G1 Re-Reading Race, Class and Material Determination in Art History

• Imre Szeman, Duke University, Chair
• Leigh George, SUNY, Binghamton, "Imposed Integration: Folk Identity in Twelve Million Black Voices"
• Robert Gill, York University, "Seeing Art/History as Racial Discourse: A Sociological Problematic"
• Michale Ma, SUNY, Binghamton, "T.J. Clark and the New Art History"

G2 Marxism and Development: New Paradigms and Old Truths

• Jonathan Dijohn, IESA, Caracas, Venezuela, "Marxist and New Institutional Theories of the State and Development in Venezuela"
• Stefano Harney, Pace University, "The State in the Eastern Caribbean: The History of a Secret"
• Errol Luis, Central Brooklyn Federal Union, "Marxism and Urban Development"

G3 Everyday Expertise

• Nick Yasinski, Rutgers University, "Poetry and Everyday Expertise: Formulas for Critique"
• Beth Loffreda, Rutgers University, "Cultural Fantasy, Low Science, and Alien Abduction"
• Eve Oishi, Bryn Mawr College, "Learning from the Left: Anecdotal Politics and the Right"

G4 The Contemporaneity of C.L.R. James's Marxism

• E. San Juan, Bowling Green State University, Chair
• Barbara Harlow, University of Texas, "C.L.R. James's Marxism Today"
• Scott McLemee, In These Times, "C.L.R. James and Richard Wright: Marxism and Race"
• Tim Libretti, Northeastern Illinois University, "C.L.R. James and the Proletarian Tradition"

G5 Disciplining Labor/Disciplining Nature

• Paul Robbins, University of Iowa, Chair
• Alicja Muszynski, University of Waterloo, "Migratory Resources: Salmon, Capital and Cheap Wage Labour in Canada's West Coast Fisheries"
• Kevin St. Martin, Clark University, "Maps and Class: Making Space for Other Class Processes"
• Jody Emel, Clark University, "Impediments to Social Justice and the Restructured Gold Mining Industry"
• Peter Wissoker, Guilford Press, Discussant

G6 Critical Realism and Cultural Theory: Aesthetics, Ideology, Communication

• Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair
• Tim Dayton, Kansas State University, "Critical Realism and Problems of Marxist Aesthetics"
• Hans Despain, University of Utah, "Ideology in the History of Economic Thought: Preservation of a Marxian Conception"
• Tobin Nellhaus, American Council of Learned Societies, "Sub Texts: or, The Materiality of Discourse - An Alternative View"

G7 Confronting the Postmodern

• Teresa Ebert, SUNY, Albany, "Postmodernity as the Ludic"
• Rosolyn Bologh, CUNY and Lawrence Mell, "The Proposed Marriage of Labor and Postmodernism/Identity Politics/New Social Movements: The Wrong Way to Revitalize Labor and the Academy"

G8 Reconsidering Marxist (Critiques of) Religion

• Lucas Wilson, Mt. Holyoke College, Chair
• Dominic Le Favre, Syracuse University, "Rethinking Marxist Religion: Deleuzian Divinity"
• Joel Schalit, York University, and Charlie Bertsch, University of California, Berkeley, "Secularization and Its Discontents: Western Marxism and the Critique of Religion"
• Jeremy Stolow, York University, "Religion and Revolution Reconsidered"

G9 Histories and Literature

• Nora Roberts, Michigan State University, "Subversion as Affirmation in the Work of Three Radical Women Writers of the Thirties"
• Christopher Rose, University of Idaho, "The Good, the Bad, and the Little: Mark Twain, Children, and Religious Subversion"
• Kevin Sullivan, Northeastern University, "Transgressing into America: Melville's Bartleby and the Carnivalesque"

G10 The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy: A Dialogue

• Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, Chair
• Arturo Escobar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Michael Moon, Duke University
• David Ruccio, University of Notre Dame
• Julie Graham, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst (co-author)

G11 Prospects for Decolonization in Native America

• Peter D'Errico, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Stephen Healey, Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Internal Colonies, the Labor Aristocracy, and Overdetermination as Integral to Understanding the Geography of Radioactive Colonization and the Politics of National Sacrifice In Native North America: Reconciling Indigenism and Marxism"
• Robert Raddock , Indigenous Support Committee, "Internal Colonies, the Labor Aristocracy, and Overdetermination As Integral to Understanding United States Indian Law"

