Historical Materialism New York City
Discussion of various contemporary struggles with imperialism.
“The Iranian Revolution and the Anti-Imperialist paradigm: fetters of the past, potential for the future” / Arya Zahedi
“Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Cases of Turkish Kemalism and the Bolivian MNR” / Loren Goldner
“The Problem of Post Colonial Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Speculations on the Recuperation of the Islamic Right” / Biju Mathew
Discussant: Nagesh Rao
Discussion
“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
“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