MLG Institute on Culture and Society • 2006 Schedule • Georgetown • June 8-12


Thursday, June 8
3:30 - 4:45 New French Marxism
Philip Goldstein on Varieties of Althusserian Theory
Carsten Strathausen on Post-Marxist Aesthetics
Gene Holland on Deleuze and Guattari

5:00 The Media Panel
Roopika Risam on the Theory of Activist Theater
Don Hedrick on the Entertainment Unconscious
Patricia Keeton on Political Media in Argentina
Lucia Scheckner on Radical Politics and Form in Kushner and Parks

Evening Film: Acting Like a Thief (30 minutes)
The Take


Friday, June 9
9:15 - 10:45 The University Panel
Marc Bousquet
Jeffrey Williams
Ron Strickland
Patricia Keeton (respondent)

11:00 - 12:15 The Literature Panel
Mathias Nilges on Post-Fordist Melancholia
Dan Markowitz on The Post-Mortem Moment in American Fiction
Allison Lee Adair on Recycling the Imperial Past in The Quiet American

Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 Marcus Rediker on his New Work

3:00 - 4:00 The Imperialism Panel
Sean Andrews on David Harvey
Kanishka Chowdhury

4:00 Reading Group I: Imperialism

Evening Film: Mephisto


Saturday, June 10
9:15 - 10:30 Progressive Nostalgia: Seizing Hold of the 1930s and 40s
Joe Ramsey
Modhumita Roy
Victor Cohen

10:45 - 12:00 The Aesthetics Panel
Richard Daniels on Adorno, History, and Situation
Kimberly Latta on Marx and the Gendered History of the Capitalist Imagination
Kevin Floyd on Instrumental Reason and the Performance of Masculinity

Lunch / Working Group on Mediations

1:15 - 2:30 Paul Smith on his New Work

2:45 - 3:45 Roundtable on Marxism and Feminism
Kimberly Latta
Pete Franks
others TBA

4:00 - 5:30 Reading Group II: Counter-Imperialism

MLG Barbecue

Evening Film TBA, or bar hopping

Sunday, June 11
9:15 - 10:45 The Latin America Panel
Mela Jones on Narrating Peru in the Post-Colony
Mike Ennis on City and Cosmos in Nahua Culture
Nicholas Brown on the Semi-Peripheral Symptom

11:00 - 12:15 Selma James on Re-Reading Marx from an Unwaged Perspective

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 The Animal Panel
Heather Steffen on Marxism and the Animal Question
Harvey Partica on Animal Representations of Class Struggle
Laura Hudson on Rethinking Reification through the Animal Other
Eric Meisberger on Human Freedom and Animal Rights

4:00 Grover Furr on Recent Russian Research into the 1930s

4:30 The Union Panel
Jamie Daniel on Trade Unionism after the AFL-CIO Split
others TBA

Evening working group on online version of the game Class Struggle

Monday, June 12
10:00 Business Meeting