G12 Queer Subjects

• Margot Backus, St. John Fisher College, Chair
• Ross Prinzo, SUNY, Albany, "Desiring (Queer) Subjects"
• Lloyd Pratt, Brown University, "The Queer American"
• Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, "Queer Notion: The Idea of Freedom and Homosexual Self-Definition in the Nineteenth Century"

G13 Marxism and Humanism, Revisited

• Andrea Miccoci, Rome, Italy, "Epicurean and Anti-Hegelian: Marxism as Individual Emancipation"
• Nickolay Omelchenko, Volgograd State University, "Human Being: Discoveries and Delusions of Marxism"
• Costas Panayotakis, Graduate Center, CUNY, "Weber's Rationalization Paradox and Critical Social Theory: Towards a Non-Essentialist Concept of Alienation"

G14 The End of the Political

• Manjur Karim, Culver College, Chair
• Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Post-Structuralism and the Erosion of the Left"
• Carl Boggs, National University, "Postmodernism and the Decline of the Public"
• Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin, "Theorizing the Internet: Cyberspace and the Future of the Left"

GH1 The Space of Marxism

• Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Robert Meister, University of California, Santa Cruz, TBA
• Meche Nagel, Mankato State University, "On the Politics of Urban Renewal"
• Carl Dyke, California State University, Hayward, "Gambling on Revolutionary Strategies in the Pre-History of Postmodernism: Space-Maintenance and the Compression of Politics of European Marxism, 1890-1930"
• Samir Gandesha, University of California, Berkeley, "On the Ruins of Philosophy: Marxism, Politics and Deconstruction"
• Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley, "On Spooks and Specters: Marx's Derrida and Derrida's Marx"

GH2 Black Intellectualism and the Left

• Joy James, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair
• Lewis Gordon, Brown University, "Fanon Today"
• Paget Henry, Brown University, "The Impact of C.L.R. James Today"
• Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg, Northeastern University, "Lorraine Hansberry and Critical Ideologies"
• Penial Joseph, Temple University, "Black Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights Era"
• Joy James, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Race Radicals and the Talented Tenth"

H1 The Falling Rate of Profit: Recasting the Marxian Debate: A Dialogue

• David Ruccio, University of Notre Dame, Chair
• Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich
• Makoto Itoh, University of Tokyo
• Bruce Norton, San Antonio, TX
• Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside (author)

H2 Nationalism and Socialism (roundtable)

• Jocelyne Couture, University of Quebec, Montreal
• Kai Nielsen, Canadian Journal of Philosophy
• Michael Seymour, University of Montreal
• R.X. Ware, University of Calgary

H3 Hegemony in a Transnational Context (Co-sponsored by boundary 2)

• Terry Cochran, University of Montreal, Chair
• Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University, "Stateless Power: Rhetoric, Authority and Coercion in the Armenian Diaspora"
• Joseph Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame, "The Emergence of the Concept of Hegemony in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks"
• Terry Cochran, University of Montreal, "Hegemony in the Age of Media Globalism"

H4 The Trajectory of Social Theory: Critical Realism's Challenge to the Development of Marxist and Mainstream Social Theory

• Tobin Nellhaus, American Council of Learned Societies, Chair
• Ruth Groff, York University, "Who Knows What? Knowledge, Agency and Subjects in Althusser and Bhaskar"
• Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Realist Social Theory: Preliminary Implications for Sociologists"
• Howard Engelskirchen, Western State University College of Law, "`Tacit Understanding' and Contract Formation"

H5 Contextualising Economics: In Search of the Untold Stories of People's Lives

• Sabine O'Hara, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Chair
• Susan Mesner, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, "In Search of Community: Unanswered Questions and Questioned Answers"
• Melinda Kane, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, "Robinson Crusoe's Grandparents"
• Sigrid Stagl, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, "Lone Rangers: Reflections on Individualism in Austria and the U.S."

