Friday, April 21st, 07:00 – 09:00 PM
Plenary Panel – Meyer 121
Class Composition and Strategy Today
Kim Moody
Beverly Silver
Aaron Benanav
Saturday, April 22nd, 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Waverly 367
How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century
Erik Olin Wright
Peter Bratsis (discussant)
Chair: Paul Heideman
Waverly 369
Politics in the Age of Trump
Charlie Post: “’Is America Great Again?’— Trump’s First 100 Days”
Jennifer Roesch
Bhaskar Sunkara
Commentator: Tithi Bhattacharya
Cosponsored by International Socialist Review
Waverly 431
Symposium on Fred Moseley’s Money and Totality
Martha Campbell
David Laibman
Jose Tapia
Andrew Higginbottom
Respondent: Fred Moseley (Respondent)
Chair: TBA
Waverly 433
CUNY at the Crossroads: A Discussion of Campus Organizing
Andy Battle: What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Austerity’?
Erin Cully: Teaching in a Gig Economy
Jarrod Shanahan: Challenging Business Unionism in the CUNY System
Chair: Alix Rule
Waverly 435
Domination, Abstraction, and Reproduction: Aspects of the Theory of Labor Power
Zaira Rodrigues Vieira – A critique of the concept of abstract domination in Moishe Postone’s work
Guido Starosta and Alejandro Fitzsimons – Rethinking the determination of the value of labour-power
Ken Kawashima – Discussant
Chair: Maya Gonzalez
Waverly 566 A
Women’s Strikes in the Age of Feminization
Johanna Isaacson – Managed Monsters: The Babadook as Care Strike
Madeline Lane-McKinley – Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”
Magally Miranda – Beyond Privilege: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Women’s Refusal
Discussant: Sophie Lewis
Chair: Bue Rübner Hansen
Cosponsored by Blind Field
Waverly 370
Roundtable on Training Political Cadre: Historical Lessons and Currents Methods
George Cicariello-Maher
Kate Byrne-Miller
David Thompson
Todd Chretien
Chair: John McDonald
Waverly 569
In Memoriam, Gyorgy Markus
Agnes Heller
Jonathan Pickle
Ben Laude
Chair: Aaron Jaffe
Saturday, April 22nd, 11:45 – 1:15 PM
Waverly 367
Bolshevik Strategy in 1917: Rupture or Continuity with “Old Bolshevism”?
Lars Lih – Hegemony: The Heart of the Old Bolshevik Outlook
Eric Blanc – Bolshevism Before Lenin: A Critical Reassessment
Todd Chretien – Lenin’s April Theses: a Bolt from the Blue or Summarizing the Bolshevik Consensus?
Chair: Sebastian Budgen
Concerning Violence: Subjections, Resistance, Subversions
Anthony Alessandrini – Fanonian Nonviolence
Arto Artinian – Political Struggle and the Intermediary Spaces of the Operational Level of Politics: Initial Formulations
Peter Bratsis – Beyond Coercion and Consent: Servility and Self-Interest in Liberal Societies
Bruno Gullì – Sovereign Violence and the Work of Resistance
Chair: TBA
Cosponsored by Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
Waverly 431
The Bolshevik Revolution and Proletarian Literature
Anna Einarsdottir – “Indigenous Proletarians: On Andean Proletarian Literature”
Joseph Ramsey -“A Red Beyond Black and White: The Critical Communism of Richard Wright’s ‘Black Confession'”
Barbara Foley – “The Russian Revolution and US Proletarian Literature”
Chair: Paul Heideman
Waverly 433
Materialism Old and New
Alex Levant – Smart Matter and the Thinking Body: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Critique of New Materialism
Evgeni Pavlov – The Party of Lunar Eclipse: “Old” Materialist View of History Revisited
Anna Stetsenko – Transformative activist stance: Powering social change through the praxis of activism and agency
