Professional Documents
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NYC 2011
Founded in 1997, the quarterly Historical Materialism (HM) journal is one of the
foremost publications of critical Marxist theory in the world, known for both its
breadth and its intellectual rigor. Following successful conferences in London
and Toronto, the New York City conference enters its second year, this year at
The New School for Social Research (NSSR). Going forward, North American
HM conferences will be held biennially in Toronto and New York City on al-
ternating years—providing a lively space for scholars and activists to critically
engage theoretical, historical, and practical issues of crucial importance to the
movement for a world beyond capitalism.
The conference consists of three plenary sessions on Saturday evening and one
concluding Sunday plenary. Saturday and Sunday will host six sessions of seven
concurrent panels dedicated to specific themes and debates. The panels have
been broadly arranged into “threads” that span the conference, allowing atten-
dants and participants to pursue a continuous trajectory of discussion beyond
individual sessions (although moving between threads is also encouraged).
These threads have been assigned to specific rooms for the duration of the
conference: “Economy” to room 1009, “Social reproduction” to room 901, “Ex-
ploitation Beyond the Wage” to room 1001, “Working Class Struggle” to room
1108, “Philosophy” to room 1008, “Capital Across Time and Space” to room 1106,
and “Beyond Capitalism?” to room 1102.
HMNY 2011 is supported by The New School for Social Research’s Dean’s Office,
Economics Department, Politics Department, Historical Studies, and
the University Student Senate.
Free coffee, bagels, and snacks available in the room 1103 where a range of
excellent booksellers will also be stationed throughout the conference.
friday may 6: collective book launch
7:30 - 9:30
Room 1103
wine & snacks will be served
· Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World / Hester Eisenstein
· Combined and Uneven Apocalypse: Luciferian Marxism / Evan Calder Williams
· From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia / Jeff Webber
· Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea / Alberto Toscano
· The Gramscian Moment / Peter Thomas
· Reflections of Crisis: The Great Depression and the Twenty-First Century / Quincy Saul
· The Myth of the Clash of Civilisations / Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand
· Capitalism For & Against: A Feminist Debate / Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom
· The American Road to Capitalism / Charles Post
· Crediting God: Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism / Miguel Vatter, ed.
· Modern antisemitism and the emergence of sociology / Marcel Stoetzler
· War, Resistance and Counter-Resistance in Modern Times / Francis Feeley, ed.
· Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa / Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel, eds.
· Strati di tempo. Karl Marx materialista storico / Massimiliano Tomba
· Envisioning Real Utopias / Erik Olin Wright
· American Society: how it really works / Erik Olin Wright with Joel Rogers
· The Birth of Capitalism: A Twentieth Century Perspective / Henry Heller
· Marx at the Margins / Kevin Anderson
· Bonfire of Illusions / Alex Callinicos
· Signs of Change / Dara Greenwald and Josh Macphee
· Marx for Today / Marcello Musto, ed.