H6 Noisemaking: Rethinking Jacques Attali

• Donald McQuarie, Bowling Green State University, Chair
• Brian Dolinar, Bowling Green State University, "Achtung Attali! Repeating and Revising Noise"
• Patrick Alexander, Bowling Green State University, "Bring the Noise: Electronic Music and Jacques Attali"
• Jeff Schwartz, Bowling Green State University, "Jacques Attali's Revision of Baudrillard in Noise"
• Robert Sloane, Bowling Green State University, "Reconsidering the Text in Marxist Theories of Music"

H7 Writing (as) Marx's Politics

• Rob Garnett, Texas Christian University, Chair
• Andrew Parker, Amherst College, "Re-Marx: Prehistory"
• Alejandro Raiter, Buenos Aires University, "The Discursive Formation and the Ideological Reproduction: The Concept of Dominant Discourse"
• Joe Walsh, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, "Balibar on Marx's Politics: Deconstruction as Reclamation"

H8 Economic Policies for Community Development

• Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island, Chair
• Carole Biewener, Simmons College, "Banks, Community Development, and Progressive Credit Policy"
• John Foley, University of New Orleans, "Opposition to Capital in Urban Areas"
• Tom Kuh, TBA

H9 The "Transition" to Democracy in South Africa: A Roundtable Discussion

• Editorial Collective Members of Debate: Voices from the South African Left
• Franco Barchiesi, Heinrich Bohmke, Ashwin Desai, Kgothatso Semela, Frank Wilderson

H10 Politics of Virtual Reality

• Susan Jahoda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Cheryl Harris, California State University, Fullerton, "The Politics of Virtual Reality"
• Grant Kestor, Cranbrook Academy of Art, "Cyborgs as Monads: Liberalism and the New Technology"
• Scott Townsend, North Carolina State University, "The Surface of Information"

H11 Althusser, Gramsci, Weber

• Ajit Sinha, University of Newcastle, Chair
• James Beeby, Bowling Green State University, "Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony and the Marxist Historical Project"
• Ricardo Duchesne, University of New Brunswick, "Perry Anderson and the Weberianization of Historical Materialism"
• Ajit Sinha, University of Newcastle, "The Althusser-Sraffa Connection"

H12 Where Does Labor Go From Here? (cosponsored by Social Text)

• Richard Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York, "A New Role for the Labor Movement?"
• Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, "The Crisis of Academic Labor"
• Andrew Ross, New York University, "No Sweat: Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers"

H13 Producing Value(s): The Political and Economic Geographies of "Culture"

• Peter Wissoker, Guilford Press, Chair
• Richa Nagar, University of Colorado, "Prostitutes, Mistresses, `Half-Castes': Regulating Values, Honor and `Purity' among Asian Communities in Dar-es-Salaam"
• Michael Brown, University of Christchurch, "Lefebvre and the Production of Closet-Space"
• Don Mitchell, University of Colorado, "A Labor Theory of Values: Geography and the Work of Culture"
• Neil Smith, Rutgers University, Discussant

H14 Managing Movement: Commercial Development and Socio-Spatial Relations

• Alys Weinbaum, Columbia University, Chair
• Priscilla Wald, University of Washington, "Tracks of Catagion: The Case Against the Seattle Railroad"
• Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington, "Hong Kong Diaspora: Transnational Migration and Social Change"
• Matthew Sparke, University of Washington, "Pacing the Border: NAFTA and the New Free Enterprise Zones of Law Enforcement"

H15 Progressive Voices in North America: Literary Readings by South Asian Writers

• Agha Shahid Ali, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• Sunaina Maira, writer, NYC
• S. Shankar, Rutgers University

I1 Labor and Globalization: Possibilities and Strategies

• Philip Kozel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Scott Solomon, Syracuse University, "Creating a World After its Own Image: Globalization and Marxian Theory"
• Jason Coulter, Cornell University, "The Union Corporate Campaign: Labor's New Tactic for a Global Economy"
• Mark Rupert, Syracuse University, "Ideologies of Globalization: Contesting Popular Common Sense after Fordist Hegemony"
• Nicole Lindstrom, Syracuse University, "Organizing in a Global Economy: Overcoming the Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize"

I2 Addressing Race and Gender: Rethinking Marxism in the Fifties

• Yumna Siddiqi, Columbia University, Chair
• Barbara Foley, Rutgers University, Newark, "Invisible Man, Anticommunism, and Cold War Discourse"
• Elisabeth Armstrong, Brown University, "There's a Red Thread Running Through It: Women Workers in Post-War U.S."
• S. Shankar, Rutgers University, Newark, "Marxism, Decolonization and the Black Atlantic"

