Conference 2005
Grave ReMarx: The Accumulating Dead
Keynote Speakers: Warren Montag and Mark Neocleous
March 24-26 at University of FloridaSponsored by: The Department of English, ACCENT, BOCC, CLASSC,Center for European Studies,
and The Marxist Reading Group
Thursday, March 24
Thursday panels will take place in 215 Dauer Hall , except the Round Table, which will be held in Anderson 216.
8:30-9:30
To Hell and Back: Crossing Boundaries of Class and the Supernatural
James McDougall (U Florida) "Revolution on the Way to Hell in Ezra Pounds Cantos"
Joe Rockelmann (U Florida) "Das Rheingold: Wagner's depiction of capitalism; visionary or pessimist?"
Moderator: Michael Vastola
10:00-11:45 Anderson Hall room 216
Round Table: Spectres and Monsters of Capital
Keynotes Warren Montag and Mark Neocleous, with Dan O'Neill (U Florida) and Frederick Young (Georgia Institute of Tech)
12:15-2:00
Capital-izing the Canon: Reconceiving the Text's Commodification
Christian Haines (U Florida) "Born Again Nation: Reading National Anxiety in Cyberpunk Fictions"
Aron Pease (U Florida) "Time is Money, Money is Text"
Masood Raja (Florida State U) "Doctorow's Ragtime: Inserting Class in a Literary Discussion"
Sarah Hoglund (SUNY Stony Brook) "Memorials and Mirrors: Death and the Construction of British Class Identities"
Moderator: Aaron Shaheen
2:15-4:00
A Freedom Too Far
Maureen Turim (U Florida) "'The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else': Bush, the Rhetoric of Democracy, and Power"
Mark Allison (UC Berkeley) 'Modernity's Ruling Class?: Marx, the Bourgeoisie, and Political Power Then and Now"
Todd Reynolds (U Florida) 'Passing Through Time: The Factory, The Penitentiary, and the Motion Picture at the Turn-of-the Century"
Ryan Poll (UC Davis) "The Ghostly Presence of Prisoners: Fiona Tan's Corrections"
Moderator: Renuka Bisht
4:15-5-5:45
Gothic Jameson
Simon Hay (Connecticut College)
Vivasvan Soni (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Christian Thorne (Williams College)
7:15 in Dauer 215
Art Keynote, "The Gift of Terror"
Ross Birrell (Glasgow School of Art)
Friday, March 25
All panels take place in Dauer 2158:30-10:15
Stephanie Smith(U Florida) "Love, Loss and 'The Metropolitan Spirit' of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
Marc Zagelbaum (Clark U) "The Disastrous Dream of Capitalism: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Use of Ambivalence and Irony in The Great Gatsby"
James Fleming (U Florida) "'And of this place . . . I might have been mistress': Social Oppression in the Private and Public Spaces of Jane Austen's Pemberley and Mansfield Park"
Joseph G. Ramsey (Tufts U) "Radical Calendars of Horror: The Emergent Communist Genre Fictions of (Samuel) Guy Endore"
Moderator: Laurie Taylor
10:30-12:00
Roger Whitson(U Florida) "Affecting the Divine Body: Biopolitics Between Blake and Spinoza"
Scott Nygren (U Florida) "Deleuze and Marx"
Michael Marder (New School U) "End Elaboration Now! Two New Lessons of Leninism"
Moderator: Jaimy Mann12:45- 2:15
Machines, Capitalist Dreams, and Transformations
Amy Wendling (Penn State U) "Wondrous Yet Monstrous Machines: Technophobia and Technophilia in Karl Marx
Dennis Badeen (York U) "General Equilibrium Theory as a Normative Ideal Social Order"
Jude Welburn (York U) "The Metamorphosis of the Commodity Fetish"
Moderator: Cathlena Martin
2:30-4:00
Carl Miller (U Florida) "The Future of Archaeology: Fredric Jameson's A Singular Modernity"
Susan Hegeman (U Florida) "The Cultural Theory of Samuel Huntington"
Paul Stasi (UC Berkeley) "Against the Cultural Heritage: Horkheimer and Adorno's Critique of Nostalgia"
Moderator: J. Maggio
4:15-6:00
John Leavey (U Florida) "A Marrano's Smile: Taking On--Several Protocols to an Armistice"
Jason Smith (UC Irvine) "Jacques Derrida, crypto-communist?"
Kevin McCain (Concordia U) "Ontological Haunting and the Idea of Justice in Marx's Critique of Capitalism"
Moderator: Osvaldo Jordan
8:00 Keene Faculty Center
Keynote by Mark Neocleous, "Politics of the Accumulating Dead, or, Marxism Against the Right"
Reception to follow in Keene Faculty Center
Saturday, March 26
All panels take place in Dauer 21510:00-11:45
Spectres, Dreams, Other Resurrections
Nicholas Ruiz III (Florida State U) "The Resurrection of Capital"
Beverly Ann Gaddy and Andy Franz (U Pittsburg) "Repressing the Dream: Marx and the Politics of the Impossible"
Will Roberts (Penn State U) "World-Historical Comedy and the Specter of Revolution"
Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill College) "Spectre's Mythos and Materialist History: The Accumulated ëMuck of Ages' and Dialectics in Understanding Marxism"
Moderator: Robin Gray Nicks
12:30-2:00
Zombie Dreams, Consumer Nightmares
Nicole LaRose (U Florida) "Utopian Community Coming 28 Days Later"
Roger Beebe (U Florida) "Zombie Utopias and the Dream of Automation"
James McFarland (Connecticut College) "Proface Apocalypse in the Hell of Commodities: George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and the Haruspicy of the Present"
Moderator: Charles Meyer
2:15-4:00
Forced to Be Ghosts?: Explotation and "Disappearances," and the Search for Voices, Bodies, and Justice
Jessica Livingston (U Florida) "'But today I bit': Exploitation and Resistance in Dirty Pretty Things"
Craig Peariso (SUNY Stony Brook) "The Disappearance of Politics, or the Politics of Disappearance: Activism in the Face of Tolerance"
Steven Scheuler (VSU Center at Kings Bay) "The Search for Santucho's Grave: The Argentine Military's Reluctance to Provide Information Concerning the Disappeared"
Asma Abbas (Penn State U) "Suffering's Dead: Marx and the Injuries of Liberalism"
Moderator: Wesley Beal
4:15-5:45
History, Periodocity: Remembering. Forgetting
Richard Burt (U Florida) "Alie-nation and the Hybrid Political Thriller: Forgetting the Foreign, Securing the Archive in The Forgotten and National Treasure"
Trish Ventura (Georgia Institute of Tech) "EBay as Global Monstrosity: The 'New Economy' Corporation and/as the Nation"
Phil Wegner (U Florida) "Living Between Two Deaths: 9/11 and Periodizing the 1990s"
Moderator: Michael Rowley
8:00 Keene Faculty Center
Keynote by Warren Montag, "Necro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal"
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Reception to follow off campus. Rides to be arranged.
Art installation: Pat Greene, "American Terror 101"
The Marxist Reading Group would like to thank the following people for their kind assistance: John P. Leavey, English Graduate Organization, the people from ACCENT, BOCC, Center for European Studies,. CLASSC....