Rethinking Marxism 2006
Thursday, October 26th through Saturday, October 28th 2006.
To all our friends who participated in and attended Rethinking Marxism 2006, we extend to you our sincerest thanks! You made RM06 a wonderful and productive and lively event.
Thanks again,
The RM06 Conference Organizers.
An electronic bulletin board for rides, lodging, meetings and reflections is open here. The link will open in a new window. Electronic registration is required in order to post to the board.
The final Conference Program is now available! Please click the 'Conference Program' heading to see the entire schedule and listings.
For a detailed description of the conference, its aims, and general instructions about registering for the conference, please see our Call for Papers.
Bread & Puppet Theater will be offering a workshop on Friday from 11:30-1:00 and performance from 2:30-3:00. Click here for more information.
One exciting and prominent feature of Rethinking Marxism 2006 will be the 3 plenary sessions, which will highlight some of the most pressing issues of our times. These plenary sessions—Imperialism and the Fantasies of Democracy, Rethinking Communism, and The Power of the Left Media — will also have as keynote speakers theorists and activists who are among the best-known and most insightful contributors to Marxian and left thinking and practice on these topics. Here is the lineup of the plenary sessions and the list of confirmed speakers:
| Speakers: | Ernesto Laclau |
| Ella Shohat | |
| Antonio Callari | |
| Speakers: | Susan Buck-Morss |
| Kojin Karatani | |
| Stephen Cullenberg | |
| Speakers: | Liza Featherstone |
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These plenary sessions will be supplemented by a “platform” of related panels and papers. Each plenary topic will be investigated in full, not only by the plenary speakers, but also by other paper givers, performers, and activists who will be clustered in panels that will reflect upon and elaborate in different directions the plenary themes. Please click on the names of the plenary topics listed above for more details about each of the plenary sessions. Some biographical information about the plenary speakers can be found if you click on their names also listed above.
In addition to the plenaries and panels, we are pleased to announce the program for the art and video component of RM06. Curated by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia (Art Editors for Rethinking Marxism), Setting in Motion is comprised of a series of video and paper presentations that will be running on Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28.