· Pedagogy of the Poor / Jan Rehmann and Willie Baptist
· No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City / Josie Berry Slater and Anthony Iles
free breakfast and coffee 9:15-10am, room 1104
Financialization: The On The Woman Charles Post Marxism, Anarchism Reification and tem- Accumulation, Erik Olin Wright
Appropriations of Question and Strategy porality: What does Excess, and Child-
Finance and the / Emma Heaney Sven Beckert / Paul Blackledge is mean to have hood: Towards a David Harvey
Restructuring of class consciousness Countertopography
American Capitalism Queer Nations in the Vivek Chibber Paint it Pink! On the today? of Risk and Waste Discussant / Maliha
in Our time Imperialist Heartland Encounter between / Miguel Vatter / Cindi Katz Safri
/ William Tabb / Alan Sears Chair / John Clegg anarchism and
Marxism in a femi- Walter Benjamin's The Shifting Spatial Chair / Asher
Housing Provision Gender Performa- nist perspective "real state of Requirements of Dupuy-Spencer
and Financialization tivity and Capital / Chiara Bottici and emergency" Indigenous Dispos-
/ Mary Robertson Performativity Laura Corradi / Massimiliano session in Canada:
/ Cinzia Arruzza Tomba Primitive Accumual-
Recentering the Capital and Its Dis- tion in the Political
Political Economy of Discussant / Kevin contents Enlightened Cata- Economy of White
the Subprime Crisis: Floyd / Andrej Grubacic strophism? Crises, Settler Colonialism
The Past and Future Catastrophes and / Shiri Pasternak
of US Racial Chair / Cathy Borck Chair / David Political Life
Inequality McNally / Antonio Y. Land Enclosure,
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World Subsumption, Marx and in the 1960s Capitalism and North Africa, to Ecosocial- Temporalities
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World Money and Programmatism, a Marx on Colonial- The Soldiers’ Re- To Reveal a Capital- The Diverse Role, The ecological crisis Temporalities of Fi-
the Dollar after Gold History ism and Race: A 21st bellion in the Late ism Hidden in Plain reaction and tactics and the future of nance and the Crisis
/ David McNally / Maya Gonzalez Century View Vietnam-Era Military Sight: the Process of various Bedouin capitalism of Responsibilized
and Aaron Benanav / Kevin Anderson / Derek Seidman of Abstraction in populations in the / Joel Kovel Subjectivity
World Money, Pub- Marx’s Dialectical ongoing Pan-Arab / Miranda Joseph
lic Deficits, and the The Real Subsump- Discussants / Industrial Unrest in Method/Bertell revolts and revolu- The transition to
Future of the Dollar tion of Life Under Alex Callinicos the 1960s and 1970s Ollman tions ecosocialism The Time of Credit
/ Karl Beitel Capital: Energy, / Aaron Brenner / Nader Hasan / Quincy Saul / Joshua Clover
Machines, and Ev- Discussant / William Tabb
The Myth of Demon- eryday Life Nagesh Rao The Working Class New Middle Eastern Contours of an eco- Towards a value
etarization of Gold / Matt Huber and the Anti-Viet- Francis Feeley Uprisings: Gender, logically rational theory of media
/ Jean-guy Loranger Chair / Arya Zahedi nam War Movement Class and Security society / Atle Mikkola
...the Revolution that / Penny Lewis Chair / Asher Politics in Egypt and / Salvatore Engel-Di Kjosen
Discussant / Doug will End Capitalism Dupuy-Spencer Iran Mauro
Henwood might fail to usher Discussant / Stanley / Manijeh Nasrabadi Chair /
in communism, and Aronowitz Chair / Morgan David Spataro
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Thinking
Racialized, Left-Indigenous Against the Cri-
Keynesianism Gendered Struggle: Pos- Humanism, Creative and/ sis: Conditions
vs. Socialism/ Working Class sibilities and Liberation, and or Insurrection- for Reconsider- Capitalism in
Marxism Struggle Contradictions the Individual ary Practices ing the Left China
Keynesian Econom- Gendered Obliga- Indigenous rights Socialism and the Break the vicious Annie McClanahan From Peasant to
ics and Socialism tions: The History and historical mate- individual circle: contempo- Consumer
/ Gary Mongiovi of Activism Among rialism / Paresh rary art between Stefano Harney / Alex Day
Poor and Working / Peter Kulchyski Chattopadhyay religion and politics
Keynesian Eco- Class Women in the / Oxana Timofeeva Neferti Tadiar China and the New
nomics: a Marxian 20th Century, USA Does Antagonism Sex in the Inter-imperial Rivalry
Critique and Alterna- / Mimi Abramovitz exist in the process Socialist City The Creative-De- Rene Francisco / Ho-fung Hung
tive of primitive accumu- / Alan Smart structive Character: Poitevin