Chair: Jose Haro
Waverly 435
A Dialogue on The Politics of Ecological Crisis:
Dan Boscov-Ellen
Michelle Mawhinney
Nancy Fraser
Chair: Joshua Pineda
Waverly 566 A
Symposium on Michael McCarthy’s Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal
Charlie Post
Robin Blackburn
Nicole Aschoff
Michael McCarthy (Respondent)
Chair: Jef Webber
Waverly 370
Adorno: Subjectivity and Critique
Kumars Salehi – Threads of Enlightenment: Adorno and political subjectivity in the era of social media
Eli Lichtenstein – Adorno’s Critique of Labor Today
Aaron Jaffe – Discussant
Chair: TBA
Waverly 569
Inquiry Today
Anna Curcio: Neoliberal Crisis and Social Reproduction as Political Battleground
Jamie Woodcock
Magally Miranda – The Power of Trabajadoras and the Subversion of Capital: Notes on a Domestic Workers’ Inquiry
Ben Mabie
Chair: TBA
Co-sponsored by Viewpoint
Saturday, April 22nd, 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Waverly 367
Roundtable on Prisons, Policing, and the Racial Capitalist State in Crisis:
Orisanmi Buron
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Jack Norton
Craig Gilmore
Chair: Ben Mabie
Waverly 369
Roundtable discussion: Politics and Land in Palestine
Nora Akawi
Nasser Aburhme
Paul Kohlbry
Chair: Kareem Rabie
Waverly 431
Landscapes of Political Possibility: Re-Reading the Russian and German Revolutions Today
Massimiliano Tomba – Revolutionary Constitutions: Possibilities Not Taken
Sean Larson – Revolution Impermanent: Reassessing the “German October” of 1923
Richard Seymour – After the Catastrophe
Chair: Francisco Fortuño Bernier
Waverly 433
Symposium on Jeffery Webber’s “The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left”
Gabriel Hetland
Jeff Webber
Tony Wood
Chair: Chris Carlson
Waverly 435
Capitalism & Slavery:
John Clegg – Capitalism, Slavery and Emancipation
Andy Higginbottom – ‘Capital’ and Slavery: A Transatlantic Interpretation
Charlie Post – Reflections on the New Literature on Slavery
Chair: Asad Haider
Waverly 566 A
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe
Catarina Principe
Agnes Heller
Nantina Vgontzas
Bue Rübner Hansen
Chair: Aaron Jaffe
Waverly 370
The Political Economy of Money and Crisis
Cedric Durand – Investment-profit nexus in an era of financialisation and globalisation. The monopolization hypothesis.
Karl Beitel – The Contemporary Semiotics and Dynamics of Money, Capital, and Value
Michael Roberts – Profits, investment and multipliers in economic cycles
Anwar Shaikh – Discussant
Chair: TBA
Waverly 569
New Directions in Marxist/Feminist Theory:
Kelly Gawel – On Marxist Feminist Critical Method
William Lewis – Class as concrete and normative, a new model for conceiving class and gender based oppression.
Almendra Aladro – Street harassment and the Right to the City: challenges in terms of accessibility, freedom, security and autonomy from a Marxist perspective.
Drucilla Cornell – Abortion and Subjectivity
Chair: C. Ray Borck
Saturday, April 22nd, 4:15 – 5:45 PM
Waverly 367
1970’s Italy: Representing Struggle, Retracing Paths Not Taken
Morgan Adamson – Visualizing Reproductive Labor: Italian Feminist Cinema Collectives and the “Unexpected Subject”
Diego Arrocha / Kevin Arauz – Violence in Italy’s “Creeping May”
Evan Calder Williams – Rioters’ Inquiry
Chair: Kelly Gawel
Waverly 369
Why the Marxist Critique of Capitalist Ideology is Never Finished
Bertell Ollman – With What Does the Marxist Critique of Capitalist Ideology Begin, and Where Should it End?
