Marxist Literary Group - Institute on Culture and Society University of Illinois at Chicago June 13-20, 2001

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 Registration, 2 pm Reception Film, Bread and Roses

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 I. Marx Reading Group I, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy. (David Shumway) II. Stewart Acuff on the right to organize under assault III. Kevin Floyd and others on TA organization IV. First screening, Third World Film Series

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 I. Workplace open editorial meeting--all welcome II. Helena Worthen and Joe Berry on learning pedagogies, teaching labor. III. David Shumway on Adorno, Crystal Bartolovich on Benjamin IV. Iris Marion Young on Marcuse V. Second Screening

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 I. Joel Woller, Kevin Floyd, Tony Alessandrini, and Jean Gregorek on Marxism and its theoretical others

II. Liza Featherstone and others on corporate universities and sweatshop organizing III. Rich Daniels, Marc Bousquet, and Ed Wiltse on the responsibility of Marxist intellectuals in the academy today IV. Michael Sprinker student paper award V. Third Screening

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 I. Business Meeting II. Doug Henwood, Jamie Daniel, and Maria Elisa Cevasco on the "new economy"/globalization III. Reading Group: Linebaugh and Rediker's The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Fred Pfeil and Jerry Phillips) IV. Marcus Rediker on The Many Headed Hydra V. Fourth Screening

MONDAY, JUNE 18

1. Marx Reading Group II, General Introduction to and selections from the Grundrisse (Shumway) II. Courtney Maloney and Bob Bruno on remembering labor struggle III. Chicago Day Labor panel IV. Matt Ruben and Elayne Tobin on images of leftism in film, Don Hedrick on the political economy of the film trailer

TUESDAY, JUNE 19 I. Phil Goldstein on Marxism and Literary History, John Higgins on the unsystematic Marx II. Modhumita Roy, Jamie Daniel, Kanishka Chowdhury, and Nicholas Brown on third-worldism in film III. Laura Sullivan and Randy Martin on base and superstructure IV. Laura Sullivan on Beautopia

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 I. Round Table: Feminism and Marxism. (Judy Gardiner, Modhumita Roy, Laura Sullivan, and others) II. Matt Ruben, Elayne Tobin and Jerry Phillips on Marxism and urban space, Wednesday June 20, slot II. III. TBA IV. Party