M A R X I S T  L I T E R A R Y  G R O U P

I N S T I T U T E  O N  C U L T U R E  A N D  S O C I E T Y

 Annual Meeting
June 16 - 23, 2002 
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Information included:
The Program
Registration
Directions and Parking
Housing and Child Care

THE FINAL PROGRAM

Thanks: We thank the English Department, Carnegie Mellon University and its Head, David Kaufer, the Cultural Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh and its Director, Nancy Condee, the Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cultural Analysis for support of this year's ICS.

Location of Sessions: All events will be held in the McKenna and Peter Rooms of the University Center unless otherwise indicated.

Sunday, June 16

1:00-3:00     Global Culture. Chair: David Shumway

--"Progressive National Allegories and Global Capitalism," Matthew Gargo

--"History under Erasure: A Reading of Carlos Fuentes' Aura," Ignacio Sanchez-Prado

--"Reconstructing Afro-Islamic Tradition in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter," Julie Hakim

--"African Novels, the Value of Allegory and the Question of Gender," Susan Andrade

3:15-5:15     Putting Political Beliefs into the Practice of Teaching. Chair: Carol Stabile

--Tiffany Magnolia, Ed Caldwell, Carl Martin, Joe Ramsey

5:30-6:30     Teaching The Many-Headed Hydra.Chair: TBA

--Grover Furr, Marcus Rediker

8:00     Film Screening: Occupation and The Subtext of a Yale Education
Adamson Wing, Baker Hall

Monday, June 17

9:00-10:30     Marx Reading Group 1: David Harvey and the Manifesto

--Discussion Leader: David Shumway

Readings:

The Communist Manifesto,Marx and Engels http://eserver.org/marx/1848-communist manifesto
Part 1 (Chapters 2-5) of David Harvey, Spaces of Hope.Berkely: U of California Press, 2000.

10:45-11:45     Multiculturalism and Cultural Studies. Chair: Neil Larsen

--"Theorizing Resistance, Reclaiming Opposition: Approaches to (Caribbean) Cultural Studies," Shalni Puri

--"Multiculturalism and the Future of the Left: Impolite Thoughts on Zizek et al," John Beverly

11:45-1:00     Lunch

1:00-2:30      Literature. Chair: TBA.

--"The Evil of Banality: Moby-Dick,American Literary Criticism, and the Marauding SUV," Carol Hamilton

--"Pleasure Begets Pleasure," Dan Shea

--"Alchemy in Chaucer, Jonson, and Marx," Peggy Knapp

2:45-4:45     Hitting the Streets with our Students. Chair: TBA

--Grover Furr, Fred Pfeil, Carol Stabile, and students

5:00-6:00 The FAT and Porto Allegre. Chair: Joel Woller

--Robin Alexander, Gianpaolo Baiocchi

8:00     Film Screening: The River Ran Red, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall

Tuesday, June 18

9:00-10:30     Bourdieu Reading Group

--Discussion Leader: Carol Stabile and Junya Morooka

Required:
Bourdieu, Pierre. Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market. Trans. R. Nice. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Bourdieu, Pierre et al. "Understanding" and "Postscript." The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies. Trans. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson,et al. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999.

Recommended:
Grass, G. and Bourdieu, P. (2000) "A Literature from Below: Gunter Grass and Pierre Bourdieu," Nation, 271(1), 3 July: 25-28. http://past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=http://past.thenation.com/2000/000703.shtml
Ovenden, Kevin. "The Politics of Protest: Bourdieu Interview," http://www.swp.org.uk/SR/242/SR4.HTM

10:45-12:15     The Uses of Adorno. Chair: Jamie Owen Daniel

--"Adorno, Struggle, Reification," Justin Paulson

--"Adorno and Contemporary Jargons," Neil Larsen

--"Adorno and the Ideology of 'Home' Adorno," Rich Daniels

12:15-1:30     Lunch

1:30-3:00     The Right. Chair: Rich Daniels

--"10x Lies in Spain Betrayed," Grover Furr

--Carol Mason, on Pre-9/11 Anthrax Terrorism

--Kathleen Blee, on the Klan

3:15-4:45     Teaching. Chair: Gilbert Wilkes

--"Teaching Howard's Endto the Basts," Ed Wiltse

--"Inventing Composition's Students," Leo Parascondola

--"Socioeconomic Stratification and Rhetorics of Whiteness: The Work of English in a Suburban High School," Jennifer Trainor

5:00-6:00     Domestic/Affective Labor. Chair: Jad Smith

--"Child Care Inc.? Domestic Work and the Corporate University," Jane Juffer

--"Affective Labor and the Service Industries," Jamie Owen Daniel

8:00     Film Screening: Memories of a Forgotten War: A Film about the Philippine-American War

A film by Camilla Griggers, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall. The filmmaker will be present to answer questions after the screening.

Wednesday, June 19

9:00-10:30     Marx Reading Group 2: Richard Johnson and theGrundrisse

--Discussion leader: Fred Pfeil

Readings:

Grundrisse.Marx. "General Introduction." http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm
"Reading for the best Marx: History-Writing and Historical Abstraction," Richard Johnson. Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics.Ed. Johnson, et al. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1982

10:45-11:45     China. Chair: Charles Cunningham

--"Nationalism, Pseudo-Dialectics, and Capitalist Restoration," Barbara Foley

--"'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and the Dream of Cultural China," John Eperjesi

11:45-1:00     Lunch

1:00-3:30     The First 9/11 Session. Chair: Victor Cohen

--"Consolation or Trauma?: News Media Criticism of 9/11 Television Coverage," Carrie A. Rentschler

--"Corporate Sympathy and Commodity Logic: The Response of U.S. Advertising to the Events of 9-11," Danae Clark

--"Relating to Terror through some September 11ths," Diane M. Nelson

--"Japan and Afghanistan: Security, Culture, and Control before and After 9/11, 2001," Mark Driscoll

--"Women as Red Herring? Afghanistan and the Cold War," Moira Ferguson

3:45-5:45     MLG Business Meeting. Presiding: Jamie Owen Daniel

6:30     The MLG Barbecue

--Carol Stabile's House in Highland Park. Transportation via car pool (let Elizabeth know if you can drive); also, easy access by bus, see map in packet

Thursday, June 20

9:00-10:30     Reading Group:EmpireRevisited.

--Discussion leaders: Marian Aguiar and Philip Kozel

Reading: Part 1 of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire.Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/HAREMI.pdf

10:45-11:45     Financialization. Chair: Matt Ruben

--Randy Martin, Doug Henwood

12:00-1:00     The Second 9/11 Session: Narratives of Mourning and Rebuilding
Chair: Carol Stabile

--"Biography and Melodrama in Major Media Memorials on 9/11," Elayne Tobin

--"The World Trade Center Itself," Matt Ruben

1:00-2:00     Lunch

2:00-3:30     Fighting Sweatshops. Chair: Kathy Newman

--"United Against Sweatshops: The Origins of an International Movement," Eve Weinbaum

--"The Strange but True Story of Organizing Against Sweatshops at Carnegie Mellon University," Victor Cohen

--"Congratulations, Graduate! Taking Anti-Sweatshop Activism Off-Campus," Joel Woller

3:45-5:45     Battle of Homestead Foundation Panel: Politics of Labor Commemoration
Chair: Courtney Maloney

--Steffi Domike, Joel Woller, and players to be named

6:30-7:30     Reception at the Pump House in Homestead

--Viewing of an exhibit of Kathy Newman's prints. Transportation via car pool: please let Elizabeth know if you can drive.

8:00     Party at Chioto's

Friday, June 21

9:00-10:30     Reading Group: Marx 3.

--Discussion leader: Randy Martin

Readings:
"Critique of the Gotha Program," http://http://http://eserver.org/marx/1875-gotha.critique.txt
Introduction and Chapter 7 of Randy Martin, On Your Marx: Rethinking Socialism and the Left. Minneapolis: U of M Press, 2002. http://eserver.org/mlg/missingmarx.htm

10:45-11:45     U.S. Culture of 1930s. Chair: Courtney Maloney

--"The Marxism of Michael Denning's The Cultural Front," Charles Cunningham

--"The Persistance of the Hard-boiled Narrative, Or, What Happened to the Literary Class War of the 1930s?" Victor Cohen

11:45-1:00     Lunch

1:00-2:00     News from Nowhere: Working as a TA, AI, NTT, NTF, or NITR
Chair: Kathy Newman

