalMaterialismJarrod Shanahan
Peter Thomas - Chair Room TBA
Cities, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Localism Theme: Political EconomyLocalism and Marxist Rent Theory Greg Sharzer, Greg
Schumpeter's Unions in theCitySteven Tufts
Redevelopment Processesof Downtown Areas inCanada: Towards "Design-Based" Planning? AComparative Analysis ofMontreal, Toronto andVancouverSebastien Darchen
Laam Hae - Chair Room TBA
Critical Philippine Studies: Writing Against Empire,Struggling for National Liberation and Global Justice
Theme: Race, Empire and Resistance
Young Filipina WomenToday: The PhilippineStruggle Continues!Delia D.Aguilar
Postcolonial Modernity &National Self-Determination:On the Moro People'sRevolution in the PhilippinesSonny San Juan, Jr.
Reading in a Time of War:Carlos Bulosan and GlobalJusticeJeffrey A. Cabusao
The Filipinization of theCritical: Locating FilipinoDiasporic Experiences inEducational Theories andPracticesMichael Viola
Maita Sayo - Chair Room TBA
Revolutionary Experiences Since 1848 Theme: Revolutionary Experiences Since 1848Between Party and Class:Workers' Councils in Theoryand PracticeAdam Hilton,
Dialectics and the SpanishCivil WarGallagher, Patrick
Johnson Forest and Today'sEconomic Crisis: Why the"Russian Question" StillMattersSandra Rein
Sebastian Budgen - Chair Room TBA
The New Cooperativism Theme: Working Class and Social MovementsCommons and CooperativesGreig De Peuter and Nick Dyer-Witheford
The Sangham Strategy:Lessons for CooperativeModes of ProductionSouryan Mookerjea
The Italian CooperativeMovement, SocialCooperatives, and theDevelopment of CivicCapacity: A Case ofCooperative Renewal?Vanna Gonzales
The New UniversityCooperative: ReclaimingHigher Education:Prioritizing Social Justiceand Ecological SustainabilityWilma E. Van der Veen
Marcelo Vieta - Chair Room TBA
Introduction to Marx’s Capital, 3: Machinery, Accumulation andthe Labour ProcessGreg Albo
TBA - Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 11
Saturday, May 15 3:45- 5:00pmAfternoon Conjoint Plenaries:
1. Historical Materialism and the work of Dorothy Smith Speakers: Dorothy Smith, Sara Carpenter and Gary Kinsman
2. Global Justice Struggles Today: Palestine, the Philippines, BoliviaSpeakers: Rafeef Ziadah, Sonny San Juan Jr. andJeffrey Webber Room TBA
5:30pm – 7:00pmEvening Plenary: Marx and the Global SouthSpeakers: Vijay Prashad and Kevin Anderson andresponse by Himani Bannerji
Room 109
8:00pmSocial at the Bedford Academy36 Prince Arthur AvenueWith Performances/Readings by Rafeef Ziadah and Sam Friedman
St. George subway, Bedford exit, left onBedford Rd, right on Prince Arthur Ave
Sunday, May 16 10:00am – 11:30amEpistemology of Praxis: Marxist Theorization of Learning Theory: Art, Culture and Everyday LifeConforming, Reforming orTransforming? A GramscianAnalysis of Globalizationand the Praxis of Non-Governmental OrganizationsJohn Holst
Communities of Practice:Re-inscribing GlobalizedLabour in WorkplaceLearningHelen Colley
Learning by Dispossession:Democracy Promotion andCivic Engagement in Iraqand the United StatesCarpenter, Sarah andShahrzad Mojab
Shahrzad Mojab – Chair Room TBA
Roundtable on Tbe Canadian War on Queers by Gary Kinsman & Patrizia Gentile
Theme: Gender, Sexuality and Social Reproduction
Roundtable discussantTim MacCaskell
Roundtable discussantRinaldo Walcott
Roundtable discussantCynthia Wright
RespondantGary Kinsman
TBA - Chair Room TBA
Modes of Critique: Dialectical, Immanent, Ethical Theme: PhilosophyOn the Ideological Pitfalls ofImmanent CritiqueChris Allsobrook
Outline of a Critique ofEthicsPaul Gray
Rorty, Radical Immanenceand MarxThom Workman
The Theoretical Foundationsof Marx's Critique ofCapitalism and theContinuity in Marx's ThoughtArya Zahedi
David Bedford – Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 12
Sunday, May 16 10:00am – 11:30amCritique, Catastrophe, Utopia Theme: PhilosophyOvercoming the Politics ofResentment: Political Praxisin Nietzsche and AdornoKaren Walker
