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