Historical Materialism New York City
NOTE: The first paper, “The Republican Proletariat: The Suburban Style in American Politics”, given by Christopher Wright was not recorded due to technical difficulties, but he does answer questions in the discussion period.
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tea Party” / Lauren Langman
“What’s Wrong with How We Think about the Right” / Corey Robin
Discussant: Victor Wallis
Discussion
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
“Historical trends and short-term fluctuations of profit rates prior to the current crisis” / Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy
“Notes Towards a Marxian Approach to the Monetary Circuit” / Paulo dos Santos
“Economics, Methodology and the Financial Crisis” / Andrew Brown
Discussion
Chair: Jonathan Cogliano
“Marx on the Civil War in Slavery” / Kevin Anderson
“Slavery in Marx’s Capital” / Eric Lott
“The Wages of Slavery: a value- theoretic model of slave prices” / John Clegg
Discussion
Chair: Charles Post
“New Middle Eastern Uprisings: Gender, Class and Security Politics in Egypt and Iran” / Manijeh Nasrabadi
“The Diverse Role, Reaction and Tactics of various Bedouin Populations in the ongoing Pan-Arab Revolts and Revolutions” / Nader Hasan
Discussant: Joel Beinin
Discussion
Chair: FTC Manning
“Accumulation, Excess, and Childhood: Towards a Countertopography of Risk and Waste” / Cindi Katz
“The Shifting Spatial Requirements of Indigenous Dispossession in Canada: Primitive Accumulaltion in the Political Economy of White Settler Colonialism” /
Shiri Pasternak
“Land Enclosure, Micro-finance and Witch-hunting in Africa and India today” / Silvia Federici
Discussant: Werner Bonefeld
Discussion
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
“The Return to Hegel: On Gillian Rose’s Legacy” / Sara Farris
“The Spiritual Animal Kingdom: On Gillian Roses Hegelian Critique of Bourgeois Society” / Harrison Fluss
Comments and Discussion by
Jeanne Schuler
and Patrick Murray
Chair: Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
“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
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