Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 15:25:42 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Wolff <rwolff-AT-minerva.cis.yale.edu> Subject: Final RETHINKING MARXISM Conference Schedule CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! MARXISM AND THE POLITICS OF ANTIESSENTIALISM Hosted by RETHINKING MARXISM When: April 21 and 22, 1995. Where: Campus Center, University of Massachusetts--Amherst Open to the public free of charge. Contact person: For more information, e-mail vanderve-AT-econs.umass.edu or call Rick Wolff at (413) 545- 6351. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, April 21, 1:00-3:00 p.m. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR Campus Center 904-08 Chair and discussant: Shelley Feldman, Development Sociology, Cornell University Presenters: S. Charusheela, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst "Gender and Finance in Informal Sector Households" Usha Rao Banerjee, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst "Changing Images of the Informal Sector in Development Discourse" Marjolein Van Der Veen, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst "Hustling in the Global Economy: Sex and the Informal Sector" CULTURAL PRACTICE, CULTURAL RESISTANCE Campus Center 917 Chair: Susan Jahoda, Dept. of Art, UMass-Amherst Presenters: Susan Minnich, Artist "How Does Your Garden Grow? A Regional Activist Artist's Perspective" 2 Robert Blake, International Center of Photography, New York "Got It: Getting It: Giving It Up" Danielle Abrams and Sarah Brown, San Francisco-based Performance Artists "Sonny" Friday, April 21, 3:30-5:30 p.m. STRATEGIC ANTIESSENTIALISM: THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERN IDENTITY Campus Center 917 Chair: Sut Jhally, Dept. of Communication, UMass-Amherst Presenters: Katherine Gibson, Centre for Women's Studies, Monash University "Beyond Patriarchy and Capitalism: Rethinking Political Subjectivity" David Mertz, Dept. of Philosophy, UMass-Amherst "Cyborg Bodies from Haraway through Bataille (or, Two Ways to Lose a Self)" HYBRIDAXE Susan Jahoda/Robert Blake "Changing the Subject" WHAT COMES AFTER DEVELOPMENT? Campus Center 904-08 Chair and discussant: Satyananda Gabriel, Dept. of Economics, Mt. Holyoke College Presenters: Arturo Escobar, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst "After Development: Identity and Constructions of Nature in Tropical Rainforest Areas" David Ruccio, Dept. of Economics, University of Notre Dame; Serap Kayatekin, School of Business and Economic Studies, University of Leeds; Julie Graham, Dept. of Geology and Geography, UMass-Amherst "After Development: Renegotiating the Role of Class" 3 Friday 5:30-6:30 CASH BAR, Campus Center 904-08 Saturday, April 22, 10-11:30 a.m. DERRIDA/MARX Campus Center 904-08 Chair and discussant: Stephen Cullenberg, Dept. of Economics, UC-Riverside Presenters: Andrew Parker, Dept. of English and Dept. of Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College "Derrida's Marx: The State of the Debt" Julie Graham, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University; Dept. of Geology and Geography, Umass-Amherst "Ghosts" CLASS ANALYTICS MEETS THE FAMILY Campus Center 917 Chair and discussant: Rick Wolff, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst Presenters: Harriet Fraad, Psychotherapist "Motherhood, Apple Pie, and Class Exploitation: Marxism Meets the Kids" Jenny Cameron, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University "Ironing Out Family Structures: Class and Power in the Household" Saturday, April 22, 1:00-3:00 p.m. QUEER THEORY/REPRODUCING PUBLICS Campus Center 917 Chair and discussant: Jack Amariglio, Dept. of Economics, Merrimack College Presenters: 4 Michael Moon, Dept. of English, Duke University "Semipublics" Michael Warner, Dept. of English, Rutgers University "Repro Culture" Cindy Patton, Dept. of Communications, Temple University "God's Space, Queer Space: Counting Down to the Apocalypse" GLOBALIZATION, COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ACTION Campus Center 904-08 Chair and discussant: Carmen Diana Deere, Dept. of Economics, Umass-Amherst Panelists: Stephen Cullenberg, Dept. of Economics, UC-Riverside "Global (Dis)order and the New Internationalism" George DeMartino, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver "Anti-essentialism Against Relativism: The Case of Global Economic Integration" Fred Curtis, Dept. of Economics, Drew University "The Economics of Community, Place and Land: Wendell Berry and the Alternative Critique of Capitalism" Saturday, April 22, 3:30-5:30 p.m. ACTS OF EXCLUSION: FEMINISTS EXAMINE ECONOMICS Campus Center 917 Chair and discussant: Rob Garnett, Dept. of Economics, Denison University Presenters: Cecilia Rio, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too" Ulla Grapard, Dept. of Economics, Colgate University "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" Suzanne Bergeron, Dept. of Economics, Ohio Northern University; Bruce Pietrykowski, Dept. of Economics, University of Michigan-Dearborn "Can There be a Genre in Economics?" 5 OUTSIDE/IN: IDEOLOGIES OF HOMELESSNESS Campus Center 904-08 Moderator: Ellen Pader, Regional Planning Program, Umass-Amherst Presenters: Martha Rosler, Dept. of Art, Rutgers University "If We Still Lived Here..." Vin Callo, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst "Economic Change, Hegemony and Homelessness: Exploring the Link Between Ideology and Public Policy" Saturday 5:30-6:30 CASH BAR, Campus Center 904-08 Saturday, April 22, 8:00-10:00 p.m. Mahar 108 PLENARY SESSION MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "Material Witness: Race, Identity, Language and Politics" ************************************************************************* --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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