Michael Hudson – Ideology in Economics
August Nimtz – Ideology Throughout the Social Sciences
Chair: Virgilio Lazardi
Waverly 431
Affirmers of the New Art: Art of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
Dan La Botz – Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Mexico and Russia: 1920-1940
Crystal Stella Becerril – Affirmers of the New Art: Art of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
Eduardo Avila – Press, Programs and Bureaucracy in the Mexican and Russian Revolutions
Chair: TBA
Waverly 433
Ecological Struggle: imperatives and Interrogations
Ashley Dawson – Decarbonizing New York
Anthony Lioi – Staying with the Trouble in the Classroom: The Place of Popular Culture in a Pedagogy of Resistance
Nancy Holmstrom – The Dialectic of the Individual and Collective – an Ecological Imperative
Chair: Aaron Jaffe
Waverly 435
Strategies on the Turkish Left
Ali Behran Ozcelik – The Case for a United Front in Turkey
Ercan Sadi – Before and After the Presidential Referendum: De-stabilizing dynamics in Turkish politics and the AKP’s capacity to adapt
Yasemin Yilmaz – Looking for the Leftists
Chair: TBA
Waverly 566 A
Black Marxism and Black Radicalism in American History
Michael Billeaux – Interracial solidarity in the US labor movement: notes toward an explanation
Matthew Nichter – DuBois’s Marxist Mentor: Will Herberg and the Making of Black Reconstruction
Richard Gilman-Opalsky – Specters of Revolt: On the Ghosts of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charlotte
Chair: Paul Heideman
Waverly 370
The Crisis of Bourgeois Politics
Richard Seymour: The Dialectic of Defeat
Tithi Bhattacharya: Playing Oppression: Neoliberal “Solutions” to Capitalist Social Relation
Carolyn Eichner
Chair: Wilson Sherwin
Co-sponsored by Salvage
Waverly 569
Affective Labor and the Paid Work of Social Reproduction
Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal – Acting affect: emotion memory, emotional labour and “performance” at work
Morgane Merteuil – The Digital whore: cyber sexual labour and social reproduction
Gizem Cakmak – Social Reproduction Under Late Capitalism: Public Care and the Role of Nurses
Chair: Dave Mesing
Saturday, April 22nd, 6:00 – 8:30 PM
Plenary Panel – Silver 121
Race, Repetition, Rebellion: The Political Economy of Surplus
Chris Chen
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Joshua Clover
George Ciccariello-Maher
Plenary Panel – Silver 408
The Economic Crisis
Anwar Shaikh
Michael Roberts
Sunday, April 23rd, 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Waverly 367
Shop floor Struggles: The Forgotten Abode of Socialist Strategy
Kim Moody – The New Terrain of Class Conflict
Charlie Post – What’s Globalization Got To Do With It?:The Decline of Industrial Unionism in the North American Tire Industry, 1966-2008
Nicole Aschoff – Bad Jobs Everywhere, Lessons from the US Auto Industry
Chair: Wilson Sherwin
Co-sponsored by Jacobin
Waverly 369
Authoritarianism and Political Regime Change: Quo Vadis, Turkey?
Elif Genc – Gender, State and Resistance: The Kurdish Women’s Armed Struggle for Liberation
Havva Ezgi Dogru – Naming the Leviathan: Bonapartist, Fascist or Neoliberal Authoritarian?
Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz – Oppression of Progressive Academia in Turkey: The Case of Academics for Peace
Gulay Kilicaslan – The Kurdish Question and AKP’s Increasing Fascism
Berivan Kutlay Sarikaya – Centring the Prisons to Understand the Contemporary Regime Change in Turkey
Chair: Aziz Guzel
Waverly 431
On the Young Hegelians
Joshua Pineda – Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Afterlife of Critical Criticism
Dan Boscov-Ellen – Whose Universalism?