I3 Historico-Critical Dictionary of Marxism--Historisch-kritisches Woerterbuch des Marxismus (HKWM)--Experiences and Perspectives (A Workshop)

• Frank Cunningham, University of Toronto, Chair
• Frank Cunningham, University of Toronto, "Presentation of the First Two Volumes to the American Public"
• Frigga Haug, Universities of Hamburg and Berlin, "How to Inscribe Feminism in the Historico-Critical Dictionary of Marxism"
• Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Freie Universitaet Berlin, editor of HKWM, "The Hisotorico-Critical Rethinking of Marxism Produces Something New"
• Gabriel Vargas Lozano, University of Puebla/Mexico, "Latin American Views on the Historico-Critical Rethinking of Marxism"

I4 The New Value Theory Controversy: An Orientation Workshop

• Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich
• Andrew Kliman, Pace University

I5 Marxism and Critical Realism: An Open Reading with the Bhaskar List

• Howard Engelskirchen, Western State University College of Law, and Ruth Groff, York University, Coordinators

I6 Envisioning the Future: The Left and the Imagination

• Screening and discussion of Advertising and the End of the World
• Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

I7 Class Analyses of Environmentalism

• Richard Norgaard, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, Chair
• Eric Glynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Greenpeace as Green Capitalist: Exploiting the Limits of Commodity Politics"
• Blair Sandler, San Francisco, "How Capitalism is Like HIV: An Economic Analysis of the Environmental Justice Movement"
• Jackie Southern, Clark University, Discussant

I8 Remembering Harold Wolpe

• Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
• AnnMarie Wolpe, South Africa

I9 Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: A Dialogue

• Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, Chair
• Carole Biewener, Simmons College
• Nancy Hartsock, University of Washington
• Paul Smith, George Mason University
• Joseph Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame
• Antonio Callari, Franklin and Marshall College, and David Ruccio, University of Notre Dame (authors)

I10 Technology: Power, Resistance, and Retreat

• Carl Boggs, National University, Chair
• Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY, "Technoculture and the Future of Capital"
• Douglas Kellner, University of Texas-Austin, "New Technologies and the Left"
• Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Cyber-Feudalism and the End of the Political"

I11 Rereading Jameson

• Beverly Best, Simon Fraser University, "From Individual to Totality and Back: A Comparison of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau"
• Brian Courter, Brooklyn, "Political Agency within the Complex Whole: Material Relationships and the Function of Ideological Modes of Resistance"
• Matt George, University of San Francisco, "Fredric Jameson's `Periodizing of the 60s': The Sexually Seductive Force of Modernity in Discursive Construction and Cultural Capital"

I12 Applications of Dialectical and Historical Materialism in Individual Fields of Knowledge

• Danny Goldstick, University of Toronto, Chair
• April Ane Knutson, University of Minnesota, "`The Violence of Things': Crime Fiction and Postcolonial Literature"
• Norman Markowitz, Rutgers University, "Historical Writings on the 20th Century"
• Erwin Marquit, University of Minnesota, "Dogmatism and Dialectical Determinism in Quantum Physics"
• Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History and CUNY, "Dialectical Materialism, Reductionism, and Behavioral Evolution"

I13 Class Consciousness, Queer Identitites, and Market Culture

• Enid Arvidson, University of Texas, Arlington, Chair
• Michele Moe, Carnegie Mellon University, "From Position to Consciousness: Examining the Class Effectivity of the Professional-Managerial Sector in Turn of the Century America"
• Allyson Polsky, University of Rochester, "Selling Out/Reading In: Negotiating Queer Identities in Commodity Culture"
• David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, "Commodities, Goods and the Novelty of Consumer Culture"
• Daniel Vukovich, University of Illinois, "`The Market' as Cultural Discourse, or, The Market Universe Down to Earth"

I14 Queer Struggles

• Andrew Parker, Amherst College, Chair
• Richard Cornwall, Middlebury College, "Rethinking Marxism Queerly:
• Seven Queries about the Social Articulation of Desire, Hegemony of Class-Based Theorizing, False Consciousness, and Hypostatizing Centralism"
• Kevin Floyd, University of Iowa, "Capitalism, Queer Identity, and History: Thoughts on How Marxism and Queer Studies Might Be Mutually Useful for a Change"
• Randall Halle, University of Rochester, "The Dialectics of the Inclusionary Impasse: Notes from the Queer Battleground"
• Ashley Tellis, Downing College, Cambridge, "The Politics of Alternative Sexualities in India: A Marxist Blueprint"

I15 Performative Activisms: Alternative Playgrounds (Roundtable)

• Shannon Jackson, Harvard University, Chair
• Joanna Frueh, University of Nevada, Reno
• Charles Garoian, Pennsylvania State University
• HYBRIDAXE (collaboration of Robert Blake, International Center for Photography, and Susan Jahoda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Robbie McCauley

I16 Ethics, Aesthetics, and Nature

• Andrew Light, University of Montana, Chair
• Nergis Canefe, York University, "Marxism and the Languages of Descent"
• Norman Fischer, Kent State University, "Marxist Aesthetics as Ethics"
• Michelle Mawhinney, York University, "Marx and the Ethics of Non-Identity: The Domination of Nature Revisited"
• Regina Cochrane, York University, "Marxism's 'Bourgeois Dregs': The Problematic Antecedents of Ecosocialism"

I17 Popular Marxist Discourses in the U.S. Today: Possibilities and Achievements

• Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University, "Problems of a Marxist Ideology in the U.S. or, Could There Be a Marxist Rush Limbaugh?"
• Carl Freedman, Louisiana State University, "Toward Dialectical Journalism: Alexander Cockburn's Golden Age"
• Michael Dietz, Louisiana State University, "Left on the Web: Marx in Cyberspace"

J1 (Dis)embodied Sex? Marxism and the Discourse of Sex Work

• Delia Aguilar, Bowling Green State University, Chair
• Wendy Chapkis, University of Southern Maine, "What's Love Got To Do With It: Prostitution and Emotional Labor"
• Marjolein van der Veen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Commodified Sex: Class Differences in Libidinal Economies"
• Shannon Bell, York University, "Aphrodite of the Market Place: Fetishism, Value and (Sexual) Pragmatism"

J2 Derrida's Specters of Marx: Radical Politics or Academic Analysis? (Roundtable)

• Thomas Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College
• Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Patricia Mills, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Ernest Alleva, Smith College
• Bat Ami Bar On, SUNY, Binghamton

J3 Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity (Roundtable)

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Christine Clark, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces
• Mary Gannon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

J4 Marxism and Utopian Visions

• Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine, Chair
• Tom Moylan, George Mason University, "Marxism, Utopia and the 1990s"
• Tim Melley, Miami University of Ohio, "Corporate Futures: Agency Panic in Dystopian America"
• Bill Luker, "Fin-de-Siecle Guerilla Science: The Techno-Utopian Dreams of the `California Ideology'"
• John Barberet, Case Western Reserve University, "Applied Utopianism: Lessons from Utopian Socialists"

J5 Reading Gramsci

• Joseph A. Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame, Chair
• Antonio Santucci, University of Parma, "Gramsci, a 'Classic' from Abroad"
• Wolfgang F. Haug, Freie Universitaet Berlin, "The Publication of Gramsci's Works in Germany"
• Charles Klopp, Ohio State University, "The New Columbia University Press Edition of the Letters from Prison in the Context of Italian Prison Writings"
• Joseph Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame, "The Critical Edition of the Prison Notebooks in English"

J6 Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household: A Dialogue

• Carole Biewener, Simmons College, Chair
• Richard Cornwall, Middlebury College
• Rebecca Forest, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Rosemary Hennessy, SUNY, Albany
• Cecilia Rio, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Harriet Fraad, Psycholanalyst, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (authors)

J7 Normative Grounds for (Post-)Marxian Social Theory

• George DeMartino, University of Denver, Chair
• Thomas Klevan, Texas Southern University, "Private Property and Democratic Socialism"
• Allegra De Laurentiis, SUNY, Stony Brook, "The Hegelian Language of Rights, and What Marxists Can Learn from It"
• Kai Nielsen, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, "The Impossiblity of Global Justice"
• Scott Schaffer, York University, "Towards an Inclusive Social Ethics"

J8 Structural Adjustments: Documents, States, Workers

• Sid Lemelle, Pomona College, Chair
• Michael Murashige, University of California, San Diego, "Disciplinary Adjustments/Structural Change/Technical Intellectual Labor"
• Lauro Pulido, "The Geography of Militant Labor Organizing in Los Angeles"
• Barbara Harlow, Rutgers University, Newark, "Structurally Adjusted Amnesia"
• Ruth Gilmore, Rutgers University, "From Military Keynesianism to Post Keynesian Militarism: The Rising U.S. Prison State"

