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Since the crisis of 2008, academics and commentators beyond the usual confines of the Marxist left have once again begun discussing capitalism as a system. Debates about class, exploitation, and inequality have assumed a prominence they have not seen in decades, exemplified in the media event surrounding the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. Prompting these discussions is a capitalism that has “returned to form.”. Austerity, casualization and precarity, and naked class aggression—attributes of capitalism proper rather than merely its neoliberal variant—have intensified. The years since the crisis have suggested that neoliberalism was no mere interlude, but rather a prelude to the “new normal.” But how “new” is this normalcy? Aspects of capitalism in the Victorian era are back—and for now, here to stay. Although this is in no way unprecedented, they represent new challenges to Marxist inquiry. HMNY 2015 seeks to examine these twin returns. What are the analytic challenges of these returns within capitalism? What have been the costs of the absence of Marxist answers? In what ways has capitalism returned to form, while continuing to present novel problems? And what does all of this mean for movements contesting capital? The conference is part of an international project tied to the Historical Materialism journal and book series, published by Brill. The journal also sponsors conferences that take place in London, Toronto, Delhi, Rome and Australia. Please note: the HM conference is not a conventional academic conference, but rather a space for discussion, debate and the launching of collective projects. We strongly encourage speakers to participate in the whole of the conference. 1 Opening Plenary Opening Plenary 24th April, Friday 7:30 - 9:30 pm Room 121 Meyer Hall of Physics 4 Washington Place The Returns of Capital Crisis, Austerity, and Struggle · DavidMCNALLY · · AnwarSHAIKH · · NantinaVGONTZAS · Chair · EllaWIND · 2 Saturday Session 1 Saturday Session 1 25th April, Saturday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm · Silver 206 · Book panel for "Rethinking the Industrial Revolution" by Mike Zmolek Respondents · CharliePOST · · NeilDAVIDSON · · XavierLAFRANCE · Chair · ErinCHUN · · Silver 411 · Roundtable: Debating 'The Abolitionist' · GopalBALAKRISHNAN · · MichaelGOLDFIELD · · DavidMCNALLY · Chair · MichelleO’BRIEN · · Silver 401 · Book Panel for "Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropecene" by McKenzie Wark Respondents · MargretGREBOWICZ · · Evgeni V. PAVLOV · Chair · HarrisonFLUSS · 3 Saturday Session 1 · Silver 414 · The United States Finance Sector and the Great Recession · AndrewKLIMAN · Financialization, Falling Profitability, and the Great Recession · Sergio CamaraIZQUIERDO · Finance, short-term profitability dynamics and the Great Recession in the U.S. · Roberto JoseORTIZ · Guy Debord and the Phenomena of Value · Atle MikkolaKJOSEN · Integrated Circuits--Towards a Value-theoretic Conceptualization of the Supply Chain Chair · MohammedSOLEYMANI · · Silver 509 · The Geographies of Capitalism in the Middle East · LauraPEREZ · Labor under Jordan's Qualified Industrial Zones · AmalAHMAD · Customs Union as a Tool of the Israeli Occupation Discussant · EllaWIND · · Silver 412 · Capitalism, the Body, Struggle · SamFRIEDMAN · A Marxist analysis of the HIV/AIDS epidemic · CassandraTROYAN & Maya AndreaGonzalez · Sugar Girls: The Emotional Labor of Sex Work Chair · CathyRayBORCK · 4 Saturday Session 1 · Silver 514 · Critical Perspectives on the Pink Tide · FabianBALARDINI · The failure of the extractivist model in Latin America and radical alternatives · ChrisCARLSON · Dependency Theory and the Flawed Logic behind Venezuela’s Bolivarian Project Chair · Kate Doyle GriffithsDINGANI · · Silver 404 · The Contemporary Relevance of the Budapest School · JonathanPICKLE · Can a Marxist have Taste? · AaronJAFFE · On the Political/Social Distinction: Markus v. Arendt · JohnRUNDELL · Culture as a Space of Possibilities Chair · JohnANTUSH · · Silver 500 · Booklaunch for Andrew Feenberg's Philosophy of Praxis · AndrewFEENBERG · Discussants · DarrellARNOLD · · StanleyARONOWITZ · Chair · JesseLISS · 5 Saturday Session 2 Saturday Session 2 25th April, Saturday 1:00 - 3:00 pm · Silver 206 · Booklaunch for "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement" by Stanley Aronowitz Discussants · CharliePOST · · JaneMcALEVEY · Chair · HesterEISENSTEIN · · Silver 411 · Roundtable: The Final Crisis? Reasons for Thinking It Might Be · BertellOLLMAN · · DavidLAIBMAN · · MichaelHUDSON · Chair · JulioHUATO · 6 Saturday Session 2 · Silver 401 · Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa · DenizSOLMAZ · Transformation of Northern Iraq: An Analysis of Class Struggle And Possibility of a “Passive Revolution · KeenanWILDER · "Representative and Policeman? : Explaining Labor Autonomy in Tunisia · PhilipMARFLEET · Egypt's revolution: the Left reflects · OzgurGENC & OzgurNARIN · Kobane, Gezi and Other Communes: A Critique on Autonomy and Rethinking Communes Chair · EllaWIND · · Silver 414 · Rethinking the Bolshevik Oppositionists · Barbara C.ALLEN · Worker Oppositionists’ Attitudes toward Specialists · LarsLIH · Did a “Moderate Bolshevik” Opposition Exist in 1917? · T. ClaytonBLACK · What Was the 1925 Leningrad Opposition? Chair · KitWAINER · · Silver 509 · Financialization in Turkey - organized by Debt and Financialization Network Turkey · ElifKARAÇİMEN & ÖzlemÇELİK · Financialization and Housing: The Case of Turkey · YetkinBORLU · A Story of Post-Fordist Exploitation: Financialization and Small-Scale Maize Farmers in Turkey · Ali RızaGÜNGEN · Financial Inclusion and Policy Making in Turkey: Financialized State at Work Chair · BertAZIZOĞLU · 7 Saturday Session 2 · Silver 412 · Marxism Beyond the Metropoles · ToddCHRETIEN · Up From Indifference: Anti-racism, Anti-colonialism and the Workers Party, 1924-1927 · WiktorMARZEC · Vernacular Marxism. Proletarian readings and resubjectification in Russian Poland around the 1905 Revolution · ChristopherARAUJO · Marx on the Dualism of the Russian Commune · KevinANDERSON · Late Marx and the Prospects for Revolution Outside the "Developed" World Chair · PaulHEIDEMAN · · Silver 514 · Capital Accumulation in Mexico and Argentina · GastónCALIGARIS · Capital Accumulation in “Resource Rich” Countries: The case of Argentina in the Twentieth Century · AlejandroFITZSIMONS & SebastiánGUEVARA · Transnational Corporations and the ‘Restructuring’ of the Argentina Automoti Arve Industry: Change or Continuity? · AlbertoBOLZAN · Accumulation and Agrarian Struggle in Mexico Chair · ChrisCARLSON · · Silver 404 · Louis Althusser and His Philosophers · Juan Domingo SanchezESTOP · Althusser and Spinoza. Reading Capital as Marx's Theologico-political Treatise · DhruvJAIN · Machiavelli in Althusser · LarryMILLER · Reading, Althusser Reading Machiavelli Chair · WilliamLEWIS · 8 Saturday Session 2 · Silver 500 · Gender, Race, & Class in Contemporary Neoliberalism: Towards an Intersectional Global Marxist-Feminism · Ashley J.BOHRER · Reproducing Bourgeois Feminism: Islamophobia in the Era of Neoliberalism · Crystal StellaBECERRIL · Towards a Marxist-Xicana Feminism · NikeetaSLADE · Chair · ZhivkaVALIAVICHARSKA · 9 Saturday Session 3 Saturday Session 3 25th April, Saturday 3:30 - 5:30 pm · Silver 206 · Booklaunch for Timothy Brennan's "Borrowed Light" Discussants · AntonioVAZQUEZ-ARROYO · · AsherGHAFFAR · Chair · HarrisonFLUSS · · Silver 411 · The Revanchist City: Thinking through Class, Race and Privatization in