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
“What is Happening in Japan? From the Perspective of the Anti-Atomic-Capistalist Struggle” / Sabu Kohso
Wendy Matsumura
“An Invisible Warfare in Japanâfrom Disaster Capitalism to Apocalyptic Capitalism” / Go Hirasawa
Hari Harootunian
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
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
“Break the vicious circle: contemporary art between religion and politics” / Oxana Timofeeva
“The Creative-Destructive Character: Art and Labour in Terms of Communisation” / Marina Vishmidt & Anthony Iles
“How to Dance a Riot: On the Aesthetics of Struggle” / Olive McKeon
“Zones of Insurrection: The Subversive Hegemon, Transgression, Transcendence and the Public Space” / Stuart Smithers
Discussants : Dara Greenwald and Lindsay Caplan
“Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women in the 20th Century, USA” / Mimi Abramovitz
“Local Food: Marginalization, Social Reproduction and the Politics of Work” / Justin Myers
“Redeeming Some ‘Promissory Notes’ ” / and George Caffentzis
Discussion
Chair: Anastasia Gomes
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