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From: Martha Gimenez <gimenez@csf.colorado.edu>
Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:06:59 -0500
To: Multiple recipients of list <psn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Final RETHINKING MARXISM Conference Schedule (fwd)
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT!
MARXISM AND THE POLITICS OF ANTIESSENTIALISM
Hosted by RETHINKING MARXISM
When: April 21 and 22, 1995.
Where: Campus Center, University of Massachusetts--Amherst
ALL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES FREE OF CHARGE!
Contact person: For more information, e-mail
vanderve@econs.umass.edu or call Rick Wolff at (413) 545-
6351.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 21, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR Campus Center
904-08
Chair and discussant:
Shelley Feldman, Development Sociology, Cornell University
Presenters:
S. Charusheela, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst
"Gender and Finance in Informal Sector Households"
Usha Rao Banerjee, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst
"Changing Images of the Informal Sector in Development
Discourse"
Marjolein Van Der Veen, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst
"Hustling in the Global Economy: Sex and the Informal
Sector"
CULTURAL PRACTICE, CULTURAL RESISTANCE Campus Center 917
Chair:
Susan Jahoda, Dept. of Art, UMass-Amherst
Presenters:
Susan Minnich, Artist
"How Does Your Garden Grow? A Regional Activist Artist's
Perspective"
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Robert Blake, International Center of Photography, New York
"Got It: Getting It: Giving It Up"
Danielle Abrams and Sarah Brown, San Francisco-based
Performance Artists
"Sonny"
Friday, April 21, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
STRATEGIC ANTIESSENTIALISM: THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERN
IDENTITY Campus Center 917
Chair:
Sut Jhally, Dept. of Communication, UMass-Amherst
Presenters:
Katherine Gibson, Centre for Women's Studies, Monash
University
"Beyond Patriarchy and Capitalism: Rethinking Political
Subjectivity"
David Mertz, Dept. of Philosophy, UMass-Amherst
"Cyborg Bodies from Haraway through Bataille (or, Two Ways
to Lose a Self)"
HYBRIDAXE
Susan Jahoda/Robert Blake
"Changing the Subject"
WHAT COMES AFTER DEVELOPMENT? Campus Center 904-08
Chair and discussant:
Satyananda Gabriel, Dept. of Economics, Mt. Holyoke College
Presenters:
Arturo Escobar, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst
"After Development: Identity and Constructions of Nature in
Tropical Rainforest Areas"
David Ruccio, Dept. of Economics, University of Notre Dame;
Serap Kayatekin, School of Business and Economic Studies,
University of Leeds; Julie Graham, Dept. of Geology and
Geography, UMass-Amherst
"After Development: Renegotiating the Role of Class"
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Friday 5:30-6:30
CASH BAR, Campus Center 904-08
Saturday, April 22, 10-11:30 a.m.
DERRIDA/MARX Campus Center 904-08
Chair and discussant:
Stephen Cullenberg, Dept. of Economics, UC-Riverside
Presenters:
Andrew Parker, Dept. of English and Dept. of Women's and
Gender Studies, Amherst College
"Derrida's Marx: The State of the Debt"
Julie Graham, Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University; Dept. of Geology
and Geography, Umass-Amherst
"Ghosts"
CLASS ANALYTICS MEETS THE FAMILY Campus Center 917
Chair and discussant:
Rick Wolff, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst
Presenters:
Harriet Fraad, Psychotherapist
"Motherhood, Apple Pie, and Class Exploitation: Marxism
Meets the Kids"
Jenny Cameron, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University
"Ironing Out Family Structures: Class and Power in the
Household"
Saturday, April 22, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
QUEER THEORY/REPRODUCING PUBLICS Campus Center 917
Chair and discussant:
Jack Amariglio, Dept. of Economics, Merrimack College
Presenters:
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Michael Moon, Dept. of English, Duke University
"Semipublics"
Michael Warner, Dept. of English, Rutgers University
"Repro Culture"
Cindy Patton, Dept. of Communications, Temple University
"God's Space, Queer Space: Counting Down to the Apocalypse"
GLOBALIZATION, COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ACTION Campus Center
904-08
Chair and discussant:
Carmen Diana Deere, Dept. of Economics, Umass-Amherst
Panelists:
Stephen Cullenberg, Dept. of Economics, UC-Riverside
"Global (Dis)order and the New Internationalism"
George DeMartino, Graduate School of International Studies,
University of Denver
"Anti-essentialism Against Relativism: The Case of Global
Economic Integration"
Fred Curtis, Dept. of Economics, Drew University
"The Economics of Community, Place and Land: Wendell Berry
and the Alternative Critique of Capitalism"
Saturday, April 22, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
ACTS OF EXCLUSION: FEMINISTS EXAMINE ECONOMICS Campus Center
917
Chair and discussant:
Rob Garnett, Dept. of Economics, Denison University
Presenters:
Cecilia Rio, Dept. of Economics, UMass-Amherst
"You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too"
Ulla Grapard, Dept. of Economics, Colgate University
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"
Suzanne Bergeron, Dept. of Economics, Ohio Northern
University; Bruce Pietrykowski, Dept. of Economics,
University of Michigan-Dearborn
"Can There be a Genre in Economics?"
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OUTSIDE/IN: IDEOLOGIES OF HOMELESSNESS Campus Center 904-08
Moderator:
Ellen Pader, Regional Planning Program, Umass-Amherst
Presenters:
Martha Rosler, Dept. of Art, Rutgers University
"If We Still Lived Here..."
Vin Callo, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst
"Economic Change, Hegemony and Homelessness: Exploring the
Link Between Ideology and Public Policy"
Saturday 5:30-6:30
CASH BAR, Campus Center 904-08
Saturday, April 22, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Mahar 108
PLENARY SESSION
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, Dept. of Communication Studies,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Material Witness: Race, Identity, Language and Politics"
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Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu