MARXIST LITERARY GROUP 2005 INSTITUTE ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY

The 2005 MLG Institute on Culture and Society Georgetown University, Washington DC June 15-18

All sessions will be held in the Intercultural Center (ICC), 7th floor conference room,

SCHEDULE

Wednesday June 15th

1. 00 -3.15 Roundtable: Fascist America?

Matt Ruben, Paul Smith, Tim Shorrock

1. 30 –4.45 Activism

Representatives from Peace Action, 50 Years Is Enough, Georgetown Living Wage Campaign, Code Pink

1. 00-6.15 The Pre-emptive Moment

andré carrington, Andrew Cornell, Miles Grier, Dawn Peterson

1. 30 Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) on US intelligence

Thursday June 16th

1. 15-10.30 Financialization

Leigh Claire La Berge and Descha Daemgen--Speculative Matters: Form after Finance Randy Martin--Empire of Indifference: American Power Under the Sign of Financialization

1. 45-12.00 On Walmart

Jamie Owen Daniel, Rich Daniels

Lunch

Lunch Special: The Hegel reading group (organised by Nicholas Brown) will meet each lunchtime.

1. 15-2.30 Roundtable: The University in the Current Conjuncture

Jeff Williams, Grover Furr, Andrew Rubin, Pat Keeton

1. 45-4.00 China

Andrew Ross—Outsourcing as a Way of Life: A Report from China

1. 15-5.30 Theory Panel

David Kaufman—Bloch and Benjamin Andrew Rubin---New Orientalism: Orientalism of a Second Nature. Andrew Zimmermann--Problems of Resistance: Marx, Freud, and James Scott

Evening (tba) Screenings

Mutiny by Vivek Bald A Play in Chharanagar by Shashwati Talukdar and Lalit Vachani

Friday June 17th

915-10.30 South Asian Migration and Diaspora

Manu Vimalassery, Sujani Reddy, Vivek Bald

1. 45-1200 The Cold War Era

Johanna Bockman—on cold war anti-war Grover Furr – on Kruschev Itty Abraham—on Bandung

Lunch

Lunch Special: Hegel on Toast

1. 15-2.30 Roundtable: Foucault and Marxism

Carsten Strathausen, Phil Goldstein, Rich Daniels, Nicholas Brown, Don Hedrick, Kevin Floyd

1. 45-4.15 Mathias Nilges and Justin Joyce--on totalitarianism, labor and masculinity Michelle Yates –on 21st century sex work Tim Gibson – on urban politics
2. 30-5.30 MLG Annual Business Meeting

Evening (tba) Screening

Two films on Zizek

Saturday June 18th

1. 15 -10.45 Media Pat Keeton--on Argentinian cinema Pablo Castagno—on Euro TV Bob Miklitsch—on Buffy Courtney Maloney—on 1940s corporate documentaries
2. 00-12.15 Novels

Joe Ramsay Phil Goldstein Eli Jelly-Schapiro on J.M.Coetzee

Lunch

Lunch Special: Hegel a l’orange

130-2.45 The US and Cultural Change

Matt Ruben, Elayne Tobin, Doug Henwood

1. 00-4.15 Aspects of Globalization

Sean Andrews on Intellectual and Cultural Property Ryan Poll on Samuel Huntington Amy Shuster on Hardt and Negri

1. 30

Selma James--The Class Struggle in the Movement

1. 30

The Famous MLG Picnic (no Hegel)