New Orleans · CedricJOHNSON · The City That Care Forgot: The 'Peoples Reconstruction' and the Limits of Anarcho-liberalism · MeganFRENCH-MARCELIN · Making the Public Private: The Origins of Neoliberalism in New Orleans · JohnARENA · Why Does Angela Glover-Blackwell Hate Public Housing? The Ideological Foundations of Public Housing Dismantlement in the United States and New Orleans Chair · JoseHARO · 10 Saturday Session 3 · Silver 401 · Viewpoint Magazine: Social Reproduction -1· FulviaSERRA · Reproducing the Struggle: a Feminist Perspective on the Concept of Social Reproduction · PatrickKING · It Depends on the Education Thing”: The Black Panthers and Political Education · AsadHAIDAR · Organization and Disorganization at the Point of Production · SalarMOHANDESI · Class Formation on the Terrain of Social Reproduction Chair · ZhivkaVALIAVICHARSKA · · Silver 414 · Explaining the Decline of Organized Labor in the US: Is "Globalization" to Blame? · MichaelGOLDFIELD · The Impact of Globalization and Neoliberalism on U.S. Workers · Charlie POST · What's Globalization Got To Do With It? : The Decline of Industrial Unionism in the US Tire Industry, 1966-2008 · NicoleASCHOFF · The Long Road to Crisis: Restructuring in the North American Auto Industry Chair · HesterEISENSTEIN · · Silver 509 · Race, Hegemony, Method · SalmaanKHAN · Gramsci’s Hegemony in the context of white supremacy and settler colonialism · J. DakotaBROWN · Stuart Hall and the Marxist Tradition Discussant · Ashley J.BOHRER · Chair · Cathy RayBORCK · 11 Saturday Session 3 · Silver 412 · Booklaunch for Bryan Palmer - Revolutionary Teamsters Discussants · Donna T.HAVERTY-STACKE · · BarryEIDLIN · Chair · KitWAINER · · Silver 409 · Processes of Contemporary Class Formation · SarahGREY · Precari-bourgeoisie"? Myths and Realities of the New Freelance Class · AaronBENANAV · Deindustrialization in Global Perspective Chair · FabianBALARDINI · · Silver 514 · Aesthetics and Contemporary Class Consciousness · JustinMITCHELL · In Search of the Übersicht: Wittgenstein, Western Marxism, and the Future of Literary Criticism · BrendanHIGGINS · Fiction as a Weapon of Class Consciousness · JohannesBJORK · Art or 'Labour' - Towards a Non-'Labour'-Mediated Aesthetic Subjectivity · DennisBROE · The of Leisure and the Birth of the Binge: Hyperindustrialism and Television Seriality Chair · AzfarHUSSEIN · 12 Saturday Session 3 · Silver 404 · Marxism and Theology · RolandBOER · The Revolutionary Christianity and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom · LarsLIH · World Historical Mission: The Heart of Revolutionary Marxism · PaulLeBLANC · Jesus and the Early Christians Chair · ErikVanDEVENTER · · Silver 500 · Adorno’s Marxism · ChrisO’KANE · The phenomenology of the anti-Spirit": Adorno's Marxism as Critical Theory · ChristianLOTZ · Remarks on Adorno’s Marxism Discussant · PatrickMURRAY · Chair · ErinCHUN · 13 Saturday Plenary Saturday Plenary 25th April, Saturday 7:30 - 9:30 pm Room 121 Meyer Hall of Physics 4 Washington Place Social Reproduction: Theory and Politics · HesterEISENSTEIN · · KevinFLOYD · · SueFERGUSON · Chair · Kate DoyleGRIFFITHS-DINGANI · 14 Sunday Session 1 Sunday Session 1 26th April, Sunday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm · Silver 206 · Slavery in the Age of Capital · JohnCLEGG · On the Exploitation of Slaves · RobinBLACKBURN · The Contradictions of New World Slavery: Phase Two · KathrynBOODRY · Cotton, Slavery and Finance: Debt and the Plantation System Chair · YaseminYILMAZ · · Silver 411 · Book Panel: Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic · PaulMATTICK · · FredMOSELEY · · PatrickMURRAY · Respondent · Eric-JohnRUSSELL · · JeanneSCHULER · Chair · ChristianLOTZ · 15 Sunday Session 1 · Silver 401 · Viewpoint Magazine: Social Reproduction 2 · MayaGONZALEZ · Freedom Between Slavery and Wage Labor: Lotta Femminista and The Question of Sexual Violence, Love and the State · EvanCalderWILLIAMS · Sick to Death: Illness and Capital, 1803-2015 · NiinaVOULAJARVI · Precarious Intimacies - Migrant Sexual Labor in Contemporary Europe · ChristopherCHITTY · Holding Patterns: The Family and Historical Capitalism Chair · SalarMOHANDESI · · Silver 414 · Mexican Perspectives: Social, Political and Economic Trajectories and the Prospects for Social Change in Mexico · GerardoRENIQUE · Extractivist-Drug Capitalism, Counterinsurgency and Resistance in Guerrero · Maria JosefinaSALDAÑA · Portilo - ¿Qué significa el cuerpo cuando ya no tienes cuerpo? What is a body when you no longer have one? · DanLaBOTZ · Mexico under EPN: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Social Turbulence, and the Absence of a Left · HéctorAGREDANO · The Graduate Center, CUNY Michoacán, Guerrero and Mexico's Uneven Geographies of Struggle Chair · ChrisCARLSON · · Silver 509 · New Dimensions of Marxian Aesthetics · ShawnVanVALKENBURGH · Virus Capital: the scientific unconscious of Marx’s monster metaphors · JordyCUMMINGS · Forces of Chaos and Anarchy: Popular Music, the New Left and Social Movements, 1966-1972 · ChristopherARAUJO & PaulELIAS · Examining the Marx's Aesthetic Philosophy within the Context of the Universally Developed Individuality Chair · ZachLEVENSON · 16 Sunday Session 1 · Silver 409 · Forms of Radicalization During the Long 1970s · TrishKAHLE · Wildcat Feminism: Women Coal Miners and the Struggle for a Democratic Union, 1973-1979 · ShannonIKEBE · Social Democratic Path to Socialism? Radicalization of Social Democracy and the Wage-Earner Fund in Sweden, 1969-83 · ToivoASHEEKE · Black Power, African Liberation, and the Forging of the Third Black International Chair · PaulHEIDEMAN · · Silver 514 · Marx, Speculation, and Philosophy · LandonFRIM · Marx's Metaphysics · AlexSTEINBERG · Dialectics of Nature in the 21st Century and Beyond · JanREHMANN · Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche · NickNESBITT · Value as Symptom: Antihumanism in its Limits Chair · HarrisonFLUSS · · Silver 404 · Book Panel: "The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929" by Jacob A. Zumoff Respondents · BrianPALMER · · MichaelGOLFIELD · Chair · AndrewHEMINGWAY · 17 Sunday Session 2 Sunday Session 2 26th April, Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 pm · Silver 206 · Booklaunch for Howard Botwinick Persistent Inequalities Respondents · AdolphREED · · CharlesPOST · Chair · AdanerUSMANI · · Silver 411 · Labor, Gender, Work · Kate Doyle GriffithsDENGANI · · ErinCHUN · · ÖzgürGENÇ · Homeworking Women in Istanbul: Reconciling Patriarchy and Capitalism Chair · YaseminYILMAZ · 18 Sunday Session 2 · Silver 401 · Roundtable: Advance the Struggle: The Experience of a Local Revolutionary Communist Collective · AlexMEJIA · · JoseMONTENEGRO · · EricGARCIA · Discussant · PaulHEIDEMAN · · Silver 509 · New Perspectives on Marx(ism) · David HancockTURNER · The Birth of Value · ChristopherMASTROCOLA · Ontology of Freedom: Marx on Post-Capitalist Society · TedWINSLOW · Marx on Despotism · PaulELIAS · Marx' Revolutionary Subjectivity Chair · ZachLEVENSON · · Silver 412 · Capitalism, Socialization, Abstraction · PatrickMURRAY · Two Meanings of “Purely Social”: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value · KellyGAWEL · Epistemology and Critique: Sohn-Rethel's Intervention into Historical Materialism · BjornWESTERGARD · Technological Unemployment and Deskilling: Limits to the substitution of software for labor Chair · JacobLEDERMAN · 19 Sunday Session 2 · Silver 409 · Frankfurt School · JamesMANOS · Revolutionary Science: Alice Rühle-Gerstel's Adlerian Marxism · StuartSMITHERS · Revolutions Without Subjects and Vice Versa · JamesMURPHY · Chair · HarrisonFLUSS · · Silver 514 · Epistemological Issues in Western Marxism · AaronJAFFE · Lukacs’ Resolution of the Antinomies of Idealism or Marx’s Social Analysis: How to Earn the Standpoint of Dialectical Determination · JoshPINEDA · Antinomies of Western Marxism: Returning to Representationalism from Dialectics · JonathanPICKLE · Trinitarian Wagers of Materialist Conceptions of History Chair · AzfarHUSSAIN · · Silver 404 · Origins of Capital · JamesPARISOT · Empire, Gender, and the Origins of American Capitalism · XavierLAFRANCE · Re-thinking the political economy and class formations of post-revolutionary French · PepijnBRANDON · Race, class and capital in eighteenth century Suriname Chair · JeffGOODWIN · 20 Sunday Session 3 Sunday Session 3 26th April, Sunday 3:30 - 5:30 pm · Silver 206 · SYRIZA in Power: The First Hundred Days · PeterBRATSIS · Syriza Beyond Syriza: The Pitfalls of Economism and the Physics of Social Change · DespinaLALAKI · Social Movements and Left Government in Greece: New Challenges and Prospects · MichaelPELIAS · 100 days of Negotiation? A Gramscian Inventory Nicos Alexiou, "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Left Politics in the Age of Austerity · NicosALEXIOU · One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Left Politics in the Age of Austerity Chair · KostasVERGOPOULOS · · Silver 411 · Reading Capital at 50 · Faruk ErayDÜZENLİ · Ideology, Fetishism, and (Reading) Capital · GeoffPFEIFER · On Althusser on Science, Ideology, and the New, or Why We Should Continue to Read Reading Capital · WilliamLEWIS · Is There Less Bullshit in For Marx than in Reading Capital? Chair · DhruvJAIN · 21 Sunday Session 3 · Silver 414 · Theoretical Perspectives on Finance and Crisis · BeverleyBEST · The New Fetishes of Financialization · ÖzgürNARİN · Thinking about the Derivatives, Money and Alternatives · ElenaBLANC · Finance and the Accumulation of Capital Chair · GüneyIŞIKARA · · Silver 509 · South Africa Social Reproduction · Kate Doyle GriffithsDENGANI · · ZacharyLEVENSON · Delivery and Dislocation: Bureaucratic Failure and the Limits of Post-Apartheid Housing Delivery Discussant · LiseVOGEL · Chair · JacobLEDERMAN · · Silver 412 · Social Policy, Neoliberalization, and Means of Subsistence · AnnabelleBERTHIAUME · New forms of philanthropy : A case study of Quebec’s neoliberalization of social action and community organization · JohnJORDAN · The Dialectic of Failure: How and Why a Continued and Catastrophic Inability to Perform Feeds the Expansion of the UK’s Workfare Industry · NicolaLIVINGSTONE · Franchising the Disenfranchised? Food Aid, Poverty & Politics under Capitalism · DerekSEIDMAN · Fastfood, Neoliberalism, and the Fight for 15 Chair · DuyguPARMAKSIZOĞLU · 22 Sunday Session 3 · Silver 409 · Marxism and Social Movements · AdanerUSMANI · The Death of the Strike · JeffGOODWIN · Why Do Social Movements Win or Lose? A Materialist Theory · MichaelGOULD-WARTOFSKY · The Left Hand of Capital: Class Interests, Internal Constraints, and the Unmaking of US Social Movements · GamzeEVCİMEN · Dialectics of New Middle Class Politics: The Gezi Protests and Beyond Chair · YaseminYILMAZ · · Silver 514 · Violence Between Power and its Contestations · OxanaTIMOFEEVA · Violence & Animality: From the Repressed to the Oppressed · JonathanPLATT · Memory of the Last Soviet Militant · KetiCHUKHROV · Dialectics of Culture and Violence · AlexeyPENZIN · Truth and Violence: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Lenin's Writings Chair · ArtemyMAGUN · 23 Closing Plenary Closing Plenary 26th April, Sunday 7:30 - 9:30 pm Room 121 Meyer Hall of Physics 4 Washington Place Black Politics Today · Keeanga-YamahttaTAYLOR · · CedricJOHNSON · Chair · PaulHEIDEMAN · 24
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