Aaron Jaffe – Marxist Strategies for Critique Among the Young Hegelians
Chair: Virgilio Lazardi
Waverly 433
Class Composition and Communist Thought in Latin America
Juan Grigera – Rethinking the Pink Tide Cycle
Robert Cavooris – René Zavaleta: Composition Beyond Nationalism
Christopher Gunderson – Zapatismo and the Uneven and Combined Development of Communist Thought and Practice
Jimena Vergara – The NAFTA Working Class in Trump’s Mexico
Chair: Jeff Webber
Waverly 435
Symposium on Michael Roberts’ The Long Depression
Fred Moseley
Pete Green
Al Campbell
Michael Roberts (Respondent)
Chair: TBA
Waverly 566 A
A Century of October
Lars Lih
David Mandel
Paul Le Blanc
Chair: Sebastian Budgen
Waverly 370
The Globality of Japanese Marxism
Gavin Walker – The Global in Marxist Theory and the Allegories of History
Harry Harootunian – Globality, Unevenness, and the Problem of “Second Hand Time”
Ken Kawashima – Primitive Accumulation, the Commodification of Labor Power and the Coloniality of Shifting National Boundaries: The Struggles of Korean workers in Interwar Japan
Commenters: Rebecca Karl, Massimiliano Tomba
Chair: Evan Calder Williams
Waverly 569
“Race Science” and Social Science
Mario Diaz-Perez – Du Bois’s Early Sociology of Race
Matthew Lau – Stephen Jay Gould’s Critique of Race Science in the Age of Trump: Correcting the Corrected Record Today.
Michelle O’Brian – Discussant
Chair: Kelly Gawel
Sunday, April 23rd, 11:45 – 1:15 PM
Waverly 367
Symposium on Clyde Woods’ Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Christina Heatherton
Jordan Camp
(note: Clyde Woods passed away in 2011 and won’t be in attendance)
Chair: Sophia Hussain
Waverly 369
Late Althusser: Politics and Theoretical Practice
Banu Bargu – Althusser’s Retreat to Epicurus and Aleatory Materialism
Thomas Carmichael – Aleatory Materialism and Theoretical Practice: the Logic of Struggle in the Later Althusser
William Lewis – “Editorial choices and the reception of Althusser’s last philosophy: an arranged encounter.”
Asad Haider – The Crisis in Marxism
Chair: Ben Mabie
Waverly 431
Rethinking Class Decomposition and Organizational Fragmentation
Jason Read – Class Decomposition: Affect and Politics in the Age of Negative Solidarity
Rodrigo Nunes – The Practice and Theory of Leadership Today: An Immanent Critique and Reconceptualization
Bue Rübner Hansen – Discussant
Chair: Andrew Anastasi
Waverly 433
History and Trajectory of Brazilian Capitalism
Mayra Cotta – The Politics of a inclusion thorough consumption: Rise and Fall of the Brazilian Workers’ Party
Juan Ferre – Racial Formation in Brazil: A Historical Perspective
Vladimir Puzone – Remarks on the present situation in Brazil: rackets on power
Sebastian Guevara – Automotive industry and overexploitation: the Mercosur case
Chair: Chris Carlson
Waverly 435
The Aesthetic Moment in Marxist Theory
Bejamin Laude – Reclaiming Time: Music and the Transcendence of Value Production
Stephan Hammel and Bryan Parkhurst – Against Marxist Aesthetics
Daniel Tutt – Bringing Brecht Beyond Theatre: A Dialectical Strategy
Chair: Francisco Fortuño Bernier
Waverly 566 A
György Lukács: Theory and Praxis
Michael Frank – Marx’s Analysis of Commodity Fetishism and Lukacs’s Theory of Reification
Daniel Lopez – The dialectic of organisation in Lukacs’s concept of praxis
Harrison Fluss – Discussant
Chair: Joshua Pineda
Waverly 370
When Revolutions Go Wrong
Sam Farber – “Did the Cuban Revolution Go Wrong?”
Dan La Botz – “The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong?”
Elliott Liu – “State Capitalism Against Itself: Maoism and the Chinese Revolution”
Chair: TBA
Waverly 569
Queer(ing) Marxism
Paul Reynolds – Some Notes on a Queer Materialism
Gokboru Sarp – The War in the Middle East, the Concept of Homonormativity, and the Body: Towards a Historical Materialist Exploration
Alyssa Adamson – Marx’s Queer Humanism
Chair: C. Ray Borck
Sunday, April 23rd, 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Waverly 367