Historical Materialism New York City
“Gender and Race as Interlocking Divisions of Labor” / Anastasia Gomes and Laura Renata Martin
“Towards a mode of social reproduction” / Sebastien Rioux
“Gender and Capital: The Self-Abolition of Women as Communism” / Maya Gonzalez
Comments and Discussant : Silvia Federici
Discussion
Chair: Laura Silverman
“Indigenous Rights and historical materialism” / Peter Kulchyski
“Does Antagonism exist in the process of primitive accumulation? The Miyako Island Peasantry Movement” / Wendy Matsumura
“From Red October to Evo Morales: Rebellion and Reform in Contemporary Bolivian Politics” / Jeffrey R. Webber
Discussion
Chair: Shiri Pasternak
Roundtable discussion with participants Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak and Marianna Pavlovskaya, with discussion chaired by David Spataro.
Maliha Safri and Stephen Healy
Craig Borowiak
Marianna Pavlovskaya
Discussion
Chair: David Spataro
“On The Woman Question” / Emma Heaney
“Queer Nations in the Imperialist Heartland” / Alan Sears
“Gender Performativity and Capital Performativity” / Cinzia Arruzza
Discussant: Kevin Floyd
Chair: Cathy Borck
Financial Crisis in the US
Chair: Francesca Manning
“Financialization: The Appropriations of Finance and the Restructuring of American Capitalism in Our Time” / William Tabb
“Recentering the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis: The Past and Future of US Racial Inequality” / Gary Dymski
Discussion
Chair: FTC Manning
Book panel on Charles Post’s “The American Road to Capitalism,” published in 2011 as part of the Historical Materialism book series.
Charles Post
Discussant 1 / Sven Beckert
Discussant 2 / Vivek Chibber
*Note: the audio file for Vivek Chibber’s presentation was unfortunately recorded with extremely poor quality and was therefore unfit for uploading.
Discussion
Chair: John Clegg
Reification and temporality: What does it mean to have class consciousness today? / Miguel Vatter
Walter Benjamin’s “real state of emergency” / Massimiliano Tomba
Enlightened Catastrophism? Crises, Catastrophes and Political Life / Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
Discussion
Chair : John Boy
*Note: The audio footage for presentations by Alberto Toscano and Matteo Mandarini are unfortunately not included here due to very poor quality recordings.
“Militant Subjects and Organizational Form” / Matteo Mandarini
“Is There Revolution Without Reform? : Of Transitional Programmes and Intransitive Politics” / Alberto Toscano
“Die Organisationsfrage as regulative idea?” / Peter Thomas
Discussion
Chair / John Boy
“Marx on Colonialism and Race: A 21st Century View” / Kevin Anderson
Discussant / Alex Callinicos
Discussant / Nagesh Rao
Discussion
Chair: Arya Zahedi
Panel discussion on subsumption and social reproduction under capitalism. Includes presentations by Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez (Programmatism, A History), Matt Huber (The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life), Marcel Stoetzler (…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities). Discussion chaired by John Boy.
“Programmatism, A History” / Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez
“The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life” / Matt Huber
“…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities” / Marcel Stoetzler
Discussion
Chair: John Boy