J9 Marxist Theory and Politics in the Third World

• Mark Brenner, University of California, Riverside, Chair
• Anton Allahar, University of Western Ontario, "Marxism in Caribbean Society: The U.S. Legacy?"
• Kenneth Bauzon, St. Joseph's College, "The Travails of Socialism in the Third World: Reflections on the Philippine Experience"
• Marc Becker, University of Kansas, "Una Revolucion Comunista Indigena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944"
• Juan Gutierrez, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, "Class Struggle and Rural Transformation in Mexico"

J10 Failures in Praxis -- History, Problems, Prospects

• Stathis Gourgouris, Princeton University, Chair
• Aristedes Baltas, National Technical University, Athens, "Marxism Today: Questions of Meaning and of Responsibility"
• Jim Wiltgen, University of California, Los Angeles, "Praxis, Market, Warfare"
• Stathis Gourgouris, Princeton University, "Violence and Transformation"
• Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University, "Bad Publicity: Lessons of the Sokol Affair"

J11 As If Feelings Mattered: What Can a Materialist Approach to Affect Contribute to an Analysis of Capitalism and Subjectivity?

• Margot Backus, St. John Fisher College, Chair
• Margot Backus, St. John Fisher College, "`All the World Gave Me to Him': Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Commodity Form in Richardson's Clarissa"
• Catharine O'Connell, St. John Fisher College, "Affective Identity: Sentimentality and the Construction of Middle-Class Female Subjectivity in Antebellum Women's Fiction"
• LoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston, Downtown, "Feel the Difference: Emotions, Experience and the Impact of Corporate Culture on the Twentieth Century"
• Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas, Austin, "Archives of Lesbian Emotions"

J12 Value, Price and Profit

• Bruce Roberts, University of Southern Maine, Chair
• David Brennan, University of Notre Dame, "Profits, Exploitation and Investment: A Class-Based Critique of the Radical-Post-Keynesian Approach"
• Paul Cooney, "Empirical Measurement of International Transfers of Value"
• Louis Kontos, Long Island University, "Modes of General Equivalence in Sociological Interpretation"
• Jean Guy Loranger, University of Montreal, "The Constraint of a Unique Profit Rate between the Labor Value and the Monetary Spaces in the Transformation Problem"

J13 Marxism and History

• Norman Feltes, Toronto, "The Power to Kill: Cliometrics, Marxism and the Upper Canadian Wheat Staple"
• Joel Waller, Carnegie Mellon University, "The Pullman Strike Centennial and the Language of Promotional Culture"
• Steven Webster, University of Aukland, "Uneven Capitalist Development: in 1840-50s New Zealand: The Maori Case"
• Andrew Wells, University of Wollongong, "History and Marxism: An Australian Perspective"

J14 Marx/Post-Marx in Contemporary French Theory

• Eva Corredor, United States Naval Academy, "Lukacs, Derrida, and the Question of Inheritance"
• David Mertz, Postmodern Enterprises, "Two Lacans and the Immanent Negativity of Gender"
• Jason Read, SUNY, Binghamton, "The Antagonistic Ground of Constitutive Praxis: An Essay on the Work of Antonio Negri"
• Robert Richardson, Pennsylvania State University, "Desiring-Production and Deterritorialization: Deleuze and Guattari on the Form of Critique"

J15 "Some Scattered Speculations on Value"--A boundary 2 Symposium

• Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh, Moderator
• Etienne Balibar, University of Paris, X
• Reda Bensemia, Brown University
• Michael Hardt, Duke University
• Antonio Negri (paper read by Michael Hardt)
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

J16 Confronting the Postmodern

• Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chair
• Teresa Ebert, SUNY-Albany, "On Some Philosophical and Political Themes of Postmodernism/Postmarxism"
• Rosolyn Bologh and Lawrence Mell, CUNY, "The Wrong Way to Revitalize Labor and the Academy: The Proposed Marriage of Postmodernism/Identity Politics/New Social Movements"
• Valerie Scatamburlo, York University, "From Parody to Perversion: The Social Text Affair and Contemporary Cultural Studies"

Locations of Power

• Andrew Parker, Amherst College, Chair
• Wendy Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
• Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University

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