/ Richard Wolff Local Food: Mar- lation? The Miyako Art and Labour in State Tolerance and
ginalization, Social Island Peasantry Liberation Reload- Terms of Communi- Randy Martin the Informal Labor
The US Treasury- Reproduction and Movement ed: Whither Freudo- sation Market in China
federal Reserve the Politics of Work / Wendy Matsumura Marxism? / Marina Vishmidt & / Sarah Swider
and US imperialism: / Justin Myers / Chris Chitty Anthony Iles
New configurations From Red October Discussant
in response to the Redeeming Some to Evo Morales: Re- Chair / Kevin Floyd How to Dance a / Rebecca Karl
crisis “Promissory Notes” bellion and Reform Riot: On the Aesthet-
/ Ramaa Vasudevan / George Caffentzis in Contemporary ics of Struggle Chair / Ilona Clara
Bolivian Politics / Olive McKeon Nanay
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session 5, sunday may 8th: 1pm - 3pm
Exploitation Working Class Capital Across Beyond
Economy Beyond the Wage Struggle Philosophy Time and Space Capitalism? Capital at Work
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Organic Intel-
Dimensions of lectuals and Strategy/ Book panel:
the Crisis and Carceral Anti-Poverty New Informal Movement/ Ngo Van’s In
Labor Capitalism Movements Materialisms India Organisation the Crossfire
The Cry for Jobs: An The Gendered Jan Rehmann Materialism of the Growth, Distribution Militant Subjects and Helene Fluery
Absurd and Brutal Relations of Encounter and the and Maoist move- Organizational Form
Affirmation of La- Carceral Capitalism Willie Baptist Political Spectacle ment in contempo- / Matteo Mandarini Loren Goldner
bor’s Subordination / Genevieve / Banu Bargu rary India
to Capital LeBaron and Discussant / / Deepankar Basu Is There Revolution Trotskyism in the
/ Geoffrey Adrienne Roberts Mimi Abramavitz Chance Encounters: Without Reform?: Global South: The
McDonald A Political Reading Non/Capital and Of Transitional Political Trajectory of
Revisiting State and Chair and Discussant of Bataille Class: The Informal Programmes and Ngo Van
The “Stagnant Capital: The state as / Colleen / Robyn Marasco Economy in India Intransitive Politics / Greg Sharzer
Pay” Myth and the (the) Police Wessel-McCoy / Snehashish / Alberto Toscano
Persistent Frailty of / Guillermina Seri Preemptive Strikes Bhattacharya Chair / John Clegg
Capitalist Production (of a philosophical Die Organisations-
/ Andrew Kliman Waged Debt- variety): Spinoza Chair / Francesca frage as regulative
Peonage: Mortgage and Marx Manning idea?
Chair / Maya Debt, Deprole- / Jason Read / Peter Thomas
Gonzalez tarianization and the
United States, 1970s Discussant / Chair / John Boy
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Social Exploitation Working Class Capital Across Beyond
Economy Reproduction Beyond the Wage Struggle Philosophy Time and Space Capitalism? Capital at Work
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Book Panel:
Rebel Rank
& File: Labor
Militancy and Capitalism, Apocalyptic Israel, Zionism
Hegemony, Film and Women, Revolt from Be- Communism: Capitalism: and the Colo-
Crisis, Politics in Italy’s State, low During the Ontology and Anti-Anti- Japan after nial-industrial
Revolution Red Decade Violence Long 1970s Contradiction Imperialism the Tsunami complex
A Crisis of Hege- Films and Politics in Beyond Culturalism: Aaron Brenner Jean-Luc Nancy, Poli- The Iranian Revolu- “What is Happening The ‘Jewish Ques-
mony Italy’s Red Decade the Political tics, Communism tion and the Anti-Im- in Japan?” -- From tion’: Reconsidera-
/ Beverly Silver / Evan Calder Economy of Marjorie Murphy / Jason Smith perialist paradigm: the Perspective of tions of Race, Class
Williams & Femonationalism fetters of the past, the Anti - Atomic- and Colonialism
Patterns of Crisis, Alberto Toscano / Sara Farris Steve Early Toward a caring potential for the capitalist Struggle / Abigail Bakan
Patterns of Struggle mode of production future / Sabu Kohso
/ Alex Callinicos Discussant / Maya Women and Party Chair / Jack Norton / Bruno Gulli / Arya Zahedi State Power and the
Gonzalez Politics in Iran: Re- Wendy Matsumura Jewish Question: A
Political and Eco- Mapping The Politi- Marxism, the value Interwar Authori- Study of Zionism
nomic Democracy Chair / Molly Fair cal Landscape form, and the unsur- tarian and Fascist An Invisible Warfare / Joel Kovel
/ Reid Kotlas / Homa Hoodfar passable contradic- Sources of a Reac- in Japan -- from
tion of capitalism tionary Ideology: Disaster Capital- Israel’s ”Pacification
Discussant / Gopal Anti-abortion ter- / Alan Milchman The Cases of Turkish ism to Apocalyptic Industry”: Exporting