--"Organizing the Cynics," Stacy Thompson

--"Perching: Notes from an Abbreviated Ontology," Aaron Jaffe

2:15-4:15     Information, Capitalism, and the University. Chair: Victor Cohen

--"The Hegemony of Accountability in Schools and Universities," Wayne Ross

--"Literacy in the Commodity Form" Chris Carter

--"The University and Corporate 'Partnerships," Laura Bartlett Snyder

--"The Academy and Labor 'In the Mode of Information,'" Marc Bousquet

4:30-6:00     Discussing the War

--Discussion Leaders: Carol Stabile and Fred Pfeil

8:00     The MLG Poker Game, Baker Hall 255B

Saturday, June 22

9:00-10:00     Open meeting for Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor.

--Conveners: Chris Carter and Wayne Ross

10:15-11:45     Film, Worker's Photographs and Labor Radio. Chair: Elizabeth Heffelfinger

--"From Social Protest to Globalization: A Genre Analysis of Changing Representations of Social Class in Film," Patricia Keeton

--"Mining the Archive: in Search of Working-Class Photography from the Progressive Era," Courtney Maloney

--"'My First 10,000,000 Sponsors:' Frank Edwards and the Radio Culture of the Post-War Labor Movement," Kathy Newman

11:45-1:30     Lunch

1:30-3:00     subRosa Panel: Cyberfeminism and Tactical Media Practice. Chair: Laura Sullivan

--Steffi Domike, Lucia Sommer, and Hyla Willis

3:15-4:45     Theory. Chair: David Shumway

--"The Feminist Post-Marxism of Judith Butler," Phil Goldstein

--"Liberalism and Marxism," Greg Meyerson

--"Does Globalization Change the Relation Between Criticism and Theory?" Jonathan Arac

5:00-6:00     Beautopia

--A hypertext presentation, Laura Sullivan. Chair: TBA

8:00     Film Screening: Mahashweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall.

A film directed by Shashwati Talukdar. Its executive producer is longtime MLG stalwart, Henry Schwarz.

10:00     Party? Details TBA

Sunday, June 23

10:00-11:00     Discussion: The Emergence of Working Class Studies. Discussion Leader: Joel Woller

11:15-12:45     Media and the Militarization of Everday Life. Chair: Elayne Tobin

--"Institutions and Surveillance: The Media, the FBI, and the Civil Rights Movement," Carol Stabile

--"The Strange Case of Missile Mail," Jonathan Sterne

--"Bunkering in the Exurbs: Information Technology and Decentralization Post-9/11," Alice Crawford

REGISTRATION

For faculty and others gainfully employed:
--$80/week
--$12/day

For students, adjuncts, other low-income:
--$40/week
--$6/day

E-mail
ehh@andrew.cmu.edu and let us know that you plan to attend!

Please include:
your name
dates of attendance
institutional affiliation
e-mail address

Registration fees and MLG membership renewals can be paid at the conference.  Cash and checks accepted.  Sorry, we cannot accept credit or debit cards.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

http://www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/directions.html

Participants may buy a week-long parking pass for $40 from the parking office, located in the East Campus garage and open from 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday. It will permit parking in the Doherty lot across the street for the University Center where the meetings are to be held. Coming and going will be easy and unlimited.

Those staying a shorter time may choose not to buy a pass. One may park for free on weekends at a number of different campus lots. On weekdays, the only parking available will be in the East Campus Garage (adjacent to the University Center and across the football field from the dorm). The garage costs approximately $1 per hour or $8 per day. This garage is closed on weekends, and you cannot leave your car overnight. Since passes are not available for the garage, payment will be required each time the car is used. Also, there is some chance the garage will fill up meaning that you would be forced to hunt for parking on the street--not a happy prospect.

HOUSING AND CHILDCARE

YOU MUST Register ON-LINE with CMU's "Conference Services" by May 24.
Pay by credit card.

http://www.cmu.edu/conferences

The Institute begins at 1pm on June 16 and ends at 1pm on June 23.

Check-In: As early as June 15
Check-Out: As late as June 24

Accomodations are available on campus at West Wing House.

Fee: $38.25/night per person for Single Occupancy with linen
$27.50/night per person for Double Occupancy with linen

Child care services are available from "Rent-a-Mom." Their web site is:

http://www.rent-a-mom.com

and their local number is: 412-369-9113