Conference 2003:
Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution
Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt and Kristin Ross
March 20-22 at UF
All events in Dauer Hall 219 unless otherwise noted.
Thursday 12:15--2:00
Everyday Lows
Trish Ventura (U. of Florida): Home is Where the Market Is: Wal-Mart, Oprah's Book Club, and Billie Letts's Where the Heart Is
Reagan Ross (U. of Florida): The Beautiful and the Psychotic: Dissecting the American Image in American Beauty and American Psycho
Sherwin Mendoza (UC Santa Cruz): The Break, the Bomb, and Ninotchka Rosca's State of War
Todd Reynolds, Moderator
Thursday 2:15--4:00
In the Pace of the Unknown
Roger Whitson (U. of Florida): Prophecy and the Multitude: Blakean Dark Vision(s) of Absolute Speed in Empire
Hans A. Skot-Myhre (U. of Minnesota): Reflections on Production: Life in Marx's Grundrisse
Maureen Turim (U. of Florida): Cool Desires, Godard Drives: Meets Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
John Murchek, Moderator
Thursday 4:15--6:00
When Bombs Fall, "We" Duct
Simon Krysl (Duke U.): Shadows of Empire: Politics and Narrative in Virgin Soil Upturned
Aron Pease (U. of Florida): Intensity of the Middle: Mobility and Border Crossing in Almanac of the Dead
Alan Sikes (U. of Minnesota): Queer or Postqueer? Performativity and the Horizon of Hegemony
Emily Garcia, Moderator
Friday 9:15--11:00
Family Ties/Revolutionary Cries
Catherine Chaput (Georgia Southern): Class Consciousness, Violence, and the Hopes of Revolution: Lessons from the Homestead Strike of 1892
Mazi Allen (SUNY Binghamton): The Theory of Intercommunalism
Phil Wegner (U. of Florida): "We're Family": Reimagining Kinship (and Revolution) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's Parable Novels
Matt Stoddard, Moderator
Friday 11:15--1:00
Re-Daseining the Human
Nikolay Karkov (SUNY Binghamton): Marxist Criticisms of Human Rights: Lenin, Badiou and Marx
Andrew Goffey (Middlesex U., London): At War with Ourselves: Towards a Biopolitical Analysis of Immunology
Dale Carrico (UC Berkeley): Technocultural Singularity and the Shifting Terrain of Humanist Politics: Liberal Humanism, Transhumanism, Posthumanism
John Conley (U. of Minnesota): Bartelby and Communism; or, Bartelby and Immanence
Aron Pease, Moderator
Friday 2:15--4:00
Surviving Desires
Lili Hsieh (Duke U.): The Fight for Survival: Informatization, Empire, and the Evolution of Taiwanese Identity
Colin McQuillan (Boston College): Mourning, Messianism, Multitude: Responsibility and Possibility in Derrida and Hardt and Negri
Julian Wolfreys (U. of Florida): Sites of Resistance, Sites of Memory: Iain Sinclair's London
Frederick Young, Moderator
Friday 4:15--6:00 Keene Faculty Center
In the Shadow of Empire: Intellectuals, the Global University, and the Republic
Roundtable with Michael Hardt, the MRG, and the Post Colonial Work Studies Program
Frederick Young and Brian Meredith, Moderators
Friday 8:00--? Keene Faculty Center
Keynote by Kristin Ross
Reception in Keene Faculty Center to follow.
Saturday 9:00--10:45
Agit-Pop: Cultural Politics and Popular Artifacts
Mark Cooper (Florida State U.): The Hope for Bureaucracy: The Aesthetics of Security in Minority Report
Barry Faulk (Florida State U.): The Cultural Legacy of Elvis vs. DJ JXL: The Race and the Managerial
Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State U.): The Hunt for the World's Greatest Criminal
Leigh H. Edwards (Florida State U.): Ozzy Knows Best: Reality Television Interrogates "The American Family"
Leigh H. Edwards, Moderator
Saturday 11:00--12:45
Lula-palooza
Martin Hardie (Florida State U.): Aboriginal Art, Copyright and Equal Protection: Is it what Wandjuk Wanted?
Fabio Durao (Duke U.): PT’s socialist strategy and the question of the revolution
James McDougall (U. of Florida): Beijing after the Gang of Four--Misty Poets and a Space for Today
Natasa Kovacevic, Moderator
Saturday 2:00--3:45
Gated and Striated
Bill Knight (Duke U.): The Suspect Almost Confesses: Writer and Critic in Adorno and Lukacs
Joselyn Almeida (Boston U.): A Globalist Writing Curriculum and Social Change
Susan Hegeman (U. of Florida): Who Said Anything about Patriotism? Or, American Studies and Antisystemic Movements
Jessica Livingston, Moderator
Saturday 4:00--5:45
U.S. versus World
Sarah Lincoln (Duke U.): Ken Saro-Wiwa, Militant Particularism and the Limits of Globalization
Scott Nygren (U. of Florida): Nomadic Representations in the World Media Archipelago
Crystal Waters (Emory U.): Hailing Power: The Space and Spectacle of Interpellation in Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible
Ulka Shapiro Anjaria (Stanford U.): Rethinking the Left through Literature: A Reading of The Rape of Sita in the Context of a Mauritian Political Movement
Renuka Bisht, Moderator
Saturday 8:00--? Keene Faculty Center
Keynote by Michael Hardt
Reception off campus to follow.(more conference information)
The Marxist Reading Group would like to thank the following people for their kind assistance: John P. Leavey, Susan Hegeman, Phil Wegner, Sonya Anderson, English Graduate Organization, Anton Janulis, Natasa Kovacevic, James McDougall, Andrew Reynolds, Aaron Sheheen, Nishant Shahani, Rosa Soto, and Kenny Roberts from Custom Copies. We would like to extend our gratitude to Frederick Young and John Chapman for opening their apartments and hosting Saturday's reception.