Thinking "Catastrophe" inHistorical MaterialismAndrew McGettigan
The Crooked Timber ofSocialism: Adorno andTimpanaro on HumanNature, Revolution, andUtopiaDaleShin
Shannon Bell – Chair Room TBA
Debates in Marxist Political EconomyImmaterial LabourProduction andRelative/Absolute SurplusValue AppropriationMatthew Greaves
The Profit Rate and theLimits of the Wage-PushProfit Squeeze Theory,1966-2000Geoffrey McCormack
The Social Parameters ofProductivity Growth: ACritical Assessment of theNeoclassical EconomicTheory in the Context ofMarxian Political Economy.An Alternative (Marxian)Interpretation of the"Productivity Paradox"Vasilis Papadakis
Charlie Post – Chair Room TBA
Anti-Zionism and Palestinian Resistance Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceFrom Anti-Nazism to Anti-Zionism: A Survivor's StoryWeiss, Suzanne
The First Intifada: Palestine1936-39Young, Art
Chair and Discussant - TBA Room TBA
Party, Movement, Class: Rethinking OrganizationalExpressions in Radical Transformation
Theme: Revolutionary Experiences Since 1848
Party, Movement, Class:GramscianReconsiderations and theCase of the BDS MovementAbigail Bakan
The Forgotten Bolsheviks:Rediscovering theMezhrayonkaPaul Kellogg
The Two Souls ofCentralism: OrganizationalAmbiguity in the EarlyCominternJohn Riddell
Greg Sharzer – Chair Room TBA
Introduction to Marx’s Capital, 4: At the Scene of the Crime: the “Primitive Accumulation” of Capital
Theme: Introduction to Marx’s Capital
David McNally
Genevieve LeBaron - Chair Room TBA
Sunday, May 16 11:45 – 1:15pmThe Imperialism Question in the Twentieth Century Theme: Race, Empire and ResistanceAnti-Imperialism in the Ageof Stalin: The Communists inIndia, 1928-1968Atiya Khan
Marx and Engels' Anti-anti-imperialism, Regression,and ContemporaryHelplessnessSpencer Leonard,
From Imperialism to theColonial Question: TheLenin-Roy DebateSunit Singh
Sarah O'Sullivan – Chair Room TBA
Historical Materialism 2010 Schedule 13
Sunday, May 16 11:45 – 1:15pmHumanism and Socialism Theme: PhilosophyReflections on Marx'sConcept of IdeologyHimani Bannerji
Socialism in the GrundrisseParesh Chattopadhyay
Marx's Critique of HumanRightsVanessa Wills
A More Adequate MarxistHumanism: Towards theHuman as Object of LabourSean Gill
Colin Mooers – Chair Room TBA
In and Out of Crisis: Authors Meet Critics Theme: Political EconomyIn and Out of Crisis: theAuthorsLeo Panitch; Sam Gindin;and Greg Albo
In and Out of Crisis: theCriticsJohanna Brenner andDavid McNally
Anna Agathangelou – Chair Room TBA
Pax Britannica Reconsidered: World Market, Geopolitics and Classin the Nineteenth Century
Theme: Political Economy
Class forces, Geopolitics,and the Making of a LiberalInternational Order, 1848-1873Hannes Lacher
Nineteenth-Century WorldOrder and the Myth of BritishHegemonyJulian Germann
Late Industrialization, Historic Blocs, and HistoricalProcesses: Hegemony vs. Uneven and CombinedDevelopmentJeremy Green
Mark Thomas – Chair Room TBA
Rethinking Indigenous Political Economy: Predicamentsin Self-Determination
Theme: Race, Empire and Resistance
From Indigenous Economies to Market-based Self-governance: A Feminist Political Economy AnalysisRauna Kuokkanen
Power, Property and theCaribou “Crisis”Deborah Simmons
Canadian Capitalism andIndigenous StruggleTodd Gordon
Andrea Smith – Chair and Discussant Room TBA
Legacies of Lenin-Era Marxism Theme: Revolutionary Experiences Since 1848The Communist Women'sInternational, 1921-26John Riddell
1921: The CominternShapes its StrategyMike Taber
Lenin: Revolution,Democracy, SocialismPaul Leblanc
Ahmed Shawki – Chair Room TBA
Class Formation and Class Discipline Theme: Labour Process and Class RelationsThe Making of QuébecCoordinating ClassSimon Tremblay-Pepin
Regulated Flexibility: Employment Standards,Neoliberalism, and the Reproduction of PrecariousEmploymentMark Thomas
What is Union Bureaucracy?A Theoretical AccountDavid Camfield
Sheila Wilmot – Chair Room TBA
2:15pm – 3:30pmClosing Plenary: Capitalism, Race andColonialismSpeakers: Andrea Smith, David Roediger, andBetsy Esch Room 109