MLG Summer Institute on Culture and Society, University of Illinois, Chicago June 20-24, 2007 _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, 20 June _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 –10:15 Panel

Kevin Floyd: On neoliberalism, Queer Studies, and the question of totality

Stephen Healy: On the economy of non-all and the politics of health care reform

Heidi J. Nast: On neoliberalism and pet-love _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10:45 – 12:00 Panel

Peter Gardner: What Class War? “This hyar is the War o’ Races!”

Anna Kornbluh: On the isomorphism of capitalism and Victorian realism

Harvey Partica: On Frank Norris’ dialectical monsters ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1:15 – 3:00 Reading Group: Capital ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3:30 – 4:45 Panel: History and Material Evidence

Grover Furr: On falsifying Soviet history of the Stalin period

Pat Keeton: On Argentinean documentary films

Ed Wiltse: On scientific certainty and criminal justice in Sherlock Holmes stories and /CSI/ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5:00 – 6:15 Panel

Akin Adesokan: On CLR James and Marxism in Africa

Richard Iton: On race, popular culture, and the matrices of coloniality

Joseph Keith: On labor and the limits of citizenship in C.L.R. James

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo: On diaspora and the route(lessness) of capitalism ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, 21 June ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 – 10:15 Panel

Robbie Lieberman: On African American radicals and the Cold War

Brian Thill: On Frederick Douglass, Black Power and the Frankfurt School

Aaron Winslow: On Amiri Baraka’s political poetry

____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10:45 – 12:00 Panel: Marxism and Africa

Natascha Müller-Hirsh: On the issue of partnerships and neoliberal governance in Africa

Michael Ralph: On Marxism in Africa and Senegalese (im)mobility, post 9/11

Mark Estante: On labor discipline and the maintenance of apartheid in Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1:15 – 3:00 Reading Group: Capital ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3:15 – 4:30 Panel: Marxism and Africa II

Christian Dogbe: On Ahmadou Kourouma and Marxism

Aisha Karim: On the movement of political desire in African literature

Allison McGuffie: On Eisenstein and African film ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5:00 – 6:15 Ato Quayson (Presented by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s African-American Studies Department)

____________________________________________________________________________________________ Friday, 22 June ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 – 10:15 Panel: The Marxian Abject: Species, Specimens and Surplus Populations

Laura Hudson: On Marxian species-being and the anthropological machine

Erin Paszko: On historicizing political violence through Leila Khaled’s My People Shall Live

Michelle Yates: On an ecological contradiction within capitalism ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10:45 – 12:00 Panel

Paul Smith: On Boltanski's New Spirit of Capitalism

Ariane Fischer: On critical theory and the concept of ideology ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1:15 – 3:00 Reading Group: Capital ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3:15 – 4:30 Panel

Neil Larsen: On the unique difficulty of reading Capital volume I, chapter 1

Eleanor Kaufman: On poetic surplus in Badiou

Reiichi Miura: On singularity and postmodern pluralism ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5:00 – 6:15 Peter Hitchcock

____________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday, 23 June ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 – 10:15 Panel

Jeff Carr: On capitalism, socialism, and labor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

William Q. Malcuit: On the resuscitation of history in McKay

Todd Thompson: On irony and heritage in the Harlem Renaissance ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10:45 – 12:00 Panel

Lee Medovoi: On Marx, Foucault, and the current conjuncture

Mathias Nilges: On the work of art in the age of cognitive capitalism

Myka Tucker-Abramson: On the labour history of deindustrialized literature ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1:15 – 3:00 Reading Group: Capital ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3:30 – 4:30

Walter Benn Michaels, Jeffrey Williams responding ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5:00 – 7:00

Fredric Jameson: On dialectics ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:30 MLG-ICS BBQ

____________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, 24 June ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 – 10:15 Panel

Bimbisar Irom: On reification, totality and the agony of the radical novel

Ann Mattis: On domestic service and kinship in Gertrude Stein’s “The Good Anna” and “The Gentle Lena”

Wesley Sims: On incarceration in Gayl Jones’ Eva’s Man ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10:30 – 11:45 Panel

Jolan Bogdan: On visual culture

Rich Daniels: On dialectical image and spectacle

Steve Macek: On Marxism and the media reform movement ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00 – 1:15 MLG Business Meeting / LUNCH ____________________________________________________________________________________________

1:15 – 3:00 Roundtable: Labor and Memory

Courtney Maloney, Jamie Daniel, Joe Ramsey, Carol Stabile, and Joel Woller ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3:00 – 4:00 Susan Willis: On the cashless economy and Las Vegas, Don Hedrick responding

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