Balakrishnan rorism: do women Kemalism and the Capitalism Palestinian Dispos-
hold up half the sky Discussant / Bolivian MNR / Go Hirasawa session
Chair / Morgan Buck or are we back to Sam Han / Loren Goldner / Jimmy Johnson
witch-burning? Harry Harootunian
/ Hester Eisenstein Chair / Ryan Lee The Problem of Post Chair / David
Colonial Nationalism Chair / Jesse Spataro
Chair / Farah Khimji and Multiculturalism: Goldstein
Speculations on the
Recuperation of the
Islamic Right
/ Biju Mathew
Discussant / Nagesh
Rao
sunday may 8th:
closing plenary
Lang Auditorium (55 W. 13th Street, 2nd floor)
6pm to 8pm
Gerard Dumenil
Maliha Safri
Alex Callinicos
Shiri Pasternak
Over the past decade, many Marxist concepts and debates have come in from the cold.
upcoming The anti-capitalist movement generated a widely circulating critique of capitalist modes
of international ‘development’. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2008 has
led to mainstream-recognition of Marx as an analyst of capital. In philosophy and political
historical materialism theory, communism is no longer merely a term of condemnation. Likewise, artistic and
cultural practices have also registered a notable upturn in the fortunes of activism, critical
utopianism and the effort to capture aesthetically the workings of the capitalist system.
conferences: The eighth annual Historical Materialism conference will strive to take stock of these shifts
in the intellectual landscape of the Left in the context of the social and political struggles of
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of various ‘left turns’ in theory and practice, we envisage the conference as a space for the
June 25, 2011 Central Sydney, Australia collective, if necessary, agonistic but comradely, reconstitution of a strategic conception of
the mediations between socio-economic transformations and emancipatory politics.
‘Capital’ Against Capitalism
For such a critical theoretical, strategic and organizational reflection to have traction in
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the present, it must take stock of both the commonalities and the specificities of different
August 17 - 19, 2011 Berlin, Germany struggles for emancipation, as they confront particular strategies of accumulation, political
authorities and relations of force. Just as the crisis that began in 2008 is by no means a
Berliner Summer School 2011 homogeneous affair, so we cannot simply posit a unity of purpose in contemporary revolu-
with Historical Materialism tions, struggles around the commons and battles against austerity.
In collaboration with Selbstuniversität e.V., das about blank and
the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) In consideration of the participation of David Harvey, winner of the Isaac and Tamara
Deutscher Memorial Prize, at this year’s conference, we would particularly wish to empha-
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Sept. 7-9, 2012 Berlin, Germany ly encourage paper submissions and suggested panel-themes that tackle the global nature
of capitalist accumulation, the significance of anti-capitalist resistance in the South, and
Historical Materialism Conference Berlin questions of race, migration and ecology as key components of both the contemporary
crisis and the struggle to move beyond capitalism.
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There will also be a strong presence of workshops on the historiography of the early com-
November 10–13th, 2011 Central London, UK munist movement, particularly focusing on the first four congresses of the Communist
Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle International.
Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference
The conference will aim to combine rigorous and grounded investigations of socio-eco-
The ongoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, alongside intimations of a resurgence in nomic realities with focused theoretical reflections on what emancipation means today,
workers’ struggles against ‘austerity’ in the North and myriad forms of resistance against and to explore – in light of cultural, historical and ideological analyses – the forms taken by
exploitation and dispossession across the globe make it imperative for Marxists and leftists current and coming struggles.
to reflect critically on the meaning of collective anti-capitalist action in the present.
Deadline for registration of abstracts extended till: